The Irish standard., 1902-01-25
CHEERS GIVEN MITCHELL.
Convention of United Mine Workers
Apparently with Its
President.
BELIEVED He WILL Be ENUMERATED.
At Suggestion of President Mitchell
the investigation Committee Is In
crensed-Rcport Expected by FRI
dny-Elcction of officers Delayed
Until After the Report Ii In.

uNy-ElcStIOn OIucCr8 DeluyCO
Until After the Report liz In.
Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 23.-National
officers of the United Mine workers of
America will not be elected until the
committee appointed to investigate
charges preferred against President
John Mitchell and Secretary-Treasurer
Wilson has made its report to the con-
vention.
The report will not be made prob
ably until Friday.
Although the foregoing announce
ment was not made to the convention,
it was given out by Secretary-Treasurer
Wilson.
Officers were to have been elected
Tuesday morning, and would have
been chosen if it had not been for the
charges preferred by Miss Meredith
and the declaration by resident Mitch
ell that he and Secretary-Treasurer
Wilson would refuse to be reelected
until the charges were heard.
The feeling in the convention
Wednesday was that the report of the
investigat ting committee will exonerate
Mitchell and Wilson, and that they will
be reelected.
Cheers for Mitchell.
The miners cheered President Mitch
ell when he appeared on the stage at
Tomlinson hall Wednesday morning.
A minute after taking up the gavel
he said he felt it would be more salts
factory to the convention at large if
a delegate from each of the two addi-
tional districts to which Miss Mere
dith's charges had been sent be appoint
ed on the committee named to investi-
gate, SO w. D. Van Horne, who pre-
sided Tuesday, took the chair and APP
pointed Delegate Lawrence Love, of
district IS. of Iowa, and Pat Dolan, of
district 5, of Pennsylvania. The other
members of the committee appointed
Tuesday are as follows:
j. II. Kennedy and Samuel Lynch, of
Indiana, districts No. S and II: w. D.
Ryan, of district No. 70. Illinois; r. D.
Nichols, district No. /. Pennsylvania; j.
ID. Wood, district No. %, kentucky: w. II.
lLaskins district No. G, Ohio; Richard
Chairman Kennedy called the COM
mittee together and the work of in.
vestigation will proceed as rapidly as
possible.
Thereupon President Mitchell re-
sumed charge of the convention.
The first order of the routine bust
ness was the appointment of COM
tot r. T
w. Howe, district No. 10; Chris Evans,
No. 6; Peter Hanraty, No. 21; John Il.
Dempsey, No. i; w. L. Morris, No. 12;
G. w. Purcell, No. II, and Paul p. Pula S.
XII, No. 10.
| Investigation to he Thorough.
Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 23.-J. C.
Iteenan, of Linton, member of the
commission appointed by Gov. Durbin
to codify the Indiana mining laws, will
serve as chairman of the special COM
mittee appointed to investigate the
charges against President Mitchell and
Secretary-Treasurer Wilson.
Mr.. Heenan said that the charges
would receive fair and impartial in
vestigation, and that the members of
the committee were not biased by per-
sonal feelings. The convention had
asked for an inyestiga ton of the
charges and countercharges and the
committee would go through the
question thoroughly.
The Investigating committee elect
ed w. d. Ryan, of Illinois. secretary.
Ryan is the delegate who offered the
resolution cnndemning Miss Meredith
for having preferred the charges.
Hidden Motive Suggested.
There were stories atloat Wednes-
day as to what "is back" of the
charges. Some say they believe coal
operators are behind Miss Meredith
for the purpose of disrupting the mine
workers organization. A report has
been circulated to the effect that the
Ohio miners were paying Miss Mere
dith's expenses. Delegate Haskins,
president of the Ohio miners, be fore
the convention, in and before noon
said he wished to correct statement,
intimating that the Ohio miners are
backing Miss Meredith. Haskins said
the statement was an injustice to the
Ohio delegation.
Miss Meredith denies that anyone is
back of her, and declares that she has
acted on her own responsibility.
The minutes in the official journal of
proceedings of the Ohio state min
ers' convention shows that the Ohio
convention voted to invite Miss Mere
dith to the national convention and
agreed to pay her expenses while here.
President Haskins, Of the Ohio dis
trict, says the reason the Ohio conven-
tion did this was that the charge had
been circulated in Ohio and that the
state convention wished to have the
national convention hear them.
Newspaper Man Ill.
Topeka, Kan, Jan. 23-William AL
len White, the distinguished Kansas
author and newspaper man, is sick