The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-07

tNoHAlilueu FROM fJSc one.D
which Irishmen of nearly all parties
and creeds might meet in the effort
to compose their differences and draft
a constitution that would afford justice
to all
TO the convention, which sat at various
times at Dublin, Belfast and Cork In
1917.
Born in 1851.
Born in 1851, son of w. A. Redmond,
deceased, member of the British parlia-
ment from Wexford, Ireland, John 4.
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: Col
lege Kildare and Trinity college Dub
lin, Redmond was called to the London
bar In 1856, and the Irish bar the fol-
lowing year, but he never practicea
law. He devoted himself almost wholly
to his parliamentary and political du-
ties.
Redmond's eloquence and his grasp
of parliamentary procedure won his
early recognition in Parliament and
when in 1891 the Irish PARTY was dis
ruptcd. consequent on the Parneli
scandals, he became the accredited
leader Of the Parnellites. In 1900 he
succeeded In bringing about an ANAL
gamation Of the two leading NATIONAL
list parties and made his position as
Nationalist leader secure.
We'll Known IN United. States.
Redmond was well 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 $4,000. but
found a wife in the person of Johanna
Dalton. New South Wales heiress and
beauty.
His speeches brought the home rule
question to a head. The British gov
eminent took serious hold OF the prob
lem and bill was evolved, which, on
presentation and discussion in the
house of commons. resulted In an inn
passe because OF the Ulster opposition.
This was shortly before the outbreak
of the great war.
With the entrance Of England into
the war. Redmond Immediately defined
his position AS sduarely with the gov
eminent in the earnest prosecution of
the war; His support Of the govern
ment won the unstinted praise Of Car
dinal Gibbons and the open and bitter
Of the Sim Fein party.
members of which. Mt a public meet
ing. accused him Of being a traitor to
the Irish cause.
Loyal Position.
He maintained his loyal position even
during the exciting days of the Sim
Fein revolution, decrying the rebellion.
but attributing II to a German plotting
in the United States. When the rebel
lion had been put down he used all
the eloauence of which ne was capable
in pleading for leniency toward the
great mass of the rebels, and in urging
a speedy settlement OF the differences
that had caused the revolt.
His eloquent address in the house of
commons on October Is, 1916, demand
ing immediate home rule and the re-
lease of the Irish revolutionists called
forth an answer from Premier Lloyd
George in which the premier admitted
that mistakes had been made in han
ding the Irish situation and urging all
parties to unite in bringing about n
solution,
1t was not, however. until the follow
Ing year that the premier proposed the
plan Of holding the Irish convention
which Redmond accepted and in which
attitude he was generally supported by
his adherents, although still the object
of the enmity of the Sim Feiners.