Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-17
PARNELL'S LATEST MOVE.

| thing that men use perhaps there will be l an awakening and the trusts will bust.
 PARNELL'S LATEST MOVE.
 ! The action of MT Parnell and his asso | ciates in withdrawing with their counsel l from further appearance before the com | mission is not a surprise. The only sur prise in the matter is that the determina l tion to withdraw was not reached long | since. The whole proceedings. of the com mission have been farce and fraud and | MT Parnell has waited entirely too long in so branding them to the world. The time | for action was when the rottenness of the l conspiracy against him had been shown
 by the exposure of Pigott and LeCaron
 and the conspiracy of the London Times. 1 If there is anything that has been
 proven through the long and dreary sit | tings of the commission it is that it was The original charges made in the articles ! on "Parnellism and Crime" have been as | sumed to be true, and nearly every ruling | made by Presiding Justice Hannen has ! been in consonance with that assumption. | The commission itself has been in the ney General Webster's connection with it
 has made clear from the beginning that it's members were expected to be subser vient to the governments wishes and de- ! signs. How we'll they have done the duty expected of them has been shown from | vN1o oiy,1x
 than in their efforts to break the effect of the Pigott and LeCaron exposures. Now, however, when by refusing access to the
 books of the Loyal and Patriotic union they emphasize the fact that they are ill the
 employ of the government and that it is
 their firm determination to convict Parnell and his associates, it has been
 made manifest to the world that there
 was no hope of justice for the Irish lead CTS at the hands of this commission. Tie production of the Loyal and Patriotic
 unions books would, according to Mir
 Parnell and his followers, prove that the conspiracy ending in Pigott and the forged letters originated in that organization of Irish lanlords. It would have been shown that Pigott concocted the whole scheme
 and that the London Times was thorough ly cognizant that there was no truth or substance to its charges of crime against Parnell The refusal of the commission to permit the production of the books was tantamount to a declaration that it did not wish any revelation of the bottom facts
 which would be prejudicial to the Times
 and vindicatory of Parnell. There was, therefore, no other course left open to Par nell but to withdraw from before commits sion that was organized to convict him and
 that was being conducted openly to that end. Had he pursued any other course he
 would have shown himself unworthy the
 confidence reposed in him by the Irish people and lovers of justice the world over.
 As we remarked above, MT Parnell de-
 layed his withdrawal too long. When the Pigott and LeCaron iasco was exposed Par nell stood out before all the world the per sonifcation of innocence of the crimes
 charged against him by the London Times All the world knew then that this great leader of the Irish cause had been vilely slandered, that he had been made the
 object of the foulest conspiracy known to
 modern times, that he was not the instiga- tor or abettor of violence and crime, but ever and always the peaceful agitator of constitutional methods for the liberation
 of his country. No vindication that could
 come from any further proceedings before
 the commission could have added one
 single gem to the coronet of innocence
 that had been set upon his head all un-
 willingly, and as it would seem providen-
 tially, by the confession and flight and
 suicide of Pigott Had Parnell withdrawn
 then from all further appearance before the commission he would have saved what
 many cannot help regarding as foolish
 waste of money i'll endeavoring to secure a
 verdict which all the signs pointed to as impossible to obtain. That he has
 chosen an opportune time now, when it
 has been made clear that the commission
 was bent on putting every obstacle in the
 way of his proving the conspiracy against him, will be hailed by his admirers as the
 proper thing done long after it should have been.
 } There will be nothing but applause for , this last we'll considered move of Charles , Stewart Parnell
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