Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-17
ANOTHER BATTLE.
A Free-FOr-All Fight Between
Parnellites and Opponents.
1t Occurs at q Public Speaking, and
Many Bruised Heads Result, Mich
ael Dayitt's Among Them.
A Number IF Prlrs's Take a Hand In the Dis
turbanca- the Fight the
Circus Moves On.
Another Free For-AU Fight.


DUBLIN, Dec. l6.-Trouble between
/ the Paruellites and McCar,hyites resumed
| free fight at Ballynhin to-day.
! Meetings were held bv both parties and
| angry speeches were made on both sIdes.
| and the position of the audience being
! raised to the highest pitch by the lsn-
| guage used by the speakers. Finally
| Parnellite made an attack upon the op-
| position meeting. The McCar:hvites
! made spirited defence, led by Davitt.
| Tanner anu u number of priests who
/ were at the meeting. In the melee
I many persons on both sides were injured.
/ Among those hurt was DuvIrt, who re-
ceived severe wound on the head at the
hands of one of the Parneitites. The at
/ tuck of the parnellites was finally re-
PEELED.
Davitt, accompanied by Father
| O'HHllorsn, was the first OF the prOmi-
| nent speakers to arrive ut the meeting III
Balliuakill, and he took his stand In the
higher part of the square uear the
church. Cheers and counter cheers and
partisan shouts were vociferouSly IN
duiged in by the assembled members of
the two factions.
Davitt began his speech in wagon in
which were William Redmond, n. P;
Father Ryan, aud others.
The Parnellites were driven to lower
part OF the square, followed by cheering
crowds.
Redmond began speaking simultane-
ously with Davitt.
The advent of another party, headed
by DIR. Tanner and several priests driving
,lrt, hA
temporary stop 10 the speech.
The newcomers ranged themselves
along the side of the carriage occupied
bv Davitt. Among the chorus of cheers
and eXecrations Srully took up the speuk-
ing and WINS expressing his views when n
great shouting announced the arrival of
Parnell aud Harrington and nuhbe of
supporters on horseback and in cars.
Parneli's appearance beside Redmond
was the signal for cheers and shouting of
"Tally -ho, the fox, - and :K!tty's pet
tirout.'
Amid the cheers Pnrnell spoke to the
group around him as follows:
come among you to insult no man
TEdwurd Harrington-'No and we will
protect ourselves. ~ l came to speak
of the great national crisis.
will not enter into personal
contes. or dabbls with any man. l re-
greet that Davitt Is not ut my side''
TCries Of "Down with him!'l Ito fight
for Ireland with me as strongly As h ere
iofore. speak only about Hennessey "a
man who went to parliament in
1861, as n Tory supporter of
Disraeli, and who now wants
to 20 as the Liberal supporter of Glad
stone. In 1861 Hennessy defended in
the house of commons the eviction PRO-
ceeding throughout Kings country yells
of ITO hell with him.'1 Will Kilkenny
take q man who defended the eXtermi-
nation Of these people. Cries OF
"Never' Dsraeli gave him q place
aud pension.
Several men now made strong effort
10 drag the wagon into the midst of the
anti Parnellite gathering, but were dis
suaded from their purpose.
Dayitt, who was speaking and DR..
Tanner also appeliug TO those who raj
lied 10 their flag.
Pnrnell, resuming, main tnined that
tn. consistency OF his pubic life has
Teen preserved. Amid his unceasiug ef-
forts to create and preserve au lndepen-
dent Irish party men like Hennrssay
were now attempting to destroy. Their
enemies had been unable to cope with
tH6h III OIISu Hclu-lucf "tT6 uu-
able to meet them with physical
force, so they sent this mouse,
Hennessy, to try to do by corruption
what they had fniled to do by every
other method. The internal discussions
which were destroying the party were not
of his creating. Having made an un-
availing fight ut Westminster for i'll
dependence, he had been forced to
appeal to the people Mr.. Redmond-we
will fight for you till DEATH. Ii the peo-
pie were slack and cownrdly, IL they
failed TO come to just, true and patriotic
decisions Ireland's cause IVES lost tor
life. GCheers1.
Harrington was about to follow Par
nell, and Tanner was speaking, when a
sudden conflict arose on the verge of the
crowds. rush was made towards
Davitt's car, and u general melee en-
sued. forest of ash plank, sticks aud
black thOrns arose aud descended in the
air where the dividing lines of opposing
factions met. Davtt leaped from his car,
welding heavy stick. and fought his
way, foot by foot. straight towurd Par
nell q wagon, receiving and giving nu-
merous blows. He finally reached the
wagon with bis face badly marked and
with a few of his men with him. who
also bore signs OF the severe usage
they received In their desperate
passage between the two vehicles.
Standing OH the steps of Pnrnell's
wagon, Davitt-excited, breathless and
In distinct defance-then turned aud
pushed his way back to his own car,
surrounded by his faithful supporters
aud amid continuous yells and execra-
tions of the two contending. wildly ex-
cited factions, aud with an ex-
change of shower of blows,
Davitt then remouuted his car and
shouted: "Men of Kilkenny, ii
came here in defense OF the right of
public meeting and liberty of speech.
Our opponents sent their blackgunrds to
interrupt the proceedings, but We have
beaten them back. / was never struck
BIZ an Euglishman, but to-day l was
many times struck by my sown country
men,
These remarks were greeted with tu-
muItous cheers, after which the crowd