A Rumoured Assassination Club

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 112, 14 March 1891, Page 4

A Rumoured Assassination Club

The' London correspondent of the is responsible f< r the fojlowingj, story, , which," he says, has rea&ieci ' him from an'"underground"source " in '""Ireland,, as to the real answer why Mr Parnell is so obstinate in' maintaining his hold on the &"adership. It is to 'the effect that in case of Mr Parnell being "thrusyfroni'the leadership,^ the Extremists, jw ho are aU\on his side, aud ' vrho are determined to have no other - -leader", would proceed to take revenge -after Jheir own style. An 'assassination t club would . be- immediately -formed on, the lines, so well known in Ireland!, TUe -'victims to be marked down' would not, however, t be, , as hei'etofprel 'landlords', honest tenants, &»" .y°^T_l4™ eT) * officials, but mea who Lad been- pronuineut in Jbouuding Mr PanleUjfrom public lift;,, jMrTiin Healy^would ' t be the very first to rel quire' prot^cjfidu. Mr Gladstone's life •- would 0 be euddngei ed. Knowing the desperate jcharaoters of the men who are behind, Mr "Parnell (says the -^correspondent), I quite credi^my mf'formation^as to thenvinteufions. 4 They the men who look with contempt upon the so called constitutional agitation" 'as 'playing 'at politics, and strongly -'believe in dynamite. They have recently b'peu reinforced by some • of the luviucibles -Mr Parnell is, I believe,— well 'acquainted with the -r sanguinary designs of ''his followers. He ttrea r ds their" extreme crimes for one reason, that being a practical politician he knows that ' the* effect in England would be to put ou an end to all hope of -Home Rule. It is understood that,'' Be has been'able to^ inoculate Mr "O'Brien with his fears.' In the mea.uwhile_ lie 'soothes the ex- - asperated' Extremists, and rivets their allegiance v by 'stiffening his" demands for Home Eule.