The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-07
SOLID FOR Mr.. PARNELL.
THE PEACEFUL POLICY Salts
FACTORY TO INSTANTANEOUS.
Interview With Patrick EgaB, Pres
ident of the American League
Cable Co respOndenee.

LINCOLN, NEB., April 6.-The follow
| ing cables have Just been exchanged
between the Hon. 7 Harrington, "
p, secretary of the Irish NatiOna
League, Dublin, and President Egar
OF the American League:
To Bgan, Lincoln. Neb.:
English papers publish cables from
America, saying Egan and Sullivan
condemn Parnell's peaceful policy and
threaten revolt. This is done TO pre-
judice Gladstone's statement OF Thurs
day. Wire authority to contradict.
HARRINGTON.
LINCOLN, NIB, April 9Th.
To Harrington, National League, Dublin;
Statement that Sullivan or / have
condemned Parnell's peaceful policy
is an unqualified falsehood, which
could only have emanated from an
enemy of the league and traitor to
Ireland.
PATRICK EGAN.
PATRICK EGAN,
president OF the Irish National League
of America, was interviewed yester.
day in regard TO dispatches from New
York TO the effect that the leaders Of
the Irish National League desire to
dictate TO Parne !, and had threatened
TO stop supplies from America unless
he labored for the actual separation of
ireland from England. Egan de-
nounced the entire statement as an
unmitgated falsehood, manufactured
by some designing knave for the pur.
pose of damaging the league and de-
ceiving Parnell. He also expressed
his conviction that the alleged inter
view between Parnell and an agent of
the. extremists party from America,
was an entire fabrication. 81 thinE,"
said Mr.. Egan, 81 understand the
grounds on which the rumor was
based. A member of the National
Executive Committee of the League,
Mr. Armstrong of Georgia, who was
about TO visit Ireland to see his rela-
tives, was furnished with letters of in
PRODUCTION TO Parnell and other men,
bers Of the party. Mr.. Armstrong met
Parnell in Dublin and talked with him
on some matters of detail in connec-
ton with league affairs, but there was
nothing of the nature indi-
Gated in the cable rumors in the inter
view. II Is simply another case of the
"three black crows"
Egan, in reply to inquiries regard
ing the Parliamentary Aid Associa-
ton, said Mr.. Byrne of Cincinnati, the
and prime mover of the
was "a notwithstanding
man, the very counterpart Of a we'll
known crank in Irish politics whom
Mr.. Parnell retired at the last cleo
ton" He had started the Parliament
tary Aid Association and, through va
rious influences, got Eugene Kelly and
some other well-meaning lrishmen of
New York to Join il. The association
brought its labors to a close early last
month and adjourned sine die, but
this did not suit Byrne, whose
real object, Egan claims, was to try
and, if possible, disrupt the National
League. Byrne has since tried to re.
suscitate the committee, and Tstart
branches in other cities, but without
any success. Parnell did not, of
know this, when he sent his
cable to Columbus a few days ago
Egan repeated his statement that any
man who tried to interfere with the
unity and harmony of the Irish people
ut the present crisis, or any one who
tries TO damage the league, as the
~ thor of the New York dispatches
has done, deserves to be branded as a
traitor TO Ireland.