Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-10-09
Irish Nationalist in Convention at
Chicago Adopt q Con-
stitution.
They Cut Aloof From the Home Par
ty and Organize an Ameri-
can League.
Hon. NJ. v. Cannon of Nebrask ,
Elected President-Secretary
Sutton Reappointed.

CHICAGO, Oct. 3.-No business was
done at the morning session of the Irish
Nationalist convention, owing to the
committees not having completed their
reports. At the afternoon session, how
ever, business went through with a
rush. The new constitution of the
League was submitted and adopted. In
the main it is a repetition of the old one,
except that it cuts aloof from the home
party and makes the League a distinc-
lively American affair, without re-
sponsibility to the parliamentary party.
A clause to the effect that Irishmen
should not purchase English made goods
or patronize tradesmen that sell them,
was greeted with loud applause. The
constitution also provides that the
League should be governed by a cabinet
of seven together with the president and
the secretary.
The Resolutions Adopted.
In the resolutions adopted, the League
testifies it's devotion to the flag of the
United States and love for the institu-
tons of this glorious countro; extends
sympathy to President Fitzgerald and
Vice-President Martin III their illness,
and has the following to say regarding
the present situation in Ireland and the
use of force:
We regret the conditions now existing
in Ireland and attribute it to their
unfortunate tendency toward hero
worship and one-man denomination, which
we hope to see obliterated from the public
life of Ireland.
We have no desire, nor do we deem it
wise, necessary or patriotic to pass judg-
ment upon the questions now so unhappily
separating our brethren in the old land.
We awe heretofore rendered our good Of
fees in the adjustment of those differences
and that tender has been wholly disre-
garded by the contending elements, but
we may and must speak out the opinions
and wishes of the people whom we repre-
sent and say that it is the duty of Irish
and all other oppressed people to seek free
dom by peaceable methods, and only when
such methods have been fully tried and
found wanting are nations and peoples
justified in resorting to force; but we
strongly and emphatically assert that it is
equally the duty to prepare for every
emergency and stand ready to aid our kin
dred in every manly way, recognized and
commended by usage in obtaining free
mems privileges in a land consecrated to
freedom by the heroic sacrifices of CEN
turtles.
AS an addition, Judge Donnelly, of
Wisconsin, on behalf of a minority of
the committee, submitted a resolution
which instructed the incoming execu-
tive to recognize the majority of the
parliamentary party or the Justin Nc
earthly element. McCarthy's name was
greeted with slight cheering and pro-
longed kissing. A prolonged and at
times uproarious debate ensued. In the
result the addition was defeated by 51s
to "a.
Officers Elected.
Hon. M. V. Cannon, of Nebraska,
was elected president; Patrick Boyle,
Toronto, first vice president; M. D. Gal
lagher, New York City, second vice
president; E. J. O'Connor, Augusta, Ca,
third vice president, and William Ly-
mad, New York City, treasurer. Sec
rotary Sutton, of Sutton, of Lincoln,
Neb., was ~reappointed and the cpnven-
ton adjourned sine die.