St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-22
CRONIN AND THE CLAN.
Substance of the Report That Led
TO the Doctors Assassination.

Substance OF the Report That Led
TO the Doctors Assassination.
CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-Evidence was ad-
duced before the coroner's jury Inquir-
ing into the cause of the death of DR..
CrOnin that he had been expelled from
the Clan-na-Gael on charge of treason.
The charge was made by Daniel Brown,
at that time a policeman. Daniel
Coughlin was a member of the trial
committee which expelled the doctor.
The charge of treason was based on the
reading of a report of q committee ap-
pointed in DR.. CrOnin's camp to inyesti-
gate a report from the district delegates
in, the Clan-na-Gael convention of 1884 to
10 the camps. DR.. CrOnin'S committee
charged the convention with max
ing an unWarl anted cnange in the
constitution of the order, and
the executive body with a waste of its
funds. DIR. Cronin read the report
which he himself had prepared. What
purports to be a copy of that report is
made public here. Its object is to re-
flute the assertion that DR.. Cronin was a
dynamiter. The following are peril
nent extracts from the report. But
what concerns us more than aught else
is the disclosure that the governing
bodies of the X. R. B. and Y. C. are
not working unitedly, but are pursuing
WIDELY DIFFERENT POLICIES.
We find that $4,000 has been paid to
the K. D., of which, Of course, means
the American members of that body,
and that is the portion which 'fayOrS
action What are we to understand by
fayOring 'actiOn?' Is it the policy of
explosion? OF spending large sums of
money on failures? Is it the scat
tering of mortar, stone and brick,
the breaking of windows, and
the manning OF innocent men,
women and children among whom are
your own race, travelling on railway
trains or standing at railway stations?
Are these the lofty heights to which
the organization aSpires? If, however.
this is not the policy, what is it, and on
what has the money been expended?
We think this subject is deserving of
the earnest consideration of every men,
Der. We must seriously ask ourselves
whether we are prepared to support a
policy of this kind as against the better
Judgment and in defiance of the wishes
of the men at home. We know that it
is claimed in the report that the conces-
siohs that have been made to Ireland
are due to this policy; but the man who
fiOnS of the Intelligence of the men
whom they address if they expect them
to believe it. What concession has
been made TO Ireland since the Inaugu-
ration of this policy? What has ireland
received in the
SHAPE OF REMEDIAL LEGISLATION
that was not passed or that was not
within the probabilities before dyna-
mite was set to tearing up railroad ties
and breaking window paneS? Must the
labOTs and achievements of tie parlia-
mentary partyand the splendid agitation
of the Irish people be robbed of por-
ton Of their glory, and the success due
to them be attributed instead of to them
to this new policy, in order that il
may obtain any consideration at the
hands Of our people. We know, as a
result of this policy, that the Irish resi-
dents in England are looked upon with
hate and suspicion and threatened with
dismissal from their occupations; that
English ministers and newspapers are
seeking a plausible pTeteXt for re-
newal of terrible crimes act, which
has ground the very faces of the people
of Ireland, and that they are finding
that preteXt in a policy that scatters
death and ruin in the streets OF
London. We are told that if g
certain one of these explosions had
proved successful, it would have cost
the lives of two OF the most valued Irish
members of parliament, who were stop
ping at hotel near by. We knew that
the men here who start the balls a-roll.
ing will not feel the horrors of the coer
cion act.as they will be brought home in
A SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE
to the people of Ireland. In spite OF
all this, in disregard of the fact thai
this policy has never been submitted tt
the Judgment of the camps. singly or il
district conventions. we are told by
the report that the new governing body
have been instructed to pursue
the course laid down for them by
their predecessors. ''Do not under