Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-16
PICNICS ARE PLENTY.
Friends and Enemies of DR.. Cronin in
the Chicago Clan-na-Gael
HOLD RIVAL DEMONSTRATIONS.
The Famous Murder Very Vigorously De.
nounced by the Former.
SOME RATHER TORRID RESOLUTIONS
The Other Section Of the Organization Also Does
Some Tall Talking.

Two Clan-na-Gael picnics were held at
Chicago yesterday. One was under the con-
troll of the friends of the murdered DR..
Cronin and the other was in the hands of
the opposition. Each demonstration adopted
a very lively series of resolutions.
CHICAGO, August 15.-This was the day
set for the annual Clan-na-Gael demonstra-
tion and picnic, butinstead of one there were
two gatherings. The friends of the late DR..
Cronin met at Cheitenham Beach in large
numbers. Addresses were delivered during
the afternoon and evening by Congressman
Foran, of Cleveland; Hon. NJ. J. Ryan, of
Philadelphia; Congressman Lawler, of Chi
cago; John Dewey, of New York; Thomas
p Tuite, of Detroit, and others.
A long statement, accompanying a pre-
anble and resolutions, was read and adopted.
1t recognizes fealty to this nation as the first
and highest obligation, and next thereafter
pledges support 10 the cause of Irishliberty,
TO be secured under the leadership of Par
nell and Gladstone. The preamble and
resolutions are as follows:
RINGING RESOLUTIONS.
WHEREAS, In the midst of the universally
conceded tribute to the Irish people, Justly
earned by devotion to the principles of liberty
and civilization, when Ireland's children, led
by her patriotic and astute statesman, Charles
Stewart Parnen, were on the eve of breaking
down the barriers of English prejudice; when
the world had to make Ireland's cause her
own; when fossilized bigotry and selfish inter
ests Cply stood in the way of Irish progress,
- colG-blooded and cruel assassinations dropped
their double distilled poison into Irelands
Whereas, In order to indelibly stain the
reputation of our race, those conspirators and
assassins did resort to the infamous calumny
of charging our murdered fellow citizen with
being British spy therefore, be it
Resolved, That we denounce with all the
force of indignant language our utter abhor-
assassination resorted to by the murderers of
DR.. Cronin, to cover up the
EMBEzzLEMENT OF MONEY
and the betrayal of people whose devotion to
the cause of liber-y too often makes them the
victims of designing knaves.
Resolved, That knowing DR.. R. II. Cronin to
have been patriotic, high-minded, pure Chris
tian gentleman, utterly incapable of playing
the roll of sycophant or falsely living the life
OF spy, we brand as the most malicious libel
and moral assassination the infamous report
that he was an agent of England. On the con.
trary, knowing him to have been a devoted de-
fender of honesty and truth, we hereby declare
it to be our solemn conviction that for his faith
full adherence to the Irish cause, honesty and
truth, he was foully murdered to prevent the
exposure of the actual criminals, who have
dragged down that cause in blood and tears
into the dust OF our Gethsemane.
Resolved, That the crime of his most afro
cioCs murder calls for all the energies of our
civilization for the speedy and extreme pun
ishment of the law, and we pledge our abiding
support to the public authorities until every
guilty man shall have answered to the law for
his participation in the most devilish murder
which has Redeemed the annals of crime. We
deem 1t our duty to express our
REGRET AND CHAGRIE
that few prominent Irishmen in this country
and across the water should have taken the
foolish position that DIR. Cronin's murder was
the work of Englands agents, and that the
suspicious and accusations almost universally
entertained and expressed in this community
and throughout America against men pointed
out by the evidence as the authors of the con-
spiracy to murder Dr. Cronln were uttered in
the interest of the London Times. Such utter
ances from men upon the other side of the
Atlantic, while they may be overlooked for
their impertinence and pardoned for their in
suit to our intelligence, do lasting damage by
undermining confidence in the judgment and
discernment of men whose wisdom in Irish
affairs We have been accustomed to trust, and
whose opinions in those matters we want to
continue to respect.
Resolved. That we express our continued
confidence and adhesion to Mr. Parnell and his
party and our belief in the ultimate success of
his efforts TO secure for Ireland the blessings of
self1government. Believing Ireland to be
capable OF self-government, we recognize the
right of the majority of the Irish people living
in Ireland TO determine their own position on
the national question and to shape their own
policy in advancing it. Whatever they decree
that choice is freely expressed, we pledge our
selves to cordially support We denounce any
attempt at interference with that right of the
Irish people, either by Irishmen in America or
Englishmen in England. as an impeachment of
lreland's capacity and qualification for self
government and offensive to the sentiment of
lrishmen everywhere.
PATRICK EGAN DENOUNCED.
By all odds the most important feature of
the day at Cheltenham was the denuncia-
tion of Michael Davitt and Patrick Egan
by John Dewey. The last named gentle
man, in q long and impassioned speech,
challenged, not alone the motives, but the
honesty and patriotism of both these
well-known Irishmen, and he openly ar
raigned Davitt for alleged treachery to his
friends, to the cause of ireland and to
Charles Stewart Parnell. His attitude in
regard to the Cronin murder was the SUBJ
ject for fierce denunciation of the Father
of the Land League"
The charge which Mr.. Dewey made against
the Minister to Chill was graver yet. Mr..
Egan was proclaimed as a sympathizer with
the gang who instigated the murder of DR..
Cronin. and with using the prestige of his
position to blacken mems character, as
Cronin's was, and thus bringing about their
destruction in a similar way.
Congressman Frank Lawler devoted most
of his time to his old political antagonist,
ex-Congressman John Finerty, for the
course taken by the latter's paper in regard
to the Cronin matter and Mr.. Lawler him
self. Mr.. Lawler dealt Finerty some
rhetorical blows of unusual vigor and earn
estness. He denounced Finerty in conclu-
sion as a liar, poltroon and scoundrel.
THE OTHER PICNIC.
The enti-Cronin section of the Clan-na-
Gael demonstration at Ogden's Grove drew
q large crowd of people. The grounds were
thrown open at 10 o'clock this morning and
the preparations were at once begun. The
speakers were escorted to the grove by the
Clan-na-Gael Guards, the Hibernian Rifles
and Chicago Zouaves. 1t was after o'clock
when they arrived on the grounds. They
were Senator Thomas +. Grady, of New
York; the Rev. George w. Pepper, of Ohio;
Hon. O'Neil Ryan, of st. Louis, and Judge
Fitzgerald, of Cincinnati.
The address, read and adopted by the
audience, opened with declaration of de-
votion to the laws and principles of the
American Republic, and Interchangeable SYM
pathy with the cause of Irish liberty; the
plan on which it is to be worked for to be