Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30
PAREELL sEOUID NOT BE RETIRED NOW
rBY CABLE 20 THE DISPATCH,


LONDON. November 29.-TCopyright l.
The publication of Mr.. Parnell's manifesto
has caused 4 greater sensation than probably
any political event of this generation.
Most people had thought that he committed
the greatest mistake of his public life
when be refused to resign the leader
ship Immediately the Divorce Court
gave verdict against him upon
undIsputed evidence. But the issue
OF the manifesto is asserted by these people
to be much graver blunder and a more
dishonorable act. 1t is based, they say,
upon what ore would in charity prefer to
describe as a misapprehension, but which is
really deliberate perversion OF the facts.
1t was incumbent upon him, 1t is main
tained, to show the Irish people that, de-
spite his private sins, his retention of the
leadership would be OF benefit to the cause
o. home rule; but he does not even make a
preteuse of doing so.
He does rot, they point out, profess a
word Of penitence or regret at the woeful
state to which he, and he alone, has reduced
q party, which, only week or two ago, was
full of strength and flushed with the hope OF
approaching victory. They assert that he
derides the devoted men who have almost
sIavishly subordinated themselves to him,
and the manifesto consists mainly of an at
-,
best friend, outside of her own kin, whom
ireland has ever had
Gladstone Denies the Charges.
A manifesto from Gladstone, in reply to
that of Parnell, was issued to-day by the
Liberal leader. In it he denies the state
ments made by the Irish leader in regard to
the retention of Irish members in tine I'm
perial Parliament, the settlement of the
land or agrarian difficulty in ireland, the
control of the Irish con stabulary and the
appointment OF the judiciary in Ireland.
Gladstone says he will not apply single
enithet to Parnell, not being his judge. He
believes. however, that he showed by his
course in the matter of the Spiel Commits
sion, appointed to investigate the charges
against Parnell growing ont of the Pigott
letters, that he had no disposition to do
Parnell injustice.
Gladstone then comes to recital of the
proposal alleged by Parnell in his manifesto
to have been made to him during his visit to
Gladstone at Hawarden last November, in
regard to the intended proposals with regard
10 home rule in the event of the Liberal
party winning at the then next general cleo
tion. Gladstone declares that no single sug-
Cestion was offered by him to Parnell,
either as a formal or as a final one. The
conversation then held was a statement.
perfectly free and without prejudice, of the
points on which Gladstone, or such of his
colleagues as he could consult, were inclined
10 believe the home rule plan of 1886 could
he improved, and concerning which be was
desirous TO know whether any serious objec-
ton had arisen in the mind of Parnell. To
none OF these suggestions did Parnell raise
q serious objection.
A General Denial Entered.
Gladstone denies that he made the state
ments which Parnells manifesto ascribes to
him, or anything substantially resembling
them, either as to the retention of the Irish
members in the Imperial Parliament, or the
sgrarian difficulties, or the control of the
constabulary, or the appointment of the
judiciary. The conversation between them
was strictly confidential.
To publish even true account is to break
the seal OF confidence which renders poIit-
ical cooperation possible. Every suggestion
made to Parneil was from written memo
1anda, to which Gladstone can refer.
Neither Parnell nor himself was bound by
the conversation to an absolute acceptance
Of the proposals canvassed. During the
year that mad since elapsed he had never re-
ceived from Parnell any intimation of an
alteration OF his views regarding any of
them.
An Irish Party the Best.
In conclusion, Gladstone says that he has
always held, both in public and private,
that the party of ireland ought to remain
entirely independent of the Liberal party
of Great Britain. 1t is their duty and his
duty conformably with the spirit of Grattan
and O'Connell, to study all adjustments in
the great matter of home rule which NAV
tend to draw to their side moderate and
equitable men. But for him to propose any
measure except such as ireland could ap-
prove on the lines already laid down, would
be faulty as regards himself and treachery
to the Irish nation in which, even by the
side of Parnell, he can claim to take an in
terest.
The manifestos of Parnell and Gladstone
having been csbled to the United States,
Americans are in as good position as Eng
Iishmen are here to form judgment upon
the two documents. But people at dis
lance cannot appreciate the actual position
without knowing something of the state of
feeling in this country. The Tories, as
might have been expected, are in q state of