Working with Danny Morrison, the editor of Republican News, Adams began to mold a new philosophy that, on the surface, seemed to embody a contradiction: Sinn Féin would run candidates for office while the IRA continued to bring a bloody war to the British. Morrison would eventually capture the strategy in a famous aphorism, asking, at a Sinn Féin gathering, “Will anyone here object if, with a ballot paper in one hand and an Armalite in the other, we take power in Ireland?”
