The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-30
TERRIBLY SAD and SICKENING
Is What Michael Dayitt Says of
the Situation.
The Star Says Parncr's Manifesto is the
finni Act OF suicido-GIadstone An
awers the Manifesto mt Considerable
Lensth-Thc Trouble Continues Com
piicatod.

LONDON, Nov. 2?.--[Spocial Michael
Davitt was interviewed to-day regard
ing the present political crisis. He
said: 1T is al terribly sad and sicken-
ing. If the Irish party had been aware
of the circumstances, and acted with
courage al first,all would have ocen we'll
They weSe bewildered, and no wonder
wo are inRplinters. The Parncll mani
festo is the last desperate move. do
not sec how he could have struck Ire
land a wotse blow. lie is furious against
the majority of his party, and in his
anger att Gladstone's letter he runs
amuck.
According TO him number of mem
bcrs of his own party are false, and
Gladstone and the English Liberal
wirc-pullers are scheming against him.
The home rule proposals outlined at
llawarden were entirely inadequate
The last of these is the most important,
in Parncn's opinion, but he forgcts that
he agreed to similar proposals in tho
bill OF 1886.
ale now declares against the cutting
down of Irish representation at West
minister, but in 1856 he agreed to clause
"a Of the bill, which entirely excluded
Irish representation, and further agreed
to tho clauses retaining for the time inn
perial control of the police and iu-
dietary. Tho land bill proposed by
Gladstone was quite apart from the
home rule question, and was finally
| abandoned. Parnell thus convicts HIM
, self, VIII, did he not make this appeal
before? These llawardcn proposals
were as bid then as now.
"Besidss," continued Davitt, owe
have yet 70 know whether Parnell did
not agreqto them. Gladstone. Morley,
and, believe, William O'Bricn, were
parties tb the agreement. They are
now called upon to speak out
"Mean@ilc, no matter what the man
ifesto maybe for Parnc.l's own posi-
ton, he has shattered all hope of home
rule for years, and that, too, for personal
ends and revenge, just as in 1889, he
shattered tho Land League to get ont
of <ilmainham Jail, and was prepared in
1856 to snAAsh his party and debauch the
lnstitutloas Of his country to thrust
O'Shca, on thc Galway electors. Dillon,
O'Brien and Sexton ought to dcposo
him from tho leadership. lIo has
brought terrible disaster, if not COM
plete ruin, to home rule"
Davitt is engaged in preparing man
ifcsto in behalf OF Parnell's opponents
in the Nationelisi.party, which will con
flute all the points advanced by Parnell
rs reasons for his retention as the head
of his party. This manifesto will be
issued Immediately. Sexton and Ilealcy
are taking the opinion of each member
OF Parliament as to the ACCESSIBILITY of
organizing movement for the alliance
of anti-Parncllites with Gladstone.
In an interview to-day. Henry Labou-
chcrc said it would be charitable to sup
pose that Parncli is mad. 1t is impos-
sible to suppose that any sane man with
any sense OF honor or patriotism would
issue manifesto so dishonoring to him
self and SO injurious to his country's
cause.
Parncll was present in the Parliament
building to-day. He busted himself in
attending to his correspondence for u
time, and then had an interview with
several of his supporters.
llealy and Sullivan and number of
other opponents Of ParDcll held con-
ference. Parncll's manifesto has stif-
fened their opposition, and they have
resolved to issue Il countcr-manifesto
forthwith. This manifesto will bear
formidable list OF signatures. The fight
between the two factions will be fought
to the bitter end. Neither side will
leave stone unturncd.
Tho Star (homc rulc) commenting on
Parncll's manifesto. says it is the final
act OF suicide. It's malignant power and
unscrupnlousness were deadly in tho
mischief of its purpose, and Its frigid
and calm style invest with terrible
force the spectacle of his death as Il
great public man. There is much of
hidcous levity in the doc lmcnt, in
which Parnell wipes his pen across tho
treaty giving England peace and Ire
land home rule. Happily Parncll is but
an isolated factor. The Irish party has
its billions. O'Sricns and Iiealcys, as
well as its Parncll.
Until these men meet and decide upon
the rupture of relations existing be-
tween tho Nationalists and Liberals, it
is needless to talk of the dissolution of
ties which can never be dissolved by the
act of one man. The Pail Mall Gazette
says that manifesto is as INSCRIPTIONS
document as ever Il politician pcnncd.
Parnell hits below the belt, it says, but
he is lighting for his life.
The Frccman's journal saws the mani
iesto is terrible reply to Gladstone's
lndlscrcct and importunate letter to
Morley, and that it falls like bomb
she'll upon Parnells quondam and APP
parent allies.
CORK, Nov. 2o.-[Special Parnell's
manifesto has had Il depressing effect
upon home rule circles here The
Herald, which was formerly an ardent
supporter of Parnell, EXPRESSES amaze
ment and sorrow at what it considers
his I'M in Ii q n lain hrnncL cf L iLornl -.