Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-05-24 | Page 17 | Home Rule Brings a Social Boycott

HOME RULE BRINGS A SOCIAL BOYCOTT Earl and Countess of Aberdeen Latest Victims of Ostracism on Account of Politics. 1 LOMDON, May 23. Tho lord lien-tenant lien-tenant of Ireland, the earl of Aberdeen, and his wife, the countess of Aberdeen, are the latest victims of tlie social boycott, boy-cott, resulting from the home nile controversy. con-troversy. A correspondent who saw the April race meeting at Punchesrown. which the lord lieutenant and lady Aberdeen attended in state, writes that hats j vere barely raised and there was not a I puspicion of a cheer when his ottoI-I ottoI-I ieucv arrived. The writer savs it is perfect nonsense to pretend that this s a reflection of the Irish landlord elass on the government, for the lord lieutenant lieuten-ant is the representative of the kin;. whom they affect to honor. It is on the chief "secretary, who is the representative repre-sentative of the cabinet. I The result has been the abandonment I of mo't of the social enterl aininff in I Dublin, but this is hardly a punishment lord aud lady Aberdeen, for they were n.fver fond of society.