Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-13
THE RUMOR!

There is a certain class of foreign cor respondents at London who never tire of sending out false reports concerning MT Parnell. At one time it is his standing with his Irish associates in parliament that engages their attention, at another time it is his health that concerns them. and still again they crack their roorbachs at his alleged dissatisfaction with the work that belongs to him as the ac- knowledged leader of his people.
 Just now we are told that MT Parnelfs health is broken, that his doctors have ordered him to France or India, that he will certainly be absent from parliament
 when it reassembles next year, and that his constant attendance on the proceed ings of the Times commission has loosen ed his hold on the Irish party and made not few grumblers in it. As for MT Parnelrs health, it would not be at all surprising if it should weaken under the fearful strain that is constantly being put upon it by his untiring devotion to his duty. It is wonderful how Mir Par nell has been able to sustain the inces- sant labor of the last ten years attend ance in the notoriously unhealthy atmosphere of the Westminster house of commons, and at the same time to go through the wearing labors of the outside work of agitation. Most of the members of the Irish party are young men who were in the prime and vigor of life when they buckled on the harness years after their leader had
 won his reputation as veteran, and many of them already show the effects of the trying ordeal through which they have gone, though few have succumbed to the strain. Mir Parnell himself has shown the fewest symptoms of giving
 way, as his recent campaign in the Mid lothian district proves. His taking a run over to the south of France, or even la trip to India, would not therefore necessarily indicate that his health has 1 gone beyond repair or that he will not l return ''like giant refreshed" ready once again to do ceaseless battle with the l enemies of his native land. His ad- mirers in America, who are kept in, formed concerning his health and labore
 by the gifted T. P. O'Connor, need not
 feel alarmed concerning either his
 health, his standing with his Irish asso ciates or his zeal in the cause of his country. Every one of the Irish mem
 bers assailed by the Times, without {
 single exception, clung to their leader during the commissions proceedings and when he rose up and shook the dust
 of the sham tribunal from his feet they all went out with him except the two lcourse and those who were compelled te
 remain as subpenaed witnesses or a
 prisoners in detention. If Mir Parnel has been losing his hold on public con
 fidence, how. do. the lying correspondent
 at London account for the recent mag
 nificent demonstrations in his honor a
 Edinburg, in which the whole Scottisl
 and Irish liberal and national element of all sections of Scotland united witt an enthusiasm never before witnessed No, the fact is that MT Parnell is a strong to-day in his zeal for the Irisl
 cause, as strong in the confidence of hi
 countrymen, as strong in his manly res
 olution to gain the best possible result for his native land as when, in the full , vigor of his young and lusty manhood , he stood up in parliament and flung de fiance in the face of his enemies. Lik the immortal O'Connell. whose mantl has fallen on his shoulders, Charle Stewart Parnel will never surrender til
 the sunburst of self-government shal iillumine his beautiful ''Niobe of tn