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Show M'CARTHY AND PARNELL. Their Relations After the Split in the Irish Party. Justin McCarthy makes a valuable contribution to recent Irish history in an article in the Irish People, wherein ho tells of his relations with Parnell after the split. The picture of the deposed de-posed parliamentary leader drawn by his successor is interesting and valuable. valu-able. Mr. McCarthy writes: My personal relations with Parnell never ceased to be friendlv. The ereat split which for a time broke up the Irian national party kept Parnell and myself much asunder during the short remaining term of his life, but there was no quarrel between him and me I mean no personal quarrel and when we met we met still as friends. We had several opportunities of meeting, meet-ing, for there were many matters of businere connected with the party which had still to be arranged with confidence between us, and these involved 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 I and one or two others were joint trustees, and the disposal dis-posal and arrangement of which needed frequent consultation. Parnell was generally in good spirts 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 digressed into general talk, and he made shrewd and characteristic charac-teristic remarks about passing political events and about some of the men concerned con-cerned in them. One day I remember we had to go into the city together to see the manager 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 Ave had both of us to attend the house that evening. We drove in a hansom cab. and ?s we were approaching Westminster palace it suddenly sud-denly occurred to Parnell's mind that a good many people would be greatly astonished and bewildered to finding us driving up together in a hansom cab and alighting at Westminster hall, and ruo.-Tuis ui mtr meiiiuei & euLia.nce together, to-gether, just as if there never had been such a thing as a split in the Irish national na-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 lingered a little on getting out of the cab and before be-fore we passed up the members' entrance, en-trance, as if to give curious bystand-rs bystand-rs an opportunity of observing that we two had driven up together. IN FRIENDLY COMPANIONSHIP. "Did you ever observe that policeman?" police-man?" he said to me as we entered. "He could hardly contain his surprise. I really thought he was going to ask tis how we came to be on such good ierms again so soon. We mounted the flight of stairs together to-gether and made cur way into the members' lobby, and among groups already 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 vrould be excited by the appearance appear-ance of Justin McCarthy and himself j driving into palace yard together. William Wil-liam O'Brien entered into the spirit of the joke and professed himself a sharer in the public amazement. In all our arrangements concerning the business affairs of the party Parnell Par-nell showed himself thoroughly reason-abla reason-abla and good humored. He always seemed w illing to agree to a fair settlement. settle-ment. We had many differences of opinion, as was but natural, over this or that arrangement, and sometimes I had to say that I could not agree to thi3 or that suggested compromise without consulting r-ome of my col-leagues.but col-leagues.but this he se4med quite always to understand; and even when most inclined in-clined to hold persistently to his own Views he was willing to listen to argument argu-ment and to allow time, for further consideration. con-sideration. As the tima went on and intervals during which ;we did not meet became longer, and Parnell threw himself more and more into the work of agitation in Ireland, I could not help observing each time that we met again how his face was becoming thinner and paler, his manner more nervous and that a certain cer-tain physical irritability wag growing on him. I call it a physical irritability, beCPUSe it did not nnnnr tn fiffAft Ilia ordinary demeanor or his manner of transacting busine??. Ke was just as quiet and good tempered as usual in hi:i conversation with me, but it appeared ap-peared to me that he was wearing himself him-self out with overwork; that he was taxing at once his mental and bodily strength too much, and I 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 he could avoid, and that he was taking all possible care of himself. When speaking of the good temper with which our discussions were conducted con-ducted I should say, perhaps, as I 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 organization. organiza-tion. 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 wiiOle subject was never to come up in our dii-oussion. We had come to no agreement of the kind; it simply appeared to be assumed between be-tween us as a matter of course, and as a necessary part of our business. Parnell Par-nell told me. nothing of his projected movements in Ireland, nor did I 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 campaigning, just as anyone might have told of something that had happened 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 I were compelled to have opposing opinions. At the same time it must be said that we had to meet more than, once under .conditions which might have seemed likely to lead to ill-humor on the one side or the other. Parnell in his speeches 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 a decided gift of ex-pressire ex-pressire denunciation, and he employed this gift pretty freely against several of the party to which I belonged. I dare say I came in for some disparaging dis-paraging . allusions my&elf. All his speeches were fully reported in the Irish papers,' and the spicy passages were carefully reproduced in most of the London journals. On tha other hand, some cf 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-loss need-loss to say, were faithfully rendered in most of the papers. Therefore it so happened that Parnell and I met more than once just at the time when the i papers were full of these flowers, of controversy. But Parnell never said a word about them to me. nor did I ever say a word about them to him. He assumed, I have no doubt, that I could make allowance for the conditions under un-der which he was carrying on his sitruggle, and that I was not likely to take "offense at every' extravagance uttered during the passion of so bitter a controversy. I 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. I 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 excitement excite-ment and I had been in the world a good deal longer tna" Parnell, and I had become accustomed to the atmosphere atmo-sphere of political agitation since my childhood, and I could not claim any praise for not attaching too much importance im-portance to every angry word spoken on either side during so fervid a controversy. con-troversy. But Parnell was in many ways a sensitive sen-sitive man, with a highly ptrung temperament, tem-perament, and just at that time his whole future seemed to be at stake on the issue of the struggle that was going on. I could well have made allowance for any occasional breakdown in the genia! 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 between 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 j spirit. An interval came during which I saw nothing of Parnell, and learned nothing from him. I w-as? spending some days in Yorkshire, at the country seat of an English friend, and I received there one dav, forwarded from my home in London, Lon-don, a, telegram from Parneil. The telegram tel-egram came from Ireland, and ex-! ex-! pressed an urgent de&ire to seo me in town on as early a day as possible during the coming week. I 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 a late hour of the day named. Many of my' meetings with Parnell, both before and after the eventy that led to the split, were arranged ar-ranged for hours of the night when our talks were not likely to be interrupted by a call from the ordinary visitor. I brought my holiday to a close not over-willingly, "for London is dreary in September, but I knew that Parnell would not have sought a meeting without with-out good reason for it. Mr. McCarthy promises to tell of the meeting in another article. |