2 THE QGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINER MONDAY EVENING
I LORD MAYOR'S FAST
HELD ATTENTION OF
PEOPLE WORLD OVER
I LONDON. Qi I 26. The story of the
snr-etarvatlon of Terence MacSwiney
lord mayor of Cork. proaftply wj" D0"
eome one of the inosl moving chapters
ol the centuries- long history of the
Irish struggle N" other eontrovor.r
has stirred Ureal BHtaln so deeply as
hi., since the one that centered "pon
Cecil Rhodes, when the Jameson rahi
sas balked by Paul Kruger and the
raiders Imprisoned. ,
The campaign In Bn gland lei M -Svinev's
release from prison haj been
ipArt From ah political And party con
siderations ami even the King wi
,lr.in into it Tim movement in Mai -Swlney's
behalf was mainly humani
tarian and enlisted tender-hearted peo
l.olc of all factions hut wts urged Vj
others with :irguments of part Btrat-
Iesrv.
REGARDED MARTH
"MacSwiney dead and canonised in
the hearts of the IrUrti people with
Wolf Tone and the Manchester mar
tyrs would be .1 more valuable asael
to the Sinn lin than afacSwIftey alive
jrifl, even though j free pass to free
dom for MacSwiney might weaken the
governments hand, why help the sep
iratlst cause by giving it a martyr?'
trere the arguments put forward even
h Unti.-h unionists.
"Stand by the law and do nt .re
ate a precedent which would make the
will of a convicted rebel the doclelv
factor in determining whether he shall
in punched was the argument of
-,-iho stand fast f iction. A majority ot
talhe British papers including the l-"n-ilon
Tim. s and the lihem press, th'
labor unionists, and many membt ol
both parties In Parliament Joined In
(he agitation tor MacSwlney's release.
TWO COVTKOA 1 ,KSIi:s
Two notable controversies, one con
stitutional ami the othci theoloflcal,
1 ,u .miu Th.- flr-.
. whether King Georg. . uuld prop-;
i rly exerclae his pardoning prerogative
Independently of or againal tb advlet
or his ministers vti second was:
whether the Catholic clergy, reprc-
sontlng a church which holds .-ulcide.
. to be a crime, could consistently ad-
minister the sacrament hungai
.striker.-- The King's repls through
the secrotury of State lor war, to the
petition of members of parliament tas
i;.nrally interpreted to mean til
King1? personal leaning was toward
granting a pardon. But, aim Premier
Lloyd George and the foreign minis
ter A Hunar Law. Were at the "J
nun' issuing arguments agalnsi . I. m-
m v for the lord mayor, It eras evldi n
that any action In that Urectlon bj
the king would be against the adi. i
n; his ministers
The newepapers published many
.Jitorials and letter- setting irth. on j
one hand, that King George she
not bo embarrassed by direct appeals
to htm and, on the other hnnd thai
he should and had the right ,o x . -tisc
his nominal constitutional power,
I "i paruomng
REPUBLICAN ARMl OFFICER
The Weekly Nation. n'bJcli b. on o
the most advanced liberal organs end
not generally rated as support ol
monarch, argue ) thai this wat in
casion for the king to ndl its hi
I constitutional right and protect the
country against Liu Browing tutocracy
of the cabinet
There Wi man her argumen
to the sam.- effect, one hlatoi
Jj writer, combatting lh theorj thai the
ktag always had be n a i Iphi r In uoh
matters, exhumed a new atoi li the
annals of British monarchy, telling
how George IV described by Thacke
ray as the weakest and least admir
able character in the line of British
lilnn nar. 1r. MM lit,' . niu.i'il r'linni-
Ieer with tears pleading For the pardon
of criminals aini sometimes i trrj hi
point, although bnoe when he f rot
to the viceroy of Ireland granting par
don to a murderer be wat compelled
by his cabinet to cancel his did
One of the chief reasons put f or-j
ward by afec8winey'fl . ites, al
though advocated from intl-Slnti Pel
quarters, wall thai the offenaei ol
which stacBwiney was i mvicted ware
so comparatively lltrh: they did liOtl
justify hla suffering even though '.oi
untarily. Premier Llod George1 r
ply was thai MacSwiney undoubtedly
vdjs a high officer of the 'Irish lt -publican
army" which decreed and ex
ectttad murder.-, of officials and po
lice In Ireland The Republican army
unlike th Sinn Fein, is purely a SO re
organization. The Identity of its of
ficer and personnel Is kept from the,
public and there Is doubt even whether j
the Sinn Peln controls It or Officially!
knows Its workings.
