Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-15
The SPLIT is NOW WIDER THAN EVER.
n set-Deferse, Psrnen Nay Be Compelled to Give Out
His Version Of the BollOgns
Meetings.
PREPARING FOR AN ACTIVE CAMPAIGN
[BY CABLE TO TIE p1sPArcH.1

LONDON, Feb. A-[CopYrightl-Now
that The attempt to bring about a reconcilia-
ton between the two sections of the Irish
Parliamentary party has been formally
abandoned, all sorts of rumors have been
put in circulation as to the causes of the
failure. According TO an editorial, inspired
or actually written by Justin Mccarthy,
in to-day's Speaker, the new weekly organ
of cultured Liberalism, assurances, salts
factory even to Parnell, had been obtained
from the Liberal leaders in regard to the
Irish police and land question, and every
thing indicated the success of the Boulogne
negotiations. But at the last moment a new
demand, supported by O'Brien, Dillon and
Parnell, was put forward from Boulogne.
This demand" says Mr.. Mccarthy in
the Speaker, seemed a slight one in itself,
but it involved a fragrant absurdity. The
Liberal leaders were asked to give a man.
datory character to the clause respecting the
police, in view Of the possibility of q Con-
sentative lord lieutenant being appointed
hereafter. 1t vas in vain that they pointed
out that q Conservative lord lieutenant
necessarily implied the existence of a Con-
servative majority in the House of Com
mons, and that neither they nor any other
body of men could pretend to overrule the
decisions of the majority of an imperial
parliament which does not yet exist. e
An Opening for Parnen.
"Parnell had found his opportunity.
What passed between him and Messrs.
O'Brieu and Dillon is not known. All
that is clear is that failing to secure the
acquieseenee of the English Liberals in the
demand set forth on this small point, he
seized upon it as q pretext to put an end to
his own negotiations with the party, in
which be was lately the leader"
Other rumors throw part of the blame for
failure on Timothy Harrington and limo
thy Healy, and it is certainly a matter of
common knowledge that a deadly feud ex-
lists between those two, which would make
it impossible for them to work together in
the future. 1t is not probable, however, that
the matter will be allowed to remain in the
present unsatisfactory state.
Parnell is much annoyed at the unfair
manner in which opponents have sought to
cast the entire responsibility upon his Shout
ders, and in self-defense, he may be COM
PEELED at an early date to give his version of
the BOulogne negotiations. Both sections
are preparing for an active campaign in
Ireland, to which Parnell looks forward with
confidence, in striking contrast to the
timidity and hesitancy shown by his leading
opponents.
Forecast of an Election.
The latter will devote themselves chiefly
to organizing the electorate, leaving the
work of "blarneying the mob." as they dis
painfully describe the popular outdoor dem
onstrations, to the Parnellites. A careful
estimate made by electoral experts states
that if general election should come this
year the Nationalists would lose 10 seats in
ireland, out OF the s. they now hold, and
that ofthe remaining Is, Parnell would OBJ
tain go and Mccarthy Is. The estimate is
not hattering to the McCarthyites, and it
should be explained that it is based upon
the assumption that William O'Brien will
throw his lot with ParneII. .
The great Liberal victory at Northampton
has so demoralized the Tories that they have
scarcely attempted to explain it awav.
Heretofore they have claimed a moral vic
tory, even when beaten, and in a few cases
where they managed to hold their own,
they nave lifted up their voices in a song
of triumph, but Northampton does not af-
ford them one scrap of comfort, because,
where they polled 127 votes less than in
1856, the Liberals polled S66 more. The
figures. somehow, don't allow of the Gus
tomary moral victory claim, and deprived
OF that consolation, the Tory despair is COM
plete.