New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-05

| dreary holidays, brought no novelty, no excite
| ment. small section of the cabdrvers have
struck, but there is no visible diminution in the
number of cabs plying for hire. The strikers
are the arstocrats Of their profession, drivers of
| shrewsbury cabs, naughty beings who expect al
| most half as much pay for driving you half
mile as do their still aristocratc colleagues in
New-York. Public sympathy with these gentlemen
is slight
The priests have the day at Sligo. Mr..
Parnell, for the second time, sees his nominee re-
| jccted. Sligo follows Kilkenny. 1t was good
constituency for the priests So large is the num-
Der Of voters who cannot read or write that at
many polling booths the supply of forms for illite
rates was early exhausted. Almost if not all the
illiterate voters, told, supporters of
| the Anti-Parnellite candidate and were escorted
| to the booths by clergymen of the Roman Catholic
Church. In the case of illiterate voters the bal
lot, otherwise secret, becomes open. 1t is old
trick of the League TO force voters to declare them
| selves illiterate in order to see that they vote
straight. Ii has now been turned against Mr..
| Parnell, but the pressure has been great that
it is question whether the priests have not over
done it, and whether the election may not
be invalidated. The majority against Mr. Par
nell is rather less than was expected
768 instead of over 1000 Yet l
hear that Mr.. Parnel is in deep detection, not so
| much on account of Sligo, as because he is con-
WINGED that the country is going against him. lie
means to fight to the last gasp He Will probably
succeed in retaining, when the General Election
occurs, one-fourth, perhaps Onethird of his seats
These added to the eight or ten out of the whole
eighty-six Parnellite constituencies which the Con-
servatves expect to gain will amply suffice to
| make any Home Rule measure impossible as Mr..
| Chamberlain says, for the next ten years but
such result will leave Mr.. Parnel in a position
of comparatively little power. He is likely to be
known, not as the Uncrowned, but as the Dis
crowned King. So clear is this that efforts to
patch up the quarrel still continue. but with no
| prospect of immediate success.
Mr. Parnel did visit Sligo, after all in spite OF
| threats of violence. 1t is not courage in which
he is wanting, nor any great amount of
courage needed, for the expedition made under
the safeguard of the police. Now as ever, since
| that unhappy division occurred in the ranks of
| the Irish patriots both Parnellites and Anti-Par-
nellites invoke the aid Of that same constabulary
| which both of them have for years denounced as
brutal First size, then the other, is indebted
| TO this fine body of men for protection. They
| were admirably handled Sunday at Sligo. and
| at Tireragh they stood between the two factions.
They prevented rioting and fighting They paid
no respect TO what an lrishman regards as inc
precious right of breaking the head of his fellow
countryman who disagreB with him about pol
| itics. When milder means failed. they fixed
| bayonets and this manOeuvre, received Win
savage wells proved efficient Eighteen police
with fixed bayonets were enough TO cool the fury
| of two mobs a hundred strong. 1t seems to have
been on this occasion the Anti-Parnellites who
profted most by the impartial zeal of Mr. Balfours
minionS They had planned an invasion OF the
enemys country and had carried it out with some
success thanks to this police help, just as Mr.
Parnell did at Sligo.
The result Of the Cork trials brings some com
fort to the Gladstonians whose need OF comfort
is great. With their usual eaGernesS to dscredlt
the administration of justice in Ireland, they
endeavored to interpret the verdict of the Jury
as a condemnation of the magistrates ana the
police Mr. Morley, whose philosophy does not
save him from taking extremely partisan VIEWS
condemns them as he did before any trlal look
place. A cooler politician points out that the
Jury simply washed their hands of the whole affair
They seem TO have considered the Tipperary riot
| trumpery business on both sides As it was, MI
Morleys presence gave it fictitious Importance.
Mr. Morleys rhetoric turned the conduct of the po
lice into wanton, murderous violence, violence
which resulted in injuries TO four persons all cured
by sticking-plaster. On the whole, Mr. Gladstone
has not seen his way to substituting Remember
| ITINERARY for Remember Mitcbelstown" The
British public have in fact forgotten the one and
are tired Of the other
| The most interesting comment of all on these
ITINERARY riots and Cork trials is probably the
| collapse of the criminal conspiracy which gave
occasion to the Tpperary trial OF Mr.. Dillon and
Mr. O'Brien, which itself the occasion of the
| Tipperary riots. Three of the most influential
4l.,.
siderable properties on the Smith Barry estate,
are reported 10 have volunteered to act as deputa
tion TO Mr.. Smith Barry in behalf Of the tenants
who are now prepared TO go back 10 their former
shons and farms. They have placed themselves
| and their clients in the hands of no less per-
sonage than Archbishop Croke, who has accepted
the mission and will enter into negotiations with
! Mr. Smith Barry.
No Parliament this week, but of politics and
poltical speaking only too much, mostly By lesser
| lights of the political armament. Sir Henry
James. Mr. Matthews, Mr.. Fowler, Lord Ripon and
sundry others, who, though all able. honorable
mon arc NOT lumnares of the first magnitude
have been delivering SET speeches, whlch may oh
tbo whole be left unread. The one which must
NO road and will repay reading, is Mr.. Chamber
,oin,. ot portsmoutb lie replies 10 Mr. Glad
s+ono,s recent untimey remark at Hastings that
,ho were but an ill-starred abor-
,ion of a marty. Mr. Gladstone said in the same
snooch that nothing would induce him TO make
Wr parnou the ruler of Ireland Yes, answers
Mr. Chamberlain, but it was these very Liberal
| Irnioni.ts who in 1885 prevented you from max
inc MIR. Parnell the ruler of Ireland. Mr.. Glad
stono would have discovered too late the character
! - tho man whom he then willing to invest
,,;.t, no,,er Instead then, of abusing his former
onmear,es and supporters, who saved him from
cor,mittinc this appalling blunder, he and his
,vasont friends ought to thank Mr.. Chamberlain
and 70 erect statues in their honor. Probably he
does not expect subscription to be started at
once nor Mr.. Gladstone to head the list.