Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1893 — GLADSTONE ON THE STUMP. [ARTICLE]

GLADSTONE ON THE STUMP.

Premier Gladstone, in a speech at Edinburg, Wednesday, said that home rule was not a failure in the light of recent events. He arraigned the House of Lords for failure to agree to the bill as passed by the Commons “Home rule fop Ireland,” said Mr. Gladstone, his form seeming to grow taller and more powerful as he touched upon his favorite subject, /“might, by some, be regarded as a failure, but,” cried the statesman, raising his hand, and his eyes flashing with the fire of his intense feelings, ‘ dpeend upon it that home rule is not a failure.” [Loud and prolonged cheers.] When Mr. Gladstone was again able to proceed, he continued, saying: “Weeks, months, and even years have been expended upon the details of the home rule bill and in counteracting the tactics of the opposition, and it is' now recorded in history as a fact that the people’s House deliberately and advisedly passed this bill, which was in itself a most important step.” [Applause.] The venerable premier wks given a wonderful ovation.