The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-16
:.:PARNELE MEN
TO CELEBRATE
Anniversary of the Lead
er's Death Observed.
FEATURES OF DEMONSTRATION
FIRST THERE WILL BE A BIG
PARADE IN DUBLIN.
Following Comes the Convention to
$etermine the Policy of the In
dependent Nationalist
Party.
FEATURES0F DEMONSTRATION
FIRST THERE WILL BE A BIG
PARADE IN DUBLIN.
BY j. j. CLANCY.
Special Correspondence of The Cal

DUBLIN, Oct. 1-For the last seven
years the chief political event of the
autumn in ireland has been the celebra-
ton of the Parneu anniversary-tha is,
the anniversary of the death of the great
Irish leader, the 9Th of October, 1871
The celebration does not take place on
the 9Th of October, however. unless it be
q Sunday, for Sunday is the only day of
the week in which people generally
whether in Dublin or in the provinces,
can attend it. But the 9Th of October
whether it fall on a Sunday or not, is
now known as Ivy day, from the fact
that the ivy leaf has been worn on that
day ever since 1891 by all Parnellites,
both in Dublin and the provinces. How
1t is that the ivy has come to be particu-
larry associated with Parnen l cannot
tell. Already there are different theories
on the subject current, although II is
only a few years since Ivy day was in
augurated. So difficult is it TO come at
the truth of things which occur even
within ones own experience! On this &C.
casion, as Ivy day viii fall on Thursday
the annual demonstration will take place
on the 10th, the nearest Sunday, and the
preparations for il are now in an adj
vanced stage All the railways running
into Dublin have arranged TO carry pas
sengers for that day at excursion fares.
The public local bodies in the various
and some of the larger municipalities
will, as usual, be represented by their
Mayors and municipal officers in their
robes, as will also the Corporation of
Dublin, which has, moreover, authorized
the City Fire Brigade to attend in state
in their full working uniforms with their
traps and engines. The trades OF the city
are also to participate in the procession,
in which places have been assigned to
them and to the provincial populations
by ballot. The demonstrations which
have already taken place this year in
honor of The Men OF IS may TO some
extent interfere with the attendance Of
many from a distance who have always
hitherto taken part in Lne ParnelI ami
versary celebration, for 1t would be I'M
reasonable to expect all such persons to
come up to Dublin from remote places
twice within a few months; but, all the
same, the demonstration is certain to be
large and impressive.
The usual programme is to have pro-
cession through the principal streets of
Dublin TO GlenneY1n Cemetery, where
PaTnen was buried, and then to dispense
for the day, the leading Parnellites re-
assembling on the following day to dis
cuss in convention the political situation
and to determine the policy of the indie
pendent Nationalist party for the coming
year. This year, OF course, the same
programme will be followed. The pro-
Cession will take place, as l have said,
on the 9Th inst, and the convention Will
be held the following day. AT this gath
ering the principal subject will this time
be the attitude to be taken up by Par
nelllteS IN reference to the elections Tor
the new councils esta blished by the local
government act of the last session of
Parliament. What Will be determined on
l cannot, of course, say; but the probable
decision of the convention is clear enough.
The Independent Nationalist party, under
the leadership of John Redmond, NJ. P,
has already made it clear that it does
not want the complete boycotting of the
minority. 1t has always insisted on the
expectancy of giving that minority fair
representation on the new elective bodies.
1t desires to see that minority fully, even
generously, represented. But, as far as
I know, il means to use those new bodies
aids 10 the obtaining of home rule, and
for that purpose it is essential that they
should everywhere contain a majority of
Nationalist. 1t is one thing, and a right
thing, TO accord the minority full repre-
sentation; II is another and, while home
rule is denied, it would be an unjustifabe
thing to give them the controlling power
in places where they are not entitled TO II
by their numbers; and this to put II brief
~, will be, as l imagine, the declaration
of the Independent Nationalist Conyen-
ton. Another point that is likely to be
insisted upon is absolute freedom of cleo
ton. The history of some past Parlia-
mentary elections in recent years is the
foundation Of this plank in the platform,
and those who remember the history Of
those elections are the strongest in urg-
ing this particular demand. I may add
that the proceedings of the convention are
looked forward to with great interest not
only by Parnellites, but by anti-Parnell-
ties, for every one recognizes now that,
although the Parnellite members of Par
tionalist members. they represent a far
larger proportion of people in Ireland than
that figure would imply.
have Just returned from a trip on
the new tourist route, commonly called
the Duke of York route, on the Shannon.
1t was most enjoyable excursion, and I
should most strongly advise any Ameri-
can visitors who may come to Ireland
next summer not to miss 1t. The way to
proceed is this: Take a ticket from the
Broadstone station DUBLIN of the Mid
land line of railway to Athlone. That
particular journey occupies, by a fast
train, only some two hours and three
quarters. If you arrive in the morning
you can walk almost straight from the
train into the steamer. which leaves Ath-
i spend the next seven hours ii and ba Gf
on the river, at the end of which time
you can, If you are in a hurry. resume
your journey, by train for Limerick, ar
irving, via that city, in Dublin the fol-
lowing morning at o'clock But, in all
probability, most visitors will be in no
so picturesque, and. to Irishmen, so full
of historical associations. The journey
down the Shannon from Athlone to Killa-
loe appears all too short. For the first
fifteen miles, indeed. the scenery is not
out Of the common. The great river flows
through a rather fiat country, dotted for
whitewashed houses of the peasantry
empowered amid clumps Of trees; and
but for the innumerable curves of the
stream and the excessively green mead
ows that skirt the waters edge for miles
on both sides, the landscape would be
comparatively uninteresting. But when
you reach Portumna and enter in Tough
Derg the sight is as beautiful of its
kind as anything in the world. This great
lake is twenty-five miles long and in some
parts twenty miles wide. Bordered on
each side with waving woods, amid which
here and there peer out stately resi-
dences o. ivy-grown towers and other
relics of the past; studded with islands
rich In foliage, ecclesiastical remains of
remote ages, and in religious and histori
cal memories which still stir the blood o.
the people; now bright with sunshine and
never seem entirely absent from that
enchanted region-it is a spot In which
the visitor, whether given to angling
to tarry the whole summer through
One circumstance In particular will
strike the tourist in whose thoughts poll
tics are uppermost 1t is that on the
western shores of Tough Derg are sit
uated many of the most notable scenes Of
the last great land agitation. At and in
the neighborhood Of Portumna was enact
ed-and, in fact to some extent Is still
being .enacted-the great struggle between
the Marquis Of Clanricarde and his ten
antry. Lower down is Woodford the
scene Of a hotter fight of the same kind,
and ROdVke in the County Clare fhe