Show T P OCONNOR IN NEW YORK Irish h Leader Corrects Mangled Ex Extract Extract Extract tract From Brooklyn Speech New York Oct 21 A reception was given T P OConnor and his associate members of parliament from Ireland tonight by the United Irish league Su Supreme Supreme preme Court Justice Martin Keogh was chairman of the meeting Mr OConnor spoke and was as warmly greeted He said he was In America to obtain its moral and material support and then added At this point I must make a correction correction correction tion of a report which in one respect I r am sure does not represent what I Isaid Isaid Isaid said in a in Brooklyn last night I did not state that President Roosevelt would say something on the Irish question which may make possible possible possible ble the realization of our hopes If I had made any such statement I would have said something for which I had bad no warrant What I did say was that the English masses and the Irish masses both consider Mm lim as the man who made peace between Russia and Japan and that both regard him as a friend and that the day might come when they would welcome him as one of the mediators in trying to end the lamentable estrangement between the English and Irish people |