New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-07
ADVOCATORS OF DYNAMITE.
A NEW REVOLUTIONARY BODY FORMED.
DENoUNcING THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION
PREPARING FOR A DFMONeTRATION.

DENoUNCING THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION
PREPARING FOR A DEMONSTRATION.
number of Irish meetings were held in the city
yesterday but with one exception their action was
confined to receiving the reports of their delegates
to Philadelphia, and confirming the action
OF the convention. The exception was
the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, which
met in Clarendon Hall in Thirteenth
st. general call was issued to the brotherhood
by the Innisfai Association The InnIsfail is Sc
cret society, of which Patrick Joyce secretary OF
the Skirmishing Fund.- is the most prominent mem
Der. This society held a preliminary meeting to
receive the report Of their delegates to the conven-
tiOn. The report stated that the convention was
packed, that the body of delegates was led by
faction of priests and that the physical force men
had been clearly in the ascendant but drestrained
themselves by an effort Of the greatest patience
The report was received and adopted, after which
the meeting was thrown open to all Irshmen for the
sake of reorganizng the old Irish Republican
Brotherhood on a pronounced and definite basis as
protest against the constitutional agitation ill.,
stituted by the convention. About hundred men
were present. O'Donovan was there, and Patrick
Joyce. and Rocky Mountain" Smith, and
Peter Ryan, and Dr. Farrie, and
all the -, lights, in the dynamite
out from among themselves John Kirwin. and set
him in their midst Then they picked out all the
reporters one by one. who had been hiding in vari-
Ous dark places behind the doors, and they placed
them quickly without. And they set a man to watch
that no reporter, no nor any sucn tnlng, mug,
should get IN. Then the shouting began.
The Clan-na-Ciael longer
revolutionary body At Philadelphia it bad fallen
under the domination of the Land League. Where
FORE since the Can-na-Gael had betrayed It's trust,
IL was necessary TO institute new grand revolu-
tiOnary body. No new body could be framed better
than on the old lines of the Irish Revolutionary
Brotherhood. The new body then. should bear
that name. Any person wishing to join that body
would please step forward TO the table and enroll
his name. SO far i was plain sailing But then
some one proposed that a Committee OF Safety
should he appointed. A glorious shout arose. A
Committee OF Safety soupded WELL but what would
its duties bei Safety from whatf No one could
tell; but everyone wanted TO be on the committee.
There was Logan shouting on one side, and q group
OF lnnisal men shouting Oh tho other, and there
was Rosa smiling in the middle. The comIntteewas
decreed, but II was determined TO postpone nomi-
nations.
little specch-making in all the brogues that
exist between Waterford and Cork followed. lbe
action OF the Convention was sternly c0mmented
on. The action of the late Jurios In Dublin also
came In for dcuunclatlOn. How long Is tins thlng
going to lastf Men who have stood IN the front
ranks of labor aud Of patriotism have been thrown
into prison one by one. There is no mercy there
there is no justice in that prison" Put
n the money" cried another. Here let's all put
up 81 apiece, and well have another rafting ex-
plosion across the water IN few months. The
time has come when any lrishman who wants to DO
Pben T' Rosa made a speech. I'VE have done good
work In the past be said; "let us do
it in the future. We need not find
fault with the convention; let us just
agree 10 differ with a. Let them try their way we
will try ours Some things are not well perhaps
In view OF the judicial murders that are about 10
take place IN Dublin, the execution OF Cayendlsh
and Burke may have cost Us too high price. But
still let me state that as the Irish Republican
dublin in 1867 and put the Con-
stitntionalids 20 flight, 30 let the Irish
Revolutionary Brotherhood of America burst upon
the constitutional agtators OF tins country ana
rout their well-meaning but idle schemes"
Therefore II was decided that grand demonstra-
uon should presently be held by the Brotherhood.
whereby il should declare itself wherein every
man should have free speech, and whereupon the
schemes of the Philadelphia brotherhOods shonld
come TO naught John Cassidy, James Doyle,
Captain Spcarman, John Barry j. B. Ireland,
James Murphy and Peter Ryan were appointed on
the committee 10 organize for the demOnslGatlOn,
but subsequently, some OF these declined.
Last evening meetings were held by the Seven
teenth Ward branch of the Land League, Branch
No 20 of tho IRISH National League, the Eleventh
Ward branch OF the Land League, the Manhattan
Association OF the Irish Confederation, the Robert
Enlmct branch of the National League. and the
Fifth Ward branch OF the National League AT all
Of the meetings the action OF the Philadelphia Con-
yentlOn was ratified.
The coiumlttee appointed by the Irish Confeder-
alton of America 10 make arrangements for the
coming demonstration met in Clarendon Hall The
demonstration is to be held on the anniversary OF
Wolfe Tones birth, in June aud is to be similar an
character to the late demonstration held by the
Confederation IN Cooper Institute.