The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-20
MCCARTHY AND PARNELL.
Their Relations After the Split in
the Irish Party.

Justin Mccarthy makes a valuable
: contribution to recent Irish history il
an article in the Irish People, wherein
he tells of his relations with Parnel
atter the split. The picture of the de
posed parliamentary leader drawn by
his successor is interesting and valu.
able. Mr.. Mccarthy writes:
My personal relations with Parnel
never ceased to be friendly. The great
split which for a time broke up the
Irlah national party kept Parnell anC
myself much asunder during the short
remaining term of his life, but there
was no quarrel between him and me
mean no personal quarrel-and when
we met we met still as friends
We had several opportunities of meet
ing, for there We're many matters OF
business connected with the party
which had still to be arranged with
confidence between US, and these in
VolVed several quiet talks There were
two or three distinct funds belonging
TO the Irish party-that is to say to the
Irish people at homo and abroad-for
which Farnell and | and one or two
others were joint trustees, and the dis
posal and arrangement of which needed
frequent consultation. Parnell was
generally in good spirits when we met
on these occasions, and he talked
freely and pleasantly over the details
of the business for which we had met.
and we often depressed into general
talk, and he made shrewd and charac-
teristic remarks about passing political
events and about some of the men con-
cerned in them
One day [ remember we had to go
into the city together to see the man
ager of a bank and arrange with him
about some of the accounts entrusted
to us. The house of commons was
then sitting, and we had both of US to
attend the house that evening. We
drove in hanson cab and aS we were
approaching Westminster palace it sud
denly occurred to Parnell's mind that
a good many people would be greatly
astonished and bewildered to finding
I US driving up together in a hanson cab
and altghting at Westminster hail. and
passing up the members entrance to-
gether, just as if there never had been
such thing as a split in the Irish ma
/ tional party.
The idea greatly amused Parnell,
! and he was in one of those moods of
quiet observant humor which were not
uncommon with him, and when they
came were always delightful to his
companions. He positively fingered a
little on getting out of the cab and be-
/ fore we passed up the members en-
! trance, as if to give curious bystand-
! rs an opportunity of observing that we
two had driven UP together.
IN FRIENDLY COMPANIONSHIP.
Did you ever observe that police
MANI" he said to me as we entered.
He could hardly contain his surprise
l really thought he was going to ask
US how we came to be on such good
terms again so soon"
We mounted the flight of stairs to-
gether and made cur way into the
members lobby, and among groups al
ready assembled there one of the first
friends we encountered was William
O'Brien. Parnell instantly got into
talk with him and told O'Brien in
pleasant and animated tones about the
interest and the curiosity which he felt
sure would be excited by the appear
ance of Justin Mccarthy and himself
driving into palace yard together. Will
liam OBrien entered into the spirit of
the joke and protested himself a sharer
in the public amaZement.
In all our arrangements concerning
the business affairs of the party Par
nell showed himself thoroughly reason
able and good humored. He always
seemed willing to agree to a fair settle
ment. We had many differences of
opinion, as was but natural, over this
or that arrangement, and sometimes [
had to say that l could not agree to
this or that suggested compromise
without consulting some of my col
leagues, but this he seemed quite always
to understand; and even when most in
clined TO hold persistently to his own
views he was willing to listen to argu-
ment and to allow time for further con-
sideration
a TAp1f o1ld int 1e-
during which we did not meet became
longer, and Parnell threw himself more
and more into the work of agitation in
Ireland, could not help observing each
time that we met again how his face
was becoming thinner and paler. his
manner more nervous and that q. GER
tain physical irritability was growing
on him. l call it a physical irritability,
because it did not appear to affect his
ordinary demeanor or his manner of
transacting business. He was just as
quiet and good tempered as usual in
his conversation with me, but it ap-
peared to me that he was wearing. him
self out with overwork; that he was
taxing at once his mental and bodily
strength too much, and 1 told him so
more than once. He took my remarks
in the most friendly spirit, and assured
me that he was not working more than
all possible care of himself.
When speaking of the good temper
with which our discussions were con-
Quoted / should say, perhaps, as 1 do
not want to claim for him or for myself
any extraordinary suavity of mood, |
that our only discussions were over
matters of detail, and had nothing to do
with any question of party organiza-
ton. On the great differences which |
had divided the party We never spoke
a. single word. There seemed to be |
from the first a common understanding
between us that the whole subject was
never to come UP in our discussion. We |
had come to no agreement of the kind; |
it simply appeared to be assumed be- |
tween us as matter of course, and as |
a necessary part of our business. Par |
nell told me, nothing of his projected |
in Ireland, nor did L ask !
him any question on the subject; but |
on two or three occasions he related to !
me some odd or amusing incident which |
had come under his notice during his
just as anyone might |
have told Of something that had hap
pened to him on a journey; but nothing
was ever said by him which brought |
into question any. of the subjects on
which he and / were compelled to have |
opposing opinions.
AT the same time it must be SAID tnat
we had to meet more than once under
which might have seemed
likely to lead to ill-humor on the one
side or the other. Parnell in his speech
es throughout Ireland frequently made
severe attacks on some of those who
had withdrawn from his leadership.
When he felt inclined to denounce an
opponent he had decided gift of ex-
pressive denunciation. and he employed
this gift pretty freely against several
Of the party to which L belonged.
I dare say 1 came in for some dis
illusions myself All his
speeches were fully reDOrted in the