There are too many men of Irish blood in this country to have allowed such a thing to take place quietly. You would have heard a roar of indignation from one end of the United States to the other. If the case had been that of a political refugee from Germany such a thing would never have happened. It is because this man was the obscure FEB .UArY 10. victim of a petty state that this thing has occurred. There is nobody who takes any particular interest in him. There is no body of American voters who by community of race take an interest in his fate. He may have been a man of evil life. but when he met his death he was a political refugee and he was under the American flag. I believe. Mr.