LIKi: .IOIIN ItilOWK'S BOOl
The theological argument over thel
i-ourse of Bishop Cola nan and Mai -swiney's
chaplain, tho itcv Father
Domini. , in, as critics sap. encourag
ing him to commit suicide, v.. is ijrg.d.
blplical. The Rev. Father Bernard
Vaughn, was lh only prlsot who pub
licly criticized them. A lccluit which
tic wa to deliver In Glasgow, s cen-
Itor of la lor unionism, had to W- ivl.v
i ciied on account of the unpopularity
hts moi ..is brought upon him.
The human aspect of the lord
mayor's hunger ?trikf was the one
that cbiefl) interested Hrltlsh people
and Compelled the sympathy ot even
blS hardest political enemies. Mn-MacSwln.-y
and his brothers and sla
v. treated everywhere with re
spect and on their side had nothing
bul good t., h,; of the Jailers and po
lice with whom they had to deal.
Any way out of Macfiwiney's im
piibonment except his oeath would
have been welcomed by the whole pub
lic but has famll were as firm as
MaeSwIaejv In refusing to listen t-, any
ml except release or death. TV.,
an be no doubt the Irish republicans
believed MacSwIney had giVep their
caUss the most valuable seyvtos in his
power and that, like John Bnrwn 'hfl
t-H I trouble you more thmi ever when
ton hsve nailed his coffin dOl a
TWO-YKAR SENTENCE
M i oBwinc r's hunger Mnke was be
;un on August 12 when, with tun of
nis associates, he was arrested by sol
diers in Cork while attending a session
of a Sinn Kcln court Afur trUI by a
couK-mnrtlal under th regulations of
the Defence Of the Realm Act. he was
lom.d guiltv of eedltton anil sentenccl
t,- two years' Imprisonment, which hf
. i r-lng in itrlxton Prison tn I-on-l
tlon
MacSwiney, then an aldermun of
I Carle, was selected lord mayor of the
i lly at a special session of the Cork
Corporation on March 3" of this year,
He was a well-known Sinn Fein leader
ind, prior to his election, had been
dported and laapiisoned M -ornl timfia,
oni Of the latest notable Instance
of his .onflnertient having bee It in
1911 In connection with the !nsh Cast
er revolt.
TKIBl'N.VL DF,FIi:i
When urrrsted on Aujcmtt 12 AlaC
swine3' maniLgcd to escape to I he street
from the back of the city hall, which
soldiers had surrounded, but aa cap
tured outside. He wj taken to tho
military barriicks and came up t0t
trial on Augutit 16. The courtnxartl.il
found him guilty of having control of
the fwcret psaMce cipher, of having in
tils pcws-salon a document Ilk. h to
u'ise disaffection, namely, a copy of
resolution of the Cork mrp rrjtlon
pledging allegiance to the Dail Klre
.on the Irish Republican parliament, I
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and of having mad a seditious speech!
on the oooaaifn of his election,
Already weak at the trial because
of his refusal to take food. Ma8wlnty
disputed the luaisdlctjon of the court
..-, ., mg i am the lord niayo of Ihls
eltv and Its chief magistrate I declare (
Lhia court illegal and thoe rnklnc pari
In it liable to arrest under the
of the iri'h republic;"
The day following his trlnl Lord
Mayor MacSwiney was deported to
England aboard s destroyer, 3nder s
heaT military eacorl and was lodged
in T'.rlxton Jail Th- eovernment an
rtotinced on August 19 that he wns sen
tenoed In twn -o m s' imnrlsonment,
PPI ATA PROU v s
MaeSwinev' hunger strike brought
numerous. olleitnttons anl r)roteitu to !
th, UniKh authorities, roanv of the!
'appeal, being from sympathize!- Ifi
! the 1'nited States, . ren i threa from
th Sinn Fein in Ireland, that, In the.
event of his death, a genera! Strike
and serlOUS disturbances would pre
.iil throughout the island. An appeal
was taker directly to the i:inr. but
thi also proved unavailing.
laming his Imprisonment, the lord
I mayor received numerous me?.tire of
r-ncotiragement and also peMtltnos to
i abandon his strike He replied the
latter that if he p:i p up hts flrbl be
i would "give awa Irish iherv," and
that he would ''rather die than do
j that."
Replying to renort tb-t sustenance
j lu-in? given laor MacSwiney. th.e
I iiritlsh home office derlared "If h
V ina fed we do not know l." 'hl!
mOmbefa of MscSwIney's family de
nied categorically that food had been J
plven him
Peter MacSwiney. of New York a
brother of the lord mavor. Is on offi
i i .1 of the American Commission for
irisn muenen.H nee
FED WHTLB JJrfCONSCIOl s.
Within the past week, when it he
ron to appear that the lord mayor
was appronchlnc the end. he was giv
en ll.pili) nourishment by the prison
doctors during pprlOdS of tinconsclous
nss. This fact appeared In statements by
both fbe Irish Soli -Leteeminatlon
leugtie. WhlCp had he n Issuing
rrp-ulnr bulletins on MacSwlnev'a
eondltlon, and bv the home office The
1-ague's statement showed th" lord
mayor as being cvlremeU indleno"
upon regaining coneclouspeat anl real
iziec that he bud been fet.
"They tricked me. and I didn't know
It," he exclaimed.
The league's bulletin on October 21
contained this statement:
"It should be made clenr that the
meat extract given the lo-d mayor
.1'irlncr his delirium on the sixty-ninth
day of his fast was the first nour'sh
ment which passed his lips sin y his
arrest on AtirUflt 12."
Tri( OF I'OI'F..
V.'l.:. -.ar,l I.. . I . I , ...
,ispcts of the lord nvyor's hunger
strike and that of the Irish prisoners
In the Cork Jail who began B almilar
.i list e nation from food shortly before
MacSwinev's f.iv -.lir1 . p w . ' itrd
in a Rome dispatch on October 17 that
T'op.- Benedict had re fern the prob
lem of the status of these hunger
sinking prisoners to the congregation
of the holy office.
The first death among the hunger
Strikers occurred on Sunday. October
IT. when Michael Fltagcrald, one of
tho eleven striking prisoners ir the
Cork Jail, aucdumhed. He had fasted
. 'ty-eight days. Several other of the
Cork prisoners are dei.l.'jretl now to be
In j critical State.
Hunger Strike Proves
Fatal on 74th Day
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which has been reserved for Irish
Nationallat soldiers.
f How DS ITIEBR
As soon as the news of th lord
mayor s death began tu spread through
the cty small knotfe of people began
moving toward Brixton prison. The
police, however, did not allow any
one to move Into the street leading
to the pnron entrance Fears had
previously been expressed that the Jr.t-d
mayor's death might cause a demon
stration at the prison.
The MacSwiney family after the
Inquest Will take the hodv to St
peorge a eailiedral In London, where
11 Will lie m stale mtll it g taken to
Dublin, where il Is planned to place
the body for a dj.y or two In the
sjanalon house.
a friend 01 the IfgcSwlnej family
who accompanied Mrs. IfacSwlne)
when sho HsRed Brixton prison thfi
morning. Bald the lord mayor's tele
gram of liclnliir in iu- ,
grr strikers With reference to the
Jf.th oj tn. hunger-strlki , . Michael
r itrerald, In Cork Jail, In which h
I.ferreil i J. 'itzgerald as hiding die-1
for his oountry and joined tho immoi -tls
characterized the family's atti
tude. WIFE HI "Alts DP
"Mr.- MacSwiney and ihe lor may
ors Msten Annh and .m.tv. who wer
not nr. tent when the en.i can n-
tr-red the COM, kissed the mayor
cheek, knelt silently In prayer a few
inomenW, nj then left." tho frlemJ
saJd There w.ls not a tear shed bi
the may ore, . who preaeried the imi
atolcal seirpoaseaafon she hu shown
throughout the long nrde.il "
Th,. d. ath of Lord Mayor Mac
Swinej was he first of an Irish bun-
gpr-StrUcer to occur In Kngland Jusi
a Week ago. on ln occasion of th'
death of .Michael Pitsgentld. one ol
the clever, hunger strikers in the Colt
Jail, the lord mayor telegraphed:
We do not know who in to he tin
SOI ond to step into the path i immor
tallty but by offering nnreH-rv.d sac
rifice we an safeguarding t. ,Jt ..
