Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-12-01
DARK FOR PARNELL
The Irish ENJOYS Call for His
Retirement.
THEY SEND OUT A MANIFESTO.
They Cannot Follow a Leader Who WiD
Endanger Home Rule

Mr. Parnen Condemned for His Action
Toward GladstOne-He II Urged Not to
Plunge Ireland Into DissensiOn When
Liberty L. within Her Grasp-Harrinr-
ton Stands by Parnsn. ~
CmcAGo, Dec Five of the Irish
delegates, John Dillon, William O'Brien.
! T. ?. O'Connor, T. D. Sullivan and T, p.
Gill have decided to join in the demand
OF those Of their colleagues in Ireland
who call on Parnel to retire from the
leadership of the Irish people. Their
decision was embodied in a manifesto
which was cabled to Justin Mccarthy, as
vice-chairman of the Irish Parliamentary
party. The decision will be placed before
the nesting of the Irish members to be
held in London this afternoon. Timothy
Harrington is the only one of the dele
gates to stand by Parnell. The manifesto
reads as follows:
The Enjoys Manifesto.
To Justin Mccarthy, M. p, vice-chatr-
man Of the Irish Parliamentary Party
Our sense of the matchless genius of
Mr.. Parnen as a leader, of the imperish-
able services he has rendered to the Irish
cause, of the courage, integrity 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 have made US suspend to the latest
possible moment our Judgment against
his further leadership. The obligation
to express judgment is to all of us the
most painful duty of our lives. No
earthly consideration could have moved
us to our determination except the solemn
conviction that we are driven to choose
between Mr.. 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 a leader that we eagerly
co-operated with our colleagues in every
effort to retain his influence in our coun-
ellis.
The manifesto which Mr. Parnell has
just issued cuts rs off from the last
hopes to which we chung. Anxious to
avoid any word that might embitter
the controversy, we shall not dwell upon
the cruel injustice with which he treats
the members of the party that has fol-
lowed him with a loyalty and affection
such as no leader ever experienced before
His recollection of this fealty to him in
many an hour of trial might well have
saved them from the imputation that
any section of them could have allowed
their integrity to be Slapped by Liberal
wirepullers, nor would we do more than
enter protest against this violation of
all constitutional principle in houting
by anticipation the decision of the elected
representatives of the people from whose
votes the chairman of the parliamentary
party receives his authority and resortin
to vague general appeal over their
heads
Considerations like these we should
readily have waived in the interest of
national solidarity, but the method in
which, ignoring the origin of the present
calamitous situation, Mr.. Parnell en-
deavored to fasten the responsibility for
it upon Messrs. Gladstone and Morley,
compels us to disassociate ourselves in the
strongest manner from imputation which
we believe to be reckless and unjust.
We view with adherence the attacks
that have been made on Mr.. Parnen by
his public and private enemies under
cover of his present difficulties
In deliberately bringing things to this
position Mr.. Parnell has entered upon a
rash and fatal path upon which every
consideration of Ireland's safety as well
of personal honor, forbid us absolutely
to follow him.
In the future of a party thus isolated
and discredited, we cannot imagine how
any Irishman can see anything but de-
struction of the hopes of self government,
happiness and peace which but few
weeks ago were on the point of being
realized for our people, so tried by many
years of sacrifice and suffering. What
Mr.. Parnell asks US to do, stripped of all
side issues, is to sacrifice all the hopes Of
an early settlement of the IrisF struggle
to his resolution to maintain his personal
position. We are driven to choose between
our leader and our cause. In that sad
choice we cannot hesitate.
We have now to confront the statement
that Mr.. Parnells leadership opens an
impossible gulf between the representa-
tives of Ireland and the Liberal party
who have faithfully observed their part
of their side of the agreements as to the
national claims of Ireland and the situa-
ton is aggravated by deplorable express
sions of i'll will toward the British people
who have again and again within the
past five years manifested their deter
mination to do justice to Ireland and
have by their votes paralyzed the arm Of
coercion.
We lay these views before all our col
leagues of the Irish Parliamentary party
in the earnest belief that a decisive vote
on their part will deliver Ireland from
the fearful anxiety that now overhangs
her people.
We cannot relinquish the hope that in
face of such decisive action by the cleo
tive representatives of the Irish people
Mr.. Parnell's sense of patriotism will
withhold him from plunging Ireland into
those horrors of dissension which have
SO often already in her tragic and I'M
happy history robbed her of liberty at
the moment it was within her grasp and
will save him from undoing in one
passionate hour the results of all his in
comparable services to his country.
(Signed) John Dillon, William O'Brien,
Thomas O'Connor, 7. D. Sullivan, Thomas
P. Gill.
Parnsn VIII Produce the Proof.