The New York herald., 1921-01-10
RECEPTION In HOTEL
Visitor Says Irish Freedom
Is Business of America,
France and Italy.
HOME RULE NOT WANTED
Asserts Ireland Will Fight to
AnnihilatiOn Until She Gets
What She Seeks.

Danlel j. u Callanail, leieiiNS "AaS
Swiney's successor as Lord Mayor of
Cork, arrived yesterday in New York
city, announcing that he had come to
preach that. while Sim Fein meant
I'VE Ourselves" freedom for Ireland
was the business of America, France
Italy and all other countries that be-
lieve in liberty He was met at the
pennsylvania Station by crowd not
so large as that which greeted Muriel
MacSwiney, but just about as en-
thusiastic.
They overwhelmed him and the motor
car that carried him TO the Hotel VOL
colt, where he will live while In New
York They burst through the doors or
the hotel and compelled him to hold
reception, while a thousand men ana
women shook his hands. They staged
several lively fights for reasons mat
were not very clear. The fights were
brief, for there were fifty policemen to
see to 1t that calm was preserved.
Mr.. O'Callahan said he did not know
how long he would be in America that
he hoped to stay here two or three
months If the Department of Labor VIII
let him. He apologized for his uncere-
monious entrance to America-coming
as a stowaway aboard a freighter-but
said that he had about as much chance
of getting passports from the British
Government as England has OF defeat
ing the purposes of the Irish people"
Met by n Delegation.
A delegation headed by the Rev.
Father Timothy Stanley. Harry Boland
and Peter ]. Brady. supervisor of the
City Record, met Mayor O'Callahan at
the station. He had come from Newport
News and said that his progress north
was one calculated to assure him that
America was friendly. At Newark and
at Manhattan Transfer New Jersey dele
cations cheered him. He was honored
by military escort when he did arrive
in Manhattan--two squads of dough-
boys from the Sixty-ninth Infantry New
York Guard, led by no less parsonage
than Major Dynamite Mike" Kelly. BY
main force his escort managed to fight
him clear of the crowd at the hotel and
establish him in an eighth floor suite.
A thousand persons, brave with flags
the Stars and Stripes and the Irish
Republica-stood at Thrty-irst street
after the reception and demanded a
speech from the young man. He talked
from a window high above their heads
and despite the fact that they could
hear but little they roared with approval
He is the third Lord Mayor Cork has
had within a year, Thomas MacCurtain
and Terence MacSwiney, both dead, pre-
ceding him. He explained that he real
ICES that being Mayor of Cork has its
drawbacks from a standpoint of creature
comfort. but that he's quite ready to
suffer anything that may come If, by
doing so. he can lend impetus to the
cause of the Sim Fein.
Understand me-" he continued, II
don't court arrest. l wish to avoid it,
ireland needs her young men II her
cause Is to live. | am willing to die for
her. but ] am living for her and want
to go on living for her"
The Lord Mayor Is just 20 years old
and besides being Mayor of Cork Is
chairman of the Cork County Council
which corresponds in the main TO our
own Board of Aldermen. lie is a ship
ping broker by business and singularly
calm and sef-contained for one so obvi-
ously jealous
Ready to Confer with Premier.
I'VE arc ready TO confer with Lloyd
George the moment he consents" he
said. but we leave him under no mis-
apprehension. We want nothing short
OF independence. II they decide to give
us home rule we shall not resist it with
great force, but will stand by and watch
developments. We don't want home
rule and we will not have It, II Eng
land forces 1t upon us we shall. as
say, await Developments We shall let
the people of Ireland tell England the
result. Such is our republican organi-
zation at this moment that we are ready
to start Immediately to function as a
government. There'll be no hitch. We
can govern ourselves. If there be those
who dissent from the government OF
the majority we shall deal with them as
such dissenters are dealt with"
Mayor O'Callahan wore the six strand
gold chain which has been the official
Insignia OF Lord Mayors OF Cork for
centuries. j. L. Fawcitt. who is recog-
nized by Sim Fein as the Consul Gem
eral Of the Irish Republic in New York,
accompanied him, and Peter MacSwiney.
brother OF Terence, never left his side.
OCallahan is a slight man with clean
cut features and eyes that proclaim that
the man Is very tired.
Il have come to testify before the
Nations committee of inquiry into con-
ditions In Ireland" said the Lord Mayor
Also have come to add what | can
to the agitation for American sympathy
for ireland. How will | return?
don't know. VIII / be arrested when
get back? l don't know. l don't think
there's much chance OF peace within
the next two or three months / have
no faith in the negotiations now sup
posed TO be under way.
Cork Is ruled by the Black and Tans
You can walk the streets freely enough
by day saving being held up now and
then and searched. But the nights are
bad
yes, we've stopped carrying money
and watches in Cork II doesn't pay pe-
cause II the Black and Tans think you
have anything worth taking they hold
you up and take II. One of their favor
ite amusements is 10 get drunk and take
the whips from the cabbies and whip
citizens along the street--keep them
moving. IL citizen complains too
voclferousy he Is shot There's no re-
dress. They are laws unto themselves,
these police.
i've been fortunate. I've been ar
rested twice only and spent but brief
periods In Jail When they arrested
Terence MacSwlney | escaped them. I
stayed out OF the city for ten months.
Make no mistake about II. the vast ma
jority Of the people of ireland subscribe
to the Sim Fein policies. There's no
honest difference between those Irish
who call themselves republicans and
those who cali themselves Sim Fein.
'No, the Bishop of Cork, Bishop