The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-30
POPE AND PARNELL.
Irish Battle Transferred to
Rome and Paris.
VIM. o'BRlEN AS PEAcEMAkER.
Anarchistic Appeal to Parnellites-Glad-
stone Celebrates His slst Birthday
The Old Man in Good Health.

ROME Dec. g.-Considerable comment
is made here over the fact that Bishop
Graves, of Limerick, has been in the city
incognito for some days past. His pres
ence here at the same time Sir George
Errington is in the city is regarded as
curious, and many believe that the bishops
visit relates to Irish affairs in general and
to Parnell in particular.
PARIS, Dec DIN an interview with
an Associated Press reporter today Will
lam 0'Brien said he had little to say to
friends in America yet When the proper
time comes he and others win be ready to
give all possible explanation, and he hopes
that will be soon. He was unable TO speak
in regard to the proposed meeting with
Parnell. Regarding the statement at
tributed to Hugh O'Donnell that the funds
ofthe Irish party held in Paris were in such
shape that neither Parnellites nor anti-Par-
nellites can touch them, 0'Brien declined
to give a direct answer, saying that no
Nationalist who knows o DonnelI attached
the slightest importance to anything he
says ON the subject. Regarding the funds
subscribed in the United States recently,
0'Brien said no man on either side in the
present condict has the smallest fear that
there will be any instruction of
national funds. The fund now in
Paris was subscribed for general
political purposes. and remains in sus-
pense pending the settlement of the differ
ences in the party. AS to the American
funds Just subscribed, they are to be
forwarded to joint Treasures Webb and
Kenny in Dublin, and will be expended
solely for the purpose for which they are
subscribed, the support of evicted tenants
Not the slightest difficulty can arise in
regard to the disposition of these funds.
DUBLIN Dec. 29.-Athlone, Roscommon
and Westmeath are excited over a procla-
nation placarded in all the prominent
places. 1t states that true Irishmen have
resolved to support their independence,
and that the Kilkenny reverse is trum-
pet-call for them to close their ranks and
make the last supreme fight for the cause.
1t adds that the fatherland is threatened
with calamity surprising thousand
coercion acts, lowering the flag of
independence to the vague prom
ises of British statesmen. His
tory is filled with disasters resulting
from reliance placed on English promises.
Continuing, it asks the people to sustain
the tried policy of the independent party
in parliament, adding that with the peo-
pie of Ireland and America united behind
it, it should sustain the leader who made
the policy and led them to victory until
now. The issue of the independent party
was as to whether the people should
choose their own leader and party, or as to
whether they should become merely part
of the English Liberals and accept the
leader dictated by the English leaders.
That would not be home rule. We want
real home rule, the home rule for which
Emmett and others gave their noble lives.
We were advancing to victory under
good leader. Support him and the good
cause forever. "God save Ireland"
Vincent Scully, recently defeated by Sir
John Pope Hennessy in the contest for the
North Kilkenny seat in parliament, has
written a letter to the Freemdf's journal in
which he says that the attitude of the
Irish bishops before and during the cleo
ton referred to, only shows that Parnell
committed a private vice and allowed
Judgment by default to be delivered
against him, and therefore he had been
no longer eligible to a position of public
trust. Continuing. Scully says the Irish
struggle is essentially political and not
Irish to manage their affairs after their
own fashion. The struggle is one of
pounds, shillings and pence and not of
sacraments.
The Freeman's Journal today announces
that the conference between ParneIl and
William 0'Brien will take place tomorrow
at Boulogne sur Mer. It adds that Messrs.
John Redmond, Kenny and Clancy, and
perhaps Campbell, member of parliament,
will be present. The Journal also remarks
that whatever the result of the conference
nobody win be able to say that Parnell has
placed barriers in the way of any agree
ment that might be looked forward to.
The mayor, the mayor-elect and five
previous mayors of Cork have written to
0'Brien, stating that it is the opinion of
the people of Cork that English statesmen
in conjunction with Gladstone have at
tackled Parnell's position. The gentlemen
referred to add that, much as they appre-
ciate Gladstone's services and deeply as
they feel the obligations due the Liberals,
they deny their right to dictate to the
Irish as to who should or should not be
their leader.
LONDON, Dec. 29-O'Brien, in denying in
his dispatch from Paris that he ever wrote
line for the ish World, as stated by the
London Times, added that he had caught
the London Times Eat its old Pigotty
tricks" and that he would not allow that
newspaper to sail away with its quibbling,
dishonest reply pinned to a false, ma
hcious libel.
GLADSTONE 81 YEARS OLD,