Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-16
LAND LEAGUE LEADER.
SuIliyan's Mission to the Irish
Americans.
Mr. A. N. SuIIivan-Arriyal Of the Irish Or
ator-His Views on English Affairs
What He Thinks # the Closure
and Of the Policy Of Eng
land in Egypt.
HIS COMING ADDRESS IN NEW YORK.

| HIS COMING ADDRESS IN NEW YORK.
| New York, September 15.-It was under
favorable auspices that Mr.. A. N. Sullivan,
late member of Parliament for Meath, and
author of New Ireland" caught sight of
New York yesterday morning. The wealth
er was delightful The sun shone and
| glorious breeze rippled the waters OF the
| lower bay as the Partha steamed majesti-
cally up to Quarantine. A little tugboat,
putting and srortipg as if under the influ-
ence OF great excitement, went alongside
The Cunarder and deputation of Mr.. Sui
liyan's friends assembled the gangway and
gave him hearty welcome and a warm
grip of the hand. The Irish leader seemed
to be in remarkably good health and in fine
spirits. The tail end of the cyclone which
passed over New York on Monday and
which struch the Parthia on the following
day and produced no visible effect on ship
or passengers.
AS the Parthia steamed up toward her
dock Mr.. Sullivan's friends pointed out the
various beauties of the surrounding scene
ry, which impressed him much. 1t was
nearly four o'clock when the steamer
reached her dock and before she was made
fast to the wharf host of Mr.. Sullivan's
Irish friends who had been tranping about
impatiently for half day by the side OF
the river, recognized their countryman and
gave him
Rousing Cheer
which raised many an echo. As soon as
possible they clambered up the steamers
lIooE cila md uroafoI thn visitor and
his party. Next came the ordeal OF the Gus
tom House, which passed through with
commendable fortitude, and then the party
drove to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where, q
little later, Mr.. Sullivan received reporter.
las yet, said Mr.. Sullivan, 81 have met
with nothing but kindness and courtesy
from. yCur countrymen. They have We'd
with each other to make things pleasant
for me, and / must say they have succeed
ed"
This is you second visit, is it not?" the
reported asked.
Yes, it is my second trip, bnt then the
last one was taken so long ago-nearly
quarter OF a century-that your country
must have undergone enormous changes,
and | don't suppose | shall be able 10
recognize the old places through which
passed
English and Irish Politics.
How did the political outlook appear
when you left?'
The Irsh party was recuperating its
forces for the winter session. The hight
will he hard one and will be hotly con-
tested on all sides. The question is that
of Parliamentary procedure, and both the
Irish and the conservative party will wage
bitter war against the government. The
brunt of the battle will probably be borne
BY Sir Stafford Northcote, and although
the Irish party will vote against the clos
ure from first to last yet the conservatives
must take the lead. 1t will be quite Tor
midable constitutional battle. The conser-
vatives wished very much for the closure,
but only such closure as would hurt the
Irish and not themselves. Mr.. Gladstone,
who is an ingenious tactician, has treated
them TO a closure which hits all round
"What is your opinion of the closure"
II both SPOKE and voted against it. Up
TO the time | shared the fight gave it as
my opinion to my colleagues that it is our
best policy to let the English Government
Wit V bant bInt ttIe Hue Interference on our part.
impressed on them my conviction that III
about year they will find that they have
not injured the Irish party half so much as
they will have injured their own best safe
guards of public liberty. On this account
our part of the struggle will
Not be so very bltter.
How is Mr. Kavanaugh's land corpor-
alton scheme progressing
THE landlords are very determined, and
in NV Judgment will run the Land League
very close 1t means a real deadly struggle
az 10 who shall be first exhausted. Al
tbol,eh nv Land League friends in Ireland
are putting on as bold front as they can
and say that The landlords will not be able
to raise the 81, 900 they require, have
no reason to think otherwise. Information
has reached me from financial quarters IN
London that from G1,OOO,OOO 10 ti2oo,CoV
will be forthcoming from pol'llcohuancial
syndicate in London"
'"What are the Irish leaders doing TO
counteract this overwhelming influence?
"They have started the EviCted Tenants
| defence Fund, and 3lready meetings on the
| subject have been held in the Mansion
| house, Dublin. Thier scheme is to counter
| ac; II designs of tne landlords; to sustain
| .be tenants while out on strike, II L may
| use the expression, and, in a WORD, 70 use
| nurse against purse. j grieve to give IL as
nv opinion that the tenants won't sub
| srTibe freely 10 this movement, which is
| nuroly a defensive one. / am afraid that
| The tenants won't trust TO merely passive
| resistance and that the coming winter Will
witness some most lamentable occurrences.
It is, indeed, momentous struggle between
the two organizations,
Contempt of Court.
"How do your countrymen look upon the
imprisonment of Mr., Dwyer Gray?'
With dismay. Since the evil days OF
the Stuarts no such illegal straining OF pre-
rogative has ever been known. The doc
trine of contempt OF court has never before
been applied to iona .fde newspaper COM
ment on a concluded case. Heretofore II
newspaper improperly criticised
case while sub JUDGE, it has been
customary to commit for contempt but
when a trial is ended comment has been IN
yariably allowed For this reason the irish
people, with one accord, condemn the i'm
priSonment of Mr.. Gray"
'Do you think the police strike has de-
moralized the force?'
s'In the first place, the way the govern
mont had to yield TO the rural police did
doubtless demoralize the metropolitan
force. The truth is, that the administra-
ton in Ireland has been for two years past
at the merry of the polict force"
"In what way?' the reporter asked.
"BecauSe'public sympathy throughout the
| fight has been with the Land League, as
have been all the forces of public opinion
| and those elements of support which an
ordinary government would be able to COM
mand.'
What would you prescribe as panacea
for Ireland's woes, Mr.. Sullivan
"From This Country
Mr.. Gladstone will find the solution OF the
question. By placing Ireland in the Brit
ish system exactly in the same position as
a State here BY giving the same relative
liberties and laws to Ireland that the State
of New York bears to the United States the
difficulty nav be met This is virtually
the home rule policy to which Mr. Butt de-
voted his lifetime, and it is the scheme
which consider the most feasible"
But is it not far off p
II think it is not far distant. have
good reason to believe that Mr.. Glad5tone
absolutely contemplates scmethiug OF the
kind. and that he will carry it out II public
opinion will permit. Literary men OF my
acquaintance and periodicals which repre-
sent Mr.. Gladstone's views both lead me
10 believe that this will be the solution
"Is Mr.. Gladstone's popularity on the
wane"
by no means He is the strongest Min
lister England has had for forty years"