The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-02-12
INDEPENDENT HOME RULERS.


This is the name by which William
O'Brien and his followers in parlia-
ment are known. There are ten be-
sides O'Brien and Healy who defeated
the nominees of the Nationalist party
in the recent elections, and though they
all are in favor of Home Rule yet they
will not "sit, act and vote" with the
Redmondites at Westminster. They will
act Independently Of the Home Rule
party of which John e. Redmond is
leader and look to William O'Brien for
their salaries.
the front page of this issue, it is stated
that owing to the factionism of o.
Brien's adherents they will not be ad
mitted to the councils of the Irish par
ty nor will they receive shilling
from the National parliamentary fund.
And why should they? Let them be
paid by their own leader or by their
supporters at the polls. Think you
that the Irish-Americans who sub
scribed $4,000 or thereabouts to the
cause advocated by T. p. O'Connor on
his recent visit to the United States
would be willing to promote dissen-
sion by paying the salaries Of Irish
members elected by the vote of the
hereditary enemies of Ireland-the
Tories? Think you that the subscribers
of the fund opened by Patrick Ford
in the Irish World want OBrien's fol-
lowers to get a dollar of their money
to promote discord and disunion in the
parliamentary ranks? Let the faction
lists receive compensation from those
they represent in London or retire and
make an honest living at something
else.
Who are the ten men who follow
O'Brien and Healy and what have they
ever done for their country? Here
they are: Lawrence Ginnell, North
"rastrrert. -o-n Mexican, South Mo-
naghan; Eugene Cream, South East
~o.", .o.... " .>u...ull, South Mayo; D..
D. Sheehan, Mid-Cork; Eugene o'sul-
livan. East Kerry; P. ]. O'Shaughnes-
sy, West Limerick; P. Quincy, North
Cork, and James Gilhooly, West Cork.
If any of the foregoing gentlemen have,
during their public career, done any
thing to merit the appreciation of their
countrymen struggling for nationhood.
we would be delighted to know and
give them credit for it. We repeat.
what have they done but draw their
salaries and violate their pledges to act
with the party to which they ostens-
IDLY belonged? Such men were a
detriment rather than q benefit to John
E. Redmond. and we congratulate him
on getting rid of them. OBrien will
soon find out they are good for moth
ing but spending his wifes money.
For O'Brien himself we have great
esteem, though he is now on the wrong
track. The fact that he was elected
for two seats in his native county is
proof of his being favorite son with
Corkonians. While Maurice Healy was
defeated, O'Brien was elected by less
than 100 majority in Cork City, but
were it not for the Tory vote he would
have gone down with Healy. He was
! also elected in North East Cork where
another election must be held. In that
district O'Brien was born, and his
townsmen of Mallow and vicinity con-
tributed to his victory. He can get
elected there every time he runs.
We regret to find in London de-
spatches that O'Brien attacks the An
cient Order of Hibernians in Ireland
in the Daily Telegraph of the English
metropolis and, by way of contempt
calls them molly Maguires," to the
delight of the Cockneys, and all be-
cause Joseph E. Devlin is the ma
tional president of that patriotic or
ganization. He says nothing of the
MacManus branch of the order, either
because Of its insignificance or because