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12 THE PRIMROSE LEAGUE GAZETTE. August 12, 1893. SIR FREDERICK MILNER AND MR. GLADSTONE. SIR FREDERICK MILNER, M.P., has written to Mr.

Gladstone challenging his statements in his reoent letter to Mr. Cowan. He "I am justified in asking you to give some proofs, or, at any rate, to enumerate the 'inducements' which were held out to the Irish members to procure the dislodgment of the Government in 1885. As a matter of fact (and you know that as well as anybody) the Irish Party needed no inducement to vote against your Government in 1885. They embraced every possible opportunity of voting against you but no combination of those opposed to you was of any avail until you had so disgusted many of your own followers that they, too, deserted you, and thus brought about your own defeat." Sir Frederick goes on to say that in the summer of 1885 Mr.

Herbert Gladstone made a similar charge at Leeds. He (Sir F. Milner) took up the challenge, and received from Lord Salisbury, Lord Randolph Cnurchill, and Mr. Rowland Winn, an emphatic denial of the charge. From Mr.

Parnell, after some delay, he received the following important Sir Frederick have just received your letter enclosing report of Mr. Herbert Gladstone's speech at Leeds, and calling my attention to a passage in which Mr. Gladstone asserts that there is an alliance for Parliamentary purposes, and also for the purposes of the General Election, between Lord Salisbury and Lord Randolph Churchill on the one side, and myself and my colleagues on the other, upon the basis, first, of the dropping of the Crimes second, of the Bill for the benefit of labourers, and, third, of the passing of a Land Purchase Bill. Your letter also points to a further paragraph in the same speech, in which Mr. Gladstone is reported to have defied me, among others, to controvert these alleged facts.

I can only say there is not the slightest foundation for any of these statements by Mr. Herbert Gladstone. I have no knowledge of any such alliance, nor have any of my colleagues. I have held no communication upon any of the public matters referred to with any member of the present Government, or any of their officials, directly or indirectly, except across the floor of the House of Commons. The first intimation I received of the intention of the Government in respect of these matters was from Lord Carnarvon's speech in the Lords, and that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the truly, CHARLES S.

PARNELL. Irish Parliamentary Offices, July 31st, 1885." Sir Frederick Milner continues The object of the Irish Party in 1885 was to balance the Tory Party as evenly as possible in order that they might be able to give their vote to the Party which was prepared to support their views. Mr. Parnell attained his object. The two Parties were so evenly balanced that he was master of the situation.

To their honour, be it said, the Tory Party declined utterly to betray their country for the price of Parnellite support." Mr. Gladstone's reply is as 10, Downing-street, August 7, 1893. Gladstone desires me to acknowledge the receipt of vour letter of the 5th inst. on the subject of the statements made in his letter to Mr. Cowan respecting the attitude of the Tory and Irish Parties in 1885.

The charge to which you refer was the subject of lengthened controversy at and after the time in question. In Mr. Gladstone's opinion, for which he claims no authority beyond that of the opinion of others, the charge was made good by circumstantial evidence, and he has no intention of reopening the am your obedient servant, G. H. MURRAY.

"Sir F. Milner, M.P." Sir Frederick Milner would venture to make two That it has often been found dangerous to formulate a charge on purely circumstantial evidence (2) that it was yourself who reopened the subject in your letter to Mr. Cowan. I cannot help regretting that you have not thought fit to instance any single inducement offered by the Tory leaders to Mr. Parnell and bis colleagues, or to put forward one iota of evidence in support of the very grave charge you thought fit to bring for purely Party purposes against your political opponents." ONE YEAR OF GLADSTONIAN GOVERNMENT.

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