Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — WELCOMED TO AMERICA. [ARTICLE]

WELCOMED TO AMERICA.

Arrival of Messrs. O'Brien, Dillon, Snllivan and Harrington.' ' ■

Mr. William O’Brien, M. P., and bis wife; Mr. John Dillon, M. P., T. D. Sullivan, M. P., and bis wife, and Timothy Harrington arrived at New York on the 2d on the steamer La Champagne. Areception committee representing the Irish societies of New York, accompanied by several hundred members of the National League and the various Irish societies, met them at quarantine. Upon the arrival of the steamer at her dock a reception was held on her deck, and at 11 o’clock the party was driven to the Hoffman House. The party had scarcely reached the hotel when Governor . Hill called upon them. The Governor warmly welcomed them to the city and State, expressed his hearty sympathy with the cause they represented and signed his name to the address of welcome that had been prepared by the Irish societies. Mayor Grant also called and expressed sentiments similar to those of the Governor, and also appended his name to the address of welcome.

To the representatives of the press Mr. O’Brien related the details of his escape from Ireland as follows: “We delayed our trip as long as there was any chance of our being able to visit America in the interval between the sentence and the appeal. We saw that the Government was deliberately eating away that interval, and as soon as that became evident we came away. The plan was simplicity itself. We went out of the frontdoor of a conspicuous house inDub" lin without any disguise at all. We drove in a carriage to Dalkoy, and supped at the house of Mr. Healy that night At midnight we were rowed aboard the yacht St. Patrick, which set sail,in a gale, from Kingstown at once. While we were being provisioned, just before the start, the coast guard came alongside and questioned Captain Murphy and Sheriff Clancy of Dublin, who were with us. We escaped detection and sailed for the Welsh coast where we lay three days becalmed, within a pistol shot of the shoro and in full view of the coast guards. Then we were becalmed three days more right in the course -Of English shipping in the channel, and it half the scrutiny had been given to us that was exercised in searching out-bound vessels we would have been detected sure. We reached the French coast on the evenj ing of the seventh day and wentto Paris.’ Mr. O’Brien then read a statement of the objects of the visit of himself and Mr. Dillon, which is made at the desire and upon the authority of Mr. Parnell, and predicted that a general election will occur in Great Britain in less than two years. After remaining at New York until after the electiou the visitors will hold meetings in Philadelphia, Boston, Newark and Jersey City. They will afterward divide into two or three parties and make a tour of the country. 1