tinles of Ireland.
It became evident several days ago
that Alaeswlnev nearing the end
t'p to thut time ho had stca-Ji set! 1 re
fuised nourishment, alihough temptlnl
dlshea were brought to his bedaldi
lall b the authoritie.v toth th. aU
Iboritles und the lor.j mavor .. relative,
fimnnatln'i M. - . . ,
ZltZ.ZZJl I nlca 'my nal not ad
m inietered food t.. the prisoner, not
withstanding rumors to the contrary
!)! IVI MAVOR
AtK : arter th mayor who had1
fuhed the stagi of eatreme emada
tlon, had become periodically delirious,
the officials began to givc him liquid I
nourlsnment. n,is ,um;
however, aa the mayor has been all
but dead for many days.
As the end approached the authori
ties restricted the vlsiu of his rela
tives declaring this was in the Inter
est of the prisoner, who won said to be
too wk for excitement. Lst even
ing his brother Sean (John) and Fathl
Dominic staved In the prison in view
of aventualttlea shoniv before sla
o'clock this morning they were sum
moncd to sen the lord mayor, who h..d
taken a bad turn They found him Iv
Ing motionless with his eyes op bu:1
unoonaeioua.
, Father Uominlc whlsperod a , f ew
prajora, but the dying ruan did not
I seal
t A Gold Star Mother I
PLEADS FOR B
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The League of Nations I
Elizabeth, New Jersey.
George White, Esq.,
Chairman Democratic National Committee,
Care New York Times, New York City.
Dear Sir:
Please accept the enclosed small contribution to the fund
for dissemination of the truth about the League of Nations. rjj
It is literally a "widow's mite," but it comes from a mother ' M
who sent four greatly needed sons to the World War. M
Two of these sons, with almost unlimited possibilities for ifl
future usefulness, were killed; a third was ill in hospitals
in France for five months, due to gassing in action, and is
still classified as "unfit," and a fourth risked his precious
young life in the air. W
When an honest and concerted effort is being made
by the nations of the earth to save, if possible, future mothers
and sons from these sacrifices, it is hard to realize there are
those who oppose such an effort.
' I feel sure that among those who paid for the war
there can be but one opinion7 and that is to try the League I
of Nations, even if it is not perfect. It is the best that has
been proposed, and, all objection being weighed, is mani- I
festly the most feasible. Please God it will not fail. C
Very truly yours,
I MARIE A. DAVIDSON
(Mrs. Edward Crawford Davidson)
October Sixth, Nineteen Twenty.
180,000 American Dead:
80,000 Reasons Why! 4
GOVERNOR COX says "I favor going into the League." U
! SENATOR HARDING says "I reject the League. I have no program."
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HERBERT HOOVER said "If the League is to break down we must prepare to fight."
i A Vote for COX is
A Vote for PEACE
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recognize hint. Tho priest then re-!
'lted the prayers for Ihe d in while
Sean, the nurse ajid the four doctors.
Including the expert adviser of thel
home office, stood bi
father Iomlni and Scan then re
tired to allow the doctors to do wha'
they could for the lord mayor. Ona
i them Injected strychnine. Katin-r
Uominlc and .-'can in the meantime
were repeating rosaries In Gaelic ln
another part of the ward.
The physicians shortly notified them
hat tho lord mayor was beyond hu
man aid, niitl Kuther Dominic again
id the prr for the dying Just
us he finished the lord mayor breathed
hia last
News of hla death spread rapidly
throughout the United Kingdom and
lrerar-Htlons for a great funeral were
Immediately iegun by th.' Blnn Fein
J-Hmllar plana wer- made some time
ago when it appeared that the lord
muyor a.i about to die and It is
V"nwii thai a, that tin. 'he govern
ment took ateDfl to renrefj, what thev
might consider in-- undue demonstration-
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Indiana Much in Doubt
Says Mark Sullivan
I Continued From lix- Oni )
Cox. There is more of this than the
Indiana politicians realise
TAXATION CIIANt.C.
In addition the li'. pu" .1 . .. us have
lot some popularity in Indiana by
what many consider to be juxt aa vir
tuous a thirn; a.s the Cuu mine-Each
hill lndianu. under .1 Republican
governor. Goodrich, revised the whole
system of taxation in thi- state. A
Ktrrnger pajudng through hnrdly has
tlmo to pass Judgment :! the merits
ot the new tax system, but Governor
Goodrich is an nble, hard working
business man. and 11 is probable that
th change In the taemtloa 1 stem whs1
riaarlw irlons.
Neverthelese. taxatlo'i Is a field In
which the most meritorious things srei
frequently the lecsr poj alar. The
fact is that there ts wld-spr-- -I n nt
; meol against the Republicans I
heard of one gr at business concern
in Indiuna whose basis of taxation was
raised from ll.SOO.0011 to $17.
Naturally this concern and the com-
Imunlty in whloh it sxssta feci the
chunge.
Kurther yet. the Kwpublwaii state
! ticket here Is very weak, une of the
Ki-publhan c and Mul-i tor ,di lmporl-
aiu ftiite tJiiiuc- irf iim'i.- ir ich vfrauijr
charged with some extremely undesir
able conduct l'i a former official ca-;
reer.
i Finally, the Republican senatorial
Candidate In Indiana. Watson, who Is
seeking re-election, is pretty generally)
recognized as a weak brother
Many substantial persons, including
Kfiine 1.' n mi hi leji n onritrn o,v thut
Watson Is not of senatorial caliber
that ought never to have beua sent to
the senate, and that il Is an Injustice
to Watson, as well .as to the state, to
put a rnati in tho senate whose per
sonality and natural abilities aft not
up to the office. If this were a nor-'
mal year without a oresldentlal con-!
test there lsn"t a doubt in the world
that Watson would be badly beaten.
Ti.(..KT KIN MM..
His opponent is the old-time Demo
cratic leuder. Thoma-s Tnggart Tug
gart. by comparison Wjtll his oppo
nent, as well na by the paasage of the
years, teems to have unmeiuiurably
lelevated himself In the opinion of the
Indian., psopll He still has a consid
erable way to go, but he Is thought ol
very differently from what was the
very differently from what was the
US tea ars ago. Many people In
Indianapolis who w rr. rigidly opposed
to him years aco are now disposed to
give him some support, or at leust tO
default in .-.upportlng Watson.
The .sum of all this Is that the Re
publicans will carry Indiana M they
tarry it at all. by only a slender mar
trl n and t.v . n. ,,r i,ul .u
m . M ,u..fi nicy
niusi recognise aji neither verv deptnrt
aidc nor vi ry durable The three im-
s. l.s thai naay carry the Itepublii ,n
through are fint. diallke Ol Wilaon '
tnd of lemocratlc administration to,
have a Chance, eeoond, a lurge Gvr-
ra.in vote, which years ago. w sol-'
Idly Democratic but now is eouulU-i
solidly Republican, and third the con
siderabie nesjro vote In the stats
Indlanupolls U probably fee largest
City of the north, and they ire all R.
I publicans. Considerably ni.re than
halt tho white citizens of loc'lana will
vot,- th. iK-mocratlc ticket
The Btate of things In Indiana is pic
tured In the words of u Mrunir Rsppbll-
aan, who said v. ,ire foiqa to
! elect Warding In order to Set rid of
I Wilson and we are even golTg to elect
i Watson, because vre want to run no
risks pf a Democratic senate itut on
th day aft. r election yio srateb us
I We ary going to start a hocse cleaning
that will raise some dust.'
Cop right. 1919 by the Nvr Vork Kve
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