Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
AND GAIN HIM IRISH SYMPATHY.
The Eon-Conformist Supporters Of the
Liberals Demand ParneIrs With
draRal From the Leadership.
fHEIR POSITION CAUSES ALARM
70 the Home Rule Leaders Who Realize that the Demand
Must be Needed or the Cause ID
Endangered
sAIroUR STILL CONTINUES his PROMISES
rsY CABLE TO THR DIsPATcH.l

tBY CABLE TO THB DIsPATCH.1
LONDON, November 22.-[Copyrighted.1
Mr. Parnell is just now the object of what
is probably the most venomOus and un-
scrupulous attack ever directed against
public man in this country. The procedure
and methods of his assailants have practi-
cally no parallel in British history, for even
the despicable conspiracy of which Pigott
was the central figure just now takes Sec
ond place in the shameful series of plots to
ruin the Irish leader and the cause OF home
rule.
One might have been excused for think
ing that the vocabulary of vituperation was
almost exhausted in the prolonged and fu-
rious babel which followed the publication
in the Times of the forged letter. but the
Tory lexicon proves to be fuller and fouler
than one could have supposed to be pos
sible. ''These so-calIed leaders of the Irish
people are a set of as despicable miscreants
~ ever defled any public platform in the
world" shrieks Colonel Saunderson, NJ. P,
the friend of Salisbury and the trusted chief
Of the landlord Orange party in ireland.
''If the Irish race" howls the Methodist
Times, the organ Of snug mugwump dis
sent, deliberately select as their recognized
representative an adulterer of Parnell's
type, they are as incapable of selEgovern-
ment as their bitterest enemies have as
serted. So obscene a race as, in those cir
oumstances, they would prove themselves to
be, would obviously be unfit for anything
except a military despotisrn."
Some More Bitter Attacks.
THE serpent which, when unceged from
Kilmainham," raves ths Sheffield Tele-
graph, the mouthpiece of two members of
Salisbury's Government Fastened its tor
turing iangs upon the very hand that had
uncaged him and left its Shiny trail upon
the domestic Eden into which he had crept;
this living scandal, this convicted fraud,
this being whose moral Ieprosy taints the
air, this thing has been swimming in a sea
of falsehood."
1t is not to be wondered at that the gen.
erous Irish people, amazed, Mortified, dis
gusted at this shamefully impudent attack
upon the leader whom they have trusted so
long and to whom they are under so many
obligations, should fling prudence to the
winds and passionately declare that Par
nell shall not relinquish the helm which he
hassgripped so resolutely, held so tenaciously
and manipulated so skillfully during the
al.
But truth to tell, this blind love for the
leader is not calculated to help the cause.
No man skilled in British political meteor
ology can fail to see signs of coming storm.
The non-conformist, middle and lower-mid-
die classes, whose detection has before now
temporarily reduced the great Liberal party
to impotence, have been deeply stirred in
their moral depths by the result of the
O'Shea-Parnel divorce case.
No Excuse With Them.
The people of whom those classes are made
mp will hear of no excuse or palliation
where a breach of the moral code has been
committed, and above all, admitted. Par
nell might have gone on the witness stand,
denied his sin, and all Ireland and not few
Englishmen would have taken his word.
had 30 witnesses sworn against him.
But here we have the rare spec
tacle Of a self-confessej sinner, and
there is heard sadly the general
cry of "stone him9'' The palpably
political character of the outcry against
Parnell counts for nothing now, and there
is much reason to fear will have little if
any weight at the polls. "The chapel bell''
is ringing all over the land, and in the
deafening aggregate of sound the voices of
the advocates Of Christian charity are lost.
Regarded from the point of view OF politi.
cal expediency, Parnell's duty is to with
draw temporarily from the leadership of the
Irish Parliamentary party. The members of
that party, and the Irish people generally.
have emphatically declared against such
course, and few people know or ever will
know how keenly that generous forgiveness
has touched the heart of the outwardly i'm
passive statesman to whom it has been e1-
tended.
Practical Endorsement of ParneI.
It amounts, practically, to a renewal of
credentials, and If 1t we're backed. as has
been suggested, by an appeal BY Parnell to
the electors of Cork and his reelection, the
Endorsement would be complete enough to
satisfy Gladstone and most of the Liberal
politicians. Even as things stand, the Lib
eral leaders, if required, will offer no obiec-
ton to working with him in the future with
as much energy, although perhaps with less
cordiality, than in the past.
As regards the House Of Commons, there
would be little difficulty, and if Ireland
alone had to be consulted, there would be
practically none. But the political situation
has vastly changed since the days when the
Irish party in the British House of Com
mons was a guerilla force and used
the weapons of irregular warfare.
thanks 70 Gladstone and Parnell,