The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-26
A PICTURE OF PARNELL.
T, isMALLEYS PEN DRAWING OF THE
FAMOUS FRESHMAN.

O0uEdblOlSs ana 1SL 10 NTFCdL
Leader of Men Something About
Mrs. O'Shea, the Woman in the Case,
and Also About the Captain.
From the Neiv York Ersling Post.
The most interesting pen-picture Of Mr..
Parnell yet printed is furnished by the con-
fessedly unfriendly hand of Gsorge w.
Smalley. one of the best known Of London
correspondents Mr.. Parnell, be the mer-
its or dement's of his home-rule policy what
they may, has been, at any rate, great
figure in public life He has led not a great
party, but party large enough to hold the
balance of power in English politics with ex-
traordinary ability and power. = =
When he entered the House of Commons
the cause of home rule was the cause of a
despissd and powerless minority. To-day
Mr.. Parnelps watchword is written
on the banners of all that is left
and the greater part in numbers is
Ieft-of the Liberal party of Great
Britain. He accomplished this amazing
result by methods not less amazing. He
defied the house, trampled on its traditions
broke Its rules of deliberate purpose, organ
lied conspiracy against the very life of
parliamentary government. set himself to
degrade and dishonor the oldest parliament
airy assemblage in the world-the mother Of
parliaments; the prototype and pattern of
every legislature, state or federal, in the
United States of America. He endured
censure and suspension; he courted both
He allied himself first with one party, then
with the other; used both, despised both,
hated both, and was by turns the master of
both.
Mr. Parnell has always been the mys-
terry man of politics, and people now think
that the mystery is cleared up. The mys-
terry was Mrs. O'Shea. When Mr.. Parnell
was not i'll the House OF Commons he was
at Ethan in her society or at some one of
the many other places in which this long
intrigue was at different times carried on.
His absences were often commented on.
never publicly explained. Never aid any
man carry secrecy and mystery so far It
was supposed at one time that Mr.. Parnell
cloaked mis- movements because he dreaded
assassination. That was more particularly
after the Phoenix park murders, when the
relations between the Irish leader and the
lnvincibles, as with the dynamite and other
extreme wings of the party, were strained.
IT. difficult to say whether danger really ex-
isted, or whether Mr.. Parnell believed it to
exist. What is certain is that long after it
was over the mystery was still kept up
His own party, his own followers-com-
rades he had none-never knew where to
find him or how to reach him. During the
sessions he gave no address but the House
of Commons; often he was not at the House
for days, sometimes not for weeks. A great
pile of unopened letters and kilograms
would be waiting for him when he came
they were never forwarded, because no.
body knew where to forward them When
he arrived he opened the kilograms and
sometimes the letters. Sometimes, not al
ways He has been seen to put q great
packet of sealed letters into the ire without
looking at them.
He cared nothing for society, but of late
years some of his new liberal allies or their
wives have sought him and asked him to
dine. II they knew his ways they sent their
invitations by telegraph; nor were they
even then always received. There was one
case which will serve as well as many. A
telegram was sent inviting Mr.. Parnel to
dine at a wel-known house specified day
A large party was to be given. Perhaps
Mr. Gladstone was to have been present
No answer came from Mr.. Parnell. The
day arrived and the dinner took place
without him. 1t was a Wednesday
The Wednesday following, about noon his
hostess received a telegram in which he
excused himself on the ground of absence
for not having answered earlier, adding
that he would dine with her and her hus-
band that evening with pleasure Her hus-
was engaged to dine elsewhere. But she
was woman of resource and of flexible
mind; saw at once that he had mistaken the
date-an easy thing to do with telegram
threw over her engagement, sent off
dozen different dispatches to intimate
friends who could be asked without cere-
mony for the same evening, and when Mr.
IaTnell arrived he found a company
assembled, though not large one, and
went in to dinner without dreaming that he
was a week late
The difficulty for those who had business
relations with him was not less. His party
never knew whether they might count on
him not. What they did know was that
messages and entreaties were thrown away
on him. II great Irish debate were on
Mr.. Parnell might or might not be present.
More but himself was in his confidence.
But the odd thing is hat he had the
same regal manners toward others of far
higher position. He was not careful to
Keep an appointment, even though the APP
polntment was with Mr.. Gladstone and the
SUBJECT of conference one vital to the policy
he had heart. Nay, even his confidential
ADVISERS In the two most imp 1rtantant
matters of business he has ever had to
transact were not trusted with his address,
OF not for long time. With them. as with
MS political puppets, the same mystery
prevailed; there was the same suggestion of
some occult influence that was ali-con-
uoihng and all-powerful with Mr.. Par
NELL"
1t has become the custom among some
lrlshmen to call Mrs. O'Shea "Dervorgill
the Second" Dervorgill is somewhat of
legendary character, who is made RESPONSE
Die for 700 years of Irish misfortunes.
thomas Moore has Unparalleled her as the
falsest of women" and Irish men and
Women still love to sing his charming
melody proclaiming that ION our side is
virtue and Erin; on theirs is the Saxon and
quit" She was the wife of O'Ruarc,
prince of Breffny. and is supposed to have
81. ped with Dermot MacMurrough, king
OF Leinster and ancestor of the legless
and armless Irish Tory leader, Arthur
kavanaugh, who died recently. The elope-
ment is probably a myth, as she was
Wonan Of middle age at the time, but Mrs.
OShea is fair and forty" If not fat also.
iDermot brought the English over to help
MN IN his war with O'Ruarc, who had
beaten him, with the aid of Roderick O'Con-
nor, King of Connaught and last monarch
OF ireland. Mrs. O'Shea has set the Irish
chlettain and clansmen of to-day fighting
among themselves, and the hated Saxon
VIII be the only gamer by the fratricidal
strife.
Mrs. OShea is no ordinary woman, and
ieast OF all is she an adventures She is of
the bluest English blood, and is woman
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