TheDaily Chronicle had the widest circulation of any daily newspaper in London.

According to the covecollective.com entry:  TheDaily Chronicle Becomes a National Daily:

… the newspaper reported broad coverage, art criticism, literature, theatre and the perspectives of plain spoken people, such as John O’Connor Power  … a radical Liberal national newspaper, the views  expressed often aligned with  those of the Labour party.

O’Connor Power was its influential leader writer. He  was a strong proponent of Home Rule and prison reform.

SeeThat Irishman, pps. 177-182