The Irish standard., 1895-12-21
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disparaging to T. Nj. .Healy. one Of the
leaders in Irish affairs all this time.
They look upon him as the Moses to lead
the Irish people into the promised land
He himself can abuse his opponents with
IMMUNITY, but no word Of censure can be
raised against him without drawing
down the severest censure from his adj
mirers.
It is not proposed here to merely give
an Individual opinion Of Mr.. Healy, but
the record will be made up against hin:
of those who are in a position to know
whereof they speak. William O'Brien,
in public speech recently delivered at
Draperstown, said:
"If the majority OF the Irish party are
against him (Healy) he calls them Dill
Ions hirelings If the majority Of the
council of the Irish National Federation
are against him he says that they are
scalIywags whipped up from the country
to oppose him. If the Irish in Great
Britain almost to a man are against him
he describes them as English working
men who don't know how to spell. When
DR.. Adds Emmett, the president OF the
National Federation in America, warns
him that the principle of majority rule
is the principle by which American free
dom has been won and is maintained, he
tells DR.. Emmett, that he, DR.. Emmett, the
relative of Emmett of '9S, is stranger;
that he doesn't know what he is talking
about. You will find by and by, when
the suggestion of Archbishop Walsh OF
Toronto, that great national convention
fully representing the whole Irish race
is carried out, as hope it will be, he will
instantly find some other pretext for de-
flying the decision of the convention and
he will announce that Archbishop Walsh
and the exiled race in America are stran-
gers and have no business to Interfere.
When the county convention in Kerry
decided against him he Immediately
charged, or Mr.. Murphy (the Healyite
candidate), for him, charged that the
convention was packed and bought. He
appealed from the convention to the peo-
pie of South Kerry. The people OF
South Kerry beat him three to one, and
he Immediately discovered, or Mr.. Muir
ply discovered for him, that the people
of South Kerry were mere illiterate peas
ants .....-
And regarding the great national con-
vention Hea1y is opposed to it on the
ground that the Irish in America or in
any other portion Of the world except
Ireland do not understand the question,
or if they do they have no right to in
terfere, although it was not proposed by
Archbishop Walsh that they should in
terfere, except to appear in an advisory
capacity. But in that capacity or in
any other Healy does not want them.
And the world knows why. At such
convention he feels that his course would
be denounced in such unqualified terms
that he would be deprived Of his capacity
for further mischief - @
But to give the devil his due, Mr.. Hea-
ly admits that while they are Quarreling
among themselves they are united
against the foreigner" There is grain
of comfort in that, but 1t is far from sat
isfactory A man of Mr.. Healy's &C
knowledged ability should be able to de-
wise some means for effective action in
stead of snarling at what the others are
doing or attempting to do, and trying for
over three and half years past to bank
rupt the party financially and bankrupt
it in character, for his own personal
ends.
Mr.. Healy takes satisfaction in telling
"that If the country were in possession OF
information which hold, and could see
some of the documents which I possess.
they would come to the conclusion that
the outcry against me was rather an at
tempt to discredit man whose warnings
were disregarded, and whose reproaches
are feared, than any genuine zeal for the
Irish movement - III
He says he cannot disclose this docu-s
mentary evidence because he holds it IN
confidence, and further adds while my
differences with my colleagues center
largely around the events of the past
three years in our relations with the late
government, prefer to be misrepresent-
ed and misunderstood rather than endea-
vor at present to disentangle these ques-
tons" In regard to this Mr.. Dillon
says there is not shred Of foundation,
and that there could not be imagined a
more traitorous, unjust, or more ungen-
erous statement for one colleague to, make
about another than that : William
O'Brien says that Healy knows in his
heart that he does not produce these doc
uments through any tenderness for the
Irish party, but because there are no
such documents in existence"
Z If Mr.. Healy has IN his possession such
damaging testimony against the McCar-
thyites he should produce It. His plea
Of. confidence is only sham. If the
McCarthyites are not worthy the trust
reposed in them let them be ousted, and
if Mr.. Healy and his few followers can
show better title for 4 the succession
they will be permitted To- rule.
+ Think Of Healy opposing Mccarthy and
his party. In 1890 and 1891 he was pur-.
suing Parnell, much to the satisfaction Of