Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII VICTORIES FOR THE MOVEMENT The Freeman's Journal, the leading Irish daily newspaper, still held out against the league. It upheld Mr. Shaw's chairmanship of the Home-Rulp party, denounced Mr. Parnell's speeches in the United States, and carried its opposition so far that the names of Mr. Patrick Egan, Mr. Thomas Brennan, and the present writer were not to be mentioned in Mr. Dwyer Gray's paper. This hostility was in some sense due to rivalry between the Mansion House Relief Fund Committee (Mr. Gray being Lord Mayor of Dublin at the time) and the LandLeague executive. The rivalry had its source in political differences, however, and the distribution of assistance to the victims of distress had only the relation of accident to the real cause of antagonism. It was evident to Mr. Gray, and to all whom it might concern, that the league was preparing the country for Parnell's national leadership, and that a far more vigorous policy than that supported by the Freeman's Journal would build a platform upon which Mr. Shaw and his nominal Home-Rulers would not stand. This was the league's real quarrel with Mr. Gray, and it was on this issue that the contest was waged which soon brought both himself and his paper to terms. The opposition of Dublin's chief daily paper was a serious hinderance to the movement in the national capital, and as the league had already fought and beaten several formidable antagonists its leaders were not averse tp trying conclusions with Mr. Gray. He had openly attacked the league's president, while on Ireland's service across the Atlantic, and this, too, at a time when prominent Land-Lpaguers at home were under the legal ban of a state prosecution. So plans were carefully prepared, and the duel with our...
