Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-17
TWO IRISH PARTIES.
Their Existence Is Natural and They
Are Probably Permanent
In PRESIDENT GANNON's OPINION.
The Parnellite and McCarthyite Factions
Are but Their Germs.
ALEXANDER SULLIVAN EI0NERATED

CHICAGO, Aug. 16-Statements likely
to attract wide attention were made to-day
by Hon. NJ V. Cannon, of Omaha, Presi-
dent of the Irish National League of
America In an interview, speaking of the
acceptance in good faith by the American
Irish of Gladstone's assurances, he said:
'Our whole idea, and the limit Of our
idea, has been to place ireland in the same
relation TO the Imperial Government that
Illinois or Nebraska holds to the American
Government We will never rest while our
mothers graves are trod by slaves. The
only cause of the unrest of our people is
this Irish question, and once it is settled we
will blend with the American people and be
heard of as a separate nationality no more.
81 will be glad for my boys sake when
the incubus of foreign duty has been re-
moved. We are Americans but Americans
who must take thought of our kin beyond
the sea The duty lies upon US all the more
urgently because England has-not content
with starving our people out of their his
toric home-followed them here with lies
and SANDER that too many people believe.
The Irish Made a Laughing Stock.
1--WE are gibbetted and pilloried as the
buffoons of the earth. We can leave it to
our American friends if the caricatures are
just"
1.-The Parnellites and the anti-Parnell-
ites' said Mr. Cannon, ''simply form the
nucleus for the two parties that will natu-
rally appear in the Irish Parliament The
Church did not display hostility to Parnell
until his lieutenents betrayed MIN, and
until after Gladstone had written his his
toric letter. The young manhood of Ire
land resented the idea that their leader
should be dictated to by British Minister,
and in his own language, thrown to the
wolves by those who sought his destruction
6n the perjured Times commission.
Here you have the basis of Irish parties,
of which there will be two. Free America
has 3; free France, 6; Italy, 4, and Ger
many g.
''De Maistre saws that English literature
for three centuries has been a continuous
conspiracy against the truth. The facts to-
dav show that this is true. The stage Irish
man is no longer recognized as the type of
our race, with the whisky bottle in his
pocket and his dhudeen in his hat. We are
on the threshold of the Irish nation; let us
cross it, and Irish Americans will be heard
of no more"
He Exonerates Alexander Sullivan.
Asked about the split in the ranks of the
American Irish, Mr.. Cannon turned rather
quickly upon the inquisitor and said: 'You
mean the fight on Alexander Sullivan?
We'll l want TO tell you one thing that the
papers possibly do not know. Mr.. Sullivan
is accused of the misappropriation of $780,
600 of Irish money. In my position, it has !
been necessary for me to learn all the facts,
and shall only say this: Written receipts |
have been shown me for every penny that |
ever went through Alexander Sullivan's |
hands. |
my own judgment is that when ireland |
gets home rule it will be due to the fact |
that Alexander Sullivan had organized |
American public opinion, and that he and |
he alone made it fighting force in interna-
tional politics. He is, in my judgment, |
more than any other man the maker of the /
Irish nation of 1892 From the time that |
he, backed by the Irish opinion of this |
country, went first to President Arthur We |
began to succeed.
The fruit is now almost in our hands, |
but we would be ungrateful and treacherous
if we did not acknowledge heartily. wholly |
the services of the man who, more than any
other, made this result probability"