The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-20

hand, some of those who acted with me
were not sparing in their denunciations
/ of Parnell, and in one or two instances
| the style of the attacks on him went
| beyond anything which most of us
could have approved.
! These attacks, too, it is almost need
| less to say, were faithfully rendered in
most of the papers. Therefore 1t so
happened that Parnell and [ met more
than once just at the time when the
papers were full of these flowers Of
controversy. But Parnell never said a
word about them to me. nor did ever
say a word about them to him. He
assumed I have no doubt, that I could
make allowance for the conditions I'M
der which he was carrying on his
struggle, and that l was not likely to
take offense at every extravaganza
uttered during the passion of SO bitter
a controversy l felt sure that he could
make the same allowance for me, and
so the quiet of our consultations was
not disturbed by anything going on IN
the world around US.
[ mention all this chiefly in order to
do Justice to the spirit in which Parnell
conducted his part of our negotiations.
On my side there was no particular
merit. Nature had endowed me with a
temper not easily stirred up to excite
L
good deal longer than Parnell, and
had become accustomed to the atmo-
sphere of political agitation since my
childhood. and I could not claim any
praise for not attaching too much i'm
portance to every angry word spoken
on either SIDE during so fervfd con-
troversy.
But Parnell was in many ways SEN
sitive man, with q highly strung tenn
permanent, and just at that time his
whole future seemed to be at stake on
the issue of the struggle that was going
on. / could well have made allowance
for any occasional breakdown in the
genial tone of our conversation if any
such had occurred, but he was always
just the same quiet, business-like and
friendly Our dealings were very much
like those that might have gone on be-
tween the partners in some company
where the junior partner finds that he
cannot work with the predominant
partner any longer and a dissolution
becomes inevitable, but the two are
still able to meet together and wind up
the business in a fair and friendly
spirit.
An interval came during which I saw
nothing of Parnell, and learned nothing
from him. I was spending some Gays
in Yorkshire, at the country seat of an
English 1fleIlQ. anu ISCelNGu lHSI Z OIlS
dav. forwarded from my home in Lon
don. a. telegram from Parnell. The tel
egram came from Ireland. and ex-
pressed an urgent desire to see me in
town on as early a day as possible
during the coming week | wired at
once an answer suggesting a day, and
received another telegram from Parnell
accepting the suggestion, and telling
me that he would call at my home in
London at late hour of the day
named. Many of my meetings with
ParneI, both before and after the
events that led to the split, were ar
ranged for hours of the night When our
talks were not likely to be interrupted
by a call from the ordinary visitor.
1 brought my holiday to a close not
over-w willingly, for London is dreary in
September, but 7 knew that Parneil
would not have sought a meeting with
out good reason for it.
Mr. Mccarthy promises to tell of the
meeting in another article.