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lic movement, of his having no visible means of sup¬
port though he spent money like a prince running
from city to city, especially those in which Irish re¬
volutionists abounded. Why, then, do his backers
say that the Gael originated the charge? Ought
not the "exploded" false pretense of his being the
representative of his brothersinlaw, the fabled rich
French vintners (who turned out to be poor strugg¬
ling painters in Alabama) open the eyes of the gulls
who backed him? What was his purpose in stru¬
ting about under these false pretenses, walking into
the societies' halls with such air of consequence as
intimated that it was an unusual condescension on
his part to mix with such class of people ? Why
did he not make Cleveland, where his wife was em¬
ployed, a central location, and not New York and
Chicago, his head quarters? But why bring fami¬
ly affairs into the matter? Russell by his avowed
purpose of injuring the Gaelic movement challenges
inquiry into all his surroundings; and the fact that
he made his home in New York and Chicago (where
he done no visible business) instead of Cleveland,
where his wife lived (and they on friendly terms, he
calling on her occasinally, as is asserted his sister-
in-law) has a very tangible bearing on Mr O'Sulli¬
van’s allegation.
We have a latter from Chicago in which the wri¬
ter states that Russell said he was a native of a cer¬
tain part of the County Westmeath, and that anoth¬
er party present, who lived there, contradicted him
(Russell) as to certain names, etc., which he men¬
tioned, and told him to his face that he knew noth¬
ing at all about the place. It would be fitter for his
backers to explain all these things and why Russell
blackguarded all our Irish scholars (when he did
not know the difference between the past and tuture
forms of the language himself), and sought to "sit"
on the Gael, the only Irish paper then published,
than expose their gommishness by leaping before
they looked.
THE SENTIMENTS of our SUBSCRIBERS
Ala — Birmingham, J Kelly, P Lynam, M Daly
per Mr. Kelly.
Ariz — Phoenix, P Hughes, D Sullivan.
Cal — San Francisco, Ed Myles, P Dougherty.
Col — Denver, M O'Brien, P Levelle, P Dolan,
Mr Dolan.
Conn — New Haven, Rev. B W Bray, P Mur¬
phy, T Callaghan, Major Maher, Capt L O'Brien,
J Reynolds, J C Donovan, all per Major Maher,
who insinuates that he has partly silenced the
guns of his old enemies, M'Cosker, Feeny, Mur¬
phy (Port Costa), McTighe (Binghamton), Lov¬
ern (Scranton), etc., and preparing to give an un¬
relenting battle to McEniry, Lally, Henehan, Mc¬
Cormick, McEniry (Phila.), Griffin (Lawrence)
Lane (St. Louis) etc., including his Montague op¬
ponent, Downey, whose ability as a skirmisher
gives an uneasy feeling — Stamford, P F Duggan.
J Ryan, L Kelly, per Mr Duggan — Fall River, H
McCann.
Del — Willmington, M McEvily, M Dunne, M J
Walsh.
Ill — Chicago, J Brennan, Wm Raleigh, D Sul¬
livan, T McCabe — Monmuth, P Daly.
Ind — Union City, T McMahon — Indianapolis, J
Moran, P Dwyer, W Kirk, D Leahy, Mr Leahy.
Mass — Boston, D Sullivan, J O'Sullivan, per D
Sullivan; D O'Connell, P Trainor, M M Walsh —
Marlboro, J Shaughnessy — Lawrence, D O'Con¬
nell, per T Griffin — Holyoke, P Smith, J Lehane,
per Mr Smith — Springfield, J O'Brien, P Fahy.
Mich — Grand Rapids, D Noonan, S Malone, M
Lydon — Lansing, O Tully, P Nesbitt.
Minn — Minneapolis, N Dunn, M Tully, J Daly,
per Mr Dunn; J O'Neill, C Murphy, M Monahan
per Mr O'Neill — St Paul, C Connor, J Loftus, H
O'Connor, per Mr Loftus; M Dempsey.
Mo — St Joseph, J O'Shaughnessy — St Louis, M
Hagarty, M Murphy, Jere O'Brien.
Nev — Gold Hill, M Tierney. — The Irish spirit
was rampant about Virginia, Gold Hill and Vorga
formerly: Has the silver run out? Send it along
N J — Jersey City, H Butler, J Hogan, T Mal¬
ley, J Ryan, M Dunne, per Mr Dunne — Newark,
P Flynn, P Grehan — Paterson, T O'Brien, P W
Murphy — Trenton, M Duffy, P Daly, p. Mr Daly
N Y — Brooklyn, Miss Mary J Hynes, Miss Nora
Riordan, T Brophy, J Cooney, S Ruddy, P Walsh
— Greenfield, P A Dougher, who regrets that he
lives in a rural district or he would knock the gas
out of Lally and all the other big guns — Herkimer
T Cox — City, Counsellor John L Brower; Capt.
T D Norris, Miss Mary O'Mahoney, per Capt.
Norris ; P Morrissey, per T Erley; P Foley, W J
Sweeney, D M Murphy, T Higgins — Rondout, P
Fleming — Rochester, O McCue, J Moore.
O — London, Dr J C MacAuliff — Cin., P Rowan
— Cleveland, T Hackett, J Grady, H Mackin B V
Nulty, per Mr Hackett — Columbus, H Neil, P M
Lowrey, Miss Nelly Doherty, per Mr Neil.
Pa — Phila., P McCann, J Murphy, J P Markey
per Mr McCann; P O'Neill, M Savage — Pittsburg
P Cleary, J Redmond, A Fallon, per Mr Fallon,
Wash — Port Ludlow, F Dunlevy, who paid the
The Gael a friendly visit after seeing the World's
Fair — Spokane, T Devine.
W Va — Wheeling, T Dougherty, T Barrett, J
Joice, M Dolan (Benwood), P Haskins (Benwood)
P McCabe, all per A Lally,
Wis — Eau Claire, M McLaughlin — La Cross, J
Canavan.
Ireland —
Cork — Carriginima. P Lehane — Masterguihy, P
Sugrue — Cork Model School, T Cronin.
Kerry — Killarney, P O'Connell — Kilgarvan, P
Buckley. All the above are sent by Capt T D Nor¬
ris, 40 Weter Street, New York City. All the re¬
cipients are National Teachers. — Should not other
Irishmen follow the gallant Captain's example ?
Irishmen, we appeal to you again to make more
strenuous exertions to scatter your literature.
As your gifted and patriotic poet has truly said
on the next page, your langage is all that has es¬
caped the wreck, and thanks to the mountains of
Munster, Connaught, and Donegal that what has
been left is the primeval ingredient, Genuine I¬
rish patriotism is to the man ignorant of the lan¬
guage as the choicest viands are to him who has
lost the sense of taste and smell. — We appeal to
the old workers to try to restore that sense to their
countrymen: and we leave to them to say whether
the existence of The Gael today after twelve years
of hard struggle under the unceasing fire of the
enemy, is not a tangible proof that we have done
our part: will you do yours, friends of Ireland?
Do, then, your part and no power on earth can
destroy the Irish Nation.
