St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-05
CATHOLIC TOTAL ABsTAINERS
TO MEET THIS WEEK IN
NEW YORK
In ANNUAL CONVENTION.
THE REELECTION OF FATHER
CLEARY AS PRESIDENT CON-
SIDERED PROBABLE.
MORE OF INSURANCE.
This Feature of the Organization
Will Be EIfminated-SatolI
to BE Present.

NEW YORK, Aug 4.-Questions
of paramount interest to the Cath
Ole Total Abstinence Union Of Amer
lea will be discussed at it's twenty
fifth annual convention to be held
here this week. The important bust
ness will be the election of officers
for the ensuing year. The present
president Of the organization is Rev.
Father James Cleary, of ST. Paul.
So far as is known no serious OPP
position to the election of Rev.Father
Cleary has developed, but it is said
that the friends of Archbishop Ryan,
of Philadelphia, one of the strongest
apostles of total abstinence among
the Catholic hierarchy in the United
States, are eager to put him forward
for the place. 1t is many years since
the office of the president of the
national union has fallen to the lot
of an Eastern man, and the mem
bers of the organization in the At
lantic states have recently expressed
the opinion that they should have a
president. The other officers will
probably be reelected without oppo-
sition.
One question to be discussed will
be that of the best
SUBSTITUTE FOR SALOONS,
on which some action may be taken.
Another will be the recently devel-
oped opposition to the breweries of
the Benedictine monks at Latrobe.
Pa, which has already claimed the
attention of Mgr. Satolli through the
petition of the temperance advo-
Gates of that region
1t is proposed that this convention
shall eliminate the insurance feature
from all the societies connected with
the national union in the future, for
it is believed by many that this feat
ure is detriment rather than a
help. If this action is taken it will
do away with all of the insurance
assessments, and will permit the
members to devote their time and
energies to the legitimate work of
the organization, and such insurance
as they may wish to carry can be OBJ
tanned from the regular temperance
life insurance companies or aSsocia-
lions.
An earnest attempt will be made
to make the temperance movement
in the Catholic church an entirely
religious movement. In furtherance
of this idea a plan will be proposed
for the organization, in each parish
of total abstinence society, of
which the rector shall be the head
and ruling spirit.
The exercises of the convention
will begin next Wednesday morning.
Mgr. Satolli will celebrate solemn
pontifical mass in st. Patrick's ca
thedral, with Archbishop Ryan, of
Philadelphia, as the preacher.
In the afternoon a parade of the
home and visiting societies under
O'Beirne will take place, and in the
evening a great demonstration will
be held in Carnegie Music hall, at
which the following speakers will
make addresses, Mayor Strong pre-
siding:
Mgr. Satolli, Archbishop Corrigan,
ex-Postmaster General James, Com
missioner Roosevelt, of the police
board; Commissioner Murray, of the
excise board; Senator O'Sullivan,
Victor Bowling, Rev. Walter Elliott
and Rev. James M. Cleary, presi-
dent of the union.
The business session of the conven-
ton will be resumed on Thursday,
and will be continued through Fri
day.