Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-07
ALL SHOCKED
Continued from Pace One)

tne community. King George was deem
~ shocked and expressed his pro-
lcrnd regret. Premier Lloyd George
was similarly moved. He will move an
appropriate resolution in the House of
Commons
ms Will enable the premier and for
Eier premier Asquth, who have been
lifelong supporters OF Home Rule, and
other leaders, to pay tribute to the
memory of Mr. Redmond, who had him.
self during his long parliamentary c.
reer spoken on similar occasions most
eloqquently of departed political col
leagues.
1t is expected the funeral will take
pace IN Dublin, with burial at Glas-
neVm Cemetery. simultaneously a
solemn requiem mass will be cele-
hrated in Westminster Cathedral.
Fought Long for Home Rule
For more than % years John K. RED.
mond fought for Home Rule in Ire
land and for majority of that time
he was the recognized leader of Ire
lands struggle for liberty" AS chair
man of the Irish Parliamentary par
ty--the NationaliSts-he eXerted a DOW
erful influence in bringing about the
creation of the Irish convention organ
lied in July, 1917. to devise system OF
government for the island.
Wren David Lloyd George, the Brit.
ish premier. in that year offered swc
methods of settling the vexed Irish
question. it was Redmond who. as
spokesman for the Nationalist. re-
jected the proposition for partition OF
Ireland and. instead. accepted Lloyo
Georges alternative plan for the con-
vocation Of the Irish convention in
which Irishmen of nearly all parties
and creed might meet in the effort &c
compose their differences and draft q
constitution that would afford justice
to all.
Redmond was one of the delegates ia
the convention which sat at various
tunes at Dublin, Belfast and Cork in
1917 and 1918.
Eorn in 1851, son of W. A. Redmond
deceased, member of the British Par
lament from wexford. Ireland, John E
Redmond had sat almost continuously
in the British House Of Commons since
1881. There his parliament fights for
Home Rule earned for him the sobri'
quet Of the STORMY petrol of the
House."
Educated in Clongowes Wood college
Kildare. and Trinity college, Dublin
Redmond was called to the London bal
in 1886 and the Irish bar the following
year but he never practised law. He
devoted himself almost wholly to his
parliamentary and political duties.
l.; oil 70 vii a.
ment from New Ross. Ireland. Red
mond was for some time clerk in the
vote office 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 generally with
cut opposition.
Redmond's eloquence and his grasp
of parliamentary procedure won MS
early recognition in parliament and
when in 1891 the Irish party was dis
rupted, consequent on the Parnel
scandals. he became the accredited
leader of the Parnellites. In 1890 he
Succeeded in bringing about an ANAL
gamation of the two leading national
isl parties and made his position as
Nationalist Leader secure.
Redmond was we'll known in the
United States, which he visited in 1907
ond 1910, and Australia, where in 1sS'
he not only performed a great service
for his party in directing the collector
nf a fund of more than $o0.0oo pu'
found wife in the person of johanna
Dalton. New South Wales heiress anc
beauty.
The Irish leaders first visit to this
country proved a 1iasco, but his sec
end. made for the purpose ostensiplS
of attending the convention of the Uni
ted States Irish League at Buffalo, me
with great success. Following his at
tendance at the convention. Redmond
made tour of all the principal cite
of the middle west and the Atlantis
Coast, delivering series of addresses