The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-28
THREE FALLEN LEADERS.
Two Years Ago the Eyes Of the
World We're on Bismarck,
Boulanger and Parnell.
Succinct Story OF the Rise and
Fall of the Great
Irishman.
A Black Charger Made the Frenchman
and Now Even 1t Is Disgrnced-
Bismarck Making Bricks.

Voltaire's celebrated sketch of ak deposed
kings meeting in a cafe in Venice, and com
pairing reoollections of their past, might be
paralleled in our own day by fancyine fallen
leaders of politics gathered together to
''tell strange ~stories' of the days when they
were great, says the London Telegraph.
Little more than two years ago there we're
three men, in Germany, France and Great
Britain, OIL whom the eyes of all were fixed
with expectancy and either fear or hope.
Prince Bismarck seemed the incarnation of
Germany. Gen. Boulanger the future of
France, while Mr.. Psrnell appeared to hold
in his hands the destiny of the United King
dom. Yesterday "their words might stand
against the world" now there are few to
''do them reverence" For the Carlow
election seems to portend the catastrophe
of Mr.. Parnell as a parliamentary leader.
Whatever else no may effect in Ire
land, he never again can play any
thing like his old role in the hense
of commons. We are separated by a very
short time from the night when, after his
acquittal on the question of tho forged let
tiers, he stood up to receive In the HOUSE. of
n reception such as rarely greets
y oiptlllkulnuo ledu6TSs HIS nina
then may have travelled back to the time
when no and Mr.. BigRar were pariahs in the
house, denounced by Mr.. Butt and regarded
by the worried majority with rancorous
contempt. In the ten years. interval he had
built up a party which had compelled a
large measure of agrnriRn concession, and
which mainly had forced the venerable
liberal party into the home rule ranks.
Thus MIR. Parnell had made himself master
of the fortunes OF a great national party, and
could by his attitude, almost determine who
was to rule the British empire. This ar
founding change of n guerrilla leader with
one or 1--WE followers into tho arbiter
of a state was achieved in the sight of all
men BY personal qualities of u peculiar
KIND. Former Irish leaders were gushing;
Mr.. Parnell was cold. His predecessors
were eloquent; he never arose above clsnr
common aense. Then he did not compen.
safe for public friRidity by private charm;
he kept himself almost entirely aloof. 1t
was no wonde that tho rise of such d man
to command the Irish people with an IN.
Questioned authority should excite the
wonder and Impress the imagination of tho
Enplish people. His fall has been much
more nudden than his Iise. The man who
could nominate eighty-fve members may
INST be able ut tho next election to return
three; he may he reduced to his original
condition, when ho confronted the house of
like II Don Quixoto fighting the
windmill, with Mr.. Biggar as his Safloho
pauZa.
Gen. ~Boulanget's disasters arc amusingly
accumulated by the news of what has be-
fallen his famous black charger. He first
attracted pa sonal notoriety by his horse
manship and his horse. Caligula made his
Hteed u consul. and had the general attained
supreme power in Ftnnce he might have
conferred high rank on the SNOWY beast
which won for him the early admiration of
tho nuiserymaids Of Paris. Had hs not