The Irish standard., 1897-01-09
The Falsehoods of Jones, the Infor-
mer, Clearly Shown Up by
James killela.
Chicago Convention of the Irish
American National Alli-
ance Discussed.
Ireland Need Expect No Aid From
America Until the Factions
are United.

The following letter was written to
the Tuam Herald by James Killelea, of
Nashville, Tenn, on Nov. 16, and will
be found of general interest to all those
who watch the course Of Irish affairs,
both in this country and in Ireland:
The last letter I wrote to the Tuam
Herald, dated Sept. 20, was relative to
the arrest of alleged dynamiters, so
called, by Scotland Yard detectives, The
Irishmen connected with that. bogus
conspiracy against 8 England, lyman,
Kearney and Hynes, were discharged,
as England failed to make prima facie
case out against them to have them ex-
tradited, which shows and proves that
they were not implicated in any such
plot, But the Scotland Yard detec-
tives have held on to Bell, or Ivory,
waiting to get some informer to come
forward to swear against him and they
have found one of the old sort. The ca
BILE dispatches inform us in this country
that one T. M. Jones, spy, orange
man, and iaformer from this country,
turns up in time to swear and give evi-
dence against Bell On reading his
evidence was somewhat amused when
he relates his attending an Irish-Ameri-
can convention in Chicago in Septem-
Der, 1895. There IS no truth In his
statements as far as relates to the hold
ing of secret meetings. [ attended that
convention. I stayed at McCoy's Hotel.
There were no secret committee meet
ings at that hotel. There were four
comnittetes appointed in the conven-
tion by it's chairman, which were as fol-
lows: ID a committee on credentials,
(2) committee on permanent officers of
the convention, 60 a committee on
platform arrangements, and fourThly
committee ON organization. The two
last named committees met at McCoys
Hotel, where they perfected and COM
pleted their reports, which the chair
men reported at the second days meet
ing. Colonel William Mccoy, proprie-
LDI vi MCOOy IlCtCl, AS OAE VI eAAS AiAN'e
hospitable hotel keepers and sturdiest
patriots in Chicago. He gave the use
of his hall rooms to the above named
committees. free of charge. The meet
ings of these committees were not Sc
cret, but open meetings. Citizens OF
Chicago who were not delegates could
20 into the committee meetings. Wis
tied the meetings. There was no door,
keeper on the door of the hall room
meetings, and any person could go in
or out to the meetings if he wanted to.
Yet "Jones" has given his testimony
against Ivory or Bell, and he is mis-
taken when he says that the committee
meetings held in Chicago at that con-
vention of 1895 were secret, But, as
he has stated at that London trial, he
did not observe any taking OF an oath.
The delegates who attended that con-
vention are no ways put about by his
misstatements. The Irish-American
National Alliance that was formulated
at that convention was and is composed
of the best citizens of the United States.
That convention treated the name of
dynamite with contempt and condemned
emphatically it's use.
AS the Tuam Herald and it's readers
are aware, at the time Of the split in
the Irish Parliamentary Party in Ire
land. there was also a split in the Irish
National League in America--one divis-
ion leading to the other. There was an
organization formed in substitution for
the National League called the National
Federation organization by the Nc
Carthyite or Dillon party, but it was as
great a failure and fasco as the Irish
body of the same. Instead OF federat-
ing, it kept the Irish asunder and apart.
American Nationalists saw that the
National League in Ireland was disrupt
ed and consequently impotent. They
concluded to organize the National AL
lance in this country to keep the ma
tional element together and keep up the
old spirit. All the leading Irish Nation
alists in the United States We're consult
ed about this organization. All agreed
that such an organization in place of
the National League would be good
one for Ireland's cause. So, John F.
Finerty, of the Chicago Citizen, and
John p. Sutton formerly secretary Of the
Irish National League Of America, is
sued a call for convention tn Chicago,
to be held in September, 1895, and It
met, resolved, and organized with the
endorsement Of hundreds Of assembled
Nationalists from all the states of the
union. s..,
The Clan-na-Gael organization or
any other political secret society had not
any connection with that convention,
and il the informer Jones was q Clam
Gael, he took good care that he did
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