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Show - y" oo8 -30".gg""g000 Sg"$&--n"" --0 K-iiM! t Tathcr Walone, State President of the Order in Colorado, Wins a &reat Victory in Boston Tirst time the I Convention Passes Beyond Wississippi I i 15,000 lyibernians in Boston Parade. I If ' : ' -4 -t HON. JOHN T. KEATING, NATIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE ANCIENT ORDER OF HIEEHNIANS. DENVER, THE CONVENTION CITY. (Special Dispatch to the Intermountain. and Colorado Catholic.) Boston, May 15. The Colorado delegation, dele-gation, jointly with Montana and other Western states, succeeded in having Denver selected as the place of meeting meet-ing for the A. O. H. convention of 1901. It was a great victory. ' THOMAS H. MALONE. When Father Malone, who is the State President of the A. O. H. in Colorado, Colo-rado, went to Boston as a delegate to the National Convention of the order the greatest and most influential Catholic Cath-olic society in America he said he , would have Denver named for the next convention. Father Malone has succeeded and the people of Denver and the State congratulates con-gratulates him on his success; yea, the Hibernians and others all over the Inter-mountain country give him the glad hand. It is the first time in the history of the order that a convention passes beyond be-yond the Mississippi, and it is an occasion oc-casion for rejoicing to think that the Hibernians are becoming, so powerful in the Great West as to win even passing pass-ing consideration from such pronounced pro-nounced Irish centers as Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis. The Boston affair was a great success. suc-cess. It was the greatest gathering of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in the history of the United States, showing the splendid union and goodfellowship that exists in the order. The convention opened on Tuesday morning In Faneuil Hall. Adjournment was Immediately taken to the cathe dral, where the delegates attended solemn sol-emn high mass. The celebrant was Rev. John F. Cummins of Roslindale, state chaplain of the order, and he was assisted as-sisted by Rev. John F. Redican of Leicester Lei-cester as deacon and Rev. John F. Hef-fernan Hef-fernan of South Framington as sub-deacon. sub-deacon. Rev. T. J. MacCormack of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross was master mas-ter of ceremonies. Archbishop Williams occupied his customary throne. He was attended by Revs. Drs. John T. Mullen and F. X. Dolan of the cathedral. A masterly and eloquent sermon was delivered by REV. EDWARD CONNOLLY, president of St. Edward's Classical In- : : : : : : : : i stitute of Boston. Father Connolly impressed upon the members of - the order that the dawn of peace and freedom free-dom for Ireland is at hand, and that by no other means than those of' peace should '.Ireland be pushed,-forward to the place which she occupied centuries ago, when her institutions of learning spread education throughout the length and breadth of Europe. The mambers. he said, had assembled under auspices different from those of their forefathers, when priests were forbidden to attend it. The forefathers had defended the church well against its oppressors .defended it with their lives, and he implored the Hibernians to let the spirit of the Holy Ghost preside pre-side over their deliberations, as today they are the most representative body of Catholic Ireland to be found In. the world. In the days of trials and persecution in Ireland, as the church reposed .faith in the Catholic Hibernian Irishmen of that dav. so todav does the church repose re-pose its confidence and trust and faith in the representatives. But the preacher warned the Hibernians to do not a sinele act which would cause shame to the church or to themselves. The Hibernians of today, should follow fol-low closely in the footsteps of their forefathers and remain firm in the one infallible faith, and keep firmly "and faithfully the commandments of the church and observe their duties to their God. their church, their neighbors neigh-bors and to their country, for, he said, the Hibernians of this country have a great civic duty to perform. , The church was never a friend of tyranny, and in Ireland's struggles the prayers and sympathy of the holy church always al-ways went out to the hardy sons of that land. The church is always solicitous soli-citous of the welfare- of its children, earthly af well as spiritually, and her prayers for Ireland will occupy her place among the first nations of the world, as she did once before, not only in peace, but in learning, art and education. edu-cation. Prosperity will again be hers if her sons remain firm and true to their righteous . principles and "adhere to the commandments of the church. Mayor Hart of Boston, delivered the address of welcome in Faneuille Hall NATIONAL PRESIDENT KEATING. Hon. John T. Keating of Chicago, the national president, made an address in response to the "addresses of State President Slatterv and Mavor Hart. He said: "The welcome tendered to us comes from the heart of the great city of Boston. It will be received, honored and welcomed by us in the spirit in which it is offered. "We come here not alone as representatives repre-sentatives of a race which has contributed contri-buted much to make Boston what it is. We come as "Irish-Americans, not to accept praise, not to receive compliments, compli-ments, but to enjoy what we knov are our rights as Irish-American citizens. "We come here accepting the kindly words and the splendid, honest recognition rec-ognition of the chief official of the city, and we can assure him that while we stay within the city walls nothing on our part, either by those who come as delegates or those as attendants accompanying ac-companying the delegates, will in any way show that we forget th3 duty we owe to the hospitality of this splendid old city. And we want to say that we meet here to inscribe another milestone mile-stone on our road- to progress, and we desire to assure the mayor tha. the graven words on this index of our advance ad-vance will be such as will be of pride to our people, of credit to our society anf of honor to America. We come with a knowledge that American citizens, brcadminded. of high ideal, of noble impulse, can always al-ways appreciate what a society laboring labor-ing for the benefit of humanity is trying try-ing to do. We can say to them now, as our own Boyle O'Reilly once said in this great city: No treason we bring from Erin, Nor bring we shame or guilt, j The sword we hold may be broken, But we have not dropped the hilt! The wreath we bear to Columbia Is twisted of thorns, not bays. The songs we sing are saddoned For the thoughts of desolate days; But the heart we bring for freedom Are washed in the surge of tears. And we claim our rights by a people s fights Outliving a thousand years. "We tender our earnest acknowledgements acknowledge-ments to the kindly management of the committee, and our earnest and heartfelt welcome fo the ladies who today to-day grace our session. We believe that those eyes of Irish, blue and rosy cheeks, perhaps born on Irish soil, may find a recognition warmer than perhaps the national president would be at liberty lib-erty to offer, and we' believe that in many of our delegates today will be found cavaliers willing to take charge and act as escorts during our stay. We believe that among our delegates in the great city of Boston Till be found those who, at all times gentlemen, will be gladly willing to recognize the needs of the ladies and take part and assist in the kindly work in which they are engaged, and, above all things, to make their stay in the city, as well as ours, as pleasant as the circumstances will permit. , i "Aloow me,' gentlemen and citizens of Boston, again on behalf of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, to thank you and to assure you that when we return to our distant homes, whether away in far Texas, nearly as distant as Washington, Wash-ington, or back in the modest city from which I come, we will always remember remem-ber with kindly thoughts the welcome with which we are received today, and the recollections of this hour will always al-ways be a green mark on the calendar of our lives, that when we visited Boston Bos-ton and received this kindly welcome we felt ourselves as among friends, Irishmen among true Americans." There were 15,000 men In the procession. |