St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-23


questions relating to home rule which may
come up to give his side of the horsepower
to pass all reasonable measures relating to
Ireland. 1t was these considerations which
induced the National league to-day to issue
its remarkable campaign manifesto. The
decision to issue it was arrived at in
A. SPECIAL MEETING
held by Mr.. Parnell and his colleagues in
Dublin. The meeting was not long in de-
clding to reject the overtures of the Lib
erals. and to openly ally the Home Rule
party to the Tory organization. Accord
ingly the manifesto, the most remarkable
| and straightforward ever issued by the Par
nellites, was uttered. Its idea. according
to Irish calculation, will be to prevent Mr..
Gladstone from returning to power by max
ing it impossible for the Liberals to gain
the requisite members of the next house of
commons. The Conservatives have d.
clared they will not resign the conduct
of the government unless the Liberals
gain such large majority in the
next house as to show an I'M
mistakable popular wish for a change
of cabinet. While it can hardly be doubted
that Mr.. Gladstone will win in the election,
most well-informed English politicians be-
lieVe that the present relations between the
Heme Rulers and Tories will render it
practically impossible for the Liberals to
succeed in obtaining the majority of men,
bers requisite to compel the Conservatives
to abdicate. In substance
THE MANIFESTO
is as follows: 1.-The Liberals are appealing
to the electors for support under false pre-
lenses. The Liberals violated solemn
pledges made to Ireland, which should be
Il Tho
to under their regime were the most brutal
of coercion measures. Juries were packed
in an unprecedented number of cases with
shameeSSness and innocent men were hung
or sent to living death of penal servitude.
One thousand two hundred persons were
imprisoned without trial and ladies were
convicted under an obsolete act which was
directed against the degraded Of the sex.
The press and public meetings were sup
pressed as if Ireland were Poland and the
administration in England were the Rus
sian autocracy." The manifesto says the
representatives of Liberalism in Ireland
have been men like Mr.. Forster and Earl
Spencer. who have left more hateful men,
cries in Ireland than any other statesmen
during the past century. If the
LoNG-DELAYED TRIUMPH
had not expelled the Liberals Earl Spencer
would still be at Dublin and coercion tTs-
umphant in ireland. Landlords instead OF
making reasonable abstements in
rents, which the depression in agri-
culture demanded, and which every
landlord in England and Scotland conceded,
would be evicting their tenants by whole
sale, with Earl Spencer encouraging them,
and the police and soldiers and the coercion
magistracy would have filled the jails in as
sisting them. Under the name of freq
schools the Liberals are making an insidu.
Gus attempt to crush religious education
and establish state of tyranny and intol
erance to fetter the conscience. The re-
form of the code of procedure of the house
of commons, as set forth by the Liberals, is
a new gag for application to all opponents
of Radicalism in the commons and of deS-
potic methods of mean machinery. Tha
Birmingham caucus made a SpeciouS de-
mand for majority against the Irish party.
This would mean the power to crush the
antiRadicals in parliament. First they
would propose for Ireland some scheme
which would be
DOOMED TO FAILURE
because it would not be suitable to thu
wants of the people, and finally they would
force down halting measure of self-gov.
eminent by the same methods of wholesale
Improvement by which durability wat
bought for the impracticable land act OF
1881. Therefore. we feel bound to advise
that no confidence be placed in the Liberal
or Radical party, and as far as possible to
prevent the government of the empire from
falling into the hands of party so per-
fidous, treacherous and Incompetent The
Irish Nationalist should not vote for Lib
eral or Radical except in some few cases in
which courageous feality to the Irish cause
in the last parliament has given guarantee
that the candidates did not belong to the
servile, cowardly and unprincipled herd
who would break every pledge and violate
every principle in obedience to the call Of
the whip Or mandate of a caucus. We will
communicate to the branches of the Nation
alist society their Names" The conference
decided to
TRANSFER THE HEADQUARTERS
of the executive committee of the English
branch of the National league to Liverpool
for the remainder of the campaign. The
enthusiasm displayed by the Irish people
over the election is phenomenal.