The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12
CARDINAL M,CABE's SUCCESSOR.
DIR. Walsh's Political Opinions and Afflia
tions-Mr Parnelrs Opinion.

DIR. Walsh's Political Opinions and AHflia-
tions-Mr ParnelIs Opinion.
Dublin Cable Special.
Dr. Walsh, president of Maynooth College
has been elected Archbishop of Dublin, to sue
ceed Cardinal McCabe, deceased. The election
is subject to the approval of his Holiness the
Pope. DR.. Walsh is.an ardent Parnellite. He
is about forty-tive years of age. In size he is
small His complexion is excessively dark, and
he has piercing eyes. He wears gold-rimmed
spectacles. All his life has been spent in the
college as student, professor and president For
the past five years the great body of clerical
alumni with whom he has come into personal
contact have grown extremely fond of HIM. He
has been one of the foremost writer's of the
Nationalist Propaganda. His pamphlets the
land question have been by far the best that the
controversy has evoked. 1t was he who fought
the Duke of Leinster and overthrow the famous
Lelnster leases, which were cunning evaSions OF
the reform regulations of 1870. During Cardi-
nal McCabes regime he was recognized as the
head Of the opposition, which has tacitly EN-
braced forty mine fftieths of the Irish clergy.
Cardinal McCabe who went to an extreme Of
English sympathy, in Ireland not easily to be
exaggerated, and who used the whole machinery
of the church to punish the priests for their
Nationalist lednlng once SAID TO MIN:
''Do you know could exile you TO the lowest
and meanest parish in the archdiocese9'
To this DR. Walsh replied: ''Yes, but you don't
dare
Mr. Parnell, when once asked il he knew DR.
Walsh, replied: II should think did know him.
1t was he who got me put into prison." He then
laughingly explained that it was from DIR Walsh
that he got the phrase, ''prairie valuation, y
which served as pretext for his conviction A
significant straw in this matter was seen few
days ago. when the cathedral chapter met to
select vicar capitular to serve during the in
terim Assistant Archbishop Donnelly, who, as
a matter of etiquette, had expected to get the
place, although he had no formal right to the
succession, insisted on opening the proceedings
by reading Lord Spencers letter of coincidence
against the protest of some of the canons When
ballot for vicar capitular was taken DR.. Don
nelly got votes and DR.. Walsh 90
There is also q side reason for the unani-
nous desire of the priests to have Nationalist
primate. 1t is not quite so elevated as the pa
trotic reason. Under the regime of Cardinal
McCabe, and of his predecessor, Cardinal Gull
len, political action on the part of the parish
priests was forbidden. The priests had sort of
rival authority set up under their very noses in
the form of presidents of local leagues the re-
suit of which was the impairment of priestly
authority, and often q damaging falling off in
clerical influence. Not little of their anxiety
for change at this time is due, no doubt, to a
desire to regain their power by leading political
movements.
That the Pope will approve of the election of
DR.. Walsh is not doubted. The rejection of this
popular prelate would invoke bitterness that
could not be allayed in generation Besides
his Holiness has learned wisdom in regard to
the treatment of Ireland He tried to fall out
with the Parnell leaders last year. and with the
result that the Parnell tribute money was swol
len from f4, 600 to f4000O, and that nearly the
entire Peters pence fund was suspended AS
soon as the results of this mistake were seen the
policy was changed and the difference was
coadjutor bishop for Cork Dean Nevelle, who
is an able and aristocratic Wing, and who was
strongly urged by the English, was set aside in
that appointment for Father O'Callaghan, who
is a decided Nationalist