The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-09-08

AIOfO SOutnwelI, Catholic, - TIE SuCC06oOr1
Of Lord Granard in the Leutenancy Of lei .
LITTER FROM ROME. II
ROME, August lo.-on Sunday. the 4th {
ballot thirteen Municipal and Eve Provin- ,
cial Councillors. The eighteen Catholic :
candidates were, without exception, sig ,
naily defeated. For the Municipal Coun,
Gil, Anieni, supported by the Moderates and
Republicans, was OF the, head of the poll
with $40 votes; Pocaterra, last on the
Moderate list, and opposed by the Repnb-
licans. came in thirteenth with 4l66 votes.
Prince Torionia, the most influential Cath
clio candidate, obtained 1872 y ,asa E sne
the Provincial Council the last Ministerial
was carried with 4lO3 votes against 1852,
the most obtained by any Catholic.
Tie readers of the Weekly Register who
not unprepared for this deplorable result.
1t was foreseen by all acquainted with
Rome, it's citizens and oppressors. Brieny
to recapitulate. we owe our discontinue 10
four causes: lat. Want of time and Or
n ganization. ID. Fraud aud intimidation
+ practiscd with absurd impunity by our OPP
ponents. Sd. Government Influence nm
fairly used against as and gross cheating on
the part Of the municipal officials. 4th.
: Our own pusillanimity and oscillation.
g "Sunday's election" boast, in self-con-
|: kratulatory unison, the Liberia aud Opinione
q was a spectacle, novel for Rome, admir-
: able for Europa great and veritable trl-
!, umph." AS reply to the many similar
3 are reader and safer than words. copy
= a few authenticated numerical data, dis
) closing the secret of the Liberal victory:
d The electors registered in time for the poll
% were in all, 1850. The voters were sMSy I
I. exercising, in right of their situations, the
q lowest estimate to 357o, viz stipendiaries
t. of the nine Ministries, 1900 Royal House
ne hold, 100; garrison efticere, 10y taf ats
d 40; Qucstura, 100; Post-ofice, lOU ci
e. Municipal Guards, 400; Customhouse, 300
IN Municipal sehoolmasters, goo. According
ot to the Capitale, veracious for once, Az
.st tary, retained their subalterns' ballot paper
lot till the moment of the poll, and, IN DE-
ar livering them to the owner, offered ex
picitly the option Of accepting the GGH
a a :357O from Apieni's $40, we have onl
'as 177O Liberal votes not overly controlle
,at by the Ministry. Without reckoning
ia then, the abstentionsts, the uDjustly dis
ty. franchised, and the thousands of Cathoiie
en- who last month neglected to claim btt,
ach q sufficiently good canvass to beat the Don
ont. fds Piedmonte minded electore-to-w wi
re, re- the householders and ratepayers, vheshe
nav genuine Romans or bussurro trespasser
the We did not do enough; but with far pia
ren. our men would have been seated.
pity ,Advices from the small towns and vi
: lagos Of, the Campagna and adjace
,ge- provinces continue to bring US good ele
day pioneering news; but 1T is hardly Wor
aoo y. making fuss about. or course tne CAV
> eli. polls; for nowhere out of the great citl
alb. is there a Liberal party to speak of, n
the can the impiegati and DECORATE, lego
Who, though they be, vote con temPoranaOusiy
ID to shoals at a time in O hundred scatter
oops Municipalities. The Revolution had to II
and somewhere the loss of the 5000 drafted 10
ihu- the Capital for Sundays fraud 80 ADge
Nc, Monterosi, Monterotondo, st. Nite, ETC.,
8 at still represented in their little towp-hha
i'm Eli 7 by freely chosen Catholics.
!; as Before leaving tue subject-the NJ
d the disasreeable + have yet had to treat
poke quote ppce more the Hoce deLG pefua
an journal that FROM the outset did It's duty
d he the Pope and his cause willingly, stra'g
;s inc forwardly and we'll. -tr .."-'
, rs The Revolution Is indebted for it's '
ID his tory to- the regretable abstention of M
k he than one-half Of the Catholic electors,
rongs particular of the clergy and nobility, y
W Oh this rennissness we grieve exceedine
nave Let Catholics 1ememb Der that assiduity
r. aims T,iduums and Novenas Is laudaole,
His laudab!e; but prayer and self denying
ms in ertions must go together ttde ct operi
resses We have not to wait for miracles; we
tents. bound to make. use for our delverance,O
thing Iawfal means within our reach. Full IN
1t is T.tLol;cs LET ns own it frankly, are ex
le. pa 80 toILarp. Init, mere words are of
en mons avail. All the phases OF the election p
-, Ire Ire that only little more general CO opera
was wanting to make the victory o
north Friend Arbib and company, our defeat
rch on be lesson for us. For a hrst attempt,
1t is contest was, after all, not SO very bad.
excel will endeavor to do better next time"
II per A few days ago his Holiness besto
z aaI, his farewell blessing on famous An
n Pro missionary .i; - VIII, :
i fund no" trelecC Ap"eUo . W ~, 'tnrs ",,
forty companions vowed to cvanG
, Most Central Africa; six only have survived
and on hausting drudgery and tropical fever
rded Comboni has printed a little book on til
70 LORD generation of Africa, in which he exp
OF Zine tue his scheme for permanent Apostle
.caaSsed His ex perience has led him to despair