The Irish standard., 1895-09-14
HEAIY YIG P'Au
is THERE 4 BITTER Plight AHEAD?
The E,cotIon IN South Kerry Has
ARGUS ed tho People to Their rs
Danger. ~

ARGUS ed the People to Their s.,is.
Danger. 4t
The latest manifesto Of Justin Nc
Carthy would indicate the desire gener-
ally, although perhaps not too openly ex-
pressed of expelling Timothy Healy
from the Nationalist party unless he sub
mits himself to the will Of the majority.
He says:
II feel that ought not to allow the
South Kerry election to pass without say
ing some words Of warm thanks to the
patriotic electors Of that constituency.
To the men of South Kerry a deep debt Of
gratitude is due from the whole Irish
race for saving the Irish party from the
deadly blow aimed at its unity and its
very existence. And it is necessary that
the Irish people should follow up what
South Kerry has done and that their
united voice should declare with equal
emphasis that faction must cease and dis
cipline be maintained.
"The action of Mr.. Murphy and his sup
porters in South Kerry was not an isolat-
ed instance of revolt, but was one Of a
long series of persistent attempts to
wreck the. Irish party. For three years
this attack has been persistently carried
on, and I have been prevented from
bringing the whole matter before the
people of Ireland in all it's painful details
solely by a desire to spare the people Of
Ireland the pain and humiliation which
such public controversies must int1ict and
by the vain hope that by the exercise Of
petience and Cancellation better counsels
would prevail. " #
when the general election came the
policy of disruption was pushed even
more vigorously against us. Dissolution
came unexpectedly. The time for prepa-
ration was extremely short. A. meeting
of the Irish party was called, and by an
overwhelming majority the chairman and
the committee of the party were charged
with the duty of collecting funds and
making arrangements in connection with
the Irish elections. I..
"A few days afterward at an ordinary
meeting of the Executive Irish National
Federation in Dublin, presided over by
Mr.. Arthur O'Connor. and at which Mr..
Healy and mis- friends were present, a
resolution, of which no notice had been
given, censuring the Irish party and COM
mittee was passed and published in the
Irish papers. Elnissaries were sent into
the country to oppose several members
Of the party on no other ground than that
they had stood loyalty by their pledge to
preserve the unity Of the party, support
ing the principle of majority rule.
'sMr. Arthur O'Connor went to Queens
county and to Kerry. with a view of get
ting himself chosen instead Of a sitting
member OF the party and for the purpose
Of pushing the candidacy of Mr.. Murphy.
Mr.. Murphy himself was proposed for
Queens county, in Kerry, and in South
Louth, in each case as an opponent OF a
loyal member of the party.
ssAnd it has been reported to me on
good authority, though hesitate to give
credit to the report, that Mr.. Murphy
offered to stand for the City of Kilkenny
on condition that Patrick MacDermott,
one Of the most loyal members Of the
party, be driven from the representation
OF North Kilkenny, and that he refused
to stand when mis- conditions were not &C.
cepted.
"These were the difficulties under
which my colleagues and myself had to
fight the general election. We had to
meet the opposition not only of the Union
lists and the Redmondites, but the more
insidious and damaging attacks of MEM
bers of our own party, who, at the most
critical moment, did everything in their
power to disorganize our ranks and to pre-
vent us obtaining the funds necessary to
carry through the election with success.
FINALLY the campaign against the par
ty eliminated in the declaration of Mr..
Healy at Omagh that we he'd been guilty
of the grossest kind of corruption in the
use Of the fl,000 (s5,000) from MI. Blake,
of the FL, 500 (S7,500} sent to us from
America, and OF the FL 800 ($7, 500 from
Australia. I should mention that we owed
the last subscription to the fact that Mr..
Davitt generously gave the proceeds of
his lectures as asguarantee for the money
In spite of all this at the seasonal
meeting of our own party some OF our col
leagues thought it wise to make last at
tempt at conciliating the gentlemen who
had been carrying on the war against the,
party for 50 many years and so recently,
and Mr.. Healy, Mr.. Arthur O'Connor, and
Mr.. Knox were elected members Of the
Parliame ntary committee The result of
this attempt at Cancellation is to be seen
in the revolt In South Kerry and in the
scandalous communication made to the
press by Mr.. Healy. in which he processes
to give a full statement Of the confidential
proceedings Of the committee.
while the revolt in South Kerry was
sinexcusable, il party discipline and party
unity are to be regarded as realities, it has
done service in rousing the Irish people
to some conception of the dangers by
which Their cause is threatened through
a new faction as d:sloyal to party unity
and to party pledge as the old. 81
IF the party is to be preserved from
disruption through these new factionists
it must be by a Reputation of such tactics
by the Irish people at large which will be-
as emphatic as that of South Kerry.
. & 81 now leave the decision Of this great
issue with perfect confidence in the hands:
of the Irish nation .5S ,.ri
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