The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-10-30
DAVITT SPEAKS BOLDLY.
HE is STILL A FeNlAN AT HEART.
He stoutly Denies All the Charges of the
Thunderer and Makes IA Strong Defense
of the Course OF the Land League
Acting Counter to Parnen.

LONDON. Oct. 24.-Before the Parnell COM
mission, Mr.. Biggar spoke in his own behalf.
Mr.. Davitt said that in addressing the commits
sion he ran counter to Irish sentiment, which
Endorsed Parnels withdrawal If the condi-
tons were the same as twenty-five years ago,
he would again be fenian. Some fenian aims
were already accomplished. The land league
is fast removing the barriers between England
and justice to Ireland. Dublin castle would
soon submit to the Irish church's fate. He ac-
cused Patrick Delaney OF perjury, in saying the
movement was under fenian control. Nothing
had kept alive the Irish-American antipathy to
England so much as the Times brutal lang
uage with reference 10 Irish determination by
famine.
Mr.. Davitt said he had not indorsed Ford's
dynamite views, and he believed he had con-
verted Ford to constitutional methods.
lie Caron's assertion thar 100000 men
would invade Canada was an understatement;
the fenians numbered nearly one million. lie
denied the Times allegation that he had
started the league with money subscribed in
America, for purposes OF crime and outrage.
He quoted from the Irish iIiOg1R TO show that it
had obtained large sums by constitutionally
advocating the policy of the league. The funds
that had been received from all parts of the
world had not come from members of revolu-
tiOnary societies. He read letters from Ger
mans, Frenchmen. Americans and Englishmen.
inclOsing funds and urging him to continue the
fight on the land question.
LONDON, Oct. 25.-AIichael Davitt re-
sumed his address before the Parnell COM
mission to-day He said the landlord sys-
tenn in Ireland should be abolished and
the land be vested in the state. Eight
tenths OF the money which came from
America for the support of the Irish
cause, came from Irish wOrkingmen and
women. He denied that there was any
alliance between the league and the Tevo-
lutiOnary organization in Ireland. He
said Mr.. Houston, secretary OF the loyal
and patriotic union, and his aCc0mpliCes
knew that the letters alleged to have been
written by Parnel, which were printed in
the London Times, were fOrgeres
before Piggot went into the wftness-box,
and that it had come to his (Davitt's)
knowledge that Piggott had confessed that
fact prior to his testifying for the Times.
Chief Justice Hammer interrupted the
speaker at this point saying that the COM
mission could not accept such statement
without evidence being produced 10 sup
port 1t.
Mr.. Davitt did not press the point, but
stated that the allegation would be again
made, and proved later on. He said fur
lhei tLdt llle dlIegel secret clTCuiaIS pro-
duced by the Times to show that the
league was a revolutionary organization
were forgeries.
Mr.. Davitt proceeded to point out that
Mr. Parnell, and not he, formed the land
league in America. lie Caron, he declared
had failed to prove the assertion that the
Clan-na-Gael managed Mr.. Parnel's tour
in America. No money collected in
America had ever been intended to assist
armed rebellion in Ireland.