The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-02
DEAD BUT NOT FORGO1'IEN
Tho memory Of parneii still Kept
Green BY sorrowInu
Friends.
REPORTERS TRIBUTE TO TIE DEAD
Modesty OF tho unorowned King !
Keep:ng with True Great
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Keep:ng with True Great
moss.
The recent anniversary if the death Of
Parnel was generally observed through
out Ireland in the usual manner.
At Glosnevon cemetery where Parnell is
buried Wreaths were placed upon his
grave. The procession was two miles
long.
A reporter who knew him well said at
the cemetery:
.'To the memory of our dead and de-
parted chief I may add a few reminis-
cences, from an acquaintance with him
extending over close on to twenty years.
I-met him on the occasion of his first step
into public life, and meeting him many
times since found, to the time of his death,
there was no change in him. He had
ever the same calm, quiet, impressive
gentlemanly de1neanor which impressed
everyone.
II had often been informedd that Mr..
Parnell was naughty, cynical:i,and inn
perious to acquaintance and colleagues,
but the same affable greeting and kindly
smile experienced from him on every oc-
casion. Immediately after his first bold
attempt at obstruction in the house Of
commons met Mr.. Parnell returning to
his seat in Wicklow. He invited me into
the same compartment with him at Bray.
We conversed as to the probable effect
which the recent tatics was likely to have
in forcing Irish matters on in parliament ri
He agreed with my remark that they did
not care a particle about Ireland in the
British parliament, and would only give
Glabeas corpus suspensions and such like
acts, until forced to change their hand.
tMr. sParnell was of the opinion that If
once he got large number OF members
from Ireland together, and was able to
balance the parties In the house, both
would then bid for Ireland and give
them home rule, when the Irish followers
could turn one party or other out of Office.
We went on to Avondale and after spend
ing some hours there returned to Wick
low to attend at the committee of the re-
gatta, which was then in it's first year.
It is curious circumstance that Mr..
Gladstone, on bis first visit to Ireland,
learned in the first farmhouse he en-
tered THAT of Mr.. Kings, near Rath-
drum), that Mr.. Parnell was the landlord,
and Mrs. King, who was in the place, in
reply to the queries of Mr.. Gladstone,
stated he was an excellent one. The late
Lord Meath and Mrs. Gladstone were, in
company with Mr. Gladstone, then on
their way to- the Meeting Of the Waters. !"
( was with Mr.. Parnell from Kingstown
on his return from Paris after being al
lowed out on parole to attend the funeral
of his nephew who had died in the
French capital. There was a large con-
course of people to greet him at Kings
town Pier. Mr. Parnell wished to avoid
a demonstration, and through the court
esq of Mr.. Michael Irwin, he was per-
mitted to, travel with the postofice off,
Gals in the mail train. Several reporters
were at the Carlisle Per. Just before the
train started managed to smuggle my
self into a compartment unnoticed, sew
eral of my colleagues and others having
been removed g, moment previously by
the railway and postoflce officials / kis-
sed my hand as the train started to one
of my disappointed colleagues, who was
standing on the jetty, and it was after
wards recorded that it was Mr.. Parnell
who did SO in response to the cheers. He,
however, sat silently at the opposite side
of the compartment, and only spoke to
thank the postofice superintendent for
his kindness.
cheered, nor did they till Mr.. Parnell was
on car. and had few times to sup
press the enthusiasm of my driver, when
he learned who was in the cab, which wei
were following Though stood beside
him ait the Kilmainham gate, not a word
passed between us, but our eyes spoke
their meaning
Mr.. Parnell, Mr. Dillon and Mr.. J. J.
O'Kelly were liberated from Kilmainham
late at night. There was great anxiety
in the city to know where they had gone.
The city hotels we're ransacked without
effect The following morning saw me
at the early mail boat, but none of the
members were there. then got an init
nation of some late arrivals at the Royal
Marine Hotel, who came in cab, and
after breakfast there and further inquiries
I had no doubt as to the facts. John
Dillon left for the city, and at o'clock
I was seated conversing with Mr.. Parnell
in the smoke room. Mr.. O'Kelly writing
the while at a table, while slipped some
sherry, and Mr.. Parnell smoked a cigar.
We recounted various incidents, and he
expressed his satisfaction at my not
speaking when he was returning to Kill
mainham.
We met many times previous to his
death. At the time Of Bodkin's eviction
from United Ireland was by the side of
Parnell. Mr.. T. Healy was knocking at
the door minute or so before Mr.. Par
nell arrived there. I never saw him so
annoyed, and he would have crossed the
paling to effect an entrance only he was
restrained by Mr.. Redmond and myself.
After he entered the place his kindly
nature assumed its predom.nance, and
he ordered that no one who was to be !
interfered with by the excited crowd j
which entered the place He was ever
hopeful that right would assert itself 4
soon, notwithstandi the defeats and re-
verses he met with so frequently With
all the grief that one must feel at the
painful events that had their climax in /
his untimely death, 1t is at least some
to find that though dead he
is not forgotten.
O'ConneI's Coffin.
Few people know that the original
coffin which enclosed the remains of the
during the transit from Genoa
to ireland is not In Glasneyin, says the
Dublin Freeman. The coffin was changed
when the tomb was constructed in NAV.