Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-06-24
IRISH PRESIDENT WIDELY GREETED
 ON APPEARANCE
Edward DeValera Given Great Ovation at Dramatic Entry
 New York Hotel.

New York, June 23.-Edward De- Valera president of the Sim Finn Irish republic emerged dramatically tonight from the exclusion in which he kept himself since his arrival in the Unted States. In statement to the press at the Waldorf Astoria, where he was greeted by wildly en- thusiastic followers, he declared he had come to America "to speak for the Irish nation"
 Mf. DeValalera, a tall, smooth faced, clear-eyed young Irishman, was. born in New York in 1882 but said he "renounced" his American citizen ship when he became an Irish soldier. He declined to tell how he contrived to reach American but said he came here from Boston several days ago. It was stated that during his stay in ] New York he has been living at the Carmelite priory in East Twenty ninth street.
 His secretary, H. J. Roland, said that while in Boston DeValera en- deavored to arrange an audience with Cardinal O'Connell but did not see him. Prior to that, he said, he was in Philadelphia where he saw Mich ael J. Ryan, who was member of the Irish peace delegation, and Dr. Pat rick J. McCartan. He declared De- Valera had visited Baltimore, where he saw Cardinal Gibbons and Wash ington, where he met several United States senators. He said that he al- son paid a visit to his mother in Rochester, N. Y.
 Given Wild Ovations.
 As Mr. DeValera stepped from an automobile crowd of several hun dred persons in the street cheered him and few frantically waved the flag of the Irish republic One aged Irish woman, finely attired, threw her arms around DeValera's neck. The police forced the onlookers aside to make a passage way for the Sim Fein leader. He bowed his thanks as he entered the hotel. Inside the Waldorff many Irishmen and Irish women including members of the friends of Irish freedom, an a number of clergymen and Two Bengalese from British India, had gathered to greet him.
 After the throng had filled the room where the Irish president was to meet the newspaper men an extra room was opened to accommodate them and for nearly an hour Mir. DeValera held a levee for his admir- CTS and we'll wishers.
 Makes Short Speech. MT. DeValera said he desired to express the aspirations of the Irish people exactly as he felt them" and not as British propagandists" had been quoting him. His manner of delivery was impressive, but not elo- quent. He said he did not purpose campaigning" the United States in the Irish cause, but that he might go to Washington and elsewhere. Asked Ii he had been invited to address the United States senate he said he had not.
 'The men who established vour republic sought the aid of France. :" read MT. DeValera from his state ment. We seek the aid of America. US to seek that aid that I am here, ana l am confident that I shall not be disappointed. l come here entitled to speak for the Irish nation with an authority democratically as sound ana as well based as that with which Presldent Wilson speaks for the Uni tea States or Lloyd George for Eng land, or Clemenceau for France.
 II come directly from the people of Ireland to the people of America con- vlnced that American people and consequently the American govern ment ot the people who will conscious " connlve at, or allow itself to be made party to the suppression of the natural God -given-right of the Irish nation to it's liberty"
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