Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-20
THE PARNELL ENyOYs
Receive n Gratifying Reception at Cooper Union-Ad of Messrs. O'Kelley and Redmond-Mrs. Par nell Cheered.

Receive a Gratifying Reception al
 Cooper Union-Addresses Of Messrs.
 O'Kelley and Redmond-Mrs. Par
 nell Cheered.
 NEW YORK, March 19.-The Parnel en- voys were given a gratifying reception at the Cooper Union tonight. The hall was jammed and the platform crowded by scores of prominent Irishmen. Michael Breslin was elected chairman and intro duced J. J. O'Kelley. Mr. O'Kelley was loudly cheered and said:
 'I am here to win for the cause of Ire land the sympathy that has been hitherto denied" Two hundred thousand dol lars, he said, had been placed in bank in Paris as an emergency or election fund. Since the present dispute with the Irish party had taken place money could not be used for political purposes as it was not in the hands of the trustees. It was to replace that sum in behalf of NIT. Parnell that they visited this country. Their mis- sion was to ask those who believe in an independent Irish party and an independ- ent parliament to give them their help to restore that fund so that they might fight every seat in Ireland and re- store unity by wiping from public life the men who had betrayed the trust reposed in them. Mir. O'Kelley referred to the Dublin and London meetings where MT. Parnell was endorsed as the leader of the Irish party and to the hostility of the Gladstonian party. The men at the Dub lin meeting who principally supported Parnell were Justin Mccarthy and limo thy Healey, who now had been taken over to the Glsdstonians. A letter was written by Gladstone and four hours afterward those who had supported Mir. Parnell were running about the house of commons cor riders coquetting with the Gladstonisns In that moment the Irish representation was degraded.
 MT. O'Kelley continued: MT. Parnell has had ill luck in the party since the beginning. When this question comes to be settled in Ireland some facts not known by the pub lie now will be developed, and I do not fear that the people will reject Parnen and his associates. What has Parnell donei IA voice: Nothing more than any other man would have done." When Parnell took hold of the Irish party its ranks were sadly broken. By his great generalship he healed the wounds and reunited the Marty. The shadow of the bailiff was in these days cast over the whole land. Who res cued the country from its terrible social cOndltlOns hundredS or yOlceS: 'Parneli Parnell!"l All Ireland that is young and middle-aged is with us. The Ireland of the future is Parnell, and the only element against us is the dying element, men born slaves and who will die slaves. Loud cheering.]
 H. K. Redmond, N. P, spoke next He said: '1 feel perfectly at home here be- cause looking around I see faces with which l was familiar years ago, when 1 was here frst-faces of the men who made this Parnell movement of to-day. I was told when I came here to prepare for the cold shoulder from some of my country men here. No, no. I guess we can get on without those people. If there are not men here who can give thousands of dol lars there are men who gave their liberties freely for the love of their country. From this platform spoke and declared my self an independent Irish nationalist and follower of Charles Stewart Parnell." Cheers for Parnell
 At this juncture Mrs. Parnell entered the hall and the audience rose and cheered her for fully five minutes.
 After these six years I say I am still an independent representative, sustained by no English opinion, but influenced by what the people of my country wish me to do. The Irish party knew everything concerned in the divorce case when they elected Par nell their leader, before the newspapers said anything about it D