The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-19

ment introduced me TO Mr.. ParnelI. and
then lett ms together in the smoking room
OF the House OF Commons. | asked sew
eCal questions and got the brlefest of re-
plies. Mr.. PaTnell smoked clgarei tie in
silence. and the situation became almost
embarrassing; L did not wish TO 90 with
out getting MIR. Parnel's views of
tae situation as it then was, nor with
cut direct COMMUNICATION of Sir
i homas E5m0nde and William RedmOnd's
mission for the Australian papers. 1t
must nave been for nearly half an hour
that MF. Parnell sat thus in silence. and
then Jumping up as If waking from sIeep.
ne. sal1, come across to my room at the
Westminster Palace Hotel and III tell you
aiLyou want to know" The hotel men,
tionedis only a short walk from the House
OF commons. Mr.. Parnell led the way TO
MS bedroom and, giving me one of the two
chalrs tnat were IN the room, forthwith
and with great coTdiality, explained the
position, aims and objects of the National
ISL party as 1t was then constituted. There
was Dut little appearance of reserve in his
manner, and neither then. nor ever after
ward, dld hud any trace of that stand
oiHsnness that latterly gave such dire of
tense TO many OF the rank and file OF the
irish party. | may remark that Mr.. Par
nelfs bedroom was about the least expen-
slye one in the hotel at which he
stayed, and about one meal in TWENTY
Iour hours was as much as he ever
ate. The Irish membe Of the British
Parliam ent have been often tainted with
Delng Kept" party, and have been ac-
cused- OF being keener alter plumber than
patrlotlsm. From personal knowledge ]
can say that the members of the Irish
party as a rule are the plainest living
men IN the House of Commons, and that
the money subscribed for party purposes
Ia America and The British colonies does
not go Tor high living, at any rate. At the
Tune OF the famous Parnell commission |
hrmly believe that worry, suppressed ex-
ci'ement and physical il-health had
thrown Mr.. Parnelps mind off its usual
unconmonly level balance. His manner
In court toward his counsel and associates
was sometimes irritable in the extreme.
and 1t often required all their patience TO
stand II. w hen The miserable story of his
relations with Mrs. O'Shea was dragged
through The mire of the divorce court
and his enemies gloated with in
decent rapture over MS downfall
among those who knew Parnell best
there was nothing but sorrow and
sympathy for him. Ionly voice the sentl-
meat Of his friends when write that il
was no guilty passion for Mrs. O'Shea that
led TO those mysterious disappearauces
Tor days at z time-days which were after
ward shown to have been spent by Par
nell in seclusion with Mrs. O'Shea. He
was wearied in body and soul, and with
Mrs. " Shea was the only place he could
find rest. The history of our own times
can. never be written quite impartially,
but the dspassionate historian of the f1
ture Will Go justice to the intense patriot
Ism, the marvellous fortitude, the logged
endurance aad, say sdvisedly. the purity
al lie OF the nncrowned king of Ireland,
Erln's deltVeler, Charles Stewart Parnell.
Writing of Charles Stewart Parnell not
uenaturally puts one, in mind of Sir
Charles Wentworth Dixie, who was
driven from English politics about eight
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