St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-26
A CALL TO The CLANS
President Fitzgerald Issues
an Address to Irishmen and
Their Friends.
Plan for Appointing Dele
gates to the Convention
in October.
Secretary Of War Proctor Is
Named to Succeed Senator
EdmundS.
Leland Stanford's Personal
Organ Launches His Boom
for President.

LINCOLN, NeO., aug. 20.-Il0SlueII
John Fitzgerald, of the Irish National
League of America, to-day issued the
following address. calling for meeting
at Chicago Oct. and next.
To the members of the Irish National
league and friends of the cause in Amer
lea; In compliance with the resolution
passed by the national council of seven,
convention of the Irish National
League of America is hereby sum-
moned to meet Thursday and Friday,
the 1st and I'd days of October next.
Yielding. to a very general request, and
with the approval of the members
of the league in Baltimore, the
place of meeting has been changed
from that city to Chicago, which will be
readily acknowledged as the most cen
trail and convenient location fora con-
vention that should be truly representa-
tive of the Irish race in America. The
present lamentable condition of affairs
IN the old land and the falling off of
Irish-American support, as the direct
result Of dissension in the ranks of the
Irish parliamentary party, are ressons
enough to induce lovers of the old cause
to come together and devise such meas
ureS as they may deem best to counter
act and overcome the difficulties we
have now to contend with. We have q
LabOred Too Many Years
to lose courage now, and we have too
great an interest in the elevation of our
race to give way to apathy and indif-
ference. or tamely submit to the extinc-
ton of our national aspirations. In
view of the grave eSpOnSibilitieS de-
vOlVing upon a convention i'll the pres
ent crisis, it has been deemed wise and
eXpedient to go beyond the lines of the
Irish National League of America, and
invite the cooperation of all lovers of
the Irish cause. To this end every eX-
isting branch of the Irish National
League of America will be entitled to
one delegate for every twenty-five men,
bers; all other societies and organizations
will be allowed one delegate for every
25 persons who between now and
the 25th of October next shall have sub
scribed SO to the funds of the league.
To still further broaden the representa-
ton and stimulate the. generosity of pa
triOtic 1risn-AmericanS, every indiyid-
ual who has since the last convention
contributed at one time the sum of S25
llllOuSli tllO DdltOildl lIGdSulGI VI IllC
league, or who shall have done so be-
fore the 25th of October next, shall be
entitled to the privileges of delegate
to the convention. The following are
the
objects Ofthe Convention:
First, To receive and consider the re-
ports of the present executive of the
Irish National League of America;
second, to examine into the present and
past relations between the league in
America and the leaders of the national
movement in Ireland with a view to
placing them on better and more sat
isfactory basis; third, to revise and
amend the constitution of the league
where it may be deemed necessary;
fourth, to pledge once more our invlola-
ble fidelity to the cause of Irish liberty
and to adopt such measures in support
thereof as may be considered wise
and justifiable. All who have
the cause of Ireland at heart are
earnestly requested to make this con-
vention not only success, but his
torical landmark in the progress of the
Irish movement. The time has come
when we should prove to the world that
our moral courage is not inferior to the
physical bravery our race has ever dis
PLAYED upon the battlefield, and that no
obstacles nor temporary political defeats
can frighten us from the path our
fathers trod before us. We should not
abandon the grand old organization
which, pledged to no party and ac-
knowledging no faction, has rendered
such valuable aid to the Irish cause
during the past ten years. to embrace
newly formed associations resulting
from factional difficulties and not rep
resentative Of united and progressive
Irish nationality. The cause is above
men, and the organization is not. and
should not. be held responsible for the
shortcomings of individuals. 1t has
proved an important factor in the cause
of home rule, and should be maintained
until the imperjshable principles of
Irish independence are recognized by
the world, and shall in their happy frui-
tiOn bring peace and joy to Irish hearts
and homes. JOHN FITZGERALD,
President Irish National League of
America.