The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-11-24
ARE AFTER REDMOND
Sim Fein Leader Tries to
Get Him to Debate.
PURE ELECTIONS FOR IRELAND
Member of Young Ireland Movement
Proposed that Money BE EIimin-
paiEn-Sweeney's Resignation Re-
calls Arrest of DIR. Tanner.


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Special Correspondence The Washington Herald
Mount Charles. County Donegal. ire
land Nov. lS.--At a United Irish League
meeting. held in Drumkeerin, North Lei
trim, the other day, Mr. John Redmond.
leader OF the Irish Parliamentary party.
was the chief speaker. Charles Dolan,
the NJ. p for the division-he who has
seeded from the Irish Parliamentary par
T. and Joined the ranks Of Sim Fem, be-
cause he found that time and money was
wasted and ITeland's cause, he believed
set back by attendance at the British
Parliament-attended the meeting with a
great body Of supporters. and requested
permission 20 put forward his views
alongside Mr. Eedmonds, but was re-
fused permission.
He then issued a challenge to Mr.. Red
mond TO debate Sim Fem with him be-
fore a mixed audience in the town Of
Manorhamilton, but Mr.. Redmond, wise
in his generation. did not take Up the
challenge.
A few days after the Drumkeerin meet
ing there was in Manorhamilton a Sim
Fem demonstration Of great proportions,
at which Mr.. Dolan. who was retiring
from the membership. in answer to the
challenge Of the Parliamentary party.
and going forward again for election on
Sim Fem principles made a wise offer.
He asked the Irish Parliamentary party.
which was about 10 contest the constit-
uency against him, TO agree with him
that the hundreds of pounds which both
sides were prepared TO spend upon the
election should be applied for founding
some industry in the constituency, and
that a costless election should be held
by the simple method of their agreeing
10 appoint their own sheriff. returning
officers and clerks. all unpaid officials.
This is an admirable action on Mr.. Do
lan's part. but I very much fear that the
Irish Parliamentary party viii not re-
spond to his invitation in the same spirit.
Currnn Hard on Commons.
Mr.. Pete Curran, the Labor member who
was recently elected to Parliament for
Jarrow-on-Tyne. despite the strenuous eff
forts of the Irish Parliamentary party,
has formed a very poor impression OF the
British House Of Parliament. He says:
For pifle. organized hypocrisy, waste of
time, and degenerate methods. I do not
know an assembly TO beat the British
House Of Commons. Things viii be al
tered when the Labor members are in
creased from 81 TO 25O-and altered within
six months. We will make Parliament
businesslike assembly. and not fashion
able lounge. The Tory aristocrats and
the Liberal plutocrats go off to dinner,
and until they return men are put up 10
keep the talking machine going. At 10
o'clock they come walking in in evening
dress. some of them sober. and some Of
them otherwise
An interesting OctOgenarian is Mr.. T. D.
Sullivan. eX-M- p, the doyen OF Irish
journalism. who is best known as the au-
thor of Ireland's national anthem and the
poet OF the antl-Parnellite party. It was
as editor and proprietor of the Nation
and during his year Of Office as Lord
Mayor of Dublin, that Mr.. Sullivan was
imprisoned for press offenses twenty
years ago. under Mr. Balfour's coercion
act. While immured for two months in
Tullamore Gaol he wrote a little volume
Of Prison Poems" which obtained wide
celebrity at the time. An earlier volume,
Green Leaves" contains his best work.
Mr.. Sullivan has published several works
I'm poetry and prose, the latter including
his "reminiscences" and "A life of his
brother, A. n. Sullivan, a distinguished
parliamentarian, writer, and orator, who
died in the early SOS.
Recalls DIR. Tanners Arrest.
The Penny Magazine, in the course Of
an article upon a recently retired Scotland
Yard detective OF note Mr.. Sweeney. tells
how Sweeney arrested our famous Irish
politician. DR.. Tanner, upon an occasion
when the doctor had for long been baf-
fling the detectives who wanted him for
the usual crime of working too strenu-
ously for Ireland The doctor had been
GLIDING the detectives for some time, when
he was tempted to make what he hoped
would be a secret visit TO the House Of
Commons. But he had been at West
minister very little while when the word
came in that Scotland Yard had tracked
him. and that It's representatives. were
outside Detective Inspector Sweeney and
his assistants were waiting \ council OF
war was held I'm the Hobbies by the doctor
and his friends, several methods of es-
cape were suggested-a lady in the house
volunteering to lend him the clothes she
was wearing for his disguise-but the doc
tor rejected them all. and I'm the small
hours Of the morning and IN the COM
pany OF a band OF N. F. friends, he left
the house singing and marched to a
hotel a few hundred yards away. Mr.
Sweeney following. The detective passed
into the smoking room with them, and
then quietly announced his business, but
explained that there was no hurry -
The doctor talked harder than ever. and
then the law and Mr.. Sweeney duly took
their course.
POrtadOwn's Queer Character,
Our northern town Of Portadown has
just benefited 10 the extent OF a great
many thousand pounds by the will Of a
remarkable old native. William John Wat
son. The recipient OF a large annual in
come from his property, Mr.. Watson lived
Ike hermit denying himself the ordi-
nary comforts of life. He was. however.
by no means OF a misery disposition. for
TO any object in which he was in SYM
pathy he would contribute generously.
The town band and the musical society
are specially mentioned as organizations
which are 10 benefit under his Will He
was opposed TO nearly every improvement
scheme involving additional expenditure
Il short time ago. when the town council
proposed TO build a fOOtbridge from Cas-
lie street to the passenger station, which
II was calculated would increase the rates
|, by quarter of a penny I'm the pound ster-
: ling. he appeared before them and indig-
nantly protested, reproached them for
their extravaganza. and told them tina;
they We're going TO run the town into
bankruptcy.
Mr.. Watson is an accomplished scholar
"a tray n1nI l..