The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-09-14
lIHE Wasp OF THE PARl'l|
Timothy Healy Described as 4
flan Of Brains and Eloquence,
But Lacking Judgment.
ambitious and Aggressive, He Is.
a Stumbling Block in the
Way Of Success.
He 1t Was Who Hounded ParneIl
to an Early Grave to Suit
His Own Ends.

to an Early Grave TO suit
His Own Ends.
The man who is making the hottest
Bensation of the hour is Timothy Healy,
says London dispatch to the Chicago
Times Herald.
He has raised an issue of Irish leader
ship and must either win or secede and
form new party. The question is wheth-
er he and his friends or John Dillon and
his friends are to control the policy Of tbs,
anti Parnellites. So far as he has given
seems to be to force Justin Mccarthy to
retire from the leadership. He hates Nc
Carthy as bitterly as he hated Parnell and
would serve him as savagely if he had the
chance to do SO. Failing in an attempt to
depose Mccarthy, he would probably try
to establish new organization altogether,
for the Parnellites will not have him on
any terms. They have never forgiven the
insults with which he bounded 1Parnell
into the grave.
It looks now as If there might be three
Irish parties in the, house Of commons
after the adjournment instead Of the two
which were there when parliament was
prorogued on Thursday. The cause Of
Ireland is again made the victim of the
extraordinary refusal of some Of it's par
liamentary representatives to behave like
Christians, gentlemen or statesmen.
/, Healy is the most fractious and brill
liant den1agogue who has yet figured i'll
the house as professed champion of Irish
interests. Americans will remember him
as delegate with T. P. O'Connor to the
land league convention Of America held at
Chicago, in 1881, when the sum Of $250,000
was voted to assist the Irish movement.
He was then a man of 27, but already ar
accomplished orator, with a wealth Of
wit, fire, pathos and pugnacity Of his race.
He spoke for the league in many of the
chief cities OF the United States and Can
ada, everywhere producing an impression
which abundantly justified the confidence
Of those who had intrusted him with the
task of arousing American sentiment.
Michael Timothy Healy is his full name.
Bantry in Cork saw!his birth in 1855 and,
his arrest Is years later for a speech
held indictible under the famous White
boy acts. He escaped conviction, how
ever, for this, and in the late autumn Of
1880 was returned unopposed for Wexford
borough. Hespeedily distinguished him
self in parliament by his zeal for Ireland
and his facility in debate; and in the pass
ing of the land act Of that year of his
membership personally carried several
Important amendments. Among these
was the "Healy clause which provided
that no rent should be allowed to the land
lord on the tenants improvements.
Early in 1885, after his return from hia
American tour, he was cited before the
Queens bench at Dublin on the charge oil
q sedit.ous speech. He refused to give
bail to be of good behavior, and in default
Of this he was sentenced to six months
imprisonment, four months Of which he
served before being released.
In 1884 he was called to the Irish bar
and ever since then has conducted prac-
lice at Dublin which might have become
very lucrative had his political aspira-
tions and engagements allowed him to
give 1t proper and systematic attention It
was in those days that he wrote his fiery
pamphlets Loyalty Plus Murder" which
was startling expose of orange methods,
and "A Word for Ireland. which was and
is one of the most reliable and exhaustive
histories of the Irish land question.
Healy's experience in parliament from
1888 to 1890 was ra-sensational He was
almost continually in evidence, and by his
!mpassioned oratory and nervous person
ality offered the strongest possible con-
trast to the calm and imperturable Par
nel. When the Parnell commission was
Instituted to inquire into the allegations
contained in the 'Parnellism and Crime,
pamphlet that issued from the office Of
The London Times, Healy was among the
lccused persons.
There are marouS explanations CIV
IN of the beginnings of his implaca6le
hatred of the great Irishnian whose fall
IN 1890 50 ttered the hopes of the Irish
party, but this at least is beyond dis
spute-it was not until Parnell's social
errors came to be matters Of common re-
port among his followers that Healy De-
tame actively and publicly insubordin-
tie. There was friction, but not mu-
siny. However cordially he may have
disliked ParneH, he did not enlbarrass
him by public display Of hostility until a
court of Justice had proved the Irish
leg der eIlf1ty EOf adl1ltary with the wife