Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-14
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. GLADSTONE'S APPEAL To The Electors Of The
 Midlothian. THE MAD KlNG OF BAVARIA. Another One Of His Crazy
 Exploits. TEN MONTHS IN A MADH0USE. An Insane Mans Terrible
 Experience.
TEN MONTHS IN A MADHOUSE.
GLaDSrONE,S MANIFESTO.

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 An Appeal To The Voters of Enc Mid-
 lothian To I1 eturn Him To The Next
 Parliament.
 LONDON, June 13.-Mr. Gladstone has is sued a manifesto addressed to the electors of the Midlothian which is as follows:
 entlemen-Consequent upon the defeat of the bill for the better government of Ire land the ministry has advised and her 'majes- ty has been pleased to sanction the dissolu- ton of Parliament for decision by the tion on the gravest and likewise the simplest issue that has been submitted to it for half a century. It is only the sense of the growth of this issue which copopels me at this my period of life, when nature cries aloud for re- pose, to seek, after sitting in thirteen par1ia- ments, a seat in the fourteenth, and with this view to solicit for the fifth time the honor of your confidence. At the last election I endeavored in my addresses and speeches to impress up on you the great crisis which had arrived in the affairs of Ireland. Weak as the late government was for ordinary pur poses it had great advantages for dealing with the crisis. comprehensive measure proceeding from them would have received Liberal party and would probably have clos ed the Irish controversey within the present session and have left the Parliament of 1885 free to prosecute the now stagnant work of ordinary legislation with the multitude of questions it includes. My earnest hope was to support the late Cabinet in such 8 course and policy. On the 26th of last Janury the opposite policy - coercion - was declared to have been the choice of the government, Earl Carnarvon alone refusing to share in it. The Irish question was thus placed in the foreground to the exclusion of every other. The hour for the settlement of t he claims of Ireland as all felt was come: The only point remaining to determine the manner in which the question was to be dealt with. In my judgment a proposal to govern Ireland by a policy of coercion not justified by the facts and was doomed to certain and dis graceful failure and some method of govern ing Ireland other than by coercion l thought ought to be found.
 Continuing with an alluson to his under taking the task of obtaining domestic legis- lature and reminder of the front place which that question has held in the 1egisla- ton of previous parliaments, MT. Gladstone asks: twill you govern Ireland by coercion, or will you let her manage her own affairss To debate in this address this and that detail of the lately defeated bill would only be to disguise this issue and would be as futile as to discuss the halting, stumbling ever shift ing, ever vanishing projects of an intermedi- ate class which have proceeded from the se ceding Liberals. There are two clear, posi- tive and intelligible plans before the world. There is the plan of the government and there is the plan of Lord Salisbury. Our plan is that Ireland should under we'll con- sidered conditions transact her own affairs. Lord Salisbury's plan is to ask Parliament to renew the oppressive laws for twenty years, by the end of which time he assures us that Ireland will be fit to accept any gov ernment in the way of local government or repeal of the coercion laws you may wish to give her. I leave this Tory project in it's unadorned simplicity and I turn to the proposed policy of the government. Our opponents, gentle men, whether Tories or seceders, have as stunned the name of Unionists. deny them the title to it. In intention, in deed, we are all Unionsts alike; but the union they refuse to modify is, in it's present shape, a paper union obtained by force and fraud and never sanctioned or accepted by the Irish nation. They are not Unionists, but only paper Unionists. True union is to be tested by the sentiments of human beings. United and union between Great Britain and Ireland now than we had under the settlement of 1872. Ireland is content to receive her legislature in form divested of prerogatives which might have impaired her imperial interests and better adapted than the settlement of 1872 to secure to her regular control of her own officers"
 MT, Gladstone trusts that Scotland will condemn the attempts singularly made to import into the controversy the venemous sting of religious blgotry. Let her take warning from the deplorable riots at Belfast and at other places in the North of Ireland. Concluding MT. Gladstone writes: We'll, gentlemen, the first question now put to you is how shall Ireland be governed7 There is another question behind it and involved in it, how are England and Scotland to be govern ed? You know how for the last six years especially the affa; have been impeded and how your parliament has been discredited and disabled. All this happened while the Nationaiists were but small minority and the Irish members were without the support from so much as handful of m embers not Irish. Now they approach twenty and they are entitled to say: We are speaking the views of the nation. It is impossible to deal with the subject by half measure. They strong in their numbers; strong in British support which brought 313 members to vote for their country, but strongest of all in their sense of their being right. But we have done our part. The rest remains with you, the electors of the country. May you be able enabled to see through and cast away all delusions, refuse that which is evil and choose that which is good. have the honor, gentlemen, to be,
 Your faithful and grateful servant WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE.