 What he wanted was boycotting and the filling of Irish jails.Dillon also made several fiery speeches against the government, and to tenants encouraging them to demand rent reduction and ""for the purpose of driving every landlord out of the country"".With the National Convention in January 1902 claiming 1230 branches, the scene was thus set for a clash between a strong government, which was in no mood to allow an Irish land war to deflect it from its own constructive ideas, and a League pledged to attack landlordism, turning more and more to the traditional weapons of boycott and outrage.