The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-14
How the Split in the Irish Par.
liamentary Party Is Re.
garded in England.
CHAPTER OF POLITICAL HISTORY.
Liberal Leaders VIII Never AGAIN
Treat With Him Even if He
Wins His Fight-NationaI League
Funds Tied Up-HeaIy and Par
nell Address Rival Meetings at
Kilkenny - Still Hopeful of a
Compromise.
Special to THE MORNING GAIL

NEW YORK, Dec. ia Tribune special
from London says: History in the field of
domestic politics has been made rapidly this
week The Irish party is now divided into
two distinct camps. Parnell carries with
him the administrative qualities of his party,
but he has lost lis best debaters, and from
the time when lie broke up Saturdays
meeting lie lost nearly every shred of SYM
pathy among those who admired him for his
courage. Public opinion in England at least
has gone against him, as public opinion
often goes against losing cause.
Every step that he has taken since Satur-
day has been fraught with mistakes, espe-
cially since he landed in Dublin. The melo-
dramatic capture and recapture of United
Ireland, and Parnell's personal conduct in
that affair, his address TO q mob indicating
that he might have carried a citadel or
achieved some work of real proves S, made
sober-minded spectators question whether
the mans mind has not become unsteady.
His daring and absolutely untruthful asser-
tions at Dublin and Cork are inexplicable
But behind this madness there is method, for
the rotunda speech contained much which
sought to conciliate the mob and laborers and
artisans of Ireland.
HIS POPULARITY WANING.
Notwithstanding Parnel's remarkable re-
ception in the Irish capital and along his
journey to Cork. evidences abound that the
cheering and shouting came almost solely
from men in the street. The solid public
opinion of Ireland has not yet declared it.
self. and it is becoming less doubtful
whether it will ever do so in ParnelPs favor.
1t is coming home to the Irish electors that
however successful Parnell may be- the En-
glish leaders can never again negotiate with
him, and his admission that home rule can
not be accomplished without English help
impresses many Irish politicians with the
belief that Parnell is an obstacle rather than
help to Irish aspirations.
The want of funds alone will soon pro-
duce paralysis. His purse is becoming
empty. He cannot touch the fund in Paris,
and nobody knows how much or rather how
little, is left of the amount intrusted to
him for the payment OF Irish members. On
the whole ParnelPs prospects are much
worse than they were a week ago. His
speeches betray the fact that he is fighting
in the air. and defeat at Kilkenny will give
his cause staggering blow.
IS PARNELL's MIND FAILING?
A Herald special from Kilkenny says:
Are Parnell's mental powers falling? A
couple of weeks ago Labouchere said he
always thought that Parnell was man who
might go mad, and recent events have made
him conclude that the evil day has come.
Not few who heard him to-day believe
that his mind is unsettled. l was in the
Postoffiee alter 1 o'clock this morning,
Yfnr, zfand in saln ar.A
rushed out again, with his eyes fixed and
his features set. He seemed to see no one,
though there were number in the ro ON
whom lie knew well. He laughed to-day !;
il was not a pleasant laugh, and it stag
gered those who heard 1t.
a Nationalist member of Parliament says
that Parnell said TO him: 81 have been ac-
cused of destroying happy home. Let me
tell you that in his married life OF twenty
three years, Captain OShea did not spend
800 nights at home. l have never drunk a
glass OF wine with him, nor has he ever paid
a farthing for anything have ever eaten OF
drunk"
HENNEssY's CAMPAIGN.
KILKENNY, Dec 13-The committee ap-
pointed last night to conduct the campaign
of John Pope Hennessy, the nominee of
the Mccarthy faction for Parliament.
held meeting to-day. Timothy Healy
made an address, in which he attacked
Parnell for employing mob violence TO
prevent the arguments of his opponents
from reaching the ears of the people. He
- tHealy) and the late Mr.. Biggar knew the
facts in connection with the Ethan intrigue
and they should have strangled it when
Captain OShea was nominated by Parnell
to Parliament. Unfortunately it was al
lowed to grow. From Tory point of view.
Parnell was the savior Of the Tories and
Mrs. O'Shea was the Tory Joan dare.
CHANGE IN PARNELL's PLANS.
A mass-meeting in the interest of Scully,
the Parnellite Parliamentary candidate.
was addressed by Parnell to-day He
warned the electors mote to trust Sir John
Carthy faction. Hennessy, he said, was
well qualified to be leader in party of
renegades, there being no party to which
he had not belonged save the Irish party.
Parnell spoke but briefly, showing signs of
great fatigue, and his voice being so hoarse
as to be az times almost inaudible. Re-
porters are intensely annoyed by the mys-
teriOus changes he makes in his plans. He
has now abandoned his proposed visit to
Limerick, and will remain in Kilkenny
until after the election, notwithstanding
that everything has been arranged for the
visit
IRISH FUNDS TIED UP.
PARIS, Dec. 13.-Parnell recently wrote
10 the French bankers of the Irish Parlia-
mentary Fund requesting them to remit to
him direct whatever cash balances there
might be standing to the Irish Parliament
AIRY credit. The letter was written and sent
without the knowledge of co-Trustee Justin
Mccarthy, who, as soon as he learned OF it,
took steps to prevent the withdrawal of
the funds by Parnell. Legal proceedings
have been instituted, the effect Of which Is
Mr. Parnell cannot withdraw The funds
from Paris. The McCartbyites have only
about el000, and they have with them all
paid members excepting eight. Parnell,
therefore, has the bulk of the money and
very few of the paid members to take care
OF. This indicates the immense advantage
of his position.
UNPAID SALARIES.
DUBLIN, Dec 13-The Freeman's Jour-
nal says that F. x. OBrien. Treasurer of
the National League, refuses to pay the
salaries Of league officials on the ground
that they are not neutral
The dispute in regard to the right of
drawing upon the funds of the National
League has caused the bank in which the
leagues money is deposited to order its
branches not to honor checks sent to eyicted
tenants by the organization. In conse-
quence many families are deprived Of the
sustenance they received weekly from the
league and must either suffer greatly or 90
to the pOorhouse.
Laborers on the railway which is being
built from Galway to Clifden have struck
by the Government, and the work started
is part Of Balfour's scheme for the relief Of
unemployed workmen.
HOPEFUL OF COMPROMISE.
Valentine 3. Dillon Jr. has written let
ter to the Freeman's Journal stating that
John Dillon and William O'Brien are still
hopeful of effecting compromise with
ParpelL
4, Father Murphy, the parish priest Of Kill
nanagh, County Kilkenny, in letter to
Che Freeman's journal, demonstrates against
the clerical attacks made on ParDell.
-Four well-kn0wn Irish newspapers have