St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-09
O'Donnell Pursued His Course
at the Advice of Michael
Davitt.
The Attorney General Urged
to Place Parne1l in the
Dock.
Public Meetings to Urge Par
lament to Act Against
the Parnellites.

the Irish demonstration at Glasgow yes
terday, Michael Dayitt, referring to
O'Donnell's libel suit against the Times,
said it had been limited that there was
collusion between O'Donnell and the
Times. This charge, he said, was en-
tirely unjust and untrue. On the con-
trary, O'Donnell had pursued the course
taken by him against his own Judgment
and will and on his (Mr. Davitt's) adj
vice, along with some other National
lists, who believed that the case would
receive an impartial hearing before a
British judge. They had been grlev-
ously disappointed. Surely, Chief JUS
tice Coleridge, when he discovered that
there was no case on which to go to the
jury, ought to have prevented Attorney
General Webster from trying to make
out charge against men who were not
in court and who had no means of de-
Tending themselves. The excuse of the
Times that the lives of their informants
would not be safe if they were brought
forward was absurd and an insult to
common sense.
THE REAL DANGER
was that the informantS themselves
would be placed in the dock on the
charge of forgery. The attorney gen.
erals assertion that he could prove the
charges contained in the Times articles
articles on "Parnellism and Crime"
made the taking of further action inev-
table. But by whom was such action
to be taken? If the letters alleged to
have been written by Mr.. Parnell were
genuine, if the attorney general, as a
law officer of the crown, really held
proofs sufficient to convict Parnell, the
speaker and others of conspiracy to MUIR
der, it was his duty to place them in the
dock. Cheers.] He challenged the at
torney general to adopt such course.
If the latter did not take up the chal-
lenge he (Davitt) would put it in letter
giving the attorney general the alterna-
tive either of admitting that there was
no proof with which to substantiate the
charges or of forcing the government to
place on trial Mr.. Parnell and himself.
If the government did not put them in
the dock it would be because they knew
that the allegations were but the
weapons of cowardly
MORAL ASSASSINATION.
This was the only way in which the
charges could be sifted to the bottom
and the truth be made known to the
people of Great Britain and Ireland.
[Cheers.[ There could be no Sinking
the issue. The Sunday Observer says:
'sThe disclaimer made on behalf of Mr..
Parnell of any approval of O'Donnell's
action against the Times is correct so
far as Mr.. Parnell personally is con-
cerned; but the Parnellites admit that,
at the instance of Mr.. Davitt, Mr.. Big
gar, as treasurer of the party, was in
constant and friendly communication
with O'Donnell during the preparations
for the trial" 1t is learned that Her
bert Gladstone was subp9naed to give
evidence regarding the correspondence
between himself and O'Donnell on the
subject of Mr.. Parnell's release from
Kilmainham Jail, the letters forming
the basis of the Kilmainham treaty.
Arrangements are being made to hold
public meetings, at which there will be
presented for signature petition ask
ing parliament to take decisive meas
ures to bring the charges against the
Parnellites to definite conclusion.
MIR. O'DONNELL WRITES
to a news agency that his counsel
adopted the mode of procedure taken in
his suit against the Times at the in
stigation and on the unasked advice
of two eminent Gladstonian members
of the house of commons. These gen.
tlemen, both of whom are lawyers,
urged that the Times would be COM
pletely exposed if that paper
were compelled to show it's
whole hand, they reserving all
material evidence, including that of
O'Donnell, for rebutting the case.
O'Donnell's solicitor also writes to con-
tradict the Parnellite denial of knowl-
edge of the case. He states that Davitt
wrote in February offering Oh behalf of
Mr.. Parnell every assistance in his
power. Since then they were acquainted
with everything that transpired. MIR.
Parnell requested that O'Donnell re-
turn from Italy for the purpose of hav-
ing private interview.
Mr.. Esmonde, speaking at Nation.
alist meeting at Liverpool tonight, ac-
cused the government of collusion with
the Times in deliberate plot to dis
credit tine Irish cause. Mr.. Parnell, he
said, did not sue the Times because he
could not get justice from a London
Jury. 1t was the duty of Irishmen to
defy coercion and its administrators.
If the Irish were not allowed to make
their laws they must see that nobody
else is allowed to make them.