Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-10
THE CATHOLIC ABSTAINERS.
Officers Elected and Resolutions Adopted
Next Place of Meeting.


Next Place of Meeting.
New York, August 9.-The delegates
of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union
met early to-day, President Rev. James
NJ. Cleary in the chair. A telegram
of greeting was read from five hundred
Keely course graduates now in session
in Plainfeld. n. ]. A letter of regret
from Rt. Rev. James McGoldrick,
Bishop of Duluth, was read after which
Rev. p. O'Brien, chairman of the Com
mittee on Resolutions, presented the
majority report. 1t was a bitter attack
on liquor sellers and asked those en-
gagged in the business to give it up. II
also advocated a strict Sunday social
law. The resolution attacked the press,
Archbishop COrrigan and Mgr Satolli.
Rev. Zuecker, of Buffalo, presented a
minority report.
The main portion of his report was
the same as the majority report, but
he attacked the St. Vincent Abbey
beer and Catholics generally for max
ing beer That's the darkey behind
the fence in my report" said he. Rev.
Father Ward moved that the majority
report be received and Father Zurcker's
reference to ST. Vincent beer be incor-
porated therein. Father Zurcker said
the people Of America would respect
Catholics more if they took a bold
stand on this question. Father Walter
RoOss, Of Ohio, said they were a nation
al body and should pass resolutions
dealing with the national question and
not designate any particular place or
diocese. He moved the following reso-
luton:
Recognizing the inconsistency of
declaiming against Catholic laymen in
the liquor business while passing over
in silence the unseemly spectacle of
religious men and clergy managing and
encouraging the traffic, the Union de-
plores the continuance of this unedify-
ing example and hopes for its speedy
suppression"
Father Kelly said there was no sim
cerity about this for Father Ross at the
meeing of the committee voted against
his own resolution. The chairman said
this could not be allowed.
Delegate Magee. of Minnesota, a coll
ored man, was the next speaker. He
was vOciferously cheered. "The dark
ey," he said, had been smoked out of
the woodpile and crossed the fence" It
seemed to him that this disgrace had
been tolerated too long. In his State
they were told Eve can drink the ST.
Vincent beer, it's holy and won't do us
any harm" He urged the passing Of
the minority resolution.
Father Doyle in reading the resolu>
tion asked the delegates if they were
willing to say that religious men and
clergy were managing and encourage
ing the liquor business. There was a
prompt no" and then Father Boyle
said: you cannot pass the resolu-
ton"
Mrs. Lake said such a resolution
could not be accepted, as it would cause
a misconception in the minds of the
people. After further discussion the
majority report was adopted.
St. Louis, Mo-. was selected as the
place and the first Wednesday of Au-
gust as the time for next years meeting
of the union.
Father Cleary of Minneapolis, was
unanimously reelected president and
J. Washington LOgue was reelected
vice president
James w. Bremen, of Mount Carmel,
Conn, was elected second vice presi-
dent. Mrs. LenOra Lake, of st. Louis,
was unanimously elected third vice
president.
Rev. N. William Mcmahon, Of Cleve-
land, o., who has been treasurer for the
past ten or twelve years, was unani-
mously reelected to that office.
Rev. Father Alex. p. Doyle of the
Paulst Church, was similarly honored
and reelected general secretary.
The newly elected officers then as
sembled on the platform and took the
obligation of office.
Mrs. Lake announced that she had
been asked by Miss Francis E. Willard
to request the convention to send the
Rev. George OFT. of ChestertOwn, Mary
land, as fraternal delegate to the con-
vention of the Woman's Temperance
Union, Baltimore
The matter was laid over for con-
sideration for the present, Father OFT
not being a member of the Union.
The convention came to a close with
prayer by Father Elliott of the Paul
lists, and the renewal of the pledge by
the delegates on their knees.
The delegates will take a trip up the
Hudson tomorrow.