The Chicago Citizen

"AMERICAN DOLLARS."
To Defeat Home Rule—Revelations from Chicago.

Our London correspondent wires:

An extraordinary story of an attempt to secure "American dollars" for the projected anti-Home Rule campaign comes from Chicago. It appears that Mr. and Mrs. Maldwyn Drummond—the latter the widow by the first marriage of Mr. Marshall Field, junior—and Mrs. David Beattie, the wife of Admiral Beattie, and a daughter of the late Mr. Marshall Field, senior, have arrived in Chicago to secure from the trustees of the Field estate a million dollars each for special expenses to be incurred in feting royalty in England during the coronation year and to assist Mr. Drummond in his political ambitions. He is anxious to get into parliament in the Conservative interest, and, according to the "Chicago Journal," as the Conservatives "anticipate a bitter struggle on the issue of Home Rule, they need great financial backing if Home Rule is to be defeated." It further adds that "Captain Drummond's entrance into politics, as a member of the Conservative party, would entitle him to social as well as political recognition from the leaders." We are told that "with the Field money he will be a prominent factor in the party that fights against Home Rule." The paper from which these statements are quoted gives a detailed and apparently inspired account of the pleas upon which Mrs. Maldwyn Drummond and Mrs. David Beattie seek to obtain from the trustees the special allowances for the furtherance of their social and political ambitions. Mr. Drummond was for some years in South Africa, and was a prominent figure among the Johannesburg "Reformers." Should these ladies succeed in melting the hearts of the Field trustees, it will be interesting to see whether the Unionist party will decline to accept "American dollars" for the furtherance of their campaign.—Dublin Freeman.