ACCEPTED.
IRISH CONVENTION AND HOME RULE MOST SATISFACTORY BILL EVER OFFERED. SCENE OF GREAT ENTHUSIASM. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April '24, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 23rd April. Mr. J. E. Redmond has been elected president of the Irish Convention m Dublin. In his address he said the Dili was the greatest and most satisfactory ever offered, implying as it did the JRsappearanee of Dublin Castle and all its evil, blood-stained traditions. They would be a nation of fools, he declared, if they did not accept. He wae aware, he said, that the safeguards against religious ascendency were unnecessary, but as long as anyone in Ireland had .honest doubts in. connection therewith he was ready to accept them. The Bill gjive Ireland immediate control of nine-tenths of the Irijsh v &erviceti, and eventually the whole. He insisted that the Bill's finance proposals were far better than either of its predecessors. He moved the acceptance of the Bill. The Lord Mayor of Cork (Alderman J. Simcox) seconded the motion, which was carried amid&t the greatest enthusiasm and the unfolding of the green flag simultaneously.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 97, 24 April 1912, Page 7
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183ACCEPTED. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 97, 24 April 1912, Page 7
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