The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-26

two persons, instead of one The re-
port was signed by the entire commit
tee. Messrs. Barry, Brown and De
Weese, and was adopted by the conven-
ton.
No special interest had been aroused
over the election of officers, there being
general understanding that Secretary
Barry was by all means the best man
for the presidency, who could be in
duced to accept the tasks which the
place implied. In short order the fol-
lowing officers were chosen: President,
Thomas E. Barry, Chicago; first vice
president, DR.. J. w. Sweet, New Ha-
ven, Conn; second vice president, A. F.
Nordin, Willmar, Mimi; third vice pres
1dent, George A. Buckingham, New
York; secretary, Charles Paddock, Chi
cago; treasurer, Thomas e. Barry, Chi
cago.
To the newly elected president was
assigned the duty of naming an execu-
tive committee, which he did at once,
as follows: Messrs. Prichard, Toronto;
Kennedy, Ohio; Clark, Milwaukee;
Mowbray, Philadelphia; Campbell. Min
neapolis. The nominations were con-
firmed by the convention.
The next matter taken up was the
place of the next convention. There
had been three candidates, Kansas
City, Milwaukee and Toronto, but it
was considered best for the cause that
the convention go to the Canadian side
of the line, and Kansas City and Mil
waukee withdrew from the race, both
seconding the motion that the next
place of meeting be Toronto, Can. This
was adopted and the work of the con-
vention proper was practically over.
The Secretary'S report is very BRIEF As
follows:
Total number of chartered leagues last
New leagues chartered .................. s
-, Iotal ...........: ...................... $40
Charters surrendered OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Total number of chartered leagues $40
Total membership last report ........... 90 205
New members since last report ......... 1,30S
Total membership ............. 80, 513
Number of men induced by league to
take the Kelley cure .................. S31
Number paid for by leagues ............ 1922
Per centage of lapses. among members of
Kelley leagues, two and one tenth.
The afternoon session or the Kelley con-
vention, as had been extensively advertised,
was given up to an experience meeting, in
which the speakers detailed how they had
become addicted to the use of opium and NOR
phine;. aud how. by the aid of the Kelley
remedies, they bad become cured.
The attendance was quite large, the ladies
from the woman's auxiliary and large num-
Der OF temperance people being in the audi
ence.
The experiences of a durnkard are limo
cent when compared with opium and the
horrors. which these people have passed
through are such as leave no room for ex-
aggeration. Those who spoke of opium it's
insdious approach and it's awful grasp and
how it can be cured were: Mrs. Miller, E.
A: Smith, Mrs. Crist, Mrs. Akers Mrs.
Aldredge, Mrs. BARLEY, Mrs Gordon, Mrs.
Reynolds, Mrs. Wolfersberger j. E. Now
bry, DR.. Cant. G. B. Smith and E. c. Corn
well.
The meeting was conducted by Dr. Brough-
ton, the morphine specialist at Dwight
The Keeleyites had a programme of most
excellent addresses given by many eloquent
speakers last evening at the Lyceum theater.
The auditorium well filled with ladies
and gentlemen and a detachment of fifty old
soldiers from the home at Minnehaha were
also present. Mrs. Harriet L. butcher pres
ident of the Womens Kelley league under
whose auspices the meeting was held pre-
sided.
The first speaker was Gov. Clough, who
welcomed the visitors Maria Sanford, of the
and the university. Rev. George Black, of
the Park Avenue Congregational church,
spoke for the clergy of the city, and Dean
Pattee, of the university law school, also
had a few words to say. The two principal
speakers of the evening were women, Mrs
Ida B. Cole, of Chicago, secretary of the Ma
tonal Women's league, and Mrs. Leonora NJ
Lake, of st. Louis, third vice president of
the American Catholic Total Abstinence So
ciety.