THE IRISH PARTY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5593, 23 December 1910, Page 4

THE IRISH PARTY

The prestige of Mr J. 10. Redmond is unquestionably high in Ireland, ami is described by some as rivalling that of l'arnell (says a cable received in Australia last week). Mr Redmond, however, is not to be relieved of what the Freeman's Jour- , nal terms the chief thorn in his sule. 'for his old enemy, Mr Tim llealy, who was defeated in North Louth, is' being offered another Irish seat. There was something dramsitlc in the arrival of Mr Healy's opponent. Mr H. Jlazleton. from Bra/.il, only two ilays before the polling, and in the hitler's turning his minority of 99 at the last election into a i.iajoriiy this time of 488. Mr Healy's defeat was not unexpected, nearly all his old-time clerical friends having withdrawn thwir .support. Addressing a frenzied meeting in Mayo, Mr O'Brien declared that h e would a thousand times over to fatl with Tim Healy to succeeding with hirelings who, two years hence, would be cursed by the whole of the Irish people. "Ireland," added Mr O'ltrien, ''wilt rebel against the place-hunters who iave robbed and ruined her in the interests of their masters, the English Liberal party." Speaking in Tyrone, Mr J. Hedmond said that the only issue in the election was the people" against (he Lords. It was, declared the Nationalist leader, the gravest issue the Irish people had ever faced, for it was a question of the emancipation of the Iwhole nation.