St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-01
PARNELL OR CHAOS
The Irish Enjoys in America
Telegraph Their Views to
London.
They Choose Between Par.
nell and the Destruction
Of Their Cause
The Irish Leaders, Imputa-
tionS Denounced as Reck-
less and Unjust.

l. AOSS oIN OAJ Uots
Mr.. Morley Asserts That Par
nellS Manifesto Was Full
Of Untruths.
CHICAGO. Nov. 3O.-To-night at 10 p.
m. three of the six Irish envoys in
America were penning in room in the
Grand Pacific hotel behind closed doors
the last strokes of the document that
severed their old-time connection with
their leader, Parnell. AT the same
moment, in a private residence two
mills away on one of the boulevards,
the three other envoys, including two
whose names were attached to the docu-
ment, were dining in company with
Mrs. Parnell, the aged mother of that
same longtime chieftain. The three to
whom fell the task of filling out the doc
ument that had been agreed upon in
outline during the afternoon were Will
lam O'Brien. Gill and T.. P. O'Connor.
Those VINO fulfilled their engagement
made for the party fortnight or more
ago to dine with Mrs. Parnell were
Dillon, I. ID. Sullivan, who agreed to
the paper against her son. and Timothy
Harrington, whose sense of personal
loyalty, it was reported, was too strong
to down, even though it isolated him
completely from his fellows. So far as
learned Mrs. Parnell mercifully knew
nothing of what was being done in the
| closed room down town. The dinner
had score or more of persons present,
and to those who knew what was going
on elsewhere must have seemed
strangely unreal. After the dinner, at
which there was no Speechmaking. the
company adjourned to the parlors, and,
whether by chance or for what reason,
sang "Goo Save Iraland,' and deep in
Canadian Woods" Shortly after this
John Billion Withdrew
and hurried back to the hotel. The
manifesto, to which his name was at
tached, had already been nearly all
given out as it was written-a few sheets
It time. The bulk of the document
was at that very moment on the desks
/ III the London newpaper offices, where
it had been cabled word by word as rap
idly as it crossed the threshold of the
room where O'Brien, Gill and O'Connor
were weighing their phrases. Dillon
was inaccessible to every one OH his re-
turn. but his demeanor as he left the
hotel to go to dinner, after agreeing to
the manifesto, was that of almost death
like calm. O'Brlen was deeply agitated
during the writing. His cheeks were
feverish in appearance, and his
voice, whether from emotion or
the tax of his speeches the night
before, was broken and choked. Gill
looked very white, and, like O'Brien
seemed deeply affected. Singularlv
enough, I. P. O'Connor seemed to pre-
serve his natural temperament better
than any of the others. His usual merry
quip, however, was lacking. Not more
than word or two could be heard from
any of the party, but chance expressions
Indicated that their gravity was due not
so much to Encouragement as to the
stern breaking away at last fIom a
leader they had trusted for years. A
report, generally credited, gained cireu-
latiOn toward midnight that Harrington
would separate tomorrow from the five
comrades with whom he no longer
agreed. Harrington's purpose, 1t was
stated, was to return at once to Ireland.
The Manifesto.
The views of the Irish envoys i'm
America, except Timothy Harrington,
were cabled tonight to London. Fol
lowing is the document in full:
3 To, Ing hr
Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary
Party: Our sense of the matchless
genius of Mr.. Parneli as leader, of the
Imperishable services he has rendered
to lhe Irish cause, of the courage, in
tegrity and splendid success with which
he has led our people for ten years, and
the tie of cOmradeship and personal
respect and affection which for years
bound us to him nave made us suspend
to the latest possible moment our 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 considera-
tiOn could have moved us to our deter
minatiOn except the solemn conviction
that we are driven to choose between
MIR. Parnell and the destruction of our
country'S cause. So painfully alive were
we to all that might be involved in the
loss of such leader that we eagerly CO.
operated with our colleagues i'll every
effort to retain his influence in our coun-
sels. The manifesto which Mr. Parnell
has just issued casts us off from the last
hopes to which we clung. Anxious to
avoid words that might embitter this
controversy, we shall not dwell upon
the cruel injustice with which be treats
the members of the party that has fol-
lowed him with
Loyalty and Affection
such as no leader ever experienced be-
fore. His recollection of their fealty to
him in many an hour of trial might well
have saved them from the imputation
that any section of them could have al
lowed their integrity to be sapped by
Liberal wirepullers, nor would we do
more than enter protest against this
violation of all constitutional principle
in flouting by anticipation the decision
of the elected representatives of the peo-
pie from whose votes the chairman of
the. parliamentary party receives his
authority. and resorting to vague gen
'eral appeal over their heads.
readily have waived in the
Interest of national solidarity
but the method in which, iguoring
the origin of the present calamitous sit
Ituation, Mr.. Parnell endeavored to fast
en- the responsibility for it upon Messrs.
Gladstone and Morley, compels us to
dissociate ourselves in the strongest
manner from imputations which we be-
lieve to be reckless and unjust. We
view with adherence the attacks that
have been made upon Mr.. Parnell by
his public and private enemies, under
cover of his present difficulties. To at
tacks of this kind, addressed to a man
of proud and strong spirit, we attrib-
ute many of the terrible dangers with
which Ireland is now threatened; and