The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-10-17

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A Great Leader Dead.
Charles Stewart Parnell died at
Brighton, near London, last We'd
nesday, after few days illness. His
sickness was unknown to the public,
and the news of his death was start
ling, creating pronounced sensation
in London as well as in all parts of
Ireland. No event in half century
has so startled the people of Dublin.
There was cessation at once of all
political feeling The National Fed
GRAFTON, the anti-Parnell organization
adjourned on the announcement of
the death.
Many of those deeply interested in
Irish affairs, who fully approved Mr..
Parnell's deposition from the leader
ship of the Irish party, had hopes
animosities would subside and events
so shape themselves that he would
be called back to the leadership, and
be in this right place, at the head of
a united party, when in the near
future the home rule cause would be
crowned with triumph. 1t is sad
this is not to be. In history there
are not many instances that parallel
the rise, the power and the fall of
Parnell under conditions so peculiar.
He seemed the incarnation of pru-
dence, self-control, and the great
statesman's insight of the future.
Yet his misfortunes came about by
an intrigue so reprehensible it
stunned the moral sense of his party
and alienated the Irish people.
Then followed the disgraceful fac
tional quarrels, political division,
and platform bitterness. In all of
which there was no semblance of
the Parnell of other days. His men
tai and moral balance seem to have
been lost. 1t is not pleasant to re-
call this part of his career, and the
pity is it is the closing chapter.
Mr.. Parnell entered parliament in
April, 1875, as member year pre-
vious as candidate for the county
of Dublin. He was then in his
twenty ninth year. The Irish lead
er at that time was Isaac Butt,
sincere and able man, but not quail
flied for leadership. Mr.. Parnell
came in conflict with him in promot
ing obstructive tactics which Mr..
Butt disapproved. 1t soon came to
pass that while Mr.. Butt was the
nominal leader, Parnell was the real
force. In 1879, when Mr.. Butt died,
the leadership should have gone to
Mr.. Parnell, but he gave way to Mr..
VIM. Shaw, of Cork, whose lead was
brief. The land league agitation
commenced that year, Mr.. Parnell
regarding it as "laying the founda-
ton for the legislative independence
of Ireland" Having seen it firmly
established, he made his American
tour, accompanied by John Dillon.
On his return to Ireland in May, 49,
so, Mr.. Parnell was elected to the
leadership of the Irish party by a
vote of % to Is for Mr.. Shaw. He
did not ask the position, but rather
favored Justin Mccarthy. In Octo-
Der, 1881, after bitter speech made
by Mr. Parnell at Wexford, Mr..
Gladstone ordered his arrest, and he
was a prisoner at Kilmainham until
May, 1882 His release was an Irish
victory, and from that time onward
Mr.. Parnell was the life and soul of
the Irish party, until the unfortu-
nate events of last year.
1t would be difficult to analyze
and describe the qualities as lead
er that gave Mr.. Parnell his control
of the Irish people, enabled him to
organize them for political work as
they had never been organized be-
fore, and enforce and maintain a
partisan discipline of the most abso-
lutte character. He had none of the
gifts Of the great Irish leaders of the
past. He was no orator, such as
O'Connell, who could make the
people laugh or cry as he willed,
but was cold, unimpassioned |
speaker. The source of power was
that Ireland and the Irish people |
were with him above and before
everything else. As lasder moth
ing could ruffie him; he had pro-
digious command of facts and prin-
ciples, was strong reasoner, with |
great powers of concentrated sar-
casm. So itscame he ruled the ex-
citable political elements that fol- |
lowed him in parliament and in Ire
land in quiet, undemonstrative
fashion that was in itself the great |
est novelty in Irish politics.-Pitts-
burg Post.
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