New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-23
THE SITUATION IN IRELAND.
nrrNGLrNG WORK OF THE TORY GOVERN
MENT,
THE PROSECUTION OF DILLON AND oBRIEN'-IEN-
ANTS PUTTING THEIR RENT MONEY IN
BANK" UNITED IRELAND" IN
pANGER-MR. PARNELLS
fBr CABLE TO THE TRIBUNE. !

copvr;oat, 1884, Nortn American Gable Nr0s Co.
DupIIN. Dec 22-The new Plan of Campaign
win be precisely what the old one was, only car.
ried out q little more cautiously SO as TO aNoiu
giving the police chance DO grab even hahoiui
Of the collected rents should they desire to repeat
the tactics of Ioughrea The Government arc
simply playing a game of bluff and playing
cl,imsily and we refuse to be blufed. Ihat Is
the whole situation. Their proclamation Is
stupendous piece Of check. They have no author
hy to declare the Plan of Campaign q crimlnai
conspiracy. That is question for jury Ihey
Thought the proclamation would intimidate ten
ants from taking up the plan lhe same ID oruc
Of their lawless money grab at Loughrca anu vi
their prosecutions which are pure sham' ihe
ostensible aim Of these prosecutions is 10 oii"S
Mr.. Dillon and his colleagues to trial before
,urx NJ their countrvmen but in reality nothing
is further from the intentions of the Government
What they do want is DO produce by snow Oh
yigor. by prosecutions by proclamatons and by
noisy harangues from the judicial BENCH the same
effect upon the minds Of the Irish tenantry Ih"V
might be produced by verdict OF guilty against
The Irish leaders, which they know they could
never obtain by the time the trial by jury Is
reached.
In the prosecutions the Government calculate
on having the tenantry utterly pun 10 inshC oy
their discharges of blank cartridges but the ten
they arc refused fair reduction they are bank
inr their rents on the lines of the Plan but they
are doing so on the cuict. The rents OF three
cstatcs-the Vandcleur in Clare, the Ryan IN Don
cgal and the Murphy in Mayo-have thus peeh
banked since the proclamation The tenants re-
card the action of the Government as the highest
testimony to the efficacy of the Plan lhcy Kho"
that when the Executive told the unfortunate
Cork landlords that they could not interfere
.intn nf TG
cral Holmes, it was when the Executive believed
the Plan was going to break down. and now bhev
know that all their pains are taken to override
the Holmes dictum simply because the Plan has
proved q success. The leaders of the movement
are threatened with the same difficulty as before
that of restraining its operations Within a woIK-
able area.
So far the Government have botched the thing
Crotes1uey After bin ling Mr.. Dillon and his
friends to appear at their peril on charge OF
conspiracy at IolghTea, they Immediately sum-
moned them TO appear, also at their peril Oh
the same day and hour in Dublin police court
Mr. Sheehy received further summons 10 appear
Mt Tcmplemore as well as Dublin and Loughrea,
and was thus like Mr.. Dillon, target for three
urosecuticns at one time Discovering their blun-
der the Government announced the abandonment
of the Loughrea and TemplemOre prosecutions
but they are not to be allowed TO get out of the
so simply
Curious developments may be looked for To-
morrow when the Dublin police court opens
Dillon and O'Brien will not be there and the case
against them cannot be heard until their bodies
are produced They will have gone 30 the
Ioughrea court instead, accompanied by counsel.
there to insist on the case against theH pcln@
formally dismissed by the magistrates, ana 10
npplv for a summons against Inspector Davis The
drunken policeman who throttled John Dnlon ana
grabbed his money and who lnsIlIuOeu 'he
Iougbrea prosecutions After making cIimlhal
charge acainst Mr.. Dillon and his friends ana
committing robbery with violence, The inspector
;s I'm be allowed quietly to let the matter drop
Tuf he is bound under bail OF t?OO TO appear.
and prosecutc and if he Goes not motion VIII
he made TO cstrcat his recOgnlzance. meanwhile
the fun will be 10 see what the GoVelnment Will
do about the contempt of the Dublin court SHOWN
by Dillon and O'Brien
II is not unlikely that tomorrows issue OF
"Inited Irelanir will be suppressed. AS wrhe
the desks here in the office OF that paper are Deiii-
cleared for action as indeed they have Oeen
every press night for weeks past. All copy Is
DESTROYED as fast as il is set
Mr. Parnells serious illness has cast a gloom
over us all though it is reassur1ng to Know thal
he is stea ily recovering. He has had narrow
escaDe For weeks he was forbidden TO see d
visitor or look at newspaper, and even now ms
rhvsician. who is one of the most eminent prac-
titioners in London, cnforces absolute quiet II he
is TO mend sufficiently TO be able TO take his place
at the opening of Parliament T. L. GILL NJ. 7.