The record-union., 1895-09-26

and a rousing reception was accorded to
ONelll Ryan of st. Louis. who was pre-
sented as the representative of the young
guard of the new movement. La the
course of fervid Grafton he said: upon
the young men will fall the burden Of the
work that we are to plan. What is that
work? This gathering, the most mo-
mentous of our race within the present
century. answer. 1t means, not constitu-
ton, but revolution. Great cheering.
1t means turning from Parliaments and
statute books to pixies and swords. Pro-
longed applause, with shouts of That's
right and God save Ireland.' 1t means
that the Irish race at home, having given
petitions TO legislation and to amnesty a
long and earnest trial. has proven each
farce, and now turns to the teachings of
ONeill and O'Donnell, to the same spirit
that aroused the men of long ago, that
animated Mitchell in 1915.
COR fifteen years the Irish of America
followed the leadership of Charles
Stewart Parnell loud cheers and gave it
strength. 1t was the men here, the men
who believed in revolution and separa-
ton, that made the National League
power. They were willing to give
chance, but again came failure and dis
sension, until the cause has sunk into
oblivion. And now to-day once again
there goes out from this hall the voice of
revolution. 1t goes out for the third time
in hundred years, and, if there is luck
In odd numbers, let the God of battle
bless the work and the swords to be un-
sheathed In this movement. There is no
halfway. Our destination ia Ireland
republic. Why wait for eXpediency? 1t
Is the subterfuge of towards. Why wait
for the opportunity? Let US make it.
But we do not propose to fling the Irish
people into dungeons or place them on
the scaffold. We propose to organize our
young men throughout the world-in
America, in Canada, in Australia, in
France, in Ireland, aye in England-so
that when the times comes they shall be
in line of battle and ready to strike the
foe we hate and would destroy. Let us
make a platform broad enough and
strong enough for Catholic and Protestant
alike to stand upon, and when the time
comes for our young men to strike the
blow for Irish liberty may the God that
nerved the sword of Washington, that
inflalned that of Lafayette, and who
blessed Lincoln and his work, give us the
victory"
Tumultuous applause lasting for sew
eral minutes marked the speakers re-
tirement.
Then Major Timothy O'Leary of Mon
tana. General O'NeilPs right hand man
in the famous expedition into Canada,
appointment by the convention OF an
"enlisting agent" 10 rally the Irishmen
OF every country and to tender their serv-
ices fifty or hundred thousand strong
to any nation or republic that might be-
come embroiled with England.
When he concluded there were cries
for ODonovan Rossa. Contrary to ex-
pectations, his remarks were humorous
and personal, rather than revolutionary,
he urged his hearers not to wait
for time or opportunity. but to go to
work and make il and ''send men into
England as they had been sent BEFORE"
and as some of those in the audience be-
fore him had gone before and were will
ing to go again.
john Mcnamara of Ohio, the conven-
tion's leading speaker, denounced the
new English Government as the bitterest
and most unrelenting enemy of Irish
liberty. which had swept away the fruits
and labors of twenty years. Moral sua-
sion, he said. was a dead policy and all
that remained was the field and the
sword.
There were loud cries for P. ]. lyman,
but the hour for adjournment had passed,
and after O. O'Connor Mclaughlin OF New
ork had been designated as official er-
porter of the national movement the con-
vention adjourned.
The Committee on Resolutions went
into executive session ct 3 o'clock this
evening.