The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-05-23
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They Have Concluded Not to Oppose
B McKinley's Nomination. 4

washington, May 16.The ritual Of the,
A. F. A., as finally revised by the COM
mittee, makes no direct reference to the
Roman Catholic church, but makes q
sweeping manifesto against seetaTia n1sn
in governmental matters In e general
way. The direct reference was stricken
out, after long and heated controversy,
the advocates OF, the proposition finally
prevailing In the committee of the whole,
and the full report Of the commttte was
then adopted. y
The advisory board took charge of the
meeting at 5 p. m. The charges against
Mckinley We're taken up, and number.
Of those who signed the af1dayits making
the allegations, appeared before the board
as witnesses. The result Of the conclu-
sions of the board and the evidence that
was presented during its session will be
embodied in the report to be made to the
supreme council today, which will be
submitted in the absence Of Secretary
Dunn, who was summoned to his home In
Boston on account of illness in his family.
The advisory board, which has been
dealing with the black-listing Of Major
Mckinley by its executive committee, TIM
ished Its labors last night and will report
to the council this morning. 1t was stated
upon what appeared to be good authority
that the board had before it two persons
who had been sent to Ohio and seen Mr:
Mckinley and that they had received
satisfactory answers to questions pro-
pounded to him No official statement
Of such proceedings, however, could pc
obtained. It was reported upon seem
ingly good authority that the board
would report that the executive commit
tee had been misled by its evidence;
which 1t used as basis of the black
listing of Mckinley, evidence found
on investigation to be unreliable and I'M
trustworthy, and that it would further
recommend that the order should. not IN
dorse or condemn any candidate TOE presl-
Dental lonors. Two reports were SAID 10
have been drawn up by the board, one
brief and to the point, and simply con,
tanning the conclusions arrived at, ana
the other more detailed affair, giving at
length the reasons which governed the
members in the action taken.
Gen. Grosvenor, Of Ohio, who it was
said had sent to Judge Stevens certain
charges against him and taken otner &C
ton in connection with the pending Nc
Kinley matter before the A. P. A., has
sent q letter to the POST" Of this city,
in which he says: EVERY publication m
any newspaper stating that Mr. Hanna
or Gov Mckinley, or anybody else, han
photographed to me or written to me, or
spoken to me orally in regard to any COR
troyersy in which Judge Stevens Is In
terested, or in which anybody. else IN that
connection Is interested. is wholly errone-
Gus. Equally erroneous is the statement
that I have made any charges against
Judge Stevens, or sent any communication
to the A. p. A. body attacking him, or
that I have in any wise sought to inhu-
ence or interfere with the action of that
body in regard to any matter now pending
before It, I have received no cornmunl-
cation, written OF. verbal, from Mr.: Hanna
or Gov Mckinley or anybody else, re-
questing me to do or not to do anything
in connection with this matter. 1 have
neither been called off nor called on, and
cannot understand how it is possible that
such a series of misstatements have
worked their way into the public press OF
the country