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meeting in the Tenperunco Hall on 30th (optcacbry uhich
ho chaired. The thirteen hundred members of the five
(1)
Liberal Councils had been invited to attond. At
thin meeting a moderate anti-war resolution wac pacaod
and a telegram sent to Kruger urging bim to accept the
peace terns offered by the Governments 1Io , ovcr it
did not pass without opposition, - an amendment gras put
by J. D. Iiobrz n, a member of the Liberal Council
Central divinion, deprocatine the creation of dissension
among Liberals. It was an intorocting point that,
flobman was also a somber of the staff of the Sheffield
Ind© ndont, a newspaper with which tiilnon had a long
standing feud dating fror 1874 when he had initiated the
Sheffield Reform Aooooiation as a break away croup from
the "official" Liberalism which the Indonondont claimed
to represent.
(2)
for
Wiloon hach tried to got iiobmuu
removed from the mootinj as a reporter. In the and
howevor only five Liberals out of the one hundred und
fifty five preoent voted for the aionänont,
(3)
The
fact that only a small minority of those Liborala invitod
i1} fl, J. Willson MSS. Sheffield Central Library, 14 Do 2300,
Diary of oventu 1899-1902, compiled by Claude Hooro
(a Sheffield election agent), in 1908, uoing Wilaon'a
Diary, Moore'o Diary, nowspapern and leaflets*
(2) J.:. Fowlor# A studs in radicalinm and
and timen of H. J. ' ilnon1 London 1961.
(3) Wiloon WS:. t, b. 25A(.
. dnpnt the life