Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-09
Eighty Per Cent of People of
Island Demand Republican
Form of Government, Says
American Sympathizer.
BELIEVES MISSION OF
TRIP ACCOMPLISHED
Peace Conference Had Ignored
All Pleas of Irish But Hear
ing is Obtained and Much
Publicity Results.

tRf MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wiREl
New York, July S.-Only "a gigantic
military machine, equipped with ma
chine guns and armored ears and
imprisonment of their trusted lead
ers" can prevent the Full operation
Of a republican government n Ire
land" Edward F. Dunno, former row.
ernor of Illinois. and one Df three
American delegates seat abroad by
the irish Societies of America to m
tercede in behalf of Ireland at the
peace conference, declared nron his
arrival here today on the steamer La
Savoe. With Mr.. Dunno came Frank
p. Walsh, another of the delegates,
who also issued a statement predict
ing early success of the Irish re-
public" cause.
The two delegates. who were pre-
ceded to the United States by several
weeks by Michael F. Ryan. the third
member of the mission, We're given an
enthusiastic reception by crowd of
several hundred persons. The recep-
tion was attended by the waving of
American and Irish republic flags
and cheering for the delegates and
for Ireland The delegates drove i'm
medately to the hotel where Eamonn
de Valera, ''the president of the Irish
republic, is stopping and were re-
ceived by him. Later they were made
de Valera's guests at luncheon.
Mission Successful.
1--WE are satisfied that our mission
accomplished most. If not all, that we
set out to achieve" Mr.. Bunne said.
"The case of Ireland petore .he
worlds peace conference was neing
deliberately .sncred prior &c our az"
rival in Paris, and was being treated
by England with her usual unccn-
cern and contempt
upon orr insistence, however. that
il must be considered. the american
commission made reprea ea9ntdtions 10
the British prime minis.s, urging that
it should receive prompt consilera-
ton The British pTin;e munster
thereupon expressed a desire to meet
us in conference, and pend,ng the fix
ing of date for his CONFERENCE, gave
us diplomatic passports u VISIT Ire
land expressing a desire that we
should visit all portions of that coun-
try, including Belfast.
1--WE went to Ireland and thus We're
able to give to President Wilson, the
American commission and to the
world, a true unvarnished story of
English atrocities and military mis-
rule IN q. r we TOM D6lleu inc
castle authorities in Dublin and final
ly the whole English and irish press
to take up and discuss openly the
scandalous military occupation and
oppression.
Peace Kept by Army.
I'VE compelled them to admit that
the right of trial by jury. the right of
habeas corpus and all the other safe
guards usually thrown around peo-
pie in civilized countries rad been
overthrown in Ireland, and that Brit
ish domination was sustained only by
the presence of an enormous army of
occupation equipped with all the mur-
derous weapons of actual modern
warfare.
I'VE have plainly shown to the
American commissioners that Ireland
is not in the position of seeking favors
from England. but is in the position
of demanding from the worlds con-
ference recognition as de facto and
de jure government, and as havinb
the right to become a member of the
league of nations.
1--WE are confident of the outcome.
Eighty per cent of the people of Ire
land demand a republic and are en-
deavoring to function as a republic,
and it's people will not be content
with anything but a republic"
Mr.. Walsh asserted that despite Mr..
Lloyd Georges declarations that
England does not seek a yard of ter
ritory since the war England has not
only suppressed the movement for a
free Ireland, but "has seized vast ter
ritory in Egypt. German East Africa,