370 IRISH NATIONAL ALLIANCE. 



ITALY. 



of the history and prestige of the great 



party and of a courageous Den L 



We condemn the cowardice and triekcr 



lean workmen to open i eompetHfcn n mar- 



ket with the poorly paid labor of the Old World. 



We beUsviin maintaining no* only the highest 

 waff* ratr for the laborer, but the integrity 01 



.^tharth; United States exert ita influence 

 to aatabliah with the i nations 



TtlM world such an in agreement as will 



anahle this country to reopen ita mint* to the free 

 iad unlimited coinage oT both metal- w.th...it loss or 

 eae or the other from the volume of our money. 



Restricted immigrations and liberal pennons 



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The Demoorat 'ion. which in.-t in 



Mur-halll. w* divided on the sub- 



ject of coinage, but the monometallism were in 

 the majority and elected their chairman. The 

 ,..,rt of the Committee on Resolutions 

 presented a resolution calling for free coinage 

 Of fold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 ; l.ut it 

 was defeated by a vote of 400 in favor, to 651 

 opposed. The ' majority report, which was 

 adopted, contained the following : 



We declare the rescue of the finances of the coun- 

 try from the baleful effects of the Sherman luw , the 

 \nifrican Federal election law, and 

 the uprooting of McKinleyism to be work- worthy 

 - ' " - -eat i 



administration, 

 triekery of the Re- 

 publican party of Iowa in failing to meet in ita la*t 

 State platform anv of the issues important and vital 

 to the interesta of our State. 



We believe that the mulct law fails to meet the re- 

 quirements of a good excise statute. 



We repeat our demand of the past five years for a 

 local-option high-license law, and on behalf of the 

 commercial interest* of our State we favor a law per- 

 mitting the manufacture of liquors, thus affording a 

 market for the products of the farm and labor of the 

 State, and saving to our people the enormous sums 

 now expended in other States. 



The resolutions also favored election of 

 United States Senators by direct vote of the 

 people, "just and liberal pensions to all deserv- 

 ing veterans,*' nonpartisan control of State in- 

 M it ut ions, and the speedy completion of the 

 H en n en in Canal and the deepening of water 

 ways from the Great Lakes to the ocean. The 

 nominations were: For Governor, W. I. Rabb; 

 Lieutenant Governor. <>. I.. !'..--T,,\V: Judge of 

 the Supreme Court, T. G. Harper; Superin- 

 tendent of Instruction, Lyman B. Parshall; 

 Railroad Commissioner, George Jenkins. 



The Republican ticket was successful at the 

 election, the return of the vote for Governor 

 being as follows: Drake, Republican, 206,689; 

 Babb\ Democrat, 149,488; Crane, People's party, 

 ,118; Bacon, Prohibition. 11,052. The other 

 candidates were elected bv the following vote: 

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Superintendent* 212,852 ; Kail road Commission- 

 er. tlt,l 1. The next State Senate will have 43 

 Republicans and 7 Democrats; the House, 80 

 Republicans and 20 Democrats. 



n:i s N M IOSAL ALLIANCE, an organi- 

 sation formed in convention in Chicago, & : 



Moving for its object "thesecuring of the in- 

 oependence of Ireland by any means within its 

 gwercoiiaiitentwith the laws and usages of 

 dvilted nations," ThequaliflcaUonsformem- 

 benbip are good moral character, birth on 

 Irish soil or descent from Irish parentage, and 



the taking of a pledge to aid by every m. 



iniiy \\ it h t hr const itut ion :in : 

 tin- Irish 'Nuticiiiiil Alliancr, in -runni: 



i.'iirr ,,f I rdatiil. The origin. 

 president, a vice-president, a treasm 



tl ive council of nine ni.-iul.cr-. \vh,, hohj 

 office for two years. Th. stair < 

 are modeled on the national j... 

 authority (<> i.ru'ani/1' must conic fr. 

 national cxccutiv.- council. 



t local sul.ilivision of tin- Alli.v 

 known as a council, to I..- l,-i-n:itr.l 

 number of tin- charter furni-| : . 



i\e (..uiKil. The convention pass< 

 lutionsof sympathy with the ( ul..i 

 mended the work now tiring done 1 

 League and the National Li' 



'Land liy the (Jaelic socicti. - of the 

 States. The most important of thu reaos^^l 

 adopted were these: 



We earnestly protest against the ( 



iti'.n in Ktiirlisli 

 I. r it minimal) an<l against tl 



M J.rir-n Mien \\liM )i;i 



in the int. rot of their e<imtry ari'l I 

 aii-1 that the release of these men is in 

 niandcd not only t>\ the Irish j.er.plc, 

 xution ; we recommend the i.n: 



."mpanies wherever praetieahh-, ill order U> t^g 



and preHervo the rnilitury wpirit c: 



t j.n -pare tor a- lion in the hour of nglan<i 



culty. 



ly in December, 1895, it was r 

 a large number of councils ha- i 

 New York, I'.n.oklyn. Montreal. 

 Louis, Chicago, San l-'raiicisco, Cl -\ 

 ton, and Detroit. The movement 

 attention on account of the militai 

 Alliance, to be a member of which t 

 must also belong to a lodge of the Clan-; 

 In this manner, a full regiment hn- 

 in the city of New York, and other* 

 cities are 'following the example. \\ i.. n i'n- 

 dent Cleveland sent his message to ( 

 ati veto the boundary of Venezuela, in I>eoa^H 

 1895, the Alliance issued a manifesto 

 England, and declared it would furnish 

 men in case of a war with that nation. 



ITALY, a constitutional monarchy in 

 ern Europe. The Constitution is th.v 

 ancient kingdom of Sardinia, adopt 

 and extended to the united countri- 

 1861. The throne is hereditary in 1 1 

 of the house of Savoy. The reigning K|^B 

 Umberto I. l.orn March 11. 1*11. Th- 

 is composed of the rpval princes and 390 m 

 bers nominated for life from among \ > 

 have attained certain official i 

 rendered eminent services to the coi 

 8,000 lire of taxes. TheChaml 

 tains 506 members, elected dinctly in a^H 

 districts by all citizens who can reaxl an<l 

 and who pay 20 lire of direct ta 

 cil of Ministers, constituted 01 

 composed of the following mer 

 and Minister of the Interior. 

 Minister of Foreign Affair 



f Finance, Paolo Bosclli ; Mir. 

 Treasury, Giorgio Sonnino : MimV 

 and Worship, Andrea < aienda di Tavani : 

 ister of War, Gen. Stanislao Mocen 

 of Marine, Admiral Constantino W 



