ON SUFFERANCE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7077, 15 March 1910, Page 7

ON SUFFERANCE

THE LIBERAL PAETT LABOUR'S PAST IN SUPPORTING GOVERNMENT. WARNING BY MS. KEIR HARDIE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received March 14, 9.35 p.m.) LONDON, March 14. Speaking on Saturday at Swansea, Mr Keir, Hardie said it was possible some arrangement could be arrived at ! under which the Government could' drag out a tolerated existence beyond j June; but the Labour party must not j meanwhile bo content simply to act as > a prop of the Government, and must' be careful lest it become buried in its [the Government's] ruins. Mr Keir Hardie added, with reference to the threatened contest for the Mid-Glamorgan seat [vacant through the elevation of Sir Samuel Evans to the Bench], where Mr Hartshorn (Socialist) is in the field, that rather than hold seats by the grace of Liberals or Tories he preferred that the Labour party should be without them until it could win by reason of its own strength. BY-ELECTIONS SOLICITOR-GENER7AL RETURNED UNOPPOSED. LONDON, March 13. Mr R-ufus Isaacs, K. 0,, who had to seek re-election for the Reading seat, consequent on his appointment to the Solicitor-Generalship, vice Sir Samuel Evans, elevated to the High Court Bench, was returned unopposed. Mr Isaacs publicly thanked the Conservative Association for its graceful act in refraining from putting up a candidate against him. His return was not a political triumph; it was a striking example of friendship between the different political parties in Reading. ' DEATH OF TWO MEMBERS. LONDON, March 13. Two vacancies have occurred in the Irish representation in the House of Commons, owing to the death of Mr James O'Connor, Nationalist member for Wicklow West, and Mr Timothy Charles Harrington, Nationalist memW for Dublin CHaxbour Division). The latter died from heart failure. Mr O'Connor, who was Beven*y-fonr years of age, was one of the many Irishmen who have seen the inside or a prison. He was connected with a once famous Fenian organ, the " Irißh People," of which Mr John O'Leary was editor and O'Donovsn Roasa manager. With O'Leary and Bossa he was arrested in 1865, convicted of treason felony, and sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment. In 1881 again he was arrested and detained for several months with Mr Parnell and others in Kilmainham gaol. He was quite the moat silent O'Connor in Parliament, where ho bad sat for Wicklow West for the past eighteen years. Mr Harrington waa only fifty-nine years of age, but had had a notable career.'Perhaps the greatest piece of good luci that befel Mr Parnell when he had fallen on evil days was the oaptnre of Mr Tim t Harrington, and with him most of the machinery of the National League. For Mr Harrington was the horst of Ireland. He had hie hand on the machinery of pnblio opinion, and he ESd perfected his engine till it responded to his lightest tonch. That so many branches had declared against Mr Parnell was almost a miracle, for Tim was a oaens bops I a l'Americaine, and as much down on unregulated enthusiasm as on the use of I alcohol, which he never tasted. In thiß character be did good Berylce in the suppression of crime and extreme measures. i His m aster-stroke the carving up of the Paris funds with the anti-ParneUiies. Mr Harrington was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and was a barrister by profession, though he devoted considerable time to journalism. In 1901 he was Lord Mayor of Imblin. His fine nhyeique gave him a special prominence on the Irieh benches in the Commons, and the House >vras often startled by the boisteronsnees of his cheers and the loudness of his voice.