The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-01

1t Declines to Dictate to People
of Ireland How They Shall
Agitate

IL.
Secretary O'Cauaghan said that
while the league had added materially
to its strength, influence and numbers
during the past year, he belived that
still greater progress could be made in
the future. To accomplish this he be-
lleVed that in the selection of the new
national committee only such persons
should be chosen as declare their will
i1ngness to work theoretically in the
cause He recommended that the new
natlonal committee be clothed with the
power to replace members of the COM
mlttee who show themselves to be in
different to the success of the cause.
The report of Treasurer 7. Fitzpat-
rick showed that nearly all the states
in the Union contributed to the general
1und. The money collected since Oc-
tober, 1902. amounted to s61,665.
There was a warm debate over the
question of increasing the national
committee from fifty to 100 members.
The amendment that the executive
committee be increased was defeated
by four votes. Those voting against it
numbered 134 and those for it 100.
Adopts Platform
The platform adopted. by the con-
yention after renewing the pledge of
the. leagues allegiance to the cause of
Irish national independence, the right
Of Ireland to have parliament Of her
own says:
We assert the right of the Irish peo-
pie to procure their independence by
any honorable method, by work or
Inv ~,
stances may dictate or opportunities
may offer, but we fully admit the right
TO choose their weapons in the battle
FOR liberty. untrammeled by dictation
from any outside source, realizing that
the people on the firing line of the fight
for natlonhood are the best judges of
the policy to be adopted in their strug-
gle with the wealth and power of Eng
land"
The convention recognizes the Gin
calcu1able services rendered by John
Z. Redmond, William O'Brien. Michael
Davitt, John Dillon, r. p. -O'Connor,
Edward Lake and their able colleagues,
services which no material value can
represent or recompenSe,' and earnest
ly appeals to Irishmen in America to
sustain them in their struggle with @
generosity worthy of the glorious re-
nown Of the Irish race and Of the cause
to which they are inalterably devoted"
A member of the committee on ways
and means read a report from the COM
mittee in which 1t was stated that it is
the intention of this committee to raise
$4,000 before the first of next year for
England and Ireland. Michael J. Curry,
the New York member of the commit
tee, told the. convention that New York
will contribute $4,000 toward the fund.
Chairman Finerty announced that
Charles E. Murphy, the Tammany
leader. had promised to give $1,000 to
the fund.
The convention at the afternoon ses-
sion unanimously elected the following
officers for two years: President,
John F. Finerty, Chicago; vice presi-
dent, Patrick Egan, New York; second
vice president, Edward Dewey, ST.
Louis; third vice president, Michael J.
Redding, Baltimore; fourth vice presi-
dent, John Fitzpatrick, New Orleans;
national secretary, John O'Callahan,
Boston; national treasurer, r. B. Fitz-
patrick, of New York.
Much excitement and disorder at
tended the discussion of the resolution
ecutive committee. The trouble began
when John F. Ryan, Of Philadelphia,
said that New York should not have
two representatives on the executive
committee, when Boston and other
cities had given more to the general
fund than New York had given Del
egate O'Connor, of Elmira, N Y,
sharply resented Mr.. Ryan's attack on
the Irishmen of New York state and
the convention was soon in an uproar.
In the evening John Redmond deliver
ed an address.
Extinction of landlordsm
Mr.. Redmond said:
'Landiordism still exists in Ireland.
but 1T exists as the condemned muir
derer In Sing Sing exists, that is, only
until the execution of the sentence
Landlordism exists, but we are able to
say that ten or fifteen years will see its
extinction and it will be eXtinguished
through the votes of the English par
ties and through English money.
The prejudice against home rule is
largely dying out among thinking Eng
lishmen. 1t is being quite generally ac-
copied that if representative govern
ment is to be continued in England 1t
will be necessary to make concessions
to Ireland. 1t is understood that If
there is ever to be an Anglo Saxon al
lance. project very near to the hearts
of many Englishmen, it will be abso-
lately necessary to grant home rule to
Ireland first"
Mr.. Redmond referred to those who
disagreed with his views. He was in
terrupted by voice crying out: ITO
HI with the Clan Ma Gael and the
arrangement" There was great confu-
sion at once, but Mr.. Redmond re-
torted:
ITO HI with no honest Irishnen.
My friend says, TO HI with the Clan
Ma Gael Far be it from us to tolerate
such an expression. The Orangemen are
Irishmen, mistaken Irishmen, l think. |
but still Irishmen. Shall we drive them
from Ireland2 / say no. Educate them.
ParneH said that Ireland could not af-
ford to lose single son, and that Is
true today"
John O'Callaghan, of Massachusetts. |
read message of sympathy with SEN |
ator George T. Hoar in his illness. |
which was adopted as expressing the
sense of the convention Addresses |
were made by O'Donovan Rosa. Cant |
A. ]. Donnell, of East Cork: conor |
O'Kelley. M. P, of County Mayo: Col. |
John Y. H. Blake. Of the Irish brigade. !
Thomas j. Gargan, Of Boston. and Ed |
ward n. Lahiff. of Chicago