Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-02
TWISTING THE LIONS TAIL.
The Irish-American League Of America
Begins an Important ConventionA
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To-Morrow's Lively Work.
CHICAGO, Oct. 1.-Secretary John p. sutton
created sensation at the very outset OF tne
convention of the Irish National League u
America, which met this morning. ne
called the assembly to order in the absence
OF President Fitzgerald, who is yet too Ill 70
attend. o'Neill Ryan, ofst. Louis, was maoe
Temporary Chairman John Flannery' vi
Pittsburg, was made Secretary with two as
sistants
Five hundred delegates in round numbers
were announced to be duly accred1teo 10
the convention, and the 800 or 400 present,
on reassembling after recess, st once starteun L
In to make things lively. NJ. Moriarity, Oh
Nebraska, set the ball rolling with motlon
to substitute NJ. V. Cannon as Permanent
Chairman instead Of Temporary Chairman
Ryan, whose continuance seemed Imminent.
A vote showed, however, that Chairman
Ryan had aptured the convention.
Langdon, of New York, threw fresh Done
Of contention among the delegates by NOV.
Ing that the Chair appoint committees OF
nine each on resolutions, finance, rules anu
order Of business and constitution.
Parliamentary TangIe Begins.
McGuirl, of Iowa, was the first of series
Of amendment-makers. He demanded that
the committees each contain a representa-
tive from every State. Sharon, OF Iowa,
warmly supported the proposed change, de-
claring that while the committees might
perhaps be as properly made up by the
officers of the convention, they were there
to secure the expression of the delegates
as whole, and the method must not only
be right, but be above suspicion.
With much discussion and parliamentary
hn nA audi In
ence by the convention in the plan OF haV-
ing complete recognition Of all the States
in the makeup of the committees, and re-
cess was taken to afford the various delega-
tions opportunity to select their men.
The Committee on Resolutions was the
one in which the greatest interest was man
ifested. Tumultuous calls for ex-CoDgress-
man John f. Finerty were heard on all
sides, but Mr.. Finerty bowed and escaped,
method not open to Cannon. of Omaha, who,
conspicuous on the platform, was made to
stand and deliver.
Mr.. Gannon's speech was an impassioned
but clean-cut appeal for renewal of unity.
1rishmen are all united, he said, on one idea
that the English Government has no
moral right to hold the Irish people in sub
lection.
A Jab at Anglo-American Societies.
Their enemy was never at a loss to know
how to send spirits of disunion among them,
and had recently cultivated societies in this
country not only hostile to Irish-American
influence, but destructive to the spirit of
the Constitution of the United StBtes. New
ertheless, the Irish in this country, putting
behind them any hatred of one man or
dozen men, would yet push forward Ire
lands claims to independence, wrestling it,
If not peaceably then by other means, help
ing preserve meanwhile, the Constitution
of this country from being soiled with the
contamination of British-American socie-
ties. Enough of the old guard were left,
be yet begotten an organization that would
carry the flag of Ireland to glorious vic
tory.
James x. Mcclure, Of Syracuse, who fol-
Ogden's Grove, in Chicago, the place of
many q radical gathering, as bearing the
same relation to the Irish movement that
the city of Boston does to American culture.
Matthew p. Brady, of Chicago, was now
called to the platform. He eloquently drew
attention to the huge portrait of Emmett
above the stage, and argued that the dele
gates by consenting to its retention, as
sented to the principles which Emmett pro-
mulgated, and died for County government
or any other temporary ameltorat1on OF
lreland's condition was as nothing II ultl-
mately the Irish race were to be left with
out status among the nations.
The Catholic Hierarchy Defended.
Mr. Brady evoked great enthusiasm when,
continuing, he eulogized the "soggarth
Aroon." Irish liberty, he declared. had
never been sold nor so much as imperiled
by priest of the Catholic Church, and he
implored that no matter to what point the
deliberations of the convention might lead,
nothing should emanate which could be
even tortured into a suggestion that the
Irish hierarchy were not worthy of their
confidence.
Daniel Corkery, of Chicago, at this juno
ture secured from the chair a ruling that all
resolutions should, under the bylaws of the
last convention, which were still in force,
be referred unread to the Committee on
before being passed upon by the
The various committees were
to hold their meetings tonight
and be ready to report tomorrow at 10
o'clock sharp to which time the convention
The Resolution Committee, it
was said, would have an all nights sitting.