The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-06
End Due to Heart Failure
Following a Surgical Oper-
alton Last Friday
WAS WELL KNOWN IN
THE UNITED STATES
Speeches Made Here in His Tour in
1910 Responsible for British Cabinet
Strongly Supported Govern
ment War Plans.

Crisis-Strongly Supported Govern
ment War Plans.
LONDON, March 6-John E. Redmond,
the Irish Nationalist leader, died this
morning. Mr. Redmond underwent an
operation in London last Friday. Death
was due to heart failure. The physicians
attending Mr. Redmond issued an an
nouncement in which they said:
Owing to several serious attacks of i'll !
ness q severe operation was faced with
great courage 1t had become imperatively
necessary owing to an intestinal obstruc-
ton This was relieved by the operation
and for some days satisfactory progress
was maintained. After fairly comfort
able day Tuesday heart failure super
vened during the night and after a few
hours Mr. Redmond passed peacefully
away
For more than 25 years John f. Red
mond fought for home rule in Ireland
and for majority OF that time he was
! the recognized leader OF lreland's ''strug-
gle Tor liberty As chairman OF the
| Irish parliamentary party the nationahsts
he exerted a powerful influence in bring
ing about the creation OF the Irish con-
vention organized in July 1917 to devise
a system OF government Tor the island
Then David Lloyd George, the British
premier, IN that year offered two methods
OF settling the yexed Irish question, it was
Redmond who as spokesman for the
Nationalists, rejected the proposition for a
! partition Of Ireland and, instead, accepted
Lloyd Georges alternative plan for the
convocation Of the Irish convention in
which Igishmen OF nearly ali parties and
crceds might meet in the effort TO compose
their differences and draft a constitution
that would afford justice to all.
Born in 1851, son of W. \. Redmond,
deceased. member of the British parlia-
ment from Wexford, Ireland. John +.
Redmond had sat almost continuously in
the British house of commons since 1881.
There his parliament fights for home rule
earned for him the sobriquet OF the
stormy petrol OF the house
Educated in Clongowes Wood college,
Kildare, and Trinity college, Dublin, Red
mond was called TO the London bar 1886
and the Irish bar the following year but
he never practsed law. He devoted him
self almost wholly to his parliamentary
and political duties From 1885 to 1891 he
represented North Wexford. but in 1891
he was elected from Waterford and had
been returned from that district since
generally without opposition.
Redmond's eoquence and his grasp o.
parliamentary procedure won his early
] recognition in parliament and when il
1891 the Irish party was disrupted, con
| sequent on the Parnell scandals, he be
5 came the accredited leader Of the Par
= nellites In 1900 he succeeded in bring
4 ing about an amalgamation of the twC
h leading nationalist parties and made HI
|. position as Nationalist leader secure
Redmond was we'll known in the Unite,
9 States, which he visited in 1908 and 1910
and Australia, where in 1888 he not onl,
q performed a great service for his party IL
> directing the collection of a fund of NOR
= than $50 900 but found a wife in the pei
Il son of Johanna Dalton, New South Vale
heress and beauty
II The Irish leaders, first visit to thi
e country proved a fiasco, but his SECOND
made for the purpose ostensibly of attend
IL ing the convention of the United State
e Irish league at Buffalo, met with grea
- success Following his attendance at th
convention, Redmond made a tour OF a
the principal cities of the middle Yves
ne and the Atlantic coast, delivering a serit
Of addresses on the Irish question whic
= were later held responsible for the Bri
ish cabinet crisis of November. 1910,
The speeches brought the home ru
question to a head The British govern
ar ment took serious hold OF the problel
Il and bill was evolved, which on present
tion and discussion IN the house OF con
mons resulted in an impasse because
: the Ulster opposition. This was short
before the outbreak of the great war
=, With the entrance of England into II
war, Redmond Immediately defined Il
position as squarely with the governmel
in the earnest prosecution of the wa
His support of the government won t
unstinted praise of Cardinal Gibbons al
the open and bitter condemnation of t
Sim Fein party, members of which at
public meeting accused him of being
traitor to the Irish cause
He maintained his loyal position ev
during the exciting days of the Sim Fe
revolution, decrying the rebellion
attribnting it to German plotting in t
United States When the rebellion II
been put down he used all the elouuer
Of which he was capable in pleading
enieney toward the great mass of
rebels, and in urging a speedy settlemt
of the differences that had caused
revolt