The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-20
PAPAL POWER In ERIN,
PARNELL'S FIGHT AGAINST THE
RULE OF THE PRIESTS.

Roughly Handled by Nationalists at
Sligo
DUBLIN, March I9.-United Ireland
says editoriallY that Ireland has had enough
episcopal domination. Over and over again
the bishops have become like wax In the
hands of English politicians, and, warned
by the failures of the past, tho Irish Will no
longer submit blindly TO priestly guidance
The pretensious Of Archbishop Logue,
primate of all Ireland, would deprive
Catholics of their political rights.
Nationalist yesterday roughly handled
Messrs. Harrington and Clancy at Sligo
while the gentlemen referred 20 were at
tempting to hold a meeting. Finally the
two Parnellites were forced to retire.
PARNELL HEsITATEs.
Cork, March 19.-The delay OF Mr.. Par
nell in responding to Mr.. Healy's defiance,
in which the latter announced that he was
ready to take up the formers challenge that
they should both resign their seats in par
lament and come forward as candidates for
reelection. as test of the popular sym
pathy with the Parnellite and McCarthyite
causes. respectively, has caused the Parnell-
ties of this city to telegraph Mr.. Parnell,
urging him to state his intentions immedi-
ately.
CONSERVATIVES ON THE ALERT.
LONDON, March 20, A. M-The con-
servatives are preparing to contest the seats
of Messrs. Parnell and HeaIy should they
resign.
Mr.. Parnell's dilemma amuses Dublin.
Mr. Parnell stipulates that before resi0ning
each side must provide two candidates.
The Chronicle declares that during the
dock strike of 1889 Messrs. Davitt and Healy
urged the national league to subscribe
Rl,000 to aid the strikers. and that Mr.. Par
nell vetoed the project.
Last Sundays labor conference in Dublin
under Mr.. Parnells patronage was
fiasoo. Only forty persons were pres
ent, four OF whom were delegates on be-
half Of $50 labor associations.
The Freenldn's Journal article is inter-
preted to mean that Mr. Parnell declines to
resign. The Dublin EUentng Telegraph ap-
pears to confirm this point. declaring that it
would be an indignity for Mr.. Parnell to
answer such an offensive letter as Mr..
Healy's. "If Mr.. Healy wants to fight" It
says; "let him resign, and he will soon find
Mr. Parnell in Cork"
A RUMoR THAT HE WILL RESIGN.
1t was stated in the lobby Of the House
Of Commons to-day that Mr.. Parnell had
accordance with his challenge to Mr.. Healy.
FIRST MEETING OF THE ENJOYS.
NEW York, March 19.-Messrs. O'Kelly.
Redmond and Harrison, the agents of Mr..
Parnell, who arrived here last Sunday, to
night addressed their initial meeting to
raise money for Mr.. Parnell and his fol-
lowers. About 2, 500 to 5000 persons sat in
the body of the hall Of the Cooper Union
and listened. On the stage sat the most
notable men at the meeting, of whom
Michael Breslin, who presided, was the most
prominent. John Dewey, too, sat upon the
platform. When Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien
opened their campaign for funds last fall in
the metropolitan opera house, Joseph j.
O'Donohue, prominent coffee merchant,
was among the adherents and sponsors upon
the stage. SO was John ID. Crimmins, a
wealthy contractor; Eugene Kelly, the
banker, and G. 9. Shayne, the fur
merchant None Of these were pres
ent at the meeting tonight in
behalf Of Mr.. Parnell and his envoys Early
arrangements for the meeting of tonight
contemplated overflow meetings outside the
hall, but there were no outside platforms
nor any speaking except inside the hall,
where ell who came were accommodated.
An admission fee of so cents was charged at
the doors, and from this source probably
from 81, 200 to 81, 500 was obtained.
o'KELLY STATES THEIR OBJECT.
After Mr.. Breslin had commanded order
in the meeting he introduced j. j. O'Kelly,
and when he arose TO speak there were
cheers. 81 am here to win for the cause of
Ireland the sympathy that has hitherto
been denied It," Two hundred thousand
dollars, he said, had been placed In a bank
in Paris as an emergency or election fund
Since the present dispute within the Irish
party had taken place the money could
not bs used for a political purpose, as
it was in the hands of trustees
Of both parties. 1t was to replace that sum
in behalf of Mr. Parnell that they visited
this country. Their mission to America was
to ask those who believe in an independent
Irish party and an independent parliament
to give them their help to restore that fund,
so that they might fight for every seat in
Ireland aud restore unity by wiping from
public life the men who had betrayed the
trust reposed In them.
PARNELL NEVER WITHOUT ENEMIES.
Mr.. O'Kelly referred TO the Dublin and
London meetings, where Mr.. Parnell was
indorsed as the leader OF the Irish party, and
to the hostility Of the Gladstonian party.
"Mr. Parnell has had enemies in his party
since the beginning. When this question
comes to be settled in Ireland some
facts not known by the public
now will be developed. and do not fear
that the people will reject Mr.. Parnell and
his associates. What has Mr.. Parnell doneg 2
IA Voice-Nothing more than any other
man would have done. When Mr.. Parnell
took hold of the Irish party its ranks were
sadly broken. By his great generaIship he
healed the wounds and reunited the party.
"The shadow OF the bailif was In those
days cast over the whole land. Who rescued
the country from its social condition9 All
Ireland, that is young and middle-aged Ire
land, is with US. The Ireland of the future
Is with Mr.. Parnell, and the only element
against US is the dying element, men born
slaves and who die slaves" [Cheers.]
Mr.. Redmond spoke next. He said "I
feel perfectly at home here. because looking
around see faces with which / was fam liar
nine yeGrs ago when / was here first; faces
Of men who made this Parnell movement of
to-day. I was told when | came here to
prepare for cold shoulder from some Of
my countrymen here. ['No, no.n1 guess
we can get on without those people. IL
there are men here who cannot give
thousands of dollars, there are men who
gave their liberties freely for love Of their
country. From this very platform / spoke
in this very ball, and then considered my
self an independent Irish nationalist and q
follower Of Charles Stewart Parnell. lat
this 1uncture Mrs. ParneI entered the hall
and the audience rose and cheered her. !
After these six years, say, am still an
independent Irish representative, unstained
by any English opinion, but In full sympathy
with what the people of my country wish