The Indianapolis journal., 1890-11-19
PARNELL'S FUTURE COURSE
His Friends Say He Must Continue to
Leadthe Irish Parliamentary Party,
But the Tories Think He Has Been Smirched
and Should Retire-Russian Mobiles Rein
vested with hPower-Koch's Cures Doubted.
The National League Does Not Want Him to
Retire from the Irish Leadership.

The National League Does Not Want Him to
Retire from the Irish Leadership.
DUBLIN, Nov. 1s-A meeting of the Ma
tional League was held in this city to-day.
Mr.. Edmund Leamy, member of the House
Of Commons for South Sligo. presided. Mr..
Leamy made an address in which he re-
ferred to the reports OF the withdrawal of
Mr.. Parnell from the leadership of the Ma
tlonalist party. He said that Mr.. Parnell
was the chosen leader of the party. and
that the party would stand by him while
he stood by them. He would lead the
party in combat in Parliament during the
coming session, and the Irish people would
be more than ever devoted to him. Mr..
John Redmond, member of the House of
Commons for North Wexford, ridiculed the
idea of Mr.. Parnell being prejudiced in
politics by the verdict in the O'Shea case.
His colleagues, he said, were bound to him
by unfailing loyalty. Never in the career
of the Nationalists were the members of
the party more determined to stand by Mr..
Parnell. Mr. Redmonds remarks were
greeted with cheers. MIR. Joseph Kenney.
member of the House of Commons for south
Cork. and other speakers spoke in q similar
strain.
The Freeman's Journal, commenting upon
the outcome of the O'Shea divorce case
and the predictions that have been made
concerning its effect upon MIR. ParnelPs fut-
ure. recalls the private lives of the Duke OF
Wellington, Lord Nelson, Lord Palmerston
and number of other prominent person.
ages who, It says. In their time, were sub
iect TO scandal similar to that in which Mr..
Parnell is now involved. The Journal says
that the gabble about the social ostracism
TO which Mr.. Parnell will be subjected is
absurd. because he never went into society.
The pastors charged with his moral we'll
being are not the pastors of the majority of
the Irish people. 1t is neither our duty
nor our province to adJudge his private
life. nor to examine his conscience. Ire
lands business with him Is entirely OF
political nature. He has ably. faithfully
and successively served the country, and
has brought her out of bondage and led to
within sight of the promised land. A
juncture has now been reached where there
can be no swapping or changing Of leaders.
We would not change If we could, and we
could not If we would. The Irish, not the
English people, will decide if the toll
OF the nation for years is to be
risked because a man has been weak and q
woman frail. Continuing, the journal says:
1T is imperative that Mr.. Parnell continue
as leader of the Irish parliamentary party.
claimed at meeting of the National
League to-day. and will be again at q pub
lie meeting to be held Thursday
The Express says: 1T would be wise for
Mr.. Parneli to retire to private life. but we
can hardly expect him TO show so much
self-respect as this course would evidence" +"
What the Tories Say.
LONDON, Nov. 1S-A rumor is current
that Mr.. Parnell will retire from active DO
litical. life. and that he will marry Mrs.
OShea as soon as the law will permit him
to do so. It is also said that he has prom
ised to give continuous advice to his sue
cessor in leadership of the Nationalist
party. 1t is an undeniable fact that the
virulence against Mr.. Parnell displayed by
the Tory papers in their editorials is caus-
ing a reaction of public sentiment in his
favor.
The Pail Mall Gazette says: cit is Par
nelps duty to the Irish people. their English
allies, his own character and his cause to
resign his leadership. Many of the Irish
bishops and their English allies are likely
TO hold the opinion that Parnell has be-
trayed the Irish cause by dragging his own
reputation in the mire. Ii would be better
for the Unionlsrs to have Parnell remain
and tear the whole home-rule party with
the dirty brush with which he has be-
smirched himself than to have him resign.
A wise and honorable man would Temporal
rily retire, and would repair by marriage
the false position in which he has put his
partner In his Offense."
The Evening News SAYS: "Ireland's un.
crowned king has been crowned with in
famyn
The Globe says it doubts whether the
Gladstonians will follow Mr.. Gladstone il
he further recognizes Parnell as the leader
of the Irish Nationalists.
There is great curiosity to see how Mr..
Gladstone will treat Mr.. Parnell since the
scandal came out. The Globe declares that
the grand old man will shock the public il
he continues to display personal friendship
for this two-penny Don Jaun." However
this may be. Mr.. Gladstone is said to be
much depressed by the evidence in the di.
vorce case. Although the scandal has been
matter of public gossip for months and
even years. and has been alluded TO more
or less directly In certain weekly prints
MIR. Gladstone, according to his close
friends. never heard this gossip, and the
prints alluded to are excluded from his
library. He is man of the most strict
ideas in regard to family obligations and
the OShea trial has come to him as a new
and painful revelation in reference to the
man for whom he has grown to feel q per.
sonal as well as political admiration
amounting to more than ordinary friend.
ship among public men. 1t is needless tc
say that the attitude of the rank and file
of the Liberals toward Mr.. Paruell will be
largely shaped according To the cue which
they will take from Mr. Gladstone's greet
ing of the Irish leader.
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