this celebrated reunion meeting at Camp 20.

"'I said I agreed in my remarks with what all three gentlemen had
said. I said it was all very well to talk of unity, and I wanted to
see unity among Irish people; that there could not be unity while
the members of this organization would meet on dark streets and
back alleys to villify and abuse a man who had the courage to stand
up and attack the treachery and robbery of the triangle. I said
that I was educating children, and as long as God allowed me to be
over them, I would educate them first in American principles, and I
also wanted to educate them that, if they got an opportunity to
strike a blow for Ireland's freedom, they would do so. I told them
that I had been investigating Le Caron's record, and I said there
were men in this organization that were worse than Le Caron. I said
that the man who gave Le Caron his credentials to go into the
convention was a greater scoundrel than ever Le Caron could pretend
to be. I said that I had found out that Le Caron's camp did not
exist for two years, and they did not have a meeting, and the
junior guardian, as given in the directory down in Braidwood, had
been for a year at Spring Valley, and I said that they must have
known that such a camp could not exist only on paper.'"

Judge Longenecker went on to review the testimony of McGarry in
reference to this famous meeting, and next called the attention of
the jury to the conduct of John F. Beggs, the senior guardian of
Camp 20, on that occasion.

VIOLATIONS OF CAMP RULES.

"'Now remember,' he said, 'that Alexander Sullivan's name had not
been mentioned; the triangle had not been mentioned, and John F.
Beggs said that visiting members were coming in there and violating
the hospitality of the camp, and that would have to be
stopped--that it was cowardly,' and, says McGarry: 'I wanted to
interrupt him, but the presiding officer and chairman at that time
would not let me interrupt him.' When he used the word coward, he
said that they came in there talking about Alexander Sullivan, and
it was cowardly, and he said that they talked about a man behind
his back; 'why don't they say it to his face?' He said that
Alexander Sullivan had strong friends in that camp, and he slapped
his breast and said that