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Show ON VERGE OF SERIOUS SPLIT Trouble Within Ranks of Irish Nationalist Na-tionalist Party. LONDON. Nov. 19. Tho Irish Nationalist National-ist party Is on the verge of a serious split. Unless some amicable arrango-mcnt arrango-mcnt can quickly bo arrived at Messrs. Dillon and Sexton, with their personal following, will secedo from tho leadership leader-ship of John Redmond. In this event Mr. Redmond will have the aggressive support of "Wllilam O'Brien, over whom a dlsputo has arisen. In recent speeches In Ireland Mr. Redmond Red-mond Is held to have openly sided with Mr. O'Brien regarding the differences of opinion which have lone existed between Mr O'Brien and the Dillon-Sexton-Davitt faction. It is stated on good authority that Mr. Redmond has been told that unless ho withdraws his support from Mr. O'Brien secession will result. No definite conclusion conclu-sion has been reached, but It Is understood under-stood Mr. Redmond prefers to throw In his lot with O'Brien. In tho event of the breach becoming a definite fact, it is thought that the party would at the moment bo fairly ovonly divided. O'Brien's trcmendout; popularity popular-ity In the 4outh being offset by tho influence influ-ence of Sexton's powerful organ, tho Freeman's Journal, and tho more radical following o:? Messrs. Davltt and Dillon. Such a division probably would leave tho followers of Mr. Healy with what might become tho balance of power in favor of Messrs. Redmond and O'Brien. The present international crisis is the result of tho gradually Increasing disagreement dis-agreement over tho action lnatlrrated by O'Brien and carried out by Mr. Redmond In their famous land purchase confcrcnco with tho Irish landlords. |