Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-12-30
POOR IRELAND.
Tales Set AaOat by Tories to Reno
Her in Twain.
WORKING ANTI-HoME RULE FEELING.
Distress Among the Irish Peasantry---
Mr., Pasteurs Doubtful About
Cure.

LONDON, December 29.-The Tory news
papers are attempting TO create a new
sensation with q cock-snd.bull story to the
effect that Captain William Henry o Shea
is in Dablin, treating with Mr.. Parnell or
behalf Of Mr.. Gladstone. Captain 0'Shea
was Home rule member for county Glare
in the last Parliament, but he sometimes
bolted and voted with the Liberals when
Parnell and Gladstone came into direct
conflict. When the Parnsllite candidates
for the recent elections were selected,
Captain 0,Shea's name was omitted from
the list. Then he announced himself as q
Liberal candidate for the Exchange divis.
ion, Liverpool, which Mr.. Psrnell vas con
testing as Nationalist. The complication
was increased BY the ungrateful action
of the Tories ia putting up Me-. L. R.
Bailey as another candidate, although Mr.
Parnell had swung the thousands Of Irish
votes over to the Tory side throughout
Great Britain by his famous manifesto o
November 81. Mr.. Parnell withdrew biz
candidacy and thereby very nearly turned
the tables against the Tories in the Ex
change division, 10: although Mr.. Bailey
was re,urrel, his majority over Captain
0Shes was only 55 in vote OF nearly
5000 A. that time Mr. Parnell gave q
negative endorsement to Captain O'Shes
by saying in a speech at Liverpool that he
would no, advise Irish electors to vote
against the Captain. But O'Shes has
never been restored to sufficient degree
of favor to make him an emisssry for Mr..
Gladstone, and it is very doubtful if his re-
lstions with the Liberal leader are sutii
ciently close to warrant his employment in
such capacity.
ANOTHER FEEBLE INVENTION
of the sensationslists was published yester-
day in all the dignity of the big type usu-
ally reserved for leaders. 1t was an anon
ymous letter from an alleged Irish police
man who eays he has discovered plot by
the Psrnellites to uproot the Protestant
religion in Ireland by the drastic process
of destroying the Protestant churches and
numbering the communicates. Similar
prominence is given to a report that the
police, under orders from the Home Office,
have revived the special precautions
against dynsmiters which were
initiated when the last explosion
occurred several weeks ago The cable
news however, has learned upon undoubt'
ed authority that these precautions have
never been relsxed. An explosion just
now would be q God-send to certain IN.
5cupulous partissps as it would doubtless
fan into blaze the snti-Irish sentiment
which the Tories and many Of the Wings
are doing their best to stimulate. The
Tory managers are proceeding in very
systematic way to arouse and intensity this
sentiment. They have nearly completed
plans for holding series OF great anti
Home Rule meetings simultaneously
throughout Great Britain as soon as
Mr.. Gladstone has formulated his scheme.
Ii is expected that the demonstra-
tions will show that the people OF England
aud Wales, at least are practically unit
10 opposing home rule, and thus convince
wavering members Of new Parliament
that they will challenge the wrath OF their
constituents if they vote with Gladstone.
The plan is an ingenious one. in view OF
the strong probability that Parliament will
soon be dissolved, and that the members
will again have 10 ask the sutfrsges Of the
people to retain their seats. Many OF them
who are new to Parliament, or have been
returned for other seats than those they
formerly occupied, do not yet know the
temper Of their constituents, aud might
well fear to 90 back to them with an IN.
popular record. II, however. enough Wings
can be frightened into the Tory ranks to
defeat Gladstone's measure, Lord Salisbury
will claim this as q vote of confidence, and
may be able to continue the Government
with the present Parliament. This would
CRAFTY many members now in dopbt whose
financial resources would be sadly strained
BY the enormous expenses OF another elec-
ton coming on the heels Of the last one.
GREAT DISTRESS IN IRELAND.
While certain psrtissns are trying zeal
ously to prejudicethe British people against
Ireland, there are tidings Of sore distress
throughout a populous section Of that
country. Last month the Dublin Free
man published dispatches from q special
correspondent On the west coast, which
declared that the supply Of food on Achill,
fEsgls Island, and Inniscofin was bare
ly sufficient to keep the people alive until
Christmas. The condition Of the people
now fally justi6es that gloomy prediction,
for many of them are ct b: Po,It Of death
frora s:aryatioa. The principal resource
of the isiands named, and Of many smaller
ones near the Mayo and Galway coasts, ia
the fishing industry. This year the catch has
been very msagre. The fishermen have