 Proposals to reunite the party were made by Redmond and a meeting summoned for the Mansion House, Dublin, in April 1908.In the interest of unity, O'Brien and others rejoined the party, though a year later O'Brien left it for good.This time he was hounded out by Devlin's Molly Maguire baton troops, a wing of the Hibernian Order, on the occasion of the rigged Dublin National Convention in February 1909, called the "Baton Convention", in a dispute over the financial arrangements for the next stage of the 1909 Land Purchase Act.