Evening star., 1895-07-13
Political Leaders in the Thick Of the
Fight.
ARE ADDRESSING MEETINGS NIGHTLY
Sensation Caused by Healy's Re-
cent Charges.
THE DISRUPTED IRISH PARTY
Copyrighted. 1855, by the Associated press.)

turn Of thirty-siX unopposed candidates,
including thirty conservatives, three lib
erals and three Parnellites. Among the
| unopposed members elected were George
s. Goschen, unionist, representing St.
Georges, Hanover Square, London; Sir
Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, member for the
Ecclesall division of Sheffield, copservative;
Mr.. John Heniker Heaton. progressive con-
servative, who represents Canterbury, and
the Rt. Hon. A. J. Mundella, advanced
LIBERAL the representative of the Bright
side division of Sheffield.
Mr.. Goschen is the new first lord of the
admiralty; Sir Ellis Ashnaead Bartlett is a
| native of Brooklyn, and was formerly civil
| lord of the admiralty in Lord Salisbury's
administration In 1855, and again from 1886
to 1892; Mr.. Heaton is the author of the
imperial ocean penny postage" scheme,
and Mr.. Mundella was formerly president
| Of the board Of trade. with a seat In the
| cabinet Of the late liberal government,
and resigned on May A. 1894, as a result of
being summoned to appear in court for ex-
animation as to the affairs of the defunct
| New Zealand Company. of which he was
| IN court that he resigned from the board
| OF directors when he was appointed 10 the
| presidency Of the board of trade
me enect or the dissolution of parlia-
ment Is strlkingly seen in Hyde Park. In
| us fashionable promenades few men Of dis
cinction are to be seen, the gatherings of
people there being almost entirely COM
The leaders of the different political Oar.
ties are already in the thick of the fight,
and are addressing meetings nightly AS
an instance Of the activity of the leaders
Of the fray, it may be mentioned that
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, who was
chancellor Of the exchequer in the Rose
berry cabinet, is booked to address three
olnerent meetings in Derbyshire on Mon
day.
Sensational Incident.
The most sensational feature of the cam.
paign Is the charge which Mr. Healy
made against the Irish parliamentary party
at the nationalist convention at Omagh
county. Tyrone on Monday last. The con-
vention was called to choose candidates
for the election Of Tyrone, and Mr.. Healy,
amid great excitement, accused Mr.. John
Dillon of selling Tyrone to the English
party.
Press. Mr.. Healy read a letter from Mr..
Edward Blake to Privy Councillor Dick
son, informing him that the Nationalist
Federation would be unable in future to
and South Londonderry which he asked
should be subsidized henceforth in the
sum of f2OO yearly by liberals. The then
government whip. Mr.. Thomas E. Ellis.
that the seats were to be considered
liberal and not home-rule seats.
Naturally. the reading of this letter
Who shouted Sold! soId! % when I 0hs Nj. Dii. 81
lon finally succeeded in making himself
heard, hes said:
What you state is an infamous and
calumnious ne You are a traitor You
read private letter in public"
This caused further uproar. and finally
the non-sectarian candidates were adopted
by the convention.
The affair has not only caused great COM
motion and considerable irritation in the
ranks of the McCarthyites but it has
spread CONSERVATION among the liberals
as the conservatives immediately seized
upon the incident and are making use of
1t during the present campaign for all it
Is worth.
Mccarthy nnd Blake Deny.
The nationalist leaders instantly grasped
the danger of the affair. and Messrs. Nc
Carthy and Blake both telegraphed en-
phatic denials of the charge. Mr.. Nc
Carthy, who promises to make a full state
ment on the subject, strongly condemned
the making of what he ciassed as useless
charges at such a crisis, and Mr.. Blake,
while presiding at the nationalist conven-
ton at Cork, dealt with the matter at
length, declaring that the allegation had
not particle of foundation in truth. But,
he added in explanation, that Mr.. Ellis,
the liberal whip, was applied to to bear the
expense of the registration work for the
four seats representing North and South
Tyrone, and North and South Londonderry,
which expense amounts to f20O each an
nually. This money. however. it was fur
~ther explained, was not to pass through
the hands of the nationalsts.
Mr.. Ellis gave much the same version of
the affair, but. of course, the conservative
newspapers declare that these are very
In, ,1ao fia&n
The Times, for instance, remarks: "It
does not matter whether the money prorrlis-
ed was nominally to go for registration
purposes or otherwise. In: any case 1t re-
ueved the impoverished treasury of the
federation and permitted so much hard
cash to be diverted to another destination.
The bargain was simple. The radical
whips found the money, and the members
Of the nationalist party, under orders from
the Parnellite wire-pullers were to find the
votes. The end of the incident is not yet
come. and the liberals rightly regard the
matter seriously, when, as Mr.. Ellis de-
claras, the tories are circulating leaflets
through the country, In which they hint
that the payment for Irish seats was not
in money taken from the party fund.- but
drawn from the national exchequer. in
order to enable lazy Irshmen to live in
luxury"
Also according to the Times, 1t is stated
that four Roman Catholic archbishops were
appealed to by the McCarthyites to hold
conference and act as arhitrators in the
disputes among 1rishmen, and that Arch
bishop Croke of Cashel replied that it was
inconvenient for him to act. In addition,
Archbishop Walsh of Dublin is said to
have emphaticaHy refused to sit in such
conference, he had offered several times
before to mediate and was only snubbed
for his pains. Finally, it Is stated, that
Archbishop Logue of Armagh, the prelate
Of an Ireland, and the Archbishop Tuam
were willing to act; but, in view of the
replies of Archbishop Croke and Walsh,
the McCarthyite party abandoned the
project.
The queen is taking keen interest in
the elections, and will be supplied with all
the results over a special wire run to
Windsor Castle from London.
LONDON, July 13.-Up to the present
ffty-four conservatives and unfonisrS, four
liberals and three Parnellites have been
elected to parliament without opposition.
Among the additional candidates elected
without opposition are Sir John Lubbock,
liberal unionist, representing London Uni
versity; William St.. John F. Broderick,
conservative, member for the Guilford di-
vision of Surrey, the new under secretary
of state for war; Sir Matthew White Rid
ley, conservative, representing the Black
Pool division of Lancashire, .he new sec
retary Of state for home affairs; Sir John
Gorst, conservative, member Tor the Cam
bridge University, the new vice president
| of the council, and Lord George Hamilton,
tiJo yx-bn IN,1;