ABSTRACT
The enthusiasts for Home Rule are moving heaven and earth to deprive the Irish majority of their right to choose their own leader. While the opponents of Home Rule can hardly conceal their passionate desire that Mr. Parnell may remain where he is, in order that the party which he leads may lose all the English and Scotch sympathy which it had gained. William Ewart Gladstone had put aside all question of English reform in 1886 in order to concentrate on the Irish issue. Gladstone by his policy had succeeded in bringing about an alliance between British democratic sentiment and Irish popular feeling; a success that was of lasting value. Gladstone’s interest in the experiment was that of the man who had staked all that was left of his career on carrying Home Rule, and had led the Liberal party into this perilous cause.
