The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-04
CRONIN'S FRIENDS MAD.
srLLIVAN's MEN SAID TO BE BENT
ON WORKING PARNRLL.

4 Desire Expressed to Send Delegates
to Represent the Murdered Mans
side-The Meeting Finally Resolves
Not to Do So-A Defense Fund for
the Prisoners Started at an Oppo-
sition Meeting.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Nov. 3.-The friends of
DIR. 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.
after the various committees on
arrangements bad reported prog
Tess ''that there is demand
for decided action by this body. DIR.
OiReilly and Col. Atkinson of Detroit have
gone to Ireland. 1t is not possible that they
had no object in view, and l move that we
send a cablegram to Mr.. Parnell at once to
advise him Of their true mission.
WHAT THEY ARE SENT FOR
IThe opposition, the murderers of DR..
Crouin, and the arch-fiend 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
Wudt luot diC OhCAO AOA WAA ouAIO4 AOA
it. We are already misunderstood, and
MIR. Parnell ought to be advised to have
nothing to do with them until he hears
from the meeting of Nov. 23.n
THE IRISH MYsTIFIED.
"That is right" said P. o. O'Connor.
'Four-fifths of the Irish people are SO
mystiied that they believe there was justi-
fcation 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 spokesman Of his people, is
their demi-god. The Irish people
cannot believe that this uncrowned
king Of 100000 can be guilty of such a
crime, and they look upon us with con-
tempt 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 sem
timental or financial kind, to buy the ac-
quittal of the tools of the arch-fiendn
The suggestion was opposed on the
ground that the proposed public gathering
was celebration of a revolutionary meas
ure. the anniversary of Manchester
martyrs, and a communication from it to
Mr.. Parnell might embarrass that leader
by connecting him with it.
RULED OUT OF ORDER.
Nuc-gclUuS VI Olo Ii ISL DoODlc tLlluh LII.
Cronin was spy,n insisted Secretary Matt
j. Corcoran, g. and it is the result of the
work Of those who are getting up the oppo-
sition celebration in Central music hall
These dynamiters-"
II object,n exclaimed several, and the
secretary was ruled out of order on the
point that SO far as known there had been
no dynamiting by Chicago men.
A resolution was adopted denying that in
tha cnaaohac OF Qnudox1sS
attack was made on the Catholic ecclesias-
tidal authorities of Chicago.
MONEY FOR THE DEFENSE.
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 proper and legal defense" About
100 men were present, and when the
object of the meeting had been
stated, the chairman, P. V. Fitzpatrick,
who keeps small store on Twenty second
street, said he believed it the proper thing
for every. Irishman present to put his hand
IN his pocket, and give as much as he was
able for the purpose Of seeing justice done.
The suggestion was received with a shout,
and money was banded in as fast as the
treasurer could enter the amounts on his
books.
NEEDED THE MONEY AT HOME.
The men who subscribed looked as if
they needed all the money they earned to
buy food for themselves and their families
One gave $50, several gave $40, two gave
81, and all the rest so cents.
The following was unanimously adopted: !:
Resolved, That this meeting authorize com.
mlttee to solicit subscriptions from the Irish,
10 create fund for the purpose of procuring
fair and impartial trial for certain of our
countrymen now in jail accused of crime, and
who are poor and unable to make proper de-
tense for want of money; and while not going
INTO the question of guilt or innocence, we
desire that Justice be allowed freedom of action