Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-15
To James o'Connor, ee-Priest.

FRIEND JAMES: see by the papers you
have extended yourself out west, even as
far as White Bear lake. What a prodigy
to be sure! And you are going to be taken
in tow by the illustrious Smith and Sleek
Dana of st. Paul? Pro digious! Still
''Much have heard
Of thy prodigious might and feats performed"
Now James, my friend, think you that
the spirit of God directs you in your
outcome? Your great hobby is to expose
Rome and Romanism" to the world.
Many better men, and more refined have
undertaken the sane task before your
day, and have succeeded only to expose
their malice and hybrid thirst for ven
geance. But alas, you sought vengeance,
having another motive than ''truth' will
recoil an your own guilty head. AS to
your exposition of Romanism you should
have left that to more suitable characters,
Edith O'Gormau par excellence. She hav-
ing in her favor, at least, the feminine
gender. But people are skeptical now-a-
days as to the motives of characters of
your sort. Gould you but indulge your
passions unobserved in your former life as
priest, no doubt we would have heard little
of 'Jem" O'Connor's Exposition of Ro-
manism." Jem, l fear Luther's distich,
He that loves not woman and song re-
mains an ass his whole life long, is
your causa eficnus of exposition of Ro-
manlsm." "Jim," remember what a poor
excuse you were as a student in Milwaukee
seminary, trembling in your boots, and
asking your fellow stude4ts, I among
others to explain for you lest professor
would pounce on you, poor unprepared
creature. And yet you would pose as q
martyr to your Bishops tyranny! You
know your story about Right Rev. Bishop
Mortality of Kerry having dismissed you,
because you oorote and eGposed Landlord
tyranny in Ireland? What an exposition
you must be! And now another Bishop
has again driven you to the same holy and
Cody truthfulness! Poor martyr, what a
pity. Remember the big ridge furrowed
over your eyebrow by that cruel curbstone
onthe Chicago street pavement. What in
ducements were offered to that stone to
| arise and fling itself at your innocent coun-
tenance I am not prepared to say, but 1
| suppose you were in its way.
TAKEN IN TOW.
! And so you are taken in tow by Drs.
Smith and Dana of free and easy theolo-
gy of st. Paul. Possibly you will be pa
raded before the gushing Sympathy and un-
dying endearment of the ladies and soft
young gentlemen of their respective con-
venticles, as a sore covered, heart broken
martyr of the good cause What holy
conversation must take place between the
ex-priest, and ladies and gentlemen, as
compared with the denominations, slush
and mud" slung into the ears of the true
| and truthful Jim O'Connor. "Jim," 1
wonder how you dare to foist yourself
upon society in this manner.
l do not wonder at Messrs.
| Smith and Dana-for a "blackguard priest
makes a good minister" in their estima-
ton. bad cause is like a drowning man,
he will grasp at straw. What delight
