On November 10th it reported that no result had come of its efforts, and a new general election was fixed for December 1st.
When the Conference finally broke down Redmond was on his way back from America, whither he had gone accompanied by Mr.Devlin.

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O'Connor at the same time undertook a tour in Canada.

The success of these missions showed that the interest and the confidence of the Irish race were higher than at any previous period: the ambassadors brought back a contribution of one hundred thousand dollars to the election funds, and the ship on which they came was saluted by bonfires all along the coast of Cork.

Ireland, too, was subscribing as Ireland had not subscribed since Parnell's zenith: and this was an Ireland in which the land-hunger had been largely appeased.

The theory that Ireland's demand for self-government was merely generated by Ireland's poverty began to look ridiculous.
It was the cue of the Tory Press at this moment to excite prejudice against the Liberals by representing them as the bondslaves of the "dollar dictator"-- ordered about by an Irish autocrat with swollen money-bags from New York.