St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-03
sUTTON's SENSATION.
Secret Correspondence That Is
Very Interesting.

Very Interesting.
CHI CAGO, Oct. 2.-Probably no more
sensational document was ever submit
ted to public gathering of Irishmen
than the report to-day laid before the
delegates by John l.. Sutton, he secre-
tary OF the organization. The secret
correspondence of the leaders revealed
in the report and the strange conditions
under which the league would appear
to have existed could not but cause sur
prise, even to many who have most
closely watched the current of affairs.
Your present executive" the report said
accepted office at the convention held in
Chicago in August. 1886. President John
Fitzgerald was declared elected by three
fourths of the assembled delegates, the treas
urer and secretary were reelected without
opposition. There was at that convention
an element of discord, but, overawed by the
preponderance of men who loved the cause
too dearly to prostitute it at the shrine of
tactionism, they were powerless to mar the
harmony of that great gathering of Irish
men, who would not and could not listen to
men whose whole stock in trade was making
charges and failing to prove them. President
Fitzgerald returned to his Western home in
the full belief that great organized body of
1rish-Americans stood behind him, united
like brothers in the holy cause of Irish lib
erty. He found his mistake. Like Garrett,
bier Lord Edward, he found Irish traitors
ready to stab him III the back. The cowardIy
conspirators who, failing in their vile pur-
pose of creating dissension and disunion.
had sneaked out like beaten ours from the
last Chicago convention. renewed. under
cover of secret plots, their attempt TO de-
moralize and disrupt the league"
Beginning with a letter from Mr.. Par
nell, few weeks after the Chicago con-
vention, entreating President Fitzgerald
to raise funds to help the unfortunate
evicted tenants, as the treasury of the
Irish league was almost exhausted, the
report narrates startling narrative,
with letters and kilograms in chrono-
logical order, in order to show that time
and again convention of the American
league was prevented from across the
water, while the officers of the league.
for not holding one. were abused by
factiOniStS III this country, encouraged
by Mr.. Parnell and his colleagues, who
are exhibited as sedulously ignoring the
league officials whenever opportunity
offered. President Fitzgerald is stated
| to have headed the anti-evictiOn fund
with personal subscription of $4,000,
and to have raised total of nearly
| 100000 in his first effort for the strug-
| Cling farmers in Ireland, ''While a rev.
| erend editor in Buffalo was Sneering at
| his want OF education
Parnelfs neglect short later, in
March, 1887, only six months after the
Chicago convention, to acknowledge
| the receipt of anti-coerciOn resolutions,
| which were adopted by the Nebraska
| legislature, within four hours after a
request for such action was received
| from him by President Fitzgerald, is
| alluded to in contrast with Gladstone's
prompt reply.
| One peculiar disclosure was made by
| Secretary Sutton. 1t is in effect that
during October, 1888. Parnell, finding
| himself bound by agreement to turn
over to his lawyers the full amount of
| the Times defense fund, then unex-
pectedly large, begged of President
Fitzgerald, through James j. O'Kelly,
| that while pushing the collections, the
| fund be retained in America. 1.-The
wishes of Mr.. Parnell were complied
WITH, says the report, land very soon
there was howl from the handful of
factionists in Chicago, New York and
| Philadelphia, who acted energetically
in behalf of the London Times by SOW
| Ing the seeds of mistrust in their state
ment that Rev. DR.. O'Reilly was retain
ing money for improper purposes"
Information from Timothy Harring-
| ton that the money was retained at Mr..
| Parnell's request. the report says. did
not prevent them continuing to raise the
same charge, as their only object was TO
burst up every Irish organization in
| America. Indeed, they might fairly
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