Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-20
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the Times upon which the charge was
chiefly based as against Mr.. Parnell,
was forgery. The respondents, the
report continues, did not directly incite
crime, except by intimidation, which
| they did incite, with the result that
crimes and outrages were committed by
| those melted.
| The commission also finds that the
respondents defended agrarian prison
ers, but the charge was not proved that
! they were intimate with notorious Grim
inals or that they helped such persons
to escape justice. 1t further finds that
the respondents invited the co-opera-
ton of and accepted subscriptions from
Patrick Ford, an advocate of crime in
the use of dynamite; but it is not proved
that they were aware that the Gamma
Gael controlled the Land League or was
collecting money for the parliamentary
fund. 1t is proved, however, that the
respondents accepted the assistance of
the Physical Force party in America and
that in order to obtain that assistance
abstained from repudiating or condemn
ing the action of that party.
In regard to the specific charges
against Mr.. Parnell, the report says the
charges that at the time of the kilmain-
ham negotiations Mr.. ParneI knew
that Sheridan and Boynton were organ
izing outrages is not proved; nor is there
any foundation for the allegations that
he was intimate with Invincibles, knew
their plans, or recognized the Phoenix
Park murders as their handiwork. The
commission also fails to find that Mr..
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able him to escape to France.
The judges find that Mr.. Davitt was a
Fenian and that he received money
from the ''skirmishing fund" for out
RACES; which money was not for the
formation of the League, but for the pro-
motion of agitation leading up to it.
Mr.. Davitt was mainly instrumental i n
bringing about the alliance of the party
OF violence in America with the Parnell
party in America.
The report reviews the history of the
League, and declares that the leaders
combined to injure landlords and drive
them out of the country by means of
the system of boycotting, thereby being
guilty of criminal conspiracy.
Touching the contradictory evidence
of LIE Caron and Mr.. Parnell over their
interview in the corridor of the House
of Commons in 1881, the commission
holds that the balance of proba bility
was in favor of the accuracy of LIE
Caron.
It was clear that LIE Caron wrote to
Dewey to come to Europe to see Parnen
and Egan. Parnell denies that he told
LIE Caron that he had long ceased to be-
lieve in any thing but the force of arms
as a relief for Ireland, basing his denial
on the fact that he never thought so.
1t is not impossible that in conversing
with supposed revolutionist Mr.. Par
nell expressed himself in such manner
as to leave the impression that he
agreed with those who favored revolu-
ton.
The American conventions are quoted
as proving the identity of the sympathy
and sentiments of the Irish leaguers
with the Physical Force party. Tho
mass of evidence proved that the
League in America since 1888 has been
directed by the Clan-na-Gael and been
actively engaged in promoting the use
of dynamite for the destruction of life
and property in England 1t is not
proved, however, that Mr.. Parnell knew
the position of the Grammatical.