St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-14
THE ANTI-PARNELL LEADER.

Justin Mccarthy, leader of the anti
Parnell faction of the Irish Nationalists,
was vice chairman of the Irish parlia-
mentary party and always took Parnelps
place in the chair when the Irish pha-
lanX met for consultation during the
readers frequent and protracted abb
sences. But Mccarthy will be only a
stop gap. He received his promotion a
few days ago through the same process
by which the lieutenant colonel takes
the colonel'S place when the latter is
struck down is relieved of his sword
on the field of battle. In the larger
sense of the word, Mr.. Mccarthy will
never be the leader. nor can any other
man among Parnell's late lieutenants,
able as many of them are. Mr..
Mccarthy will perform about the same
function as Marshal MacMahon filled
when the hybrid conservative majority
in the French chamber elected him
president. Bonapartists. Legitimists
and Orleanists were united in common
hostility to the republic, but the first at
tempt to replace it by kingdom or en-
pire would split the coalition into three
opposing camps and throw two of them
into the arms of the republicans. So
now Healyites. Dillonists and O'Brien
men, while agreed on the question of
deposing Mr.. Parnell, would be in bad
way if it came to a question of putting
any of the three lieutenats in his place.
1t would be a renewal of the war of the
clans, and the factions would play shut
tlecock with the leadership at the open
ing of every session.
~
To avert such state of things, the
choice of Justin Mccarthy was neces-
Sary. He is man of the world, sixty
years Of age, clear-headed, suave in
manner, without very positive ideas,
and too little of politician to clash
much with the vigorous minds and fer
vid temperamentS over which he VIII
exercise nominal sway. He will simply
be chairman of the lriSt contingent, and
will be recognized by the leaders of the
two great English parties as the medium
through whom the decisions of his col
leagues, adopted by a majority vote,
will be made known. To great extent
he has heretofore performed that func-
tiou. The transition can therefore be
effected without friction, and if the
| Irish masses should recall ParnelI to
| the leadership when the present troubles
| are ended, he could step back into his
| old place just as he used to do after one
| of his long vacations. In the meantime,
the hotspurs of the party will have a
| looSer rein, and things will be made
lively for Mr.. Balfour and his following
of country 'sQuires and young men
| about town.
Justin Mccarthy is better known to
the book reading world than in the
I field of politics. His numerous novels
are read all over the English-speaking
world, and his historical and other
works, While less widely known, have
Had large circulation dear Lady
I DiSdain," "A Fair Saxon" miss Mis-
anthrope," MY Enemy's Daughter"
| 1LadyJudith, 1.-The Waterdale Neigh
bors," ''Linley Rockford" Donna
I 0uixote, " The Comet of Season."
MAID of Athens and ''Camiola'' are
| Ills principal novels lie has written a
History of Our Own Time" which is
a readable, but not very accurate, rec
Four Georges" 1.-The Epoch of Re-
| form" and numberless magazine arti-
| Gles, both i'll English and American pub
LEGATIONS. He began life as reporter
for paper in his native city OF Cork in
| 1S4S when but eighteen years of age.
and also commenced his political career
in that ''year of revolutions by Joining
the Young Ireland movement, which
gave Ireland its only modern literature.
He worked on a Liverpool paper for
| time, and then moved to London, where
he became parliamentary reporter.
Later he joined the staff of the Morning
Star, under Ernest Jones, the chartiSt
leader, and soon became its foreign ed
itOr, and later editor-in-chief. Under
his management the Star distanced all
its competitors in the matter Of foreign
political news. He is at present an ed
itorial writer on one of the London
morning papers.
Justin Mccarthy, although proud of
his youthful political fervor, became
very conservative during his long resi-
denee i'll London, was somewhat patron
izing in his references to Ireland. and
looked aSkance at all the Irish move
mentS from 1S48 to the advent of MIR.
Parnell to the leadership. He freely
cOnfesSeS that it was Parnell who con-
verified him back to activity in the Irish
cause. He entered parliament for Long
ford IN 1879 and has sat for that con-
stituency ever since. He made an effort
to wrest the city of Derry from the
Tories in 1885 and came within thirty
votes of succeeding. Mr. Mccarthy has
made many prOtracted trips through the
United States, mostly as lecturer, but
his audiences have seldom more than
small percentage of Irish. His son,
Justin Huntly Mccarthy, also we'll
known literary man, Is member Of par
lament for Newry.