Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1890-12-15
FORTY ROUGHS ROUTED.
A Lively Scrimmage with
Blackthorns at Tipperary.
PARNELL's PARTIsANs PUT OUT.

A Rumor That the Fighting Leaders
Mind Is Unbalanced Denied by His
Adherents-The Power Of the Priests.
The Wave OF Reaction Swelling.
LONDON, Dec. 15.-The wave of reaction
against Mr.. Parnell is becoming more pro.
nouneed TheEinhuence Of the priests is
rapidly making itself felt. In the churches
everywhere, but especially in Kilkenny,
Sunday, the clergy urged openly upon
their hearers the duty Of following the ad
vice the bishops and striking a blow at
immortality in high places by voting
against Parnell. The bishop Of Cloyne
has requested the members of the league
In his diocese to withdraw from the pres
ent organization controlled by Mr.. Par
nell, and to form reorganized league,
free from alliance with the discredited
leader. The East and South Down branch
es Of the league have stopped remitting TO
the league treasury at Dublin until the
right to dispose Of the general fund is
made more clear. The scenes at the Tip
perary meeting are regarded as prelude
to a campaign of violence that may reach
degree little short Of civil war before the
question at issue is finally decided by the
Irish people.
There Was Lively Scrimmage.
A gang of forty roughs captured the
meeting and temporarily carried every
thing for parnell. But the contingent OF
country people from radius of twenty
miles around came in and the situation
was speedily changed. After a lively
series Of scrimmages the anti-Parnellites
got control of the meeting and the most
violent Of the Parnellites were expelled
The latter had come to the spot armed
with heavy blackthorns, and there is no
doubt that they had premeditated violence
Such events 60 far to sustain Davitt's as
tion that Parnel's following is made up
Of the riff raH OF the Cities or as he puts
il, "the residum."
The meeting was attended by 1900 per-
sons Messrs Healy and Sexton, who had
been expected TO speak, telegraphed their
respects, the latter on account Of illness.
MIR. Davltt telegraphed that he was un-
able to leave Kilkenny, where he said the
fate of home rule depended on the strug-
gle The meeting was a disorderly one
from the start, the trouble beginning
The Parnellites made an uproar, and the
confusion was so great that the attempts
at speaking could not be heard. A body
of men armed with stout sticks suddenly
raided the platform and drove away the
chairman aud leaders OF the meeting, but
before they could reorganize the meeting
the opposite faction rallied and recaptured
| the platform, driving the roughs off the
scene. After order had been restored
resolutions supporting the Mccarthy party
were adopted.
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black.
Mr.. Healy's statement to the effect that
be and Biggar at one time contemplated
strangling the Parnell- o Shea connection
was the subject of severe animadversion
| by John O'Connor, one of ParneIls sup
| porters, who said to a correspondent that
! Biggar especially had no right to reflect
| upon any private affairs of Parnell, hav-
| ing been himself the paramour of a woman
| by whom he had d child, to which child
and mother he bequeathed nearly all his
| property, and none to the national cause
| Mr.. O'Connor said these facts did not
| derogate from Mr. Biggar's services to his
country, and he did not believe that Big
gar ever joined in any reflection upon Mr.
Parnell.
ParnelI's Mental Balance all Right.
The salaried members of parliament op
! posed to Mr.. Parnell are already in serious
! pecuniary embarrassment. 1t is reported
that two of them have applied to and re
ceived temporary aid from Mr.. Gladstone
In an interview William Redmond secuted
the reports that Mr.. Parnell was mentally
unbalanced. 1.-THE same has been said, !
he remarked, "of Cesar, Napoleon anc
every great man in tho critical moments
of history, when their extraordinary ef
forts were too great for the comprehensive
Of ordinary critics"