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Show SAILED FORAMERICA. The Irish Nationalists Leave France on Their Mission in Bahalf of Their Country in the U. S. DILLON AND O'BBIEtf KNOWN HEBE Sullivan and Harrington Will, However, Visit America for the First Time, Ireland's Poet Lauret, r.:is, Oct. 25.-Special.-The Irish nationalists John Dillon, William O'Brien, T. D. Sullivan and Timothy Harrington, sailed from Havre today for New York. They will make an extensive ex-tensive tour of the United States. O'Brien and Dillon are well-known in America wnere they have been on two or three occasions before. This is the first visit of Sullivan and Harrington to the New World. Sullivan Sulli-van is a journalist by profession and has been for many years the editor of the Dublin Nation. He served three years as Lord Mayor of Dublin. His successdr in that exalted office was Thomas Sexton the most eloquent speaker of the Irish parliamentary party. Sullivan is not an orator but he is known everywhere as Ireland's poet laureate. He is the author of tho national anthem "God Save Ireland." Harrington, who la the secretary of the National league, abandoned journalism for the bar at which he has achieved a reputation as an erudite and brilliant advocate, with the possible exception of William O'Brien there is not a member of the Irish party likes better to harrass and annoy than does Harrington. |