Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-05
IRISH AT IT AGAIN.
The Federation Convention Is At
tackled by the Parnellites.
HEADS ARE HIT WHEREVER SEEN.
Dillon Says Harrington and Redmond Were
Against Parnell.

Against Parnell.
HEALY Is SORE OVER HIS THRASHING
Dublin, Nov. "A number Of ladies
of Lengtord have decided to present to MI.
McDermott silver-mounted whip. Tim
othy Healy is greatly disturbed by the pub
licity which the story of his horsewhipping
has received. He now declares that he
throttled McDermitt, and prevented him
from striking, but there are plenty of wit
nesses to the contrary. These witnesses
heard at least 30 strokes of the horsewhip
as McDermitt rained the blows on Healy,
while the latter danced and jumped about,
yelling with pain, and calling for some one
to help him. After the horsewhipping
Healy wept with vexation and pain, and
has since been unable to sit down, at least
in public.
Dispatches from Waterford. where the
convention of the National Federation is
being held, say that great excitement pre-
walls there. The streets are crowded with
uproarious mobs of people, ready for any
kind OF disturbance. The police, in their eff
forts to control the mob, have been making
a free use of their batons, With the result
that several civilians have been injured.
Hesly at the Federation Meeting.
Timothy Healy, who was horsewhipped
yesterday by Mr.. McDermott, nephew of
Parnell and solicitor for the Parnell family,
was one of the speakers. He said, among
other things, that he would not be deferred
by violence from pursuing the course he had
mapped out for himself, and repeated the
language in reference to the widow of the
Irish leader which he used at Longford,
Sunday last, and which led to the chastise-
ment he received at the hands of Mr.. Nc
Dermott.
Mr.. Dillon, on arriving at Waterford,
was received with mingled cheers and hisses
Three hun 1red police guarded the Fedora
tion delegates on their way to the conven-
tion, which was held in the City Hall The
police repelled repeated charges made by
the mob. The Parnellite sympathizers tried
Hall but they we're beaten back.
The convention proceeding, Mr.. Dillon
confirmed Mr.. O'Brien's Boulogne revela-
tions, and added that the men now calling
him traitor had telegraphed to him while
he was in New York, offering him the lead
ership in succession to Mr.. Parnell. Con-
tinuing, Mr.. Dillon said that in spite of
the continuous calumnies heaped upon him
he had never before revealed this fact.
Harrington and Redmond.
Harrington and Redmond and other
prominent Parnellites had Joined in the re-
quest, which was made after he had de-
clared against the leadership of Mr.. Par
nell. He refused the leadership because it
was painful and difficult position-a pos
ition which he had never sought or wished,
and one which he would be slow to accept.
After arriving at Boulogne he told them
that be could not accept the position unless
all concurred in promising loyal support.
(Dillon) took the craftsmanship they would
be his loyal followers. He had done nothing
since that altered his position in hairs
breadth.
For weeks at Boulogne they were as
anxious to get Mr.. Parnell out Of the lead
ership as the majority were. If they had
steadily adhered to that policy they might
have saved Mr.. Parnell from an impossible
position. If anyone in the world was re-
sponsible for Mr.. ParneiPs fate after Mr..
Parnell himself, it was the men who, when
the supreme hour came, had not sufficient
courage, manliness or honorable friendship
to take firm stand and impose their judg-
ment on him. [Cheers]
Many More Skulls Are Cracked.
Mr. Dillon left the convention hall on his
way to the railway station guarded by po-
lice and 100 priests. A mob followed and
kept up continuous attack until Mr.. Dill
Ion obtained shelter in the station. A
number of skulls were cracked. Thirty
delegates, while crossing a toll bridge, were
thrown to the ground and trampled upon,
many being badly hurt and bleeding pro-
fusely when rescued by the police. Several
thousand Parnellites held the approaches to
the convention hall, and everywhere struck
down opponents. The whole quay, mile
in length, was the scene of savage fighting.
Many persons were taken to the hospital
It is estimated that $50 persons were seri-
ously, and many others dangerously, injured
during the fighting here to-day. The Mayor
presided at meeting held here to-day for
the purpose of censuring John Dillon for
his visit to this city.
Redmond and Harrington's Reply.
John Redmond and Timothy Harrington
have issued statement in reply to Will
lam O'Brien's recent revelations in connec-
tion with the Boulogne negotiations. They
characterize Mr. O'Brien's statements
as arttul, dishonest, misrepresenta-
tions, a shameful breech of
confidence and wanton outrage on the
memory of the dead leader. The gist of
the statement is that Mr.. O'Brien has given
an incomplete and colored account of the
negotiations at Boulogne, at the same time
suppressing his own copy of the proceed
ings, which would show that he and his
friends proposed to obtain the with
drawal . of the denunciation of
Mr.. Parnell by the Catholic
Bishops, and to give Parpell the right to
veto any home rule bill proposed BY the
Liberals. The latter condition, it is evil
dent, they say, O'Brien omitted in his rev.
elations from fear of the Gladstonians, and
while publicly canting morality he was
privately willing to spit on it.
The Parnellites did consent to Mr. Par
nell's retirement because they knew it
would have been sham retirement They
challenge O'Brien to publish Mr.. Parnell's
letter renouncing these conditions They
also accuse Dillon and O'Brien with sup
pressing various letters which had passed
between the Parnellites and Gladstone and
Morley.
Tho Pope's Religious Will.