The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-06
PARNELL AND LADY DIXIE
What the Irish Leader Said to Repre-
sentatives of Paris Newspapers.
Lady Dixie Indignant Because Her Story Is
Not Believed-Anti-Irish Feeling in
Liverpool.

EOON
deal of time in the company of French in
terviewers." He reiterated his attacks
against the land act to a representative of
the Voltaire supplementing his information
with the following remarks on current topics;
advocates of peace and order, we reproye
all crimes such as that committed at the For
eign Office, always surprising the recent eA-
plosion to be the act OF criminal. We snail
return every session with our reform bill,
and shall go to America to encourage our
brethren and to solicit subscriptions for the
maintenance of our cause. The Irish are
held responsible for all disasters in England.
Such suspicious may be due to clever policy,
but they are painfully unjust and absolutely
Ubiquitous Moreover the English govern
ment exasperates Ireland by always accus-
ing her inhabitants. Social changes will
have to be brought about and this object
could be attained by the introduction OF
measures that would present no danger What
soever England ought to this and act
upon it instead of applying the coercion act
and imprisoning thousands of unfortunate
and innocent Irishmen." Curiously enough
tle Voltaire, Immediately under the re-
port of the interview with Mr.. Parnell,
publishes a detailed account of the
assault on Lady Florence Dixie, who, it omi-
nously observes. is the author of recent
articles against the Land League" Mr.. Par
neil 3 explanations ana Lle 11nDllcQ acCuSd-
ton against his followers are thus brought
into juxtapositon in the same column of the
paper. ''-a'-4i.'
To another interlocutor the representative
of another Royalst journal, the Clarion, Mr..
Parnell declared that he had not come to
Paris for any special purpose. He had, how
ever, taken advantage of the parliamentary
recess to renew his acquaintance with French
friends and he hoped that his country would
derive some benefit from their sympathy.
His criticisms of the land act were in sub
stance identical with those published by the
Gaulois, and he again limited that the
Charles-street explosion might be the work
of the free-thnkers. Mr.. Parnell concluded
by saying that he would perhaps proceed to
America to see his fellow-countrymen and
interest them in the next general elections,
at which his party would gain at least forty
seats
A writer in the Paris, who also had an in
terview with Mr.. Parnell, gives much the
same account of his conversation as those
published in the morning papcrs, with, how
ever, one notable difference. He says:
"Mr. Parnell naturally disclaims all con-
nection with the Fenian assassins and con-
spirators. He does not know who the authors
of the Charlesstieet explosion were but he
thinks they are to be found either among
the Fenians, who are under O'Donovan Ros-
Sa orders; among the Socialists OF the school
of Most, formerly editor of the Freheit and
now refugee in America, or among the free
thinkers" The illusions to Rosa and Most
are entirely new. Commenting on Mr. Par
nelfs suggestion that freethinker may have
been the culprit, the Telegraphe ironically
excams: 'Amiable freethnker, who has
cropped up just in the nick of time to save
the Fenians from a very terrible compile
ity!"
Before leaving Paris Mr.. Parnell called on
the editor of the Clairor. and in the course
of conversation referred to the Phoenix Park
murders. He said
1.-The knife which killed Lord f. Caven-
dish nearly killed, the Land League at the
same blow. We were in a superb situation
My friends and l, as you are aware had
been thrown into prison; risings had taken
place in Ireland; the government saw that
they were powerless to repress the disturb
tervene; they set us free. We said to them:
You must take such and such measures
The good provisions of the act of 1881 must
not be neutralized by the tribunals intrusted
with their application. We are. so to say
the arbters of the situation. When, four
days after our liberation, Lord Frederick
Cavendish was assassinated all the ground
gained was lost. The English papers con-
tinue to accuse us Of that crime. The truth
is that we should have been fools not only
to have thought of it, but to have reioiced
at it; for, if anyone had been bribed to dis
credit us, a surer and more abominable
means could not have been discovered"