The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-10-10

litical circles. Nobody, so far as at
first known, was even aware that Mr..
Parnell was indisposed, and conse'
quently, when it became known that
the Irish leader was dead, naturally the
first idea formed was that he had com
mltted suicide.
AS the day wore on, however, it
leaked out from the statements of his
Intimate friends that Mr.. Parnell had
complained to them recently Of not
feeling as we'll as usual, but it was not
thought by anybody that there was
anything serious in the symptoms re-
terred to by the late member from Cork
city, though he was thinner than be
was last year. The last time Mr.. Par
nell appeared in public was at Croeges,
Ireland, on Sept. ~, where he delivered
long speech upon the attitude and in-
consistency of Messrs. Dillon and
O'Brien. Upon that occasion Mr.. Par
nell stated that he was speaking in de-
6ance of the orders of the doctors who
were attending him and who had ex-
pressed orders for him to take absolute
rest
While Mr.. Parnell was speaking at
CrOeges it was noticed that he was very
pale and that, in other respects, he was
not the same man he had been in the
past. In addition to his pall0r, which
seemed to denote failing health, Mr..
Parnell upon the occasion referred to-,
carried his left arm in a sling. His
friends, upon asking him the cause of
this, were informed that be was suffer
ing from rheumatism.
kilograms received here from Dublin
and other towns in Ireland and the
other principal towns in England unite
in reporting that the death Of Mr.. Par
nell has caused the greatest sensation
among his supporters, principally on
account Of the sudden manner in which
he died.
Charles Stewart Parnell was born in
l846 and is descended from an old Eng
lish family that passed over from Cong
Teton, Cheshire, to ireland. Many Of
his ancestors have played promin-
ent parts in history. Thomas
Parneu, the poet, being one OF the
family. MIR. Parnell's mother is a
daughter OF Admiral Charles Stewart
the celebrated American naval officer.
MIR. Parnell's first attempt TO enter
public life was in 1874, when he con-
tested the county Of Dublin with the
late Col. Taylor on the latter's accep-
tance of office as chancellor of the
duchy of Lancaster in the second ad-
ministration of Lord Beaconsfield. He
was overwhelmingly defeated but in
the following year-1S75-was returned
for the county OF Meath.
In February, 1877, he made his first
appearance as a legislator, introducing
1.-The Irish Church Act Amendment
Bill,n the object of which was to facili
tate the purchase of their holdings by
the tenantry of the disestablished Irish
church. The bill was thrown out, It
was during this session that the real
development of the principle OF what
was known to the Irish as the "Active''
policy and to the English as the policy
of construction" arose and in the par
liamentary struggles that occurred Mr..
Parnell played a very important part.
In the beginning of 1873 MIR. Parnel],
instead of Mr.. Butt, was elected presi-
dent of the Irish organization in Eng
land known as the Home Rule Conted-
GRAFTON. The session of 1873 was but
repetition OF ~, the hostility of Mr.
Parnell being directed mainly against
the use of the lash, which he succeeded
in having abolished. It was IN 1779
that he formally joined the new land
movement and there then began the
most eventful epoch of his career. He
was elected the first president of the
Irish National Land League, and sailed
for America to raise funds. At the
meeting OF the new Irish party after
election he was chosen leader.
His recent career, embracing the
O'Shea scandal, which ended in his
marriage and the exposure Of his
methods made at the last meeting Of
the Irish National League. ls still
fresh in the minds Of the public. 81
PARNELL's COMPACT WITH DAYTTT.
The career of Charles Stewart Par
nell has been singularly different from
that Of Davitt. Born to ownership Of
a fine estate, educated as English gen.
tlemen are educated, aristocTatic, cold
and impossible, Protestant--he was.
the last man one would have, expected
to see In such a movement as that.
started by the enthusiastic Celt who
was branded socially as q 'stlcket of
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