New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21

they are essential, have been chal-
lensed. On the vital point of all they
cannot be challenged.
II Is Mr.. Gladstones good faith-or.
let US say, his rankness-which is
challenged. When the o'shea explo.
sion came he met 1t as a man 10 whom
the whole story was a surprise. Any
OF his friends and supporters would
have told you at the time that Mr..
Gladstone knew nothing OF the Illicit
relations between Parnell. and. Mrs.
O'Shea. II now appears that he had
known or them for near ten years Dur
ing all that time Mrs. O'Shea had been
the intermediary between Mr.. Glad
stone and Mr. Parnell. Mrs. o'Shea
told him in so many words that her
only interest IN Irish politics was Mr..
FarneU. There were interviews be-
tween Mr.. Gladstone and Mrs. O'Shea.
There were letters. Mrs. oShea was
one Of the agents in the negotiation
Of the Kilmaiuham treaty. She used
oil her influence to induce Parnell to
sign 1t, or rather to accept the terms
offered him. When Mr. Gladstone
1 wished. as he often did, to communi-
cate with Mr.. Parneii. who gave nobody
his address, II was to Mrs. O'Saca that
Mr.. Gladstone applied. She v~ltod him
ence. or some Of it, with Pssn,l was
under cover to her. Tie sale o. the
Irish vote in the House was transacted
through her. And at the very last mo-
ment, on the afternoon Of that April
day Ehen he was to introduce the first
Home Rule bill. II was from Mrs.
O'Sbea that Mr.. Gladstone received
Mr.. Parnelrs assent TO that measure.
The Prime Minister had sent his pri-
vate secretary to Mrs. O'Shea's house,
in Ethan, 10 get il; and did get it. 1t
is worth while to quote Mrs. O'Shea's
own account of her disclosure TO Mr..
Gladstone of her relations with Mr..
Parnell. in 1882:
"tie knew, and allowed me to kno"
that he knew, what / desired that nc
should know--that my personal inter-
est in Parnell was my only interest in
Irish politics"
When a woman says that about
man can there be a doubt as TO ner
relations with that man? They were
conversing together, walking arm in
arm, Mr.. Gladstone and Mrs. O'Shea'
up and down his room in Downing
Street. She adds characteristic
tcuch-a characteristic, mean, of Mr..
Gladstone:
His wonderful eagles eyes showed
Just sufficient admiration in them to
SAVIOUR Of homage without offence"
OF Mr. Gladstone Mr.. Parnell seems
to have taken a pretty accurate meas
ure. He never trusted him. He knew
well that Mr.. Gladstone's conversion to
Home Rule dated from the moment
when the Irish Nationalist vote had
become indispensable to him; when
without II he had no majority. Place
and power depended on the Irish.
similar situation has more lately oeen
reproduced, and exists to-day. Mr..
Parnell had placed Mr.. Gladstone In
office and kept him there. Mr. Red
mond had placed Mr.. Asquith in power
and has kept him there. When In 1851
Mr.. Parnell was arrested and lodged
in Kilmainham gaol, he hipself had
forced Mr.. Gladstones hand. He meant
to be arrested. He himself drafted
later that "Kiimainham Treaty" the
existence Of which Mr.. Gladstone al
WAYS denied The most he would ad-
init was that there was an under
standing" That leaf also Mr.. Asquith
has since taken out of Mr.. Gladstone's
book. Almost the best thing in these
two volumes is Mr.. Parnel's answer to
Miss Gladstone during his memorable
visit 70 Hawarden. Miss Gladstone,
perhaps DESTROYS to turn the talk away
from politics. asked Mr.. Parneu at din
ner who was the greatest actor he had
ever seen. He answered:
Your father, undoubtedly"
The young lady was delighted. She
would perhaps have been Jess delighted
had she known that the Irish leader
had nicknamed his English ally ''The
Grand Old Spider,"-a piquant varia-
ton upon the Grand Old Man" which
1t was then the habit of his friends to
call him. When the Irish party had
held their too-famous meeting in Com
mittee Room No. 10 in the Parliament
House and revolted against their
leader Mr.. Parnell was content to re-
, mark:
THE Old Spider has nearly all my
flies in his web"
He seems to have felt no personal re-
sentment. Men to Mr.. Parnell, whether
friends or enemies. were so many forces
for or against him. An important
member of his party had disobeyed or
ders and been cashiered. Mrs. oshea
demonstrated, 1.-THE man has done
good work for you and if you make him
an enemy can do you hsrm"-7as he
did. Answered Mr.. Parnell:
while I am leader, they are my
tools or they go"
And again: In politics, as In war,
there are no men, only weapons"
II was Sir William Harcourt who