Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-18
L NITEO IRELAND.

Editor O'Isrfen Corrects Some Alleged
Misstatements In Connection with tho
Newspaper, United Ireland, of which
He Is Editor. and of which Mr.. P,rnen
Has Taken Forcible Possession-Parnen
Neither Majority Stakeholder Nor
Director.
NEW YORK. Dec ;2.-Mr. O'Brien
said yesterday with regard to the seiz-
ure of the United Ireland office and its
recap:ure the preceding night in his
name:, II know nothing either of the
attack on the United Ireland Office or OF
its reported recapture. except what L
have learned from the newspapers l
am most loath to speak on what IS to
me in any aspect h eartbreaklng SUD-
lect, but there are some Measurements
in the newspapers which l must cor
rect 1t is stated that the edition
which Mr.. Parnell attempted to sup
press by force was to contain Dlttef
personal attacks upon himself. l can
not believe that to be true unless my
specific orders were disregarded. When
the controversy arose 1 cabled the fol-
lowing instructions to the manager, Mr.
Donnely: If party decides in favor OF
Mr.. Parncll hand over the establish
ment to any authorized agent of Mr..
Parnell. If party decides against his
leadership support our views moderate
ly but strenuously, avoiding all unkind
language of Mr.. Parneu personally, and
permit nobody to interfere.
81 subsequently twice cabled the act
ing editor, Mr.. Bodkin. enjoining him
to see that nothing personally offensive
to Parnell should appear and forbid
r
in the controversy. To insure that
nothing personally hurtful to Parnell
should appear, 1 specially instructed
him to print nothing On the subject ex-
cept what he should write himself. On
the night before Mr.. Parnell's raid on
the office, in reply to a cablegram from
two of Mr.. Parnelrs chief Par
liamentary supporters begging Mr..
Dillon and myself to come
to Paris, and asking me to direct United
Ireland to observe neutrality in the
meant me, cabled the following reply:
will 10 delighted to meet Jack and you
in Par :. Will gladly direct neutrality
of I'm ted Ireland meanwhile if the
controversy is suspended all around
The n xt L heard was tn at one of the gem
tlemen who had cabled me that message
was among those who had broken into
the Ctiice and suppressed the paper by
force. 1t is stated that Parnen acted in
virtu" of his authority as the director
of the company who owned United Ire
land, and that be owns the great ma jor-
ity Of shares. Both these statements are
info nded. The shares which stand
nom lally in his name are less than
b,lf 10 oh -
Mr.. l'arnell is not and has not been for
near five years past director of the
conn my. He ceased to be, at his own
desir", about five years ago for the ex-
press purpose of guarding himself from
all r cuniary Oh. criminal responsibility
for the paper. That responsibility 1
have myself borne wholly throughout
all these years. l entirely concurred in
the wisdom of MIR. Parnell's course in
that respect. l only refer to it to show
that, as matter of fact, it is not truo
that Mr.. Parnell is director. 1t is not
true that any director of the company
accompanied him, and it is not true
that those who forcibly entered the
United Ireland office with him had a
shadow of legal authority for their pro-
ceedings.
''As to the ecapture which is reported
to have followed, l can only surmise
that some kind people of Dublin, who
had not altogether forgotten me in my
absence and who had not forgotten the
record of United Ireland, allowed their
natural feelings to outrun their for
bearance.
Il am sorry to have been compelled to
say even this much on n topic so mex
pressibly painful to me. 1 spent the
best years of my life in establishing
United Ireland. For ten years it has,
often almost single-handed, borne the
brunt of three consecutive coercion
acts. Words can not tell how mourn
full it is for me to think that
after weathering so many years OF con-
tinuous life and death struggles with
Dublin Castle, the paper should, in my
ab1ence, and while my hands are tied,
experience such treatment at the hands
CT the leader worshipped. But am
quite willing and eager to forget this
and all other personal considerations il,
by any possible honorable means, patri-
otto men on both sides can even yet sue
coed in staying the present fatal strife
in Ireland"