The death of Patrick Ford, the founder and editor of
the Irish, World, was announced in Wednesday's papers. Ford, who was born in Galway but emigrated in early youth to America, persistently advocated the use of dynamite, extolled the Phoenix Park murderers, and, though after 1886 he mainly confined his advocacy to the constitutional agitation for Home Rule, declared as late as 1905 that he had nothing to apologize for or to regret, and called the assassin of Sir Curzon Wyllie a "martyr." To the end of his life he remained on terms of the closest intimacy with the Irish Parliamentary leadei s. Mr. Redmond described him in 1909 as "a grand old veteran" who had "done more for the last thirty or forty years for Ireland than almost any man alive," and for a great many years his paper was the chief agency in the United States for raising funds in aid of the Nationalist Party.
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