So began a remarkable struggle in which the combined forces of the private members--Liberal, Labour and Irish--united by a common desire to destroy the domination of the Peers, contended against the Cabinet's policy of attempting not merely to limit the power of veto but to reconstitute the Upper House.

In such a process men saw that the driving force of the majority would waste away and that the composite character of their alliance would lead to certain disruption.
Before the debate on the Address concluded it was plain that Redmond had won.

From that period onwards his popularity, and, through him, the popularity of the party which he led, was immensely increased in Great Britain.

He was regarded as one of the men who had rendered best service to democracy against privilege.

He himself believed that in this first contest Ireland had decided the victory--had decided the overthrow of the House which had so long opposed its liberties.