The Daily Chronicle had the widest circulation of any daily newspaper in London.
According to the covecollective.com entry: The Daily 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.
See That Irishman, pps. 177-182