New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-06
MR.. PARNELL.
III.
SOME GLIMPSES OF THE INNER HISTORY
OF TIE OSIIEA CASE IN IT'S RELATION
TO POLITICS AND HOME RULE.


Va foct I supposc has been better known In
rrg,nd for some years past than the fact OK
NJ parnelIs conncXion with Mrs. OShea IL
hos boon known ! mean. 10 many of those men
I, van might think most likely to reveal 1t
a. his noli,ical opponents, to JOURNALISTS 10 'hoso
o,,or., his own followers who chaicd nhdcr MA
,nn,rol and wanted TO set up for themselves
And vet H. has hardly been limited at In Tie pubic
rrcss 4 great deal of talk has gone on III piNa~'
in tho Iobbe, of the House OF Commons ana eise-
where Something was heard VI " "ieu 'o
Porrell COMMITS ion was sitting. nave h' "''"s
that all the main facts were theh Ill p'SSeS'"" -
.1bc Times Not one Of them was USED ="
attack such man on such erou'ioo ""' '''
rs kind of hitting below the pei''
When Captain O.Shca filed his petition Tor nj
vorce and made Mr.. Parncll correspondent. the
situation was changed. Then yon ni"h' ""'o
thought the story would come ont but 70 wv
conductors of the best English newspapers ,h''
seemed only reason for being more hisc''c' '""A
before. 4 notion prevails hcrc--and niuch may
bc said for it-that nothing should pe e"'' "
dorc to prejudice either party 10 pending ac''on
Whether tic action be civil or criminal, inc ru'e
l. the son-c and il is for the most part, observe"
with extreme strictncss The pigeonholes OF ths
office MAY De stuffed with the most SENSATIONAL
details: which nevertheless remain IN the pigeon
holes. lhcy rcnialHeu III INC - '"'" NV 49,
others.
rberc has long been a feeling among Gladston'
| inns that they were in peril. Some Of them knew
tho truth Some of them guessed II. More per-
| hans excluding from their minds all f1cts NAV
do NOT Gt in with the policy of tie hour-a power
which they have acquired from Mr.. 6ladstone-
| believed the O'Sheo story an Invention OF INC
enemy NJ PaInclls friends and poh'icai ass''
ciates always said il was an INVENTION DILL ,"e
! o,i.,orco If such rlmors was felt to be another
roa.or ,or ycttipr on with Home Rule a, fast as
nossiblc. The double prospect, or possloll'S'
| that Mr.. Gladstone might go over 10 the maJofiS'
and that Mr. Parnell might 90 under, was 'oo
ann,IIinc 10 be contemplated with uahPnii uiin"'
! Mr. Parncll is not the sort OF man whom IL "''
,a.,. ,o annroaeh on that subject, or on any
subiect Mr.. Gladstone, for his part is tho moso
unsnspicions of mankind, and lis knowledge OF
men has never been comparable to his EhowieuS'
Of affairs. SO the whole thing slnmered In
ouct way. and the public knew nothing OF the
| secret anAieties Which bcset those. or some OF
those who looked upon the cause OF lone huie
as bound ND with the lifc-the political hfe-ot
the Irish leader
| said something the other day Of the greatness
Of Mr.. Parnell'> position, and | recur TO IL ohiy
10 ask This question: Where would Home RnIe
h, hut for Mr. Parnell? That Is as good way
as any other TO measure the extent Of MS SERIES
| 10 that cause. | don't believe you coud III" .
single politician of the first or the second f'hA
! - F,gland who would say that but for the state
of things brought about in 1888 Mr.. "isds'oue
would have taken up Home Rule. Not one OK
| ,ber, would dream of denying that 1t was MI.
| p,rrel1 who brought about this state OF tnlngs'
! l., moro than any other more than al! others'
he alone. in truth. NJ Gladstone always nc'
lends his extraordinary somersauIt IN one way
and on a single ground. VIZ. that when ne 'o"@
| il, then for the first time had the WISH OF 'n'
Irish peopc bern constitutionally eNpresscd !"
| other words Ireland had returned great mayor
ity-about four-ffths-of representatives '" 'ns
! House of Commons, VINO dcmanueu s'"'"''S
Parliament for Ireland.
Primarily. it may lie said. if was the County
Franchise Act. or the inclusion Of Ireland IN that
! ver,. radical measure ~ which this change was
| du. That act put the ballot in the hands OF ne
Irish noople What Mr.. Tarne did was to tell ue
Irish people what 10 10 with it. and they ohryed
him implicitly. lie II was VINO organized the Lshu
League and the National League for pohtical pnr-
pose, lie it was who established that system
Of organized terror which spread net over the
yreater mart Of Ireland with meshes 50 fine thas
hardly n peasant was Insignificant enough 10 SIP
through them No despotlsm was ever more com
,.,,. mo ncople ever fell more completely under
OF a SlllgP VIII, al" INN" VIZ '''-
- q man f. whom all sentiments of compassion
vcr, unknown: man who put before MN ono
SINGLE object and cared not or what me trampled
IN obtain IL: man with an unsurpassed capacity
for discovering and applying the means by "hicn
hi. .rd WAS to I've obtained No rammany worker
over held primary more completely IN MS
hands than the Iush leader held tie greater pafe
If ireland Nor was Tammany itself less en-
numbered by scrupes than Mr. ParnrH. itis
marvellous political genius had free scop' ls'
there been aS there was not, his equal In ire
land as leader or as an cccuonccrng a,en' nus
,ro,cir,rv rival must have combined in hlmseN!
not only Mr. Parnclls unrivallcd capacitles W
politcal control and his passionate hatren 81 Eng
land bat his absolute freedom from tne peonn"!
of principles
will fake hut n single instance. begin by as
surirg that of anything like completely in actuai
ri,, Il, MAS absolutely guiltlcss; whether 1t We're
tho murder of Lord Frederick tavencish ana Mt
| p,,Lc ar the murder of some obscure tenanS
,,rwcr who had aiken an evicted farm IN defah'o
If tLc Ic,gur'S prohibition, or the muthauoh OF
,,,,s and horses which were unlucky enough "
l.. tlc propcrty al some other farmer whose onehoS
n.aius, the Dmconlan code OF the League VIC ho'
| hcinous enough 80 require ms own lie lS Fn.
alty But his power rested on the League MI"
ia, r,isu Of tia, League was a Reign of Terror.
| MIR t;i9 lsiunc Is the witness To II. AlypodS WIZ
wants - know what the League was Ike mas
only To read Mr. Gladstone's account of IL Prios
IA his conversion. Mr. Pame!, we VIII suppose.
knew no more than the general public knew !"
wa, enough The ultimate sanction OF ms system
was crime; the lower foundation OF the wonaef'u'
cdicc he had put together WAS outrage ana mus'
der II WAS under this system ana ny virtue
Of Z, that Ireland returned cightN-1ve larheil'Fs
to the House of Commons, and that MI "adstohs
was able 10 discover constitutional uehi"n'
constitutonally expressed for the bmaN-np OF '"s
United Kingdom. Never could either event have
happened without Mr.. Parnell
4 Tho or.lIment might he carried a step further