Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-05-20

TIE New York Sun is '.Reform journal
and yet It is not entirely pleased with wha
was said and done at the recent Schurz ban
quet. 1t says: There were some gentlemen Al
the Delmonico (SchurZ) dinner with whom We
would not take cabin or steefage passage il
any voyage of discovery TO seek out and elecI
honest men to our high trusts. The transcen
dentaliSm of octogenariaEs and the popinlay
prattlH of political fiedglings may be pleasing
to other eyes and ears, but they. have no Sc
! ducton for us. We lost a glorious cause al
! Cincinnati ly wolves in mask and damagogues
/ in white robes. The history of that fatal gath
ering is yet to be written.
! 1t is pretended that Catholics have entered
| into an alliance with the Democrats and form
ed new party, although it is well known by
Republican journals that no such alliance ex-
| ists.-Cdth0Lic UEicerse
Not new party, but the. Democratic party
aided by the Roman Catholic element so far
as the Church authorities can control that ele-
ment. The Upicerse says no such alliance es-
lists Let us see. When the Geghan bill was
pending in the Legislature Mr.. Geghan wrote
to Mr.. John w. Murphy, of Cincinnati, and,
speaking for the Roman Catholic Church, of
which he is member, said:
''We have prior claim upon the Democrat
ic party. The elements composing the DEM
ocratic party in Ohio to-day-fully two-thirds
of said party-are made up of Irish and Ger
man Catholics, and they have been always 10y
al and faithful to the interests of the party.
Hence the party is under obligations to us,
and we have perfect right to demand Of
them, as party, inasmuch as they are in con-
troll of the State Legislature and State Gov
ernment, and We by both our means and votes
placed them where they are to-day, that they
should as party redress our grievances.
Shortly after this letter was written Mr.. Geg-
han had meeting with Archbishop Purcell,
and in the next number of the Cincinnati
CattOhc Telegraph was an editorial demanding
the passage of the Geghan bill on peril of To-
sing the Roman Catholic vote in case the bill
was not passed. That article said among 9TH
er things
''The political party with which nine-tenths
of the Catholic voters affiliate on account of
past services that they will never forget, now
control the State. Withdraw the support
which Catholics have given to it and it will
fall in this city, county and State as speedily
as it has risen to its long lost position and
power. That party is now on trial. Mr..
Geghan's bill will test the sincerity of its pro-
fessions."
The threat has its desired effect, and the bill
was passed by party vote. The Catholic
Telegraph told the Democratic members they
were good and faithful servants and that they
would be remembered. The Democratic par
ty YVES promised ''the soldid, unbroken vote of
the Catholic citizens of the State at the fall
elections. The Catholic Uniuerse itself broke
into delirium of rejoicing, and promised
similar reward to those who had aided the
passage of the bill.
But the Unioerse may be right, after all.
The Roman Catholic Church may not have
formedan alliance with the Democratic party.
That is not an alliance where one despotically
commands and tbe other servilely obeys.-
Cleveland Herald.