The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-19
Action of the Advisory Board Is
Declared to Be Binding
Upon Them.
SUPREME COUNCIL ovERRuLED
Disreputable Blackmailing Methods
Used by the Lobbyists Vigor.
ously Denounced.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 1s.-The
A. P a. Supreme Council closed its ses-
sions to-day, but few delegates remaining
to the adjournment. The most important
| action was that of discontinuing the adj
visory board, which was accomplished
after long discussion, in which it was
| specifically stated that the recent develop
ments in the Mckinley boycott had moth
ing to do with the action, and was no re-
Election upon Judge Stephens, the chair
man. The Supreme Council, composed of
the supreme officers of the organization,
replaces the advisory board. and this body
was by resolution directed to pass upon
| the status of the Presidential candidates of
the Republican, Democratic Populist and
other parties and report publicly on them.
Washington was adopted as the perma-
nent quarters of the a. P. A, and Kansas
City selected as the next place of annual
meeting.
Four OF the principal officers were
elected Saturday and the list was COM
pleted to-day as follows: Supreme secre-
tary, W. ]. Palmer, Butte, Mont; supreme
treasurer, F. C.. Campbell, Minneapolis;
supreme sergeant-at-arms, J. w. Ellis, In
dian Territory; supreme guard, W. B.
Howard, Omaha; supreme sentinel, t. S.
Henson, Columbus, Ohio.
The convention closed with a public
mass meeting tonight, which was pre-
/ sided over by Congressman Linton
At meeting of delegates to the Su-
preme Council, representing twenty diff
! ferent States, held this evening after the
| council adjourned, the following pream bic
and resolutions were adopted unani-
mously:
WHEREAS, The Supreme Council of the A p
| A. of the United States, at its session Saturdav
/ evening, by a unanimous vote, adopted tho
report of the National advisory board which
| report Endorsed the action of the execut,va
! committed OF said board, and in plain la,1
| guage SAID that the executive committee ,ra.
justified in publishing the political affliation
of Mckinley with the Roman political bier-
archy which afiliation is proven by the ses
davits OF reputable mem bers of the order. ana
| which affidavits have never been controversies
except by the unsworn statement of Msjor Nc.
| Kinley himself, and whereas, Major McKinIev
did on May IA, 1896, 10 committee of the
National advisory board, in the city of Canton,
! Ohio, state that he heartily approved the prin-
| ciples OF the American Protective Association
and on the following day gave an interview TO
the press denying that he had met such a com
mittee, thus giving the lie to the report of
the committee, which was composed of
honorable and truthful gentlemen; and
whereas, the members of the Supreme
Council have during its session been bounded
and badgered by q large Mckinley lobby,
composed of members and non-members of the
order, that used the most disreputable black
mailing methods to discredit the advisory
board and TO turn the Supreme Council into a
Mckinley ratification meeting, and having
signally failed to clear Mckinley in conse-
quence OF his pro-Papsl political record, to-day,
after two-thirds of the delegates had started
for home, attempted to take revenge by abol-
ishing the National advisory board and ac-
complished the same by vote of 80 70 %.
Resolued, That we, the delegates in eondem-
nation meeting assem- bled, denounce the un-
warran ted interference of the said Mckinley
lobby with the affairs of the order, and de-
nounce the cowardly denial by Mckinley OF
his Endorsement of the principles OF the order
given by him to our committee; and
RESOLVED, That because of his record as re-
ported by the National advisory board, we