Omaha daily bee., 1885-10-03
IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE LIES
President Egsn Points Out Ssns Particular
English EMISSIONS,
is PARNELL's PARTY uNiTgD7
A New Court House for the County
Two Prisoners Escape From the
neutrality-suspicious. Notes
Of City News,
rFsoN THE Bsg's ItvcotS pvnnAuI

In tic tHlCagO IrlbunB OF ScUtgtnbcr
80, appeared n special cablcgram from,
London which read as follows.
Mr.. Frank Hugh OCanan O'Donnell,
home rule member of parliament for
Dungarvau, Ireland, has retired from tho
canvass for parliamentary honors 10 his
district. He declares that tho Parncll.
ties have persistently insultcd Mr.. james
Garlic McCoan, formerly home rule
member for Wicklow, hut now liberal
candidate for Lancaster; Mr.. John
0Connor Power, member of par
lamont for Mayo, and himself. Tar
nellism; Mr.. 0Donncll claims, has re-
duced tho popular organization both in
Ireland aud America by its schemes for
obtaining money, Slapped the Foundation
of self government by abusing tho nomi-
nees, and fostered deceptive confidence
by claiming triumphs on tho adoption by
parliament of every worthless Irish meas.
ure. Mr.. ODonnell was vicc-ptcaidGnt
u honorary secretary of the Irish
Home Rule Confederation OF Great Bri.
tain.
The retirement of ODonnclt from the
Irish parliamentary party leaves Joseph
u. Bigger the only remaining member of
the faction which, under the leadership
of Charles 5. Parnell, initiated obstruc.
ton tactics in the house of commons in
1877. Mr.. O'Donnell's detection also
Ndtin publtN dJltllblol ugilh W tlt II Aou
discussions which seem to daily increase
IN Importance and bitterness. Michael
Dayitt, who has for Il long time offered u
dangerous rivalry to Dir. Parncll'5
leadership, is quiet for the present,
but a new revolt has broken out
and rs all the more threatening because
IL is within the ranks of tho parliament.
tary party. The chief maloontents be.
sides Mr.. O'Donnell, are Messrs. James
Garlic McCoan, John O'Conuor Power,
William Shaw, and Timothy Michael
Hcaly. The correspondents had an inter
view to-day with Mr.. Power, who sad
that the seeds of the present discomfort
had been sown long ago. In company
with Mr.. William Shaw and the late Mr.,
A. M. Sullivan he had for years pro.
tested against the Irish policy of ven
geance, and had declined to obey u leader
or remain in a party which connived mt
murder and encouraged b~oycottiug. But
I'LL who had of late years asl,ired to any
degree of leadership in the Irish party
had found Parnell 0 strong. and had
themselves been crushed. What Par
nell needs added MIR. Power bitterly,
sis n class of men who are political Cir
eassians, and who e100 Il year will make
slaves
A BEE reporter called upon Patrick
Egan, the president of the Irish National
League of America to ascertain tho
truth Oh falsity Of the report. Re-
plying To IL question as to the state.
ments made by ODonnell in relation to
Parncll and the Irish national party, Mr..
Egau said the whole thing was prcpos-
ferrous and ridiculous to any one under
standing the Irish national situation. In
answer to a question as to the standing
of these gentlemen who are represented
us breaking away from tho Parncll party
Mr., Egan said:
''For the past five or six years Mr..
O'DOnnell has been known in Irish pol.
itics as % notorious crank, sometimes
fawning on Parnell and at other times
abusing him. Nearly five years ago he
posed ms a devout Catholic and tried to
who is an Episcopalian in religion, but
he utterly failed. In 1880 O'Donnell
was proposed rs n member of
the land league, but on my
motion was rejected. McCoan went to
ireland in 1879 rs II carpet bag advon-
tnrer and on the recommendation of
O'Connor Power, who was then IL mem.
Der of the Parnell party, he was accepted
rs Il candidate for parliamentary. repre-
sentation of Droghela, but was defeated.
Al the general election of 1880, owing to
- scarcity of Candidates, he managed to
get into parliament for Wicklow county.
Nothing is known about his antccedcntS
beyond tho fact that he ran IL papor
called the Levant Herald in Constantine
pie and was accused of blackmailing the
English and Turkish government by
most notorious backslidcrs ssand traitors
amongst the Irish race on either side of
the Atlantic. The son OF u policeman
reared in u poor house in ireland, no
drifted from there to England, whore he
first came into notice us II member of and
organizer for the fcnian organization.
GLIB of tongue, and with considerable
audacity of character he worked himself
ahead amongst the fcnian elememt. tits
notorious that he took - part In the at
tempted raid on Chester castle, and That
he was connected with the plot for the
abduction Of the prince of Wales about
the year 1873. lt is also no secret that no
travelled II greater part of this country
over as an organizer of the fenian party,
In 1874 he was elected Il member of par
lament for Mayo county entirely by tho
influence OF, and with the financial assist.
of the fcnian organization, Myself
and friend, Thomas Brennan, of Oma.
ha, Nebraska, took AN active part in secur-
ing his election. He was then II member
Of the home rule party, led by Isaac
Butt soon after, in order to carry favor
with tho Catholic clergy who had bitterly
opposed his election, and with tho
HiOucFHleS StileTHlly He Dupuu W SneBr
&C his former associates in ~fenianism,
and sometime later on turned tail upon
his home rule friends. He kept
nip. however, some pretense and oonnec-
uon with the national party until he Sc
cured his reelection i'm 1880, and then he
~barefacedly went over to tho English lib
cral government, and has since acted as
n of the most contemplate govern
ment hacks. Financially the fellow is q
dead beat. am aware that he is still
indebted To Mr., Parnell about 81 900. io
owe money To various Other members Of
the Irish party; to Joseph .COwan, OF
Nowcastle-upOn!T Tyne, who is one of the
few honest English radicals, and this
Powers is still indebted to mo about
$500"
Gas proof" continued Mr.. Egan, "of
the truth of Tom MOore's stlnSa,
'Unmized are her sons Til they learn to be-
Unbonoifed they live if they shame not their
sires,'
this creature is now Toasted and feted
around amongst various members of the
English nobility for no other reason than
chat he has turned traitor to the Irish
ause."
SIN regard to Mr.. William Shaw, " said
Mr.. Egan, she was ut one time y Unita'
rian clergyman, but cut the church for
tho brewing business. He became chair
man az ill., Munster hank and hn WAS