Each, according to his own lights, represented the interests of Labour.

Still, they met.
The only group which had no common centre of reunion was that of the Nationalists--a majority of the whole assembly.

This included the representatives of the Irish party and the County and Urban Councillors, all of whom had been returned as its supporters.

It included also the four representatives of the hierarchy, every one of whom had been either actually or potentially a part of Nationalist Conventions, and of whom three had been most prominent supporters of the general organization.
But a difficulty existed in the presence of other personages who were in general support of us, but who outside the Convention belonged to a different category.

Lord Dunraven was a Home Ruler, but had been no supporter of the Irish party.