New Britain herald., 1916-08-24
HIBERN|ANS CHOOSE LEENEY PRESIDENT Uphold Wilson for Keeping United
 States Out Of War DEN0UNCE BASEMENT KILLING
Resolution Pledges Order to Work for Freeing Ireland-PartitiOn of Erin Condemned-FavOr Study of Irish History in Schools.

Middletown, Aug. 24.-The biennial convention of the Ancient Order of HibernianS adjourned this afternoon and its meeting place two years hence will be selected by state board made up of the four officers and the state chaplain. Officers elected were: Pres ident, John F. Leeney of New Brit ain; vice president, Andrew w. Con- niff, of Danbury; secretary, John $. Mccarthy of New Haven for his sixth term; treasurer, Major E. T. Lyons of Hartford for his eighth term. The convention recommended to Bishop Milan the name of Father F'lannery of Hazardville for state chaplain.
 Many resolutions were adopted, some of them at length. In one all legiance is reaff1rmed to the Pope, the Catholic church, the bishop and the clergy and to Ireland as the mother country. In part the resolutions say: We unreservedly condemn any at- tempt which entails partition of the nation Greland) and we commit our selves at all times to the demand that it must receive from the governments of the world the place earned by long martyrdom to an ideal that has never been relinquished by majority of her sons."
 Easement Resolution.
 As to the execution of Roger Case ment and his associates the resolution condemns it, saying: We have be- held the savagery pursued against the truest patriots who have ever shed blood in the name of liberty, with un- speakable loathing We denounce 
 getful of every human sentiment, un- mindful of every lawful convention and needless of objections from every civilized nation done to a tortured end the little band of heroes who loved Erin, to the death and whose only crime was that undying affection. . . in special way we denounce the indefensible execution of that knight without fear and without reproach- Roger Casement-. that for what he offered the sacrifice of his life we resolve must be the object of our prayers and our activity till the land for which he died is as he would have Erin free among the nations his spirit will not rest content until his soul which we now beseech may be with his God"
 Praise for President Wilson.
 Another resolution pledges the or der to the work of freeing Ireland, and reasserts loyalty to the United States. Regarding President Wilson the resolution said in part: ITO Pres ident Woodrow Wilson, and to all the rulers to whom we owe allegiance we tender submission and loyalty, and express a feeling of gratitude for the efforts made to retain our nation un- complicated with the dissensions which divide other people, and we proffer our aid in every legitimate way to second the efforts of those who govern us, to secure a continuance Of peace and prosperity to our country"
 Another resolution recommended the continuance of study of Irish his tory in all schoo1s-that the military branch should be increased and that state armories should be thrown open to it so that by drilling the commands may be in readiness to call from state or nation should it's services be required.