The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-03-26
HIBERNIANS
HAVE BANQUET
At SAN CARLOS
POSTPONED CELEBRATION OF
THE A. O. ~. OCCURRED LAST
NIGHT AND WAS ENJOYED BY A
LARGE NUMBER.

The postponed celebration of st.
Patricks Day. by the Pensacola divi-
sion Of the Ancient Order of Hiber-
mans occurred at the San Carlos
/ hotel last night. A banquet, at which
! a fine menu was served, was enjoyed
and numerous speeches were made.
] John Massey presided and acted as
! POSTMASTER. Among the speakers were
Mayor Frank Reilly, Hon. J. ]. Sulli-
van, Congressman Emmett Wilson,
/ Steve Harvey, (the ambassador from
! Santa Rosa.) Hon. Phillip Beal, Frank
L. Mayes, Chas. O'Brien, Father Doyle,
| J. J. McNamee (who sang DR.. F. q.
| Renshaw, and Hon. Jas. McHugh.
The features Of the post prandial
entertainment were the stories by
Chas. O'Brien, newspaper representa-
tive with the Toledo base ball boys. the
address by Mr.. Sullivan, and the adj
dress by Father Doyle. who responded
| to the toast, ''The Day We Celebrate"
Finer oratory has probably never been
heard at a Pensacola Hibernian cele-
| bration than the effort of Father
Doyle last night.
Mr.. Sullivan was at his best and he
spoke in part as follows:
Hon. J. J. SuIIivan's Address.
1.-The two things an Irishman holds
politics. For hundreds of years we
Irish have opposed foreigners, espec-
| tally when they sought to impose on
Ireland. Strange to say. the greatest
foreigner that ever lived was St. Pat
rick. He was not Irish, as some might
think, nor did he have a drop Of Irish
blood in his veins, as far as we know,
yet the Irish have esteemed this for
eigner greater than any Irishman that
ever lived.
when St Patrick went to Ireland
he brought new religion, but no pol
itics. He did not interfere with the
Tanminy Society or the democratic
party of those days in Ireland. He
left the Crokers, Kellys and Murphys,
and their Brehon laws alone and so
silver-tongued was he that he won
the Irish over to his religion.
From that time on the Irish, too, be-
came great foreigners and where they
left politics alone and kept to religion
they became great missionaries and
churchmen and came near taking Rome
itself, as there are four cardinals of
our race at present. But some of us
who became foreigners brought our
politics with us and we could have
been born in this country, but that
would have made too many candidates
for the presidency and may have bust
ed the national conventions, so we
were born in Ireland.
I'VE really forgot that we were for
eigners; we fought and died for this
country and sacrificed ourselves by be-
coming mayors and aldermen of the
cities and-greatest sacrifice of all
some of us served in the legislatures.
Don't look so sad and solemn,
Brother MuHugh. I served my term
cd ic
for you.
But where am (which side of the
Atlantic, this or the other Pll step
across. BY the by, if the Irish here
could undo the moorings of Ireland
they would place her in the Gulf of
Mexico and that would cause the cap
itol at Washington to be removed here.
''The Irish in Ireland was so inhos-
pitable to foreigners who would try to
impose their politics and religion, diff
ferent from st. Patrick's, on us that
when they came decked out for that
purpose with such rare plumes that
the world had never seen the like we
broke their heads, took their plumes
and sent their leader, Essex, home, |
where he lost his head and plume. |
Even the bishops would take a hand |
in this Iaudable work as well as saying |
prayers. It is related of one that he |
used mace. or club, with which he |
battered mems heads and helmets in |
and when asked why he did not use |
sword said he might be accused of |
shedding mems blood, but he took his |
club to chastise disobedient children.
1.-THE English have caused so many |
of the Irish to become foreigners that |
they did not leave enough of us home |
to rule Ireland, so we had to rule other |
countries, including the English, and |
King Redmond has had quite a Job |
with the assistance of Mr.. Asuuith !
and King George. But next year we
will see the Panama canal opened and |
home rule established in Ireland
Then the Honorable John Red !
mond's troubles will commence He /
will have to provide some means to
help poor King George to protect the
poor lords from American heiresses
and English suffragettes. Oh, what |
will the lords do then? Poor thingsi |
They may become members of an in
ternational museum. And we will have
to concede some measure of home rule
for the poor Englishmen themselves.
And being as we Irish are, bashful and
tongue tied, Re6-non will have a time
getting men to run for the Irish par
lament. am afraid he will have to
call on some American Office seekers
and we could furnish a few candidates
from Pensacola to run as parliament
tary members. But last and greatest
Of all Irish grievances will be that
while Ireland has always had griev-
ances she will then have no grievance.
This is the third centennial ami
versary of the death Of one of the last
of the Irish princes, O'Nei1; and, in
the language of his brave soldiers,
there viii be a good day in Ireland
yet. sSlantha' Irish Home Rule