IRISH POLITICS

Evening Star, Issue 13013, 7 January 1907, Page 6

IRISH POLITICS

INTERNAL DISAGREEMENTS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 5. Mr Eugene Groan,. M.P. for tho Southeastern Division of Cork, has openly espoused Mr W. O'Brien's cause, and the South-east Cork Branch of the Irish League has resolved to heartily approve of his faithful support of Mr D. D. Sbeehan, M.P. for Cork, in his battle against " Boss--ism."

Mr Crean, in a speech thanking the branch, charged Mr John Dillon with breaking .his pledges, and accused Mr John Redmond, tho leader of tho Nationalists, of the maladministration of the party's funds. He also referred to Mr P. Donovan, the Irish delegate, and said he was gathering money in America and Australia through preaching Mr O'Brien's policy there, while ho was denouncing and trying to crash Mr O'Brien at Home. That, said Mr Crean, was dishonest, and the sooner it was exposed the sooner the party would be rid of the rottenness that had crept in. [At Cbarlesville on September 9 last Mr W. O'Brien, mben addressing an open-air meeting organised by the Land and Labor Association, said the United Irish League had ceased to exist, and the Land and Association wepo now the only organisation left in the country at a nronnmt when it was important to convince England that Ireland might bo safely trusted with self-government. They heard mischievous twaddle spoken about giving the landlords some of the old medicine—twaddle thatwas joyfully caught up by 'The Times,' and that twaddle was all tho more, mischievous and wicked because it came from, a man. who knew he did not intend to imperil a bone of his body or an hour of his liberty by practising what be preached. There seemed a disposition to take up the- attitude of surly hostility towards Mr Bryce's BHI that was adopted towards the Land Conference, and instead of encouraging the Protestant minority to join them, the determina-

tion was to repulse and ridicule them by branding them ns hereditary enemies witb whom there must be no peace. It would be difficult to imagine, a more foolish course of conduct unless their object was to make Mr Bryce's task as impossible as they made Mr Wyndham's, and to ensure rejection of whatever measure of self-government was submitted to Parliament next. .year. Practically speaking. Mr Walter Long and Mr Dillon, the ' Freeman's Journal,' and '' The Times' were again in alliance in trying to thwart Sir Antony MaeDonneH's work and to drive him out of the country. and 'The Tim eft * denounced the forthcoming Bill on the ground that it was Home Rule, and the ' Freeman's Journal' denounced it on the opposite ground, that it. was only devolution, while Dillon and the smaller fry of Sheehys and Kettles announced that it"would be flung back in the Government's teeth unless they got as a min&nnm Boer Home Rule, which even the fcillieat of these men should know was grotesquely impossible. Mr O'Brien declared that if Mr Devlin, M.P., were to preach to Australians the doctrines that a section in Ireland were preaching he would be hooted out of the country.]