The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-12-08
MINNEAPOLIS PAUL. DECEMBER s, 1888.

Sentinel had waged a ceaseless warfare.
Judge Neligan, as might be expected,
made short work of the EDITORS appeal.
He upheld the decision previously reli.
dered by Forster's satraps and sent MI.
Harrington to prison on two months
sentence, during one month OF which
he decreed the prisoner should be sub
jected to the torture Of the plank bed,
while through his whole incarceration
he was to be given the same sort OF
treatment accorded to the worst OF Of
tenders. From this sentence there was
no further means of appealing, and the
consequence was that Mr.. harrington
was sent to Mullingar jail, where he
was most Internally treated by the
jailer, who compelled him to do the
most menial services, and, to add to
what he fancied was The editors degra-
dation, invited the landlords round
about to come to the prison and watch
the Kerry man while he was thus en-
ployed. Speaking afterwards, in the
House Of Commons, Of the treatment
MIR. Harrington received in Mullingar
Jail, that fiery lieutenant of Mr.. Parneil,
Mr.. T. M, Healy, publicly stated that
had he been subjected to such indigni-
ties as he had learned from Mr.. Har-
rington's own lips were put upon him
there, he would have saved some OF the
filth he was forced to carry out of the
Jail and brought it to Westminster,
where he would wait his chance to pub
licly fling it in the face of the Irish sec
retary. And nobody who knows the
character of Tim Healy will doubt but
what he would have done this.
But when Dublin Castle thought it
was dishonoring and degrading Mr..
Harrington it was, in reality, doing the
exact opposite. At the time that the
Kerry editor was confined in Mullingar
Jail vacancy arose in the representa-
tion in Parliament OF the county West.
meath, wherein MpI'ingar is situated,
and although this constituency is almost
wholly made up Of tenant farmers, the
very class which Mr.. Harrington vas
accused OF intimidating, when the
nominations were made for candidate.
nobody appeared to oppose the prisoner,
who was, therefore, unanimously nomi-
mated for the vacant seat. No COM
munication with the outside was then
allowed the imprisoned editor, but>his
friends took good care that he should
be apprised of his election. BY one of
those underground channels, by the
means Of which that famous tweed suit
was conveyed to William O'Brien
when Dublin Castle robbed him Of his
other garments, it had been intimated
to MIR. Harrington that in case he was
elected bonfire would be lit at a point
which was visible from the window OF
his cell. Looking from that window on
the night of the ballotiDg, Mr.. Harring.
ton had the satisfaction of seeing the
agreed.upon signal and Of learning that
while his enemies were vainlY trying to
degrade him, his friends in Westmeath
had honored him by electing him to the
highest Office in their gift and by max
ing him their representative in the
Westminster Parliament.
OF course all these things did not
tend to make Dublin Castle any more
friendly to Mr.. Harrington. Du,ing
his Imprisonment his paper had BEEN
successfully conducted by his brother,
Mr.. Edward Harrington, and when his
sentence was about expiring, another
charge was trumped up against him
aud made to include his brother as well
as himself, the allegation being that the
office of the Kerry Sentinel had, pub
lished an inaammatorY placard. This
placard was nothing more than q piece
of practical joking and was declared
such on It's own face. Yet that fact
Notwithstanding, and despite the cir
cumstance that Timothy Harrington
was in Jail when it was printed and
could not. therefore, have been respon-
sible for its appearance, both we're ar
rested, and Mr.. Edward Harrington
was sentenced to six months in Jail. If,
consequently, the latter gentleman is
again sent to prison for his refusal to
pay the fine which Justice Hannen has
imposed upon him, it will be no new
experience to which he will be treated,
as he has already spent some time be-
bind the bars in the service of his coun.
try.
Mr.. Timothy Harrington, some years
ago, severed all connections with the
Kerry Sentinel, handing that property
over to his brother, and coming to Dub
lin to act as secretary of the National
League. Since his coming to Dublin
MIR. Harrington has sat for the Harbor
division of the Irish metropolis. b,
which constituency he was first elected
in the general election of 1885, and again
in 1885, on the latter of which occasions
he offered to resign in favor of William
O Brien, who had been defeatedln South
Tyrone. but which act on his part a
favorable opening elsewhere for the
editor of United Ireland rendered un-