The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-26
Address by President James A. Mooney,
Strongly Advocating Support of the
Plans of Mr.. Parnell.
A Motion to Censure President Arthur
Ruled Out of Order.
O'Donovan Rosa Present a Reporter
Address by MIR. Egan-The Organiza-
tion Merged In the Irish League.
PRELIMINARY.
Object of the Meeting-The Organization
The Presidents Address.

Object of the Meeting-The Organization
The Presidents Address.
PHILADELPHIA, April 25.-The object of the
convention of the Irish National Land
League of Amerca which was called to order
in Horticultural Hall, this morning, is to
wind up the affairs of that body and merge
it with another body whose scope will be
broader. The Land League, as now organ
lied, deals only with questions of land law,
and not with those of national and local self
government. The new organization will
grapple with all three of these questions
| and some Others besides. To-day's conven-
tion will first indo1se the policy pursued by
Parnell in his efforts in behalf of Ireland
1t will then devise plans for the organization
OF to-morrow's meeting, which will be con-
vention of the Irish race in America, and
consist OF duly accredited delegates from
various benevolent, charitable and other Irish
societies of America.
The call for this second convention states
that its object will be to form new league,
after the plan of the National League of
ireland, which will blend into one organiza-
tion of Irish societies of the United States
and Canada. The new organization is to be
affiliated with the National League Of Ire
land. The principles of the Irish National
League, which was formed in Dublin in octo-
| Der last, are as follows:
First-National self-government
Secondhand law reform.
Third-Local self-government
Fourth-Extension of parliamentary and
municipal franchises
Fifth-Development and announcement
| of labor and the industrial interests of Ire
| land.
The decorations of Horticultural Hall are
quite tasteful. Garlands of myrtle and i'm
| mortelles, a union of green and orange, hang
| over the stage. A photograph of Michael
Davitt, u bust Uf washington, statuette OF
Parnell and an oil painting of Parnell are
placed on either side of the presidents chair.
From the corners of the balcony drop Irish
| society banners and United States flags, the
latter fringed with green; streamers of red,
white and blue bunting decorate the front
OF the galleries facing the speakers stand.
High over all, across the front of the pros
cenium arch is the Gaelic legend, "Caed
Mile Failtha"-''a hundred thousand well
comes" The body of the hall will seat
about 1,600.
Eleven o'clock was the hour for commence
| ment. The Massachusetts and Illinois men
| came in, and the galleries slowly filled with
spectators. Frank Byrnes recent dyna-
mite refugee from Paris, is among the specta-
tors Among the lady delegates present are
Mrs DR.. Riley, Miss Mary E. G. Callaghan,
Miss Kitty Fitzgerald, of the St. Louis Ladies'
Land League Miss Alice Gallagher, of the
Parnell Land League, st. Louis, and the
twenty-one female delegates sent by seven
female Land League branches of this city.
At 1905 the Land League convention was
called to order by President James. A.
Mooney, of Buffalo He announced that for
the benefit OF the press and general conven-
fence, each gentleman would, on rising to
address the chair, announce his name and
State Patrick Egan, Fathers Cronin and
Walsh, and number of distinguished
leaguers, together with group of lady dele
| gates took seats upon the stage.
The convention organized by the selection
of the following temporary officers: Presi-
dent, James A. Mooney, of Buffalo, president
of the Irish Land League of the United
States; secretary, j. ]. Hynes of Buffalo, sec
retary of the Irish Land League OF the
| United States; assistant secretaries, William
| F. Sheehan, of Buffalo, and J. D. O'Connell,
of Washington. No vice-president.
PRESIDENT MONEYS ADDRESS.
| MI. hOOIcy3 uDOn IhhluS Vic GudlT, SPOKE
as follows:
"The short year that has passed since our
| last assembling has been crowded with start
| ling events. The affairs of Ireland nave so
occupied the worlds attention, that those of
other nations have almost seemed to stand
still, while their peoples listened to her pa
thetic history. Nothing that malice could
invent has been left unsaid, no effort has
been spared to belittle her cause and misrep-
/ l1. n,,k Ill 90, i
| credit her champions. To America more
than to all other nations has this industrious
malignity addressed its greatest energy If
| the object sought was to break the
solid ranks Of the Irish American
sympathizers-to discourage their faith
in the leaders in Ireland, and thus
| dissaude them from further efforts of sup
port-it has hopelessly, signally failed 1t
would take more Pigotts and Dixies than
| even England could bribe to shrek her now
worn-out cry of stop thief" to make even
one contributor to the land-league fund be-
lieve that Patrick Egan ever misapplied a
dollar of their sacred trust to the care of
time, the comforts OF his home and the pros
perity of his personal affairs.
"If the object sought by misrepresen tation
was to prejudice the outside American pub
lie, it has failed likewise. Notwithstanding
that we have in some of our cities an insig-
nlQcant numper VINO would Iall down 10 Wor-
ship everything English there is large gen
erous representative class Of Americans, for
whom one of the very ablest of American
journalists thus forcibly speaks:
| Nevertheless, behind this squad of would-b be
cockneys, there is great body of sincere, feeling
and thoughtful men and women in America who
! take as little stock in Gladstone and Forster as
their forefathers took in Pitt and the regency,
repeating the CromwelaD policy, which, under
| all governments, Liberal and Tory, mas prevailed
over Ireland. These do not approve the murders
| OF Cavendish and Burke but they approve just
as little the judicial and cUnstabulary murders,
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