Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-30
MR.. PARNELL'S PLEA.
TIE PRESS UPON HIS DISCLOSURES
WITH THE LIBERALS.
v.r,or. opinions rs TO the Policy OF His
manifesto-wfi Split with tho
Liberals Benefit Ireland?
philadelphia Presa.I

him. 1t will not give Ireland home rule,
or advance the Irish cause. 1t divides
the Irish party tho world over and re-
heats. for the hundredih time, the his
toric spectacle OF Irish division to which
Eapland owes her supremacy. Mr.. Far
nell will doubtless win IN Ireland even
with the priests against him but ne mas
made long postponement oil hopes that
have never been brighter. The sunburst
remains. as it has for centuries been. a
sunburst. II is not the sunrise Tor which
weary eyes have been straining from
afar.
Mr.. Parnell undoubtedly depends on
two factors in the fight he is making Tor
the leadership of the Irish party. As
| members of the House OF Commons re-
ceive no pay, and most OF the Irish mem
bers are supported out OF a fund DIS
bursed by MIR. Parnell, besides being
originally named by him, the Irish lead
er has advantages in enforcing dis
ciplino which few parliamentary
chiefs enjoy. In spite OF TINS,
five eightbs of the members of the Irish
parliamentary party have announced
against him. Yet if Mr.. Parnell persists
in his appeal to Ireland, as he prooapIy
will. he can, after bitter struggle, IN oil
probability control all, or nearly all the
eight.six seats now held by the Irish par
tv. In the event OF an even division be-
tween the Liberal and Conservative par
ties Mr.. Parnell might we'll hope to get
as much from the Liberal party, whlie
holding the balance of power as could be
secured by the Irish party while working
directly with Mr.. Gladstone.
Unfortunately for Mr.. ParnelPs calcu-
lations, however, the Irish parliamentary
fund is raised in this country, and It's
collection will become far more difficult,
after recent developments, with Mr.. Par
nell in command than without him. 1t
is all very we'll for papers like the Dub
lin Freeman and the Dublin IetegraDh
TO declare that Mr.. Parnell can get along
without Mr.. Gladstone; the plain, bald
fact is that he cannot get along without
this country, and public sentiment here
il overwhelmingly against Mr.. Parnell
and in favor OF following Mr.. Gladstone's
advice This may be right or 1t may
be wrong. but it is n fact. and II Mr..
Parneu remains at the head OF Irish
affairs American subscriptions and
American enthusiasm will be sadly cut
down, If not cut oil.
The Liberal party in England IS also
passing through change which Dode5
no good to MIR. Parnell's plan. Its poll
ticians believe they can win more easily
without Irish home rule than with 1t.
Joined to the Liberal Unionists, Mr..
| Gladstone could turn out Lord Salisbury
tomorrow. With their aid at the polls
! he has every chance OF sweeping the
country. For n year past there have
ominous English Radical complaints
that Ireland blocked the way
to the English legislation they
demand. Liberal Unionists have
been increasingly fervent-as seat after
seat went against them-in their protes-
tations that the Irish issue, and the Irish
issue alone, divided them from the dear
old party and the Grand Old Man.
Taken as q whole, the drift in England
| is for the Liberal party ; but 1t IS not Tor
Irish home-rule, winch has made sur
prisingly little progress, or Mr.. Glad
stone would not year by year minimize
the issue in his speeches. He began
with something akin TO independenceior
Ireland; he ends with something less
than the colonies enjoy.
What an opportunity Is offered by this
situation for Mr.. Gladstone to cross to
safe and solid ground in English politics
on bridge made of the seventh com
mandment He sacrifices nothing and
he may save everything. Once in Office,
however, Ireland would never obtain
what he once offered The risk, IN
stead. would be that Ireland, having lost
the greatest opportunity Of all history
through MIR. Parnell's incredible folly,
would be offered some measure OF county
home rule which would absorb IN local
affairs the energy now expended III de-
handing autonomous government ior
Ireland.
MR., PARYELL's MANIFESTO.
New York Herald.l
The manifesto which Mr. Parnell adj
dresses to 1.-The People of ireland
NAV, perhaps, strengthen his support in
that country, but it can hardly have thai
effect anywhere else. 1t is long politl
cal review, designed to remind hi
countrymen of his services to Ireland
which have never been underestimate
and are not now called in question. II
is, further, an attempt to show that the
cause of Ireland has less to lose than /!
generally supposed by the withdrawal o
the Liberal party from its support. Bu
whatever truth there may be in this Mr.
Parnell can hardly pretend to claim that
it is immaterial to that cause whether Il
has the support or the opposition OF th'
Liberals.
: But what is most amazing in thu
manifesto and its telling weakness is the
> fact that MIR. Parnell does not attemp
: to meet the issue which has called /
forth. he wholly ignores the cause o
: the crisis. He evidently assumes tia
; it docs not amount to anything or 10
: allies that it cannot be defended.
The manifesto is practically a declara
= ton of war. 1t can only tend to preci
plate the crisis. The result is not like
" TO be beneficial either TO Mr.. Parnel
or the cause he represents.
/, IRELAND OR PARsELL.
: philadelphia Timesl
; Parnell seems bent upon wrecking hi
: cause as well rs his reputation. Hi
manifesto, under existing circumstances
is impertinent. 1t was the support o
Gladstone and the English Liberals tina
alone gave hope for homo rule at thi
time, and when Parnell had made it i'm
! possible for Gladstone 10 cooperate Will
: HIM his duty to get out of the way Wa
unmistakable. Personal modesty SHOULD
have counselled the same, thing. Instead
he insists upon thrusting himself for
ward, as though Ireland were less i'm
, portant than Parnell.
Parnell has had many admirers il
America. but they have admired hin
only for his services to Ireland, and the,
can have little sympathy for any maj
4 who suberdinates his countrY's interes
!, to his own or for the party that sustain
him.