Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-13
PARNELL IN A NEW CUISE.
Disputing the Paternity of the Labor Move
ment with Michael Davitt
HE MAKES A STATEMENT FOR THE PRESS.
More Favorably Received at Xii
kenny Than Davitt and HcaIy-
An Interview with the
Deposed Chief
Lcopmtnh, 1900 bu Jones Gordon nennet,l

Cable-Special TO THE BEE. This has been
rather exciting day. That part of Cork
that went to bed early last ight got little
sleep befor O'Clock this morning. ParnelP
shouters have strong lungs and so long as
there was anything to be made by staying up
they stayed. Parnell appeared in newg guise
today He was called upon early by the sec
retaries Of two labor societies. They told
him they recognized him as their chief and
that Davitt was not the father of
their movement. Parnell said Davitt
claimed to be the father of everything.
Soon after small committee of the
national league called and word was at once
sent by Parnell to the correspondents, Of
whom there were about thirty that he had
statement to make. We filed the room in
which he sat- His friends say he looks well,
but he is so thin his clothes hang loosely, and
| his face is haggard, his eyes look tired and
his voice Is husky and almost gone. The
| exertion of the last couple of weeks has told
| terribly on him. but all his suffering Is not
| physical. While ostensibly speaking. to the
| league committee he really spoke to the cor
| respondents. He began sitting but after
wards stood up. He talked slowly as if
| weighing each word. The gist of his state
ment is as follows:
~ have for several months considered the
! questions relating to the different bodies of
Irishmen, the position Of the national league
| Cork and the condition of the laborers' move
ment in Cork county and have considered
how far or your leader can and ought to
reconcile the interests of the laborers' move
ment with the interests of the national move
| ment." He added that he did not consider
! the task insuperable. His thoughts and in
stincts had always been with the working
men of Ireland: it had always been his desire
to have on his side the hard-fsted sons Of
toll, and he looked to them for every con-
sideration. He would return the compliment
fully and hoped they would not shirk.
Davitt would have been amused to hear his
words taken out of his mouth by the man
who always fought against the introduction
| OF such question into Irish politics. This
| is not the Parnell of other days He is be-
| coming absolutely lukewarm in manner and
| does not carry his hands in his pockets ready
| to grasp any chance to gain his ends and if
| Irishmen love any isms they care to
| have Parnell advocate, now is the
| time. Politics not craftsmanship is his
business. Only his thick-and-thn adherents
| claim that the people of Cork are for him.
| BY people they understand voters. He has
ohuubciS anu 10 hhcAJ W uhNt tlcln WHcEcNeE
he goes, but the tide against him is growing
| stronger. In the church of st. Peter and st.
Paul, priest this morning advised his hear
| ers to take down the ParnelI pictures from
their walls. They have been taken down
from many walls of late and they are no
| longer the favorite chrome.
| Shouters by the hundred saw him leave
Cork for Kilkenny this afternoon. There
were fifty Queens college students in the
throng, He spoke for few moments. 1t
was the same old spcech-he felt ire of win
ming so long as the people of Ireland were at
| his back. There was terrific cheer from the
| Irish youths. AT the small stations on the
| way some cheered and some groaned At
| Port Arlington the crowd was divided-half
| cheered and half groaned. Some said to Par
| NELL "May the curse of God meet you" His
| adherents and opponents were almost equally
| violent.
| There was great crowd at the Kilkenny
station. Sixty police made passage. The
| workingmen's club received him and there
| was great cheering as he drove to the hotel.
| 1t was generally admitted that there was a
| small percentage of voters in the crowd still
| Parnell received much better treatment
| than Davitt and Healy here today. Healy
was hooted vigorously, but Davitt not so
| much, If there are not desperate collisions
before thenew members for North Kilkenney
are elected everyone will be surprised.
1t is impossible yet to say how the election
| will result. Both sides are confident on the
surface but the Parnell side can't explain
| why and the other side can't explain why
| The other side has the priests and they are
doing effective wsrk. Healy and Davitt are
alone so far, Parhell has William Redmond
Fitzgerald, MahoLey, O'Kelly Harrison and
Nolap with him.
had an interview with Parnell this after
| noon. In 1t he sad; ''rhe manifesto eff the
| delegates in America represents the situation
rs they imagine it before the split, but not
the situation as it actually was. 1t is not
| strange that this should be so impossible.
| We could have communicated with them but
| had no time. 1t was my desire to have the
| situation fully explained. lwant ted the whole
party to discuss calmly all points of differ
ence and permit the country to express its
views and have either through elections or
as you have witnessed in Dublin and Cork,
| communication between the seceders and the
delegates in America. But they reply in full
| to our communication in limited short cable
from O'Kelley to O'Connor, and two or three
other short kilograms, Why so much haste
. IL luc Boou VI tue parry anu Tue lOVe Oh tuelr
| country actuated the secedersl My object
has been to preserve the unity of the
party. IT, after the whole party had con-
sidered fully the situation and Ireland had
been given the opportunity of doing the
same, and both had demonstrated their be-
lief in the propriety and necessity of the
action taken by the seceders, there would not
be two parties in ireland. The wreckers of
the party saw their chance. With OBrien
and Dillon absent the wreckers had more
weight than with these men here and forced
the game. These wreckers are the people
whom we fought when the movement on
which the Irish party originated was born.
They are the wings OF Irish politics. Their
views have never been our views, but cir
cumstances were too strong for them aud
they accepted ours but their discomfort has
been long ranking in them aud they grasped
the first chance to create split. / am con-
fident of winning. l am certain that l have
the people of Ireland with me. The
result OF the election in Kilkenny will Ger.
tainly be an indication of the general
feeling, but not beyond question. 1t is
county In which my views are not so favor