Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-01
IRELAND'S CAUSE.
The Irish Parliamentary Delegates
Desert Parlell.
GLADSTONE'S COURSE DEFENDED.
The Manifesto Issued by the Irish
Leader Severely Criti-
cised.
TgFRcIAL DrSPATCEKs TO THE RECoRD-UE.oG,i
IRELAND'S CAUSE.
GLADST0NE'S COURSE DEFENDED.


CHICAGO, November 30th-The views of
the Irish ENJOYS now in America except
ing Timothy Harrington, were cabled to
Justin Mccarthy, Vice. Chairman OF the
Irish Parliamentary party, tonight.
The delegates say, in part: Our sense of
the matches genius of Mr.. Parnell as
leader, of the imperishS' > services he has
rendered the Irish cause, - ne courage, in
tegrity and splendid success with which he
has led our people for ten years, and the
personal respect and affection which for
years bound US TO him, have made US sus-
pend to the last possible moment judg-
ment against his further leadership. The
obligation TO express that judgment is to
all of Us the most painful duty of our lives.
No earthly consideration could move US
to our determination 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 10 which we clung.
Anxious to avoid words 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 recollection of their fealty to him in
the hour of trial might well have saved
them from the imputaiion that any section
of them could have allowed their integrity
to be sapped by Liberal wire-pullers.
The method in which, ignoring the
origin of the present calamitons situation,
Mr.. Parnell endeavored to fasten the re-
sponsiblity for it upon Gladstone and
Morley compels us to disassociate our
selves in the strongest manner from the
imputation which we believe reckless and
unjust.
I'VE view with adherence the attacks
made on Parnell by public and private ene-
mics, under cover Of his present difficul-
ties. TO attacks of this kind, addressed to
a 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 further mischief by d.
verting the minds of many of the people
from grave national to purely personal is
sues.
I'm the national resentment of the un-
generous attack on the great leader in his
hour of stress and disaster, but while max
ing every possible allowance for Parnell's
feelings, we consider it unjust to the Eng
lish people and lamentable from point of
view of international good feeling to de-
scribe as English wolves those who have
not been able TO bring themselves to the
same view to which gratitude and necessity
for union impelled Parnell's colleagues and
The plea of Parnell that Gladstone's let
ter involves a claim to dictate to
the Irish party and thereby strike at the
independence of that party as strictly
Irish national body, is one calculated to
inspire every Irish Nationalist with alarm,
if that plea were not &n obvious fallacy.
Whatever differences of opinion may exist
as to the haste with which Gladstone's let
ter was made public, it was obviously not
his hostility to home rule. but his earnest
desire 10 save il from disaster that prompted
him to write his letter. We deplore that
the difficulties of Gladstone's position were
not frankly recognized bv Parnell and that,
Oh the contrary, friendly private commu-
obviously made with a view of
smoothing the pa sage Of the home rule
bill, have been made the basis of insinua-
tions of ireachery to the Irish cause.
by his conviction, again and again ex-
pressed, that home rue, TO be effective,
must be such a measure as will satisfy the
Irish people, Gladstone is bound to full