Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 526
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four laymen, – J.M. Taylor, P.H. Louis, Mick Meagher, & Frank Butler) promptly voted the other seven down, & did what they liked! Of course O'Reilly had no right to adopt the closure rules of parliament, but it was a smart dodge, & the seven alleged stalwarts were apparently too paralysed with astonishment to put up an effective fight, or even to break the meeting up in disorder, as O'Reilly had done at the previous one when he flung his resignation on the table & left the chair (NB. No more has been heard of that resignation!) Was I not wise to decline the honour of election to a fellowship of St John's?
I see in the report of the Sinn Fein Royal Commission today that one of the men interned complained, in a letter, that "there were a number of clerics here who could not go on the platform owing to that contemptible old shoneen Archbishop Kelly, – a notorious recruiting sergeant"!!!
The Archbishop should pray to be saved from his friends. He lectured & censured severely in his easter pastoral letter certain members of the richer & professional classes who dared to set their opinions against those of the bishops of the Church, & now Mr. Albert Thomas Dryer (a graduate, by the way, of Arts, of the University of Sydney) the writer of the letter quoted above, talks of the dear old gentleman in that insulting fashion!
And yet the Germans speak of