Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-02
BIG FIGHT IN IRELAND
SECTIONS OF NATIONALIST
PARTY CLASH BITTERLY.
T. M. Healy Called Traitor and
Marked Down for Slaughter
in Coming Election.
LAKEWOOD. n. J.
Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence OF The Star.
DUBLIN, December "A, 1909.
Everything points to the probability
that the general election will witness a
bitter conflict between the sections COM
posing the nationalist parliamentary
party. The officials caucus in Dublin
has apparently decided to attempt to
crush out the so-called factionists. T. NJ.
Healy has already been marked down
for slaughter, and strenuous efforts are
to be made to GUST from their seats those
members who have identified themselves
with William O'Brien's policy. That the
|O'Brientes will fail to retaliate is not 10
be supposed. In a message from Florence
their leader has warned the league man.
ayers that it would be wise for them to
drop their campaign against his friends.
The latest report is to the effect that Mr..
O'Brien himself will stand for Cork city,
in place of Mr.. Roche, who is retiring
In any case, interesting developments are
promised.
IT is stated that in a number of divi-
sions where dissatisfaction is felt with
the RedmOndite representatives, MT.
O'Briens friends will run candidates.
Among the natlonaHstS feeling against
Mr. Healy is especially bitter. HIS IN
dependent action on the budget, which
measure no one in Ireland has more
yelemently denounced, has aroused the
strongest resentment.
To Down Healy.
The Dublin Young Ireland branch of
the league has passed a resolution de-
claring that no influence should be al
lowed to protect Mr.. Healy from THE
natural consequence of his alliance with
the tory party and the house of lords.
and the chairman expressed the fervent
hope that the member for Louth would
be given the order of the boot" The
North Louth executives have declared
that as T. NJ. Healy is the head and
front of factionism in Ireland, We pledge
ourselves to turn him out Of the con-
tion." They have accordingly requested
the national directory to arrange for the
selection of a candidate.
There is another factor in the situation
which will be very unwelcome to MI
Redmond and his friends.
There are Indications says the
Freeman's Journal, that the report
crediting unionists with the intention OF
forcing contests in numerous Nationalist
divisions in Ireland is well founded The
military gentlemen who nave generously
undertaken to bear the unionist standard
have now been joined by Maj. OConnor,
who intends to try his luck in College
Green. At the last election the nation
alist candidate was returned unopposed.
Says Ireland Was Duped.
That William O Brien's friends are paw
ing the way for his expected early re-
turn to the political arena may be gath
cred from a letter which John O'Donnell,
M. P, has addressed to the Claremorris
District Council in reply to resolution
passed by that body. Having declared
that never was Ireland SO grossly duped
and betrayed as she has been by the
present government, Mr.. O'Donnell con-
trives to suggest that Mr. Redmond is in
some measure responsible for this state
of affairs. What is wanted, he says. is
Observation-Disclosures and honesty in Irish
politics.
..The people of Ireland can now see the
disastrous results of rejecting William
O'Brien's advice and bounding him from
their service. If this policy had been
acted upon six years ago landlordism
would now be extinct in Ireland and an
Irish parliament would have been sit
ting during the past four years in College
Green.
Might Have Won Fight.
IF even the opportunity which had