The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-06
Famous Nationalist Died
To-day of Heart Failure
Following an Operation
HAS FOUGHT FOR
"HOME RULE"
He Gave Support to Eng
land in Prosecution
of War

London, March 6.--,John T. Redmond,
the Irish Nationalist leader, died TO.
day. Death was due to heart failure
following an operation here last Fri.
day for intestinal obstruction.
For more than twenty-five years John
| Il. Redmond fought for bqme rule in Ire
land and for majority of that time he
was the recognized leader of Ireland's
struggle for liberty" As chairman OF
the Irish parliamentary party-the Ma
! tionalists--he exerted q powerful inau-
ence in bringing about the creation Of
the Irish convention organized in July
1917, to devise a system of government
for the island
When David Lloyd George, the Brit
ish premier. IN that year offered two
methods OF settling the vexed Irish ques-
tion, ii was Redmond who, as spokesman
for the Nationalists, rejected the propo-
sition for a partition of Ireland and, in
stead, accepted Lloyd Georges alterna-
tive plan for the conyocation of the
Irish convention in which Irishmen of
nearly all parties and craeds might meet
in the effort to compose their differences
and draft constitution that would af-
ford justice to ALL
Redmond was one of the delegates 10
the convention which sat at various
times at Dublin, Belfast 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 T.. !
Redmond had sat almost continuously |
in the British House of Commons since |
1851. There his Parliament fights for |
home rule earned for him the sobriluet |
of the stormy petrol of the House"
Educated in CIongowos Wood college,
Kildare, and Trinity college, Dublin, |
Redmond was called to the London bar
in 1856 and the Irish bar the following
year, but he never praetieed law. He I
devoted himself almost wholly to his
parliamentary and political duties.
Prior to his first election to Parlia
ment from New Ross, Ireland, Redmond
was for some time n clerk In the vote
office of the House of Commons. From
1885 TO 1901 he represented North Wex-
ford, but in 1891 he was elected from
Waterford and had been returned from
that district since generally without op-
position.
Redmonds eloquence and his grasp of
procedure won his early
recognition in Parliament and when in
1891 the Irish party was disrupted, con- :
;eauent on the Parncll scandals. he be- !
,ame the accredited leader OF the Par
iellites In 1900 he succeeded in bring ,
ng about an amalgamation OF the two
eading nationalist parties and made ais
position as Nationalist leader secure.
Redmond was well known in the Unit
d States, which he visited in 1908 and
gl0, and Australia, where in 1883 he
lot only performed great service for
lis party in directing the collection of
fund of more than $4,000 but found Il
wife in the person of Johanna Dalton, '
>ew South Wales heiress and beauty.
The Irish leaders first visit to this
ountry proved a fiasco but his second,
made for the purpose ostensibly Of 1T
ending the convention of the United
tates Irish league at Buffalo, met with
reat success. Following his attendance q
( the convention, Redmond made a =
our of all the principal cities of the le
liddlewcst and the Atlantic coast, de- q
vering series of addresses on the p
rish question which was later held re- d
ponsibe for the British cabinet crisis T,
NONfnlbet- lVlps
The speeches brought the home rule b
uestion TO head The British govern b
rent took serious hold of the problem b
nd bill was evolved, which on prescn c,
,tion and discussion in the House Of c;
ommons resulted in M impasse he d
,use of the Ulster opposition. This f.
as shortly before the outbreak of the F
reat war NJ
With the entrance of England into the NJ
ar. Redmond Immediately defined mis- NJ
,sition as squarely with the govern NJ
ent in the earnest prosecution of the N
ar. His support of the government Pl
on the unstinted praises of CARDINAL RI
ibbons and the open and bitter con W
,mnation of the Sim Fein party. mem W
ms of which Mt public meeting ac- w
Iscd him of being traitor to the IRISH w
use, "