Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-04

CHICAGO, November 3.-The friends oi
DR.. Cronin, who are arranging for public
gathering to add to the prosecution fund
held meeting to-day, which proved even
more sensational than that of last Sunday.
81 want to say" said P. W. Dunno, after
various committees on arrangements had re.
ported progress, "that there is demand FOL
decided action by this body. DIR. o'Reilly
and Colonel Atkinson, of Detroit, have
gone to Ireland. 1t is not possible they had
no object in view, and move that we send
a cablegram to Parnell at once to advise
him of their true mission. The opposition,
the murderers of DR.. Cronin, and the arch
fend back of it all have sent them there to
POISON THE MINDS
of our race. They are now trying to find
support in the Old Country, and if we don't
let our countrymen know who they are and
what they are there for we will suffer for it.
We are already misunderstood, and Parnell
ought to be advised to have nothing to do
with them until he hears from the meeting
of the 23d."
'Tbat is right" said P. o. O'Connor,
'four-ffths of the Irish people are so my sti-
fed that they believe there was a justifca-
ton in the murder of DR.. Cronin, and that
he was British spy. The man we know to
be responsible for his murder, and who has
long been the plunderer and sportsman of
his people, is their demi-god. The Irish
people can't believe that this uncrowned
king of $4,000, 900 people can be guilty of
such crime. and they look upon us with
contempt for prosecuting patriots, who they
believe, put to death spies. These men who
have gone to Ireland know what they are
about, and they will get aid, either of a
sentimental or a financial kind, to buy the
acquittaI of the tools of the arch-fend.'
MIGHT EMBARRASs PARNELL.
The suggestion was opposed on the ground
that the proposed public gathering was a
celebration of a revolutionary measure, the
anniversary of the Manchester martyrs, and
a communication from it to Parnell might
embarrass that leader by connecting him
with it. The Chairman ruled further dis
cussiOn OF the matter out of order.
'Nine-tenths of the Irish people think
Cronin was a spy," insisted Secretary Matt
J. Corcoran, ''and it is the result of the
work of those who are getting up the oppo-
sition celebration at Central Music Hall.
These dynamiters-"
''I object" said several, and the secretary
was ruled out of order, as the point was
made that, so far as known, there had been
no dynamiting by Chicago men.
A resolution was adopted denying that in
the speeches at last Sundays meeting any
attack was made on the Catholic ecclesias-
tical authorities of Chicago.
THE OTHER PEOPLE, ALSO.
An open meeting of Irishmen was held at
McCoy's Hotel to-day, at which 1916 was
collected for the purpose OF "seeing that the
prisoners now on trial for their lives before
Judge Mcconnell, be supplied with means
to make a proper and legal defense"
About 100 men were present, and when the
object of the meeting had been stated, the
chairman, II. P. Fitzpatrick, who keeps a
small store on Twenty-second street, said he
believed it the proper thing for every Irish
man present to put his hand in his pocket
and give as much as he was able for the pur-
pose of seeing justice done. The suggestion
was received with a shout and the money
was handed in as fast as the Treasurer could
enter the amounts on his books. The men
who subscribed looked as if they needed the
money they earned to buy food for them
selves and families. One man gave 500, sew
eral gave $40, two gave 81, and all the rest
gave something. The following resolution
was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That this meeting authorize COM
mittee to solicit subscriptions from Irishmen to
create fund for the purpose of procuring
fair and impa rual trial for certain OF our cOun-
are poor and unable to make proper defense
for the want of,money. And while not going
into the question of guilt or innocence, We de-
sire that Justice be allowed freedom of action