Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-19
STILL SIGH FOR HIS seal ?
Many A. P. A. Delegates De-
nounce Mckinley.
SAY HE LIED AND L0BBIED
And They Mean to Meet Him at Philippi.
Cardinal Gibbons on the Other
Side.

Washington, May 1S-The American
Protective association supreme council
closed its sessions today, but few dele
gates remaining to the adjournment The
most important action was that of dis
continuing the advisory board. which
was accomplished after a long discus
sion in which it was specially stated that
the recent developments in the McKin-
ley boycott had nothing to do with the
action, and no reflection upon Judge
Stevens, the chairman, was intended.
The supreme council, composed of the
supreme officers of the organization, re-
places the advisory board and this body
was by resolution, directed to pass upon
| the status of the presidential candidates
of republican, democratic and other par
| ties, and report publicly on them. Wash
ington was adopted as the permanent
headquarters of the American Protective
associat ion and Kansas City selected as
| the next place of annual meeting.
At meeting of delegates to the su-
preme council, representing twenty diff
| ferent states, held this evening after the
council adjourned, the following pream-
| BILE and resolutions were unanimously
adopted
Whereas, The supreme council of the
American Protective association of the
| United States at its last session Saturday
evening, by unanimous vote, adopted
| the report of the national advisory board,
| which report Endorsed the action of the
| executive committee of said board and
| in plain language said that the executive
| committee was justified In publishing the
| political affiliation of Mckinley with the
| Roman political hierarchy which affilia-
I ton Is proven by the affidavits of reputa-
| BILE members of the order, and which affi-
| davits have never been controverted ex-
| cept by the unsworn statement of Major
| Mckinley himself; and
| Whereas, Major Mckinley did on May
| a. 1896, to a committee of the national
advisory board lin the city of Canton, o.,
| state that he heartily approved of the
| principles of the American Protective as
| ISOLATION, and on the following day gave
an interview to the press denying that he
! had met such a committee. 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 it's session, been
bounded and badgered by large Nc
| Kinley lobby, composed of members and
| non-members of the order that used the
most disreputable Matchmaking methods
| to discredit the advisory board and to
| turn the supreme council into McKin-
| ley ratification meeting, and having sig
| na1ly failed to clear Mckinley of the con-
| sequences of his pro-papal political rec
ord, today, after two-thirds of the dele
| gates had started for home, attempted
! to take revenge by abolishing the ma
| tional advisory board, and accomplished
| the same by vote of 80 to 20; be It
| Resolved, That we. the delegates, In
meeting assembled, denounce the unwar-
ranted interference of the paid Mckinley
| lobby with the affairs of the order, and
denounce the cowardly denial by McKin-
| ley of his Endorsement of the principles
| of the order given by him to our commit
| tee; and be 1t
| Resolved, That because of his record
as reported by the national advisory
| board, we herewith pledge ourselves to.
| by our influence and efforts. accomplish
| his defeat.