The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-09-15
NEW KNOW NOTHINGS.
The Crusade Against Cathol-
iCiSm.
How the New League
Against Romanism is
Carried On.
It's Ritual and Mummery Re-
vealed.
A Warfare Against Religious
Freedom.
Key to the Dark-Lantern
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Key to the Dark-Lantern
Mysteries Of the Order.
Frnm the Cinelnati Enqulrer.

The revival of the Old spirit OF Know
Nothiuglsm and its bold strike for re-
cugnition in the rank, of the RcpubIi-
can party thus fall Is one of the notable
events OF the political canvass that the
people of this State are now engaged in.
1t i well known that the order called
the Patriotic Order OF Sons of America,
which had It's origin in the East about a
wear ago has been unceasing IN It's efforts
IN Ohio this campaign. Already hun
lrcdS Of lodges have been organized,
and hundreds more will be organized
before the election. To-day there are
probably ten thousand members OF the
Order in this State. New York ha,
SiXty-fyc thousand, Maryland twenty
thousand. and other States IN proportion.
The object of the organization Is, lr,t,
To- hight the Roman Catholic Church, and
next To fight all foreign born citizens.
1t is secret IN lis workings, the members
being prohibited by the most solemn
ouths from revealing even the names OF
those who may be- members. They are
bound hv this oath to vote according -
the ydict, OF their commanding officers
aud To- carry on their crusade with II
blind zeal. regardless of the claims or
fitness of anv one no o their number or n
their ticket. Ihicr work is 10 he carried
Oh silently and with military eXactn"Ss.
By this they hope to be able to repeat
the comp dctat OF the know-Nothing
Campaign Of 1884.
An Epg,u'rcr reporter Yesterday came
into possession OF the Ritual of this
new organization, and no better evidence
of lis aims, as we have stated, can BE-
produced than the simple publication OF
this document, prepared under the spe-
cial sanction of the Grand Council Of
the United States.
NUTS FOR THE CRIPToGRAPnERS.
The ritual for the iniation of members
to the Order which Is given below, 1t
will b. noticed, can only be read by
the aid of KEY. That Is to say, those
words occurring in the ritual IN which
the names of officers occur, or the OBJ
i,cl to be obtained is hidden under Il
sort OF crvptograph, composed partly OF
letters and partly OF numerals, so that /.
a printed copy OF it should fall mo the
hands OF an outsider, rs it did IN the
present instance, he could not make
out its sense without the aid OF key.
70 add to hi, pcrpleXity, If he We're to
try to make 1t mt unaidcd, the Scarcher
after mystery would speedily find out
hat each of these numerals represented
two words of widely dissimIar mean
inc. and their Specification was indicat-
eel Jy the position hey held in SEN
trucc. For instance a series OF numcr'
ais occurring IN the first line OF SEN
trnce would mean something altogether
different from the same numbers occur
ring in the second line, or mineral
following after one figure had dihcr-
cnt meaning when it succeeded another,
So that it would be next to impossible
for a person not skilled in cipher-transla-
ting 10 make head or tail Of what he
found in his possession ltrpily our
reporter was not put to this trouble.
The same person who furnished HIM
with the ritual, and that person Is II
member of the organization, furnished
him with the key To it, and all he had
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And this Is the key;
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V. p. Vice President.
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