essrs. Feeley and Boland followed, both strongly objecting to Dr.
Cronin. Boland said that though personally he had some objections
to Dr. McCahey he would waive those objections and join with
Messrs. Sullivan and Feeley in asking that Dr. Cronin retire from
the committee, they being willing to accept any one in the room in
preference.

Dr. Cronin replied to this; said he thought it strange that Mr.
Sullivan should speak of him as a malignant enemy. He (Cronin) had
never characterized Sullivan personally as an enemy; anything said
by him (Cronin) was directed toward the men whom he was given to
understand had wrecked the organization. Sullivan was one of them,
he understood, and only in connection with certain developments
pertaining to the order did he say anything of Sullivan. If Mr.
Sullivan believed everything told him by gossips he (the doctor)
could not help it. "Indeed," the doctor continued, "why should I be
the enemy of Mr. Sullivan? What has he done to me that I should, as
he says, single him out for personal enmity?" As to the newspaper
editor matter, the doctor said, that while not believing in
introducing what savored of American politics, he could explain the
newspaper affair by referring to the paper itself. Mr. Sullivan
would certainly not make an affidavit to the statement that the
paper had done what he said, for he (Dr. Cronin) had evidence that
would readily disprove it.

To this Mr. Sullivan replied that he did not want to make
affidavits, but would say that the creature (referring to the
doctor) should not sit as one of his judges; that he (Sullivan)
could prove by a dozen men, who would not believe the doctor under
oath, that he (the doctor) was an expelled member of the
organization. [Then the paper mentions the names of three men.]

Mr. Cronin said, interrupting Mr. Sullivan, that the gentleman
evidently meant to irritate him or intimidate the committee.

Mr. Sullivan said that he did not wish to intimidate the committee.

Dr. Cronin then said: "Then you probably mean to intimidate me.
That you cannot do, sir, and you ought to know it by this time. All
the objections you urge were made at the convention, and by an
almost unanimous vote, as the selection of that convention, I am
the peer of any one here and doing my