New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-01
I'D p1RNELL's TESTIMONY.
-,rpr CAREER REVIEWED BY HIM
"~ SELF.
,o,mr OF VIOLENCE UTTERLY HHfoD'
Arzn BY THE IRISH LEADEh-nn, Dn ~ar
EXPLANATIONS WELL aEcEIVLp-.h
PARIS ExyosrT1oN-rHr QUEEN
rATRICAL
ny CABLE 10 TIE TRtBJH!
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-, oo-Mr. parnell's appearance IN
n. vttness-b4x brings the sef'ou, ,, a.s., hav.
.r,.t state tzial to climax. -, .m.oh,oor.nh;cal
thouaht Il best to make MN d S. p.,ns,i onIv
tnousn' Tb.i, Theory Is that Mf: fafneii on'y
M" - -.rovn 20 bs justified. So they oeean
neea' S,.xh carried him on through coLege.
WIN nS .,s,- n the beginning Of his ponucai
pes'eu t"r 80. thereafter delberately. step oy
hIe' sn1 ~. ..,eer a. leader OF the irish party.
ssep. s'.Hs - cautiously, for. having not oeen
wea ~ oo,rt 20 BY the published reports
.DN 80. vhjcl are abridged; but the hne
'ns ~ p.,nen now takes seems unmstakaple'
W.. .,,tved At the parting OF the ways. iie
no ~ ~ ohsose which road he will henceforth
~. n. has chosen that which is broad enough
s .i. and his English friends to march side py
10, M - n. aver had past which would make his
0ae .,u,nev difficult and his alliance with
pr.r.h r Tihersls impossible, he has deliberately
-;+h a He renounces any faith he may
Wv. o.s h.v. had In violent methods. He presents
..s...N an oath to the English public as purely
u.-..,,vtonsl agitation. Dynamitep Perish the
.I.r.htI Outrage and crime? Nothing could DC
80 80 .hborrent to himl Fenianism? lie knew
:. ,osi Mr.. Patrick Ford? Il never
- Mr.. Patrick Ford in my life"
a.s-,np the last link between Eng
,.,S and Ircland-the famous Cincinnati speech? +?
az ever did say it, must have qualified IT,
A n stands never said it, never thought IT,.
M course he disowned. deprecated and denounced
n. pboenjx Park murders, and with that the days
work came 10 an end.
Mr. Asouith has been examining Mr Parnell,
sbourh Sir Charles Russell was present, and every
lfne almost every word, Of the Irish leaders
testimony had been settled long since IN con-
suitstion with counsel Everything has been
thought out talked ovcr, and determined quite
a much with reference to the future OF Home
Rule as to the course Of this inquiry, and the
net result Of it all is apparently that MIR. Parneu
now thinks himself strong enough to stand alone
II ever there were left wing. he relies on 1t
no longer. II he has to elect between the party
Of. force in America and the party OF farha-
.mentary method IN England, he now elects to
stake tho fortunes Of Ireland on coalition WIN
the English Liberals
Mr.. Batess explanations at Berlin have been
well received there and here; nor do diplomatsts
think that he said word more than the cir UNI
stances required He said to Count Bismarck no
more and no less than one gentleman says TO
another when something has happened on which
candid friends put wrong construction. No
explanation was or would have been asked for
ty Count Bismarck. 1t is the voluntary character
Of it which makes it graceful MIR. Bates tells
the president of the Conference that he would
noA have written -sbs - Century article hed ne
expected to 60 q ReRha - Commissioner or
had the German dispatches been published. When
be was appointed he tried, but vainly, to suppress
the article. This account Of matters was accepted
In the spirit In which 10 was offered, and the
incident Is at an end.
m 1ann NOD
q speech BY Count Bismarck in French. Why
French2 It is the accepted language Of diplo-
macy. But rumor said that this occasion would
be sosed TO make o new departure. English is
language which every member Of the Conference
understood and which Count Bismarck speaks
with vigorous fuency. The business Of the sub
commitsees into which the Conference has now
resolvod itsef must be done in English. and seems
likely TO last for some weeks. Meanwhile the
Ceaference itself stands adjourned
Engiish Radicak affect surprise that Lord
Lytton should come home In order not to be
psessns ss the opening Of the Paris Exhibition.
Il has long been settled that none Of the great
Powers Of Europe would be represented on that
sssadon. I'VE SPENT" wrote the then Foreign
Minister Of England. ~eight hundred millions
seeeHng In making war against the principle
We were right then, and we have no right
bow 70 celebrate the anniversary of that rcvolu-
sea. Al the Powers take . similar view, and
he Diplomatic tribune at Versailles On Sunday
Win net contain . single Ambassador.
Ths Queen has abandoned her intended visit
- Baron Ferdinand dc Rothschih at WaddesdOn.
d was unpopular because IL was thought, since
AR Majesty % seldom goes among her subjects,
sAss sshen than Baron Ferdinand had prior claims.
] hshsve that The Queen. who likes the Roths-
shlAA had o stsong desire to zee Wsddesdon
ieDk which 10 in one respect the most remarkable
!plsss ia Ensiand. II Is magnificent quite unlike
ssy stA& sreat house. and 10 the creation Of ten
ynA
TIE sans critics who praised Mr.. Pinero's
Ds1aDehoU Pfoninte' condemn Mr.. Henry
Arthur Jones's melancholy Wealth. produced
ss The Aaynssket. They praised the former In
spite Of 10 melancholy; thsy condemn the latter
because Of its melancholy. Yet each is . morbid
ssady Of unfelieved human misery without real
dramatic merit Mr.. Jones wrote his piece to
nR. Beeebohm Tfees measure. Mr.. Tree Is an sd
nissbie actor in domestic comedy or within a Ger.
tAin nAss Of character parts but he inclines 70
tragedy, Of which he has not yet shown himself
master. 10 Ef Jones has fitted him with semi
sasss part Money n bis mania, and he finally
goes md without much rhyme or reason. The
ssdienes protested rightly. and no amount Of
critical good nature can conceal the fact that the
play was o failure. or that Mr.. Trees acting,
sAsssh ans IN itself, failed TO save the plsy.
G.. VS.
Mr. PARNELL AS A WITNESS.
yno1HHx PARK NURDKas-aIs HoPnr IN
ooasrIrUMoNAL ACTION FOR