Show THE PLUMED KNIGHT His CoiLrsj f ritic ed bY THe Thunder er i g v 1 II THE LADIES DISAPPOINTED Fishery Trouble A New Mager Lack of Confidence Home Rule Maxwells TrlalKtc The Time Ta Blaine LOXDOS June 3Th Thirst commenting com-menting on Blames Portland speech says Blaine may or may not catch the Irish vote by performances such as that of Tuesdays speech and eo win the prize which fully as much on personal as on politic grounds has been snatched from him once and again but we refuse to believe that his ignorant and presumptuous rant represents the honest and independent opinion and reflection of the Americans It is peculiarly pecu-liarly absurd that he should pose as an advocate of a plan which he supposes quite wrongly of course would plae Ireland in the position of a State of the American Union He has been conspicuous for the same reasons which now make him the flatterer of the Irish If in a bloody shirt campaign cam-paign again the Southern I States should now attempt to deprive the negroes of suffrage he would be the first to favor a settlement of that local affair by armed interference of the central government his history is almost on a par with his reasoning which deserves to be clawed with Sir William Vernon Harcourta latest con tnoutlon whereon Lecky bas something some-thing to say What Lecky ha to say Is contained in another column of the lime in the form of a letter This is the criticism of Sir Williams argument that the home rule measure prefaced by Gladstone aimed at the simple re viral of Grattans Irish parliament Leery says the argument Is absurd Grattans parliament Leckr contends places the government of Ireland in the bands ol protestant geuerals who w re bound to an English connection by the closest Interest and sentiment There were adds Lecky preeminently representatives repre-sentatives of property whose political power it his been Gladstones steady object to destroy The effect of his scheme would be to throw the government govern-ment of Ireland into the hands of men hitherto avowed enemies of both prop erty and empire ELAINE JGCPLAIiS AUGUSTA Me June 3The Kenne bec Journal this morning publishes a letter from Blaine denying that in his recent speech in Portland he had applied ap-plied wordsimpndentinsolpnt and brutal to Salisbury Blaine writes I was referring to hl lord ships declaration that the Irish might remain as they new are Gr emigrate and I said interrogatively Is not this an impudent proposition 7 Is It not Insolent In-solent in its terms l Does it not indeed stop short of being brutal in Its cruelty cru-elty It is not parliamentary to say that the statement Is not true but altogether alto-gether parliamentary to say that its author Is guilty of falsehood The first describes the thing the second assails the person My characterization was aimed at the proposition and not at Lord Salisbury personally i |