The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-08-03
The Evil Spirit of Dissension Has
Done It's Worst ID
Ireland.
"A Reaction Believed to Have Set In.
Which Bodies Well for
the Future.
AS the Smoke Of Battle Clears
Away True Patriots See
Array Of Hope.

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to date presage large Tory and Liberal
Unionist majority in the next House of
Commons, says p. O'Neil Larkin, in a
letter to the Philadelphia Hibernian.
There is no use IN concealing the fact
| that Home Rule has suffered most seri-
GUS check among the electors of Great
Britain. Not only will the membership
of the coalition opposed to it be increased
by large majority in the House, but
the apparently expressed will of the Brit
ish people seems to be opposed to it. The
Tory vote has been generally increased
in all the constituencies, while the Liberal
vote has fallen off.
The causes Of this overturn are not DIFF
| ficult to see. 1t has been brought about
chiefly by the dissensions in Ireland
among men who call themselves National
lists or Home Rulers. The Redmondites
or Parnellites d:sgusted many British
voters, and the latest outbreaks of Mr..
Healy and his followers have intensified
that disgust to such degree that many
people in every constituency, even here
in Ireland, have neglected to go to the
polls at all.
1t is not reaction against Home Rule;
it is simply an Indifference caused by the
miserable faction quarrels which have
been going on among the Irish people
themselves. Mr.. Healy's atrocious, and
may add malicious, charge made the
other day at the Tyrone Convention to
the effect that the party of which he is
member had sold four seats in Ulster
for $500 to the Liberal party is having
and circulated by the Tories in Great
Britain as one Of their most effective
campaign documents, and without doubt
it, has proved to be suchssss Tt has been
the most deadly stab which the cause Of
Ireland has received since MI. Parnell
broke loose after the Divorce Court pro-
ceedfngs, by refusing to obey the will Of
the majority Of the party. Lest I have
not made the matter. sufficiently clear in
my last letter, let me say here that MIR.
Healy's charge is absolutely groundless
totally devoid OF foundation.
Despite the dismay and confusion
which prevails in Ireland and which
must seem much worse to the American
! who views it three thousand miles away,
there is a strong potential strain OF
rugged common sense asserting itself on
| every hand, which will before long put
an end to the Redmond;sm and Healy-
ism. called attention last week to the
attitude Of Bishop MacCormack of Gal
way, as expressed in his letter to the Gal
way Convention, in which he declared
that he would vote only for a man who
would loyalty, in spirit as well as in let
ter, abide by the pledge of the Irish
party. And now comes the Most Rev.
DR.. O'Donnell, of Raphoe, in a letter to
the Donegal Convention two days ago,
which is as sound in true craftsmanship
as it is earnest in patriotism. To clearly
understand the Bishops meaning it
should be borne in mind that Mr.. Arthur
O'Connor, one of the old members of Par
lament for Donegal, who was up for re-
nomination, was one of Mr.. Healy's most
strenuous followers, and a gentleman who
visited the Nationalist bf the United
States two years ago in the interests of
the then growing Healy faction.
The Bishop In his letter says: "This
is a day Of strength for Donegal, and the
delegates could, if they chose, in the exer-
else of their undoubted rights, dismiss
from their service such Of the county
members as, in their opinion, and in nine,
have gone into the ways OF dissension
since they last received the mandate of
their constituencies. But power brings
responsibility, and my object in writing
is to urge on the delegates the wisdom
of using their power to give an example
Of forbearance and trust. Good inten
tons, splendid service in the past and
strong love of the old land should OUT
weigh with us the intense dissatisfaction
with which we have viewed all abetting
Of the various attempts made on the dis
cipline OF the Irish party and its credit
with the people. 2
The Donegal Convention, as, indeed,
has been the case with nearly all the
county COW entions held have acted in
the spirit of Mr.. O'Donnell's splendid let
ter. The delegates have shown by their
voice that they are determined to stamp
out faction of every kind. Some good
priests, who are foolish politicians. as
we'll as a numbe Of laynnen, who were
ardent part;sans of Mr.. Healy, are begin
ming to take counsel with Their common
sense In view Of the saIutary admonition
of most5membe OF the Hierarchy OF Ire
land His Grace the Archbishop of Dub
lin issued q pastoral letter, which was.
read in all the churches OF the archdio-
cese on last Sunday, in which he asks
that the people earnestly supp llcate God: