GENERAL ELECTION NEXT YEAR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11127, 16 November 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)

GENERAL ELECTION NEXT YEAR.

MR JOHN REDMOND'S PREDICTION.

LONDON, Sept. 21. Replying to an address presented to him by the Longford District Council, Mr John Redmond, M.P., predicted that a general election would take place within a year or eighteen months. "The immediate object which we ought to have m view," he declared, ''is to hasten the day of the general election, and to take such steps as are necessary to make sure that when the elec-tion-takes place Homo Rule—^full Home Rule, and not devolution — will be m the fbrefront of. the Lihera} programme. • "I airi convinced that when the general election ta.kea place— within a year or a year and a half— the Liberal party, will be able to _o to the country with a full Home Rule programme.. If they are returned to i ; power 'lreland will be within measurable distance of the concession of her rights." At a. " Nationalist demonstration later m the. day, Mr' Redmond, referring to the Sinn Fein movement, said the hew would-be leaders of Irish public opinion were being patted oil the back.jiy every anti-Irish newspaper m England, /while the (members of the Irish, party, -whom they attacked, were being singled out for arrest and prosecution. That on© fact ought to be sufficient to point the moral of the political situation, . The Government, he added, would find no fairly empanelled jury which would convict Mr Farrell, M.P. Mr Farrell stated, amid enthusiasm, that Mr Redmond and his patty would make English government m Ireland an impossibility.