IRISH PARTY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 85, 3 January 1908, Page 5

IRISH PARTY.

JMION.

MR.. O'BRIEN ON THE. REDMONDITES. BI TBtEQEArH— riiESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIOIIT,'. (Rec. Jan, 2, 9.16 ;p.m.) ' London, January 2. Mr. William O'Brien, Nationalist M.P. for Cork—who, according to recent cablegrams, is to rejoin the Nationalist.party under.Mr. William Redmondr—in .an address, to Nationalists at Buhcrand (Donegal),'said he was not troubled further about tho peaco negotiations. Tho mass of tHe people must assart themselves, and must compel Te-unipn. - 'Tho real t cause of tho troubles of the Nationalists, said 'Mr. O'Brien,'was that in:four yeaTs' tho-parliamentary.party and iho National Directory . League; had usurped the people's power, and had obtained control. .Tho boundless Australian funds at.'the party's disposal. could not bo ' better ( emplovcid than in summoning the National Con-, vention to re-establish'unity, but tho Redmondites shrank, from summoning the Convention. : ' • . There would appear, judging by recent cablegrams, to be a" hitch, in the arrangements for' re-union between Mr. John Redmond and. Mr. Wni. O'Brien, owing, to (he lattcr's insistence that the National Convention should ratify the terms!-Mr: Redmond says that only the Directory can call ! the, Convention. Mr. O'Brien declares that there are no other means of- giving practical effect to the principles agreed upon, -. Speaking in- October, oa: re-uniori of the. Nationalists, Mr. O'Brien said:' "The remedy, was that the'people should siy to,'J(r. "Redmond and to himself, and' to ' everybody, else concerned—'We are the- masters, and. wo insist that you ~ must make, peace, either' by .a friendly conference or'/ by- public compulsory arbitration', and . if. you ■ cannot, or ; will not, niako peace-among yourselves, then clear out, and make room for those who will.' Mr. Redmond would have to shake himself free from those who have ;beep leading him 1 to his, ruin in pursuit of a policy,' which-he admitted himself to be a -foolish and short-sighted' on'O. He, and every sensible man in the party, must give up the policy'.of'expelling man after man, and then keeping up the farce that there was absolute unanimity; they must frankly accept the olive branch, .that was. .held out -to them,; and ,oither arrive at 'a. settlement'by .'.private' conference, >as he believed they could,, or let the whole matter be. settled by a court of compulsory arbitration, by .'whose, decision they must abide.' Upon '..theso terms-,there would be no earthly reason why there should not be a genuine re-union of all tho national forces." ... - ■