The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-08-20
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National Convention Catholic
u Total Abstinence Union.
Sessions Held in Worlds Fair
u City Largely Attended.

Oh America iSSeluDleu III convention Ill
st. Louis on Wednesday morning,
August 10. The delegates began to ar
rive from all sections on the Monday
previous and when the convention
opened there We're representatives,
priests and laity from almost every
state in the Union.
AS the G. L. \. U. is an organization
that appeals powerfully to the family
circle, it was but natural that the con-
venton should have copious sprink-
ling Of the fair sex, who are doing so
much to advance the cause of temper
ance in this country.
The number of priests present was
large and the venerable archbishop of
Cincinnati, ever the friend of the c. Il.
A. o.. gave archiepiscopal dignity to
the gathering. Bishop Canevin, CO.
adjutor at Pittsburg, arrived after the
convention began it's first session on
Wednesday afternoon. He was given
a rousing reception and his address
received much applause.
After preliminary meeting at
knights of Father Mathew building.
on Washington avenue, on Wednesday
morning, the delegates, members of the
various ST. Louis councils of the X.
of r. NJ, headed by Seymour's band.
and the uniform rank of the X. of f.
NJ, marched in procession to st. Leo's
church, where a solemn pontitical mass
was celebrated ut 10 o'clock.
The officers of the mass We're: Cele-
brant, Archbishop Elder; deacon, Rev.
Francis Giltillan: subdeacon. Rev. T.
2. Crane; assistant priest, Very Rev.
J. \. Connolly; master of ceremonies,
Patrick Dooley, assisted by Martin
Clarke: acolytes, Daniel Bowling and
Joseph Tammany: candle bearer, DAN
iel Sullivan: book bearer, Thomas
Flanagan; inter bearer. Charles Shea;
crozier bearer, Paul Ritchie, and thrri-
fer. Frank Skaer. These latter young
gentlemen were from Kenricll semin-
airy. HiW,
The sermon was preached by Rev.
James L. COtfey pastor of st. Leo's,
and supreme spiritual director of the
Knights of Father Mathew.
Father Coffey's sermon rang with
the clash of battle and there was no
installing the sound. He spoke for Il
militant band of Catholic temperance
workers who We're not afraid to adj
vance into the open ground and unfurl
their colOrs where all, Catholics and
PrOtestants, might see them. He adj
vised the members of the G. Il. \. u.
to sound the tOcsin of war; pick up the
gauntlet that had been thrown down
so audaciously in every city and town
in defiance. He pleaded for a Sunday
Of devotion and rest without the al
Turing enticemcnts Of the bar and beer
garden. He portrayed the power and
influence of the liquor element in coun-
Gil chamber and legislative hall, and
said the members of the C.. Il. \. u.
must ever he on the alert to point out
to tile public the corrupting wiles Of
the brewer and diStiller. He said that
the temperance people of the Catholic
faith should not hide their light under
bushcl. They should get out among
their separated brethren and tell them
of their work and invite their cooper
alton. The barriers of prejudice that
once seemed almost insllrmOuntable to
the Protestant were falling away as
the latter became better acquainted
with his truly Catholic neighbOr. He
saw thHt this neighbor had the same
civic ideals as himself that he desired
his cOuntrymen to he sober, upright
citizens, that the flag of the nation
inspired the same patriotism in the
Catholic bosom as in his own. and
hence he would no longer listen to thu
men and women who made Il living
by misrepresenting the Catholic clurcl
and trlducing her priesthood.
Father Coffey complimented til,
knights of Father Mathew Oh til,
work they accomplished in the pas
two years and said it was organization
of which all st. Louisnns We're proud
He closed by extending cordial wei
come to alp the delegates to st. Leo
parish and the city of st. Louis.
A requiem mass was celebrated o
Thursday morning Mt $50 o'clock Il
st. Leo's church. Rev. Walter J. Shal
ley of Hartford. Conn.,, was celebrant
Rev. Martin S. Brennan, St. Loui
deacon; Rev. G. p. kaufman, st. Loui.
subdeacon; the other officers wer
young men from Kenrick seminar!
They were: William Carr, master {
ceremonies; Leo Howard. thurifiel
Thomas O'Malley and Michael Trac.
acolytes.
The officers of the Catholic Tot;
Abstinence union are: President, Re-
Walter ]. Stanley. Hartford, Conn
first vice-president, Walter J. Gibbon
of Chicago; second vice-president, Re-
John G.. Beane, of Pittsburg; thir
vice-president, Mrs. l.. NJ. Lake, Of S
Louis; treasurer, Rev. J. J. Curran, {
Wilkesbarre. Pa; secretary, ]. Wasl
!, fngton Logue, Philadelphia.
At the session of Wednesday aftel