Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-03-07
JOHN E. REDMOND
DIES IN LONDON
For rs Years Ireland's Recog.
nized Leader in Struggle
for Liberty.

London, March 6.--John z. Redmand,
the Irish nationalist leader, died this
morning. He died peacefully at 7:45
to heart failure. following the recent
operation.
Last Friday he underwent an opera
ton In London. He passed a fair day
yesterday and apparently was main.
tanning the progress shown Monday.
The Irish convention, which had been
supported by Mr.. Redmond, yesterday
adopted message of sympathy in
which an earnest wish was expressed
Tor his early and complete recovery.
For more than twenty-five years
John e. Redmond fought for homo rule
In ireland and for majority of that
time ne was the recognised leader Of
1relands struggle for liberty" Az
chairman of the Irish Parliamentary
party-the nationalists-he exerted q
powerful influence in bringing about
the creation Of the Irish convention or.
ganized in July, 1917. to devise o sys-
tenn Of government for the island.
When David Lloyd .Ieorge, the Brit
ish premier, in that year offered two
methods Of settling the vexed Irish
question. 1t was Redmond who, as
| spokesman for the nationalists, rejected
the proposition for a partition of Ire
land and, instead. accepted Lloyd
Georges alternative plan for the con-
vocation of the Irish convention in
which Irishmen of nearly all parties
and creeds might meet in the effort to
compose their differences and draft q
constitution that would afford justice
| to all.
Redmond was one of the delegates to
| vyht nh
times at Dublin. Belrast and Cork in
| 1917 and 1918.
Born In 1851, son of w. A. Redmond
deceased, member of the British Parlia-
ment from Wexford, Ireland, John Il.
| Redmond had sat almost continuously
In the British House of Commons since
1881. There his parliament fights for
home rule earned for MIN the sobri-
quet 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 practiced law. He devoted himself
almost wholly to his parliamentary and
political duties.
! Prior to his first election to Parliament
from New Ross, Ireland, Redmond was
for some time clerk in the Vote ONCE Of
the House of Commons. From 1885 to 1891
he represented North Wexford, but in 1891
he was elected from Waterford and had
been returned from that district since gen.
orally without opposition.
Redmond's eloquence and his grasp of
parliamentary procedure won his early
recognition in Parliament and when in 1891
the Irish party was disrupted, consequent
on the Parnell scandals, he became the ac-
credited leader Of the Parnellites. In 1900
he succeeded in bringing about an ANAL
gamation Of the two leading nationalist
parties and made his position as national
| list leader secure.
Redmond was we'll known in the United
States. which he visited in 1908 and 1910.
and Australia. where in 1883 he not only
performed q great service for his party In
directing the collection Of a fund OF more
than 5000 but found wife in the person
Of Johanna Dalton, New South Wales.
heiress and beauty.
Tho Irish leaders first visit to this
country proved a flasco. but his second.
made for the purpose ostensibly OF
attending the convention of the United
States Irish League at Buffalo. met with
great success. Following his attendance
at the convention. Redmond made tour
Of all the principal cities OF the Middle
West and the Atlantic coast delivering
| q
ton which were later held responsible
for the British cabinet crisis Of Novem-
Der, 1910.
The speeches brought the home rule
question to head. The British govern
ment took serious hold Of the problem and
q bill was evolved. which on presentation
and discussion in the House Of Commons
resulted in an impasse because of the
Ulster opposition. This was shortly be-
fore the outbreak Of the great war.
With the entrance Of England into the
war. Redmond Immediately defined his
position as squarely with the govern
ment in the earnest prosecution Of the
J war. His support Of the government won
the unstinted praise Of Cardinal Gibbons
and the open and bitter condemnation
Of the Sim Fein party. members of
which at q public meeting accused him of
being q traitor to the Irish cause.