he 'was one of them.' That was Beggs'
speech on the 22d of February--this same senior guardian, who was
called upon to appoint a secret committee to investigate why Dr.
Cronin had read a minority report in his camp charging Alexander
Sullivan and the rest of the triangle with squandering the funds.
On this occasion it was admitted that Alexander Sullivan was not a
member of the organization, but he was and had been a member of the
executive body--a member of the triangle--and Beggs having
mentioned his name in his speech, McGarry had charged this
corruption, and then it was that this man Beggs said he would not
submit to it, and that it was cowardly for them to talk about it.
He said that Alexander Sullivan had strong friends in that camp,
and he slapped his breast and said: 'I am one of them,' 'I wanted
to get the floor to reply to him,' said McGarry; 'I said the
gentleman had said it was cowardly, and I wanted him to understand
that I was no coward; that I would tell Alexander Sullivan either
there or on any other ground what my opinion of him was, and that
every man who knew me knew what Pat was. I said, Why did you
mention Alexander Sullivan's name? I have not mentioned it; I have
not heard it mentioned here until the senior guardian of this camp
mentioned it. I have said, and I repeat, that the man who gave Le
Caron his credentials is a greater scoundrel than Le Caron could
ever pretend to be. I said I did not mention his name until it was
brought out, and then John F. Beggs said that Alexander Sullivan
had strong friends in the camp, and he was one of them, and that he
was for union and unity among Irish people if it took war to bring
it about.'

"Now this occurred on the 22d of February. The senior guardian was
then defending the triangle. Dr. Cronin had been charging the
triangle with misappropriation of the funds--and what else? He had
been charging them with worse than murder. He had been charging
that they not only robbed the treasury, but that they had sent
innocent men to English prisons; that they had sent men behind the
bars in order to protect their own thievery. He had charged upon
this triangle, as Thomas O'Connor stated in his speech, in his
minority report which he had read to his camp, the scoundrelism of
these men; and he