Show A CONVERTED CONTESTED STATESMAN senator hoar now traveling in Elu europe rope writes a letter to a priest in ill massachusetts expressing solicitude for the cause of rule in ireland and urging irish angieri cans calls to aid irish representatives in ill parliament we can all applaud the senator for his espousal of the good cause and can call holie that his hib efforts in behalf of tile the misgoverned governed mis and oppressed inhabitants of the green isle vv will prove effective indeed we are proud that the massachusetts statesman ii abroad advocating the american principle of government for home rule is Arne american through ind and th through lough thi ough another reason why we vre are arc pleased is the suggestion that perhaps the senator s conversion to the justice of home rule for the irish may incline him to the idea that home rule might with propriety be grunted granted to the americans in utah there are arc a quarter of a million people have b been cn and are arc pleading for home rule as a matter of right arid and justice and it lias has so 0 o happened that senator hoar has been one of the most earnest cartiest of those opposed to tile proposition the mere suggestion of the tiling thing has aroused all the anta antagonism in his nature natura and brought out all the fight in ill him possibly there has been baen a mail in congress who h hay as labored more industriously than lie ho to pren prevent cut ionic home rule coming 0 to the people of utah but if so EO his name naine has escaped us Ilow however evel that lias has all past part senator hoar lias has enlisted in th the home elloine rule cause and of course cours se he be will include americans as well as irish irilli in the boon ye xe may inay confidently expect his vote in the senate next nest winter to be cast in favor of our home rule bill when that measure comes before the house for action indeed may inay we not hope that he will try to convert senator platt who has stood with hini him in ill opposition to home rule for utah to the idea that it would be just st as well to confer home R rule le on american citizens ason as on irish subjects j cc t s ilera cram id |