New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-26
HOME RULE ENJOYS HERE
Redmond. O'Connor, DevIin and
Bowie to Spread Movement.
WARMLY GREETED AT PIER
Irish Nationalists Believe Pros
poets for Success Were Never
Brighter than Now.

When the White Star liner Baltic
warped into her pier yesterday her for
ward deck suddenly was transformed into
a waving field of Irish green, chorus Of
/ Irish voices welled across the waters and
an answering shout swept from the pier
and eddied over the sides of the great
liner. In the crowd of incoming passen-
gers that thronged the upper deck of the
/ Baltic stood four men, their faces
wreathed IN smiles. with perhaps the sus-
picion of a tear in their eyes. at the well
come they received. ireland for the
Irish"'
The four men who had come oversee
with a mission to perform were John E.
Redmond. the Irish leader; T P. C'Tay
Pay'D O'Connor. the Irish journalist; 10
seph Devlin and Daniel Boyle. all mem
bers of Parliament and ENJOYS delegated
especially by the Irish National party TO
gain support for the Home Rule move
ment among Irish enligrants in the United
States and Canada Their work on this
side Of the ocean viii occupy their whole
time until a few days before the British
Parliament reconvenes. on November 10
Standing on the pier and gazing down
the Bay TO where Liberty reared her proud
head above the fog and mist, many hum
to greet their countrymen and pledge their
support to the movement that burns eter-
ually in the breast of every son Of Erin.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians, the
United Irish League, the Board of Erin.
the Irish Counties Union, the Cork Mems
..ssociation, the Irish National Club, the
Mayo Mems Association, the Louth Mems
Association and the Waterford Men-all
were there, and many more who have the
love of ireland in their hearts.
Band Plays with a Brogue.
While the distinguished visitors shook
hands and exchanged greetings with man
and boy two brass bands, playing with a
bregue as thick as any that ever emil
grated from Ireland, started to march
from the pier acting as an escort to the
four travellers It seemed that everybody
there spoke with a brogue or srnacked of
Ireland in some other unnistakable man
ner
Home Rule for Ireland"
Mr. Redmond. Mr.. O'Connor, Mr.. Devlin
and Mr. Boyle all stepped into automo-
biles and were whirIed through the streets
to the Hoffman House where they will
stop during their stay in this city At the
hotel another delegation OF welcome was
bivouacked outside the doors TO shout
their approval Of the movement and lend
q helping voice TO Ireland.
The four delegates will attend the con-
vention Of the United Irish Societies. at
Buffalo. which begins tomorrow and con-
tinues until Thursday After the conven-
ton adiourns Mr.. Redmond and his party
will return 10 New York, where they will
address large meeting TO be held at Car
negie Hall on Sunday. at which Judge
Morgan J. OBrien will preside.
Mr.. Redmond, Mr.. Devlin and Mr.. BOYLE
viii remain together to speak at meetings
at Philadelphia. October 8. Boston, Oeto~
her 9; Pittsburg, October Is; Chicago, Oc-
toher IS, and st Louis. October 10 After
the ST Louis meeting the three viii sepa-
rate, Mr.. Redmond returning TO the East,
Mr.. Devlin going South and Mr.. Boyle pro-
ceeding West
T P. O'Connor leaves his colleagues in
Buffalo for Canadian and Far West tour.
He will plead the cause Of Home Rule in
Toronto. Ottawa. Montreal. Quebec and
Halifax. Mr.. O'Connor will also spread
his gospel before audiences at Tacoma.
Seattle, Portland and several other cities
On the Coast
4 The purpose Of their mission was ex-
planned yesterday at the Hoffman House
when the four ENJOYS received the news
paper men
It is to put the present position Of the
Irish movement for Home Rule before the
American people and our own countrynen
in America and Canada said Mr. Red
mond. The prospects for success were
never so favorable as now, and we come
as delegates of the Nationalist party in
ireland 10 tell Just how it stands
The great question that is stirring Eng
and Of of Tar ~ 70
reject or obstruct any bill they want to.
As soon as that power IS destroyed or di-
r,tnished our main obstacle viii have dis
appeared and We shall get Home Rule"
Home Rule the Panacea.
The Irish patriot then went on TO ex-
plain that the ancient House Of Lords rs
as dead as a red herring and stinks in the
nostrils Of the British people" and his
three conlpatriots blandly nodded their &C
auiescence Referring to emigration, Mr..
Redmond said that emigration to America
u as not on the increase, but was still much
too high
Home Rule was his recommendation for
a panacea-
Those who have made their pile over
here ike TO go back 10 leave their bones, but
they don't want TO go back to an enslaved
y
Ireland is only one-haIf what it was sixty
years ago?' demanded the leader.
Home Rule to bring them back, he sIg-
gested.
Many more things. ali bearing on the
subject Of Home Rule, were spoken OF by
the four delegates, ard all were agreed that
never was the time more propitious to adj
vance Ireland's cause.
One item on Mr.. Redmond's schedule
while in this country includes a visit 10
Mr. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, the invitation
having been extended while the latter was
IN Ireland last spring.
one discordant note was heard weakly
amid the general rejoicing over the arrival
OF the ENJOYS yesterday, when the Sim
Fem League of America, in a meeting at
No 10 East 59th street, denounced MIR.
Redmond and his views, and advised Irish
Americans against subscribing any money
toward the Home Rule movement