The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-03
The PARNELL SCANDAL
Cspsai~ O'shea'~ wtf~ and tho Part She
Played io the Now Famous sutt-Her
Husbands Lack of Principle
and Parn~its weakness.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-The Suns London
special SAYS: This story, which Captain
O'Shea has concluded for some reason to-
ventilatc in the courts, is far from being "a
new one. Everybody i'm London has
known il for So long that il has not even
been talked about any more for some
time past. II is more than likely that
Captain O'Shca will be- able tn prove his
assertions.
Ii was well known tn certain newspaper
correspondents here that when Parnell
had left town. without giving any idea of
his intended whereabo,its, he might he
found at Captain OShea's house, ut
Eltham. So well was everything unsler-
xtoos that upon ut least one occasion,
when Parnell was interviewed there, il
was with the understanding that the fact
that he was there should he kept secret,
and That in the interview he should he
located i'm quite different place.
In thc coming legal fight, il il is pushed
to n conclusion, Parncll's position may be
r Sery ganfnl sin "m% 'Ims',"rn..on On. nnr, f"r
| ceptctl story of her relationship with Par
nell, 10 bc true. will make il necessary for
| against him. This will prevent his setting
| up in court n defense which every we'll
| Informed man i'm London knows he could
| advance. and which would circctually dis
abused the confidence of his friend,
| namely, that the relationship between
himself aud Mrs. O'Shea existed with the
knowledge and consent of the woman's
| htlssDautl.
This dispraccfui attitude on the part Of
| O'Slsea has been n matter of public no
| toriety, and was more than limited AT in
the press when O'Shca was called n
witness in the Times forgcrics case. This
| case nro,ises interest, not rs ~ matter of
the news being so very old. hut as forcing
] Pnrnell for the first time, however. uii-
justly, to assume an attitude of self
defense in place of his usual role of
For O'Shca there is wholesale con-
tempt aud nothing more. From II politi.
can point OF view the matter is OF no CON.
I sequence. Parnell is "a bachelor: he had
certain relations with the woman. and
that is nobody's business hut his own,
! since there. can he no question OF the vio-
lation of the husbands friendship.
| Parncll's enemies will doubtless at
tempt to rake up against him the fact tha!
O'SlSea sat in parliament as ~ member of
! seat was ~ reward for his slsasnsfui ~
Icnce, tut to this IL can bc replied truth
fully thnt il WAS Paryicll W ho. disregard
| ing all interest of party and any hold tina
O'Shea might have on him. turned - Shea
ont of the house OF commons. and tina
: O'Shca's present course Is due to u drsir'
for revenge.
j! il supposed that the Unionist infiu
, cnces have been brought To bear upon
O'Slea with view 10 instituting ths
| pending lawsuit to alienate the sympa
aud SO countcract the wonderful hnl.
which the Grand Old Man (Parncll
political partncri has over them.
THIS task OF throwing stones must b,
performed generally by the Unionists
however, for Lord Harrington, th,
leader and pillar of all that Inugwuml
crown, is curiously enough in just such
| position in tho way of public gossip as Iii
I,piitical enemy. Parnell. with the differ
s.nce, that tine relations OF Lord Harting
ton and the Duchess Of Mi,l.llescx lacl
, ncterizcd those OF Parncli and Mrs
|, O'Shea.