Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-01
THE LAST STRAW.
The Parnell CamePs Back Is
Broken.
The American ENJOYS Renounce
His Leadership.
All But Timothy Harrington Sign
the Manifesto.
The Irish Clergy and Other Influential
Bodies Demand His Immediate
Abdication
Associated Press Dispatches.

Associated Press Dispatches.
CHICAGO. Nov. 30.-The views of the
Irish ENJOYS now in America, excepting
Timothy Harrington, were cabled to
Justin Mccarthy, vice chairman of the
Irish parliamentary party, tonight. The
delegates say, in part:
"Our sense OF the matchless genius of
Mr.. Parnell as leader; OF the imperish-
able services he has rendered the Irish
cause; of the courage, integrity and
splendid success with which he has led
our people for ten years, and the per-
sonal respect and affection which for
years bound us to him. have made us
suspend to the last possible moment
our judgment against his further leader
ship. The obligation to express that
judgment is to all of us the most painful
duty of our lives. No earthly considera-
tion could move us to our determine
ton, except the solemn conviction that
we are driven to choose be-
tween Parnell and the destruction of
our country's cause. The manifesto
which Parnell has just issued cuts us off
from the last hope to which we clung.
Anxious to avoid word that might en-
bitter this controversy, we shall not
dwell upon the cruel injustice with
which he treats the members of the
party that has followed him with
loyalty and affection, such as no leader
ever experienced before. His recollec-
ton of their fealty to him in the darkest
hour OF his trials, might well have saved
fhann tho
section of them could have allowed their
integrity to be sapped by Liberal wire
pullsrs.
''The method in which, ignoring the
origin of the present calamitous situa.
ton, Mr.. Parnell has endeavored to
fasten the responsibility for it upon
Gladstone and Morley, compels us to
disassociate ourselves in the strongest
manner from an imputation which we
believe reckless and unjust.
"We view with adherence the attacks
made on Parnell by his public and pri-
vate enemies under the cover of his pres
ent difficulties. To attacks like this, ad-
dressed to man of proud and strong
spirit, we may attribute many of the
terrible dangers with which Ireland is
now threatened, and we fear they may
do the further mischief OF diverting the
minds of many people from the grave
national to purely personal issues. In
natural resentment of an ungenerous at
tack on great leader in the hour of
stress and disaster, but while making
every possible allowance for Parnell's
feelings, we consider it unjust to the
English people and lamentable from the
point OF view Of international good feel
ing, to describe as English wolves those
who have not been able to bring them
selves to the same view to which graft
tude and necessity for union impelled
Parnell's colleagues and countrymen.
"The plea OF Parnell that Gladstone's
letter involves the claim to dictate to
the Irish party and thereby strike at
the independence of that party, as a
strictly Irish national body. is one calcu-
lated to inspire every Irish Nationalist
with alarm, if that plea were not an OBJ
vious fallacy. Whatever differences of
opinion may exist as to the haste with
which Gladstone's letter was made pub
lie, it was obviously not his hostility to
his home rule, but his earnest desire to
save it from disaster that prompted
Gladstone to write his letter. We de-
plore that the difficulties of Gladstone's
position were not frankly recognized by
Parnell, and that, on the contrary,
friendly private communications, obvi-
ously made with the view of smoothing
the passage of the home rule bill, have
been made the basis of ineinuations of
treacEery to the Irish cause. By his
conviction, again and again expressed,
that home rule to be effective must be
such measure as will satisfy the Irish
people, Gladstone is bound to q full and
arnyNla 0f calf
Ireland
To offer any other scheme would be
not only an act of incredible baseness,
but of incredible folly; and we emphat-
ically seperate ourselves from any such
charge against Gladstone"
Referring to Morley's suggestion that
some of the Irish party should cooperate
in carrying out the Irish programme on
Liberal lines, the manifesto says "No-
body who knows Morley's character will
doubt that the suggestion was made in
the honest belief that the Liberal minis
try would be helped in the difficult work
OF carrying through the details of the
Irish home rule bill by the cooperation
of their Irish colleagues, and it was not
an insidious attempt on the integrity
and independence Of the Irish party"
1t continues "We have now to con-
front the statement that Parnell's
leadership opens an impossible gulf be-
tween the representatives of ireland
and the liberal party, who have faith
fully observed their side of the agree
ment, ind the situation is aggravated
by hisIeplorable expressions Of ill-will
towar the British people, who have
agair and again within the past five
yearsmanifested their determination to
do jutice to Ireland, and have by their
voteparalyzed the arm of coercion. In
deliberately bringing things to this posi-
ton, arnell has entered upon a rash
and fatl path upon which every con-
sideratn of Ireland's safety, as we'll as
of persoal honor, forbid us absolutely
to folio him.
"Wit Mr.. Parnell asks us to do,
stripptof all side issues, is to sacrifice
all hop of an early settlement of the
Irish stggle to his resolve to maintain
his persal position. We are driven to
choose tween our leader and our
cause. THAT said choice we cannot
hesitate ;e are convinced that the calm
but resOle course of action of our party