Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05

DUBLIN, Nov. 4-Dispatches from Water
ford, where the convention of national fed
GRAFTON is being held, say great excitement
prevails there The streets are crowded
with uproarious mobs and the people are
ready for any Kind of disturbance
The police IN their efforts to con-
troll the mob have been making free use
of their batons with the result that
several civilians have been injured.
Timothy Healy who was horsewhipped
yesterday by McDermott, nephew of the
late Charles Stewart Parnell and solicitor
for the Parnen 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 on Sun
day last, and which led to the chastisement
he received at the hands of McDermott
Dillon, arriving at Waterford, was re-
ceived with mingled cheers and Kisses.
Three hundred police guarded the federation
delegates on their way to the convention,
which was held in the city hall. The police
repealed repeated charges made by mObs
of Parnellite sympathizers, who tried to rush
through the entrance of the city hall, but
who were beaten back. The convention
proceeding, Mr. Dillon confirmed Mr..
O'Brien's Boulogne revelations, and
added, that men now calling him
trsifor b, had u sslegra az Now to I him
offering him the leadership in succession to
Parnell Continuing Dillon said notwith-
standing the calumnies heaped upon him,
he had never before revealed these facts.
Messrs. Harrington and Redmond and
other prominent Parnellites had joined in
the request which was made after he had
declared against the leadership of Parnell.
IL 10 J, in
it was painful and difficult
position, a position which he had never
soughc or wished and one which he would
be slow to accept. After arriving at Bou-
logne he told them that he could not accept
the position unless all concurred in promis-
ing loyal support. Those men
one and all, promised that if he
would be his loyal followers.
He had done nothing since that altered his
position a hairs breadth. For weeks at
Boulogne they We're as anxious to get Par
nell out of the leadership as the minority
We're. If they had steadily adhered TO the
policy they might have saved
Parnell from an impossible posi-,
was responsible for Parnells fate, after
Parnell himself, it was the men who, when
the supreme hour came had not sufficient
courage, manliness or honorable friendship
to take a firm stand and impose their judg
ment on him. Cheers.
Dillon left the convention hall on his way
to the railway station guarded by police and
100 priests. A mob followed and kept up a
continuous attack until Dillon obtained
shelter in the station. A number of skulls
were cracked Sixty delegates, while
crossing the toll bridge, were
thrown to the ground and trampled upon,
many being badly hurt and bleeding pro-
fusely when discovered by the police
Several thousand Parneliites held the APP
proaches to the convention hall and every
where struck down their opponents. The
whole quay, mile in length, was the scene
of savage fighting. Many persons We're
taken to the hospital.