Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1885 — ALBERT EDWARD. [ARTICLE]

ALBERT EDWARD.

His Visit to Cork Produces Scenes oi Wild Disorder and Bloodshed. Mobs Hoot and Jeer Him and Destroy Decorations in His Honor— Serious Bioting. The Prince and Princess of Wales, who have been making a tour of Ireland, arrived in the city of Cork on the 15th inst. What followed is thus described in the cable dispatches from that city: The sun war shining brightly and the weather was all that could be desired for such an occasion. The railway station and the streets in its vicinity were crowded with people awaiting the arrival of the royal party. When the train drew into the station it was greeted with hearty cheers. Everything within the power of loyalists to do was done to make the reception of the royal visitors a success, and the managers of tho demonstration remained up most of the past night to make sure of their arrangements. When the Prince and Princess emerged from the railway station after their arrival in the city they were greeted with cheer after cheer. During their progress in the parade, workmen and boys ran alongside their carriage and kept up their cheering to drown the hissing of the nationalists,who lined the entire route and made continued hostile demonstrations. The conduct of the leaguers aroused the* loyalists to a high pitch of enthusiasm, and they made the streets echo with shouts of welcome. The wonder is there was no violent breach of the peace during the royal progress, for it proceeded amid a continual warfare of words and taunts between the loyalists and the nationalists, whose numbers were about equally divided. A nationalist threw an onion at the royal carnage. The vegetable struck one of the footmen with considerable force, and many stones were thrown by roughs at the people who followed and cheered the royal carriage, and the police several times fired at the roughs. J. O’Connor, Nationalist, member of Parliament for Tipperary, marched at the head of a procession of Leaguers, who closely followed the royal procession and sang "God Save Ireland” every time the Loyalists or their bands started up “God Save the Queen,” or “God Save the Prince of Wales. ” The Prince of Wales displayed soma feeliug when he replied to the address of welcome presented by the Magistrates of Cork. He said he was glad to hear the 'expression of loyalty to the British Constitution and to the Queen which the address contained, and hoped that every person possessing influence in Ireland would exert it to avoid dissensions, which would interfere with the object and progress of his present tour through the country and unite * to promote the real welfare of the Irish people. Immediately after the procession was over a meeting of the Cork National League was held. The meeting declared that the loyalist attempt to get up a fictitious demonstration of welcome in honor of royalty had proved a failure, and passed a resolution congratulating John O’Connor, who managed the hostile demonstrations, for the victory he had achieved for the Nationalist cause. The latest London newspapers containing accounts of the royal progress were burned in a bonfire. After the mass meeting the Nationalists scattered through the city in parties numbering from fifty to five hundred men. Doors and windows were smashed, flags and decorations were tom down and heaped upon blazing bonfires, and many gun stores were broken into for the purpose of arming the mob. Policemen, when encountered singly or in small squads, were attacked and beaten unmercifully with their own truncheons. In many cases the police rallied and charged desperately upon the mob, but they were invariably surrounded and repulsed. The police then resorted to a free use of their revolvers and bayonets. It was hand-to-hand fighting of the most desperate sort, the police standing back and receiving and inflicting terrible injuries. At midnight the streets were practically in possession of the mob. The policemen who remained uninjured could not attempt to do more than maintain their positions and fight on the defensive. In addition to attacks from the crowds in the streets, the police were exposed to murderous volleys of stones from windows, housetops, and other points of vantage. Tbe hospitals are full of injured policemen and rioters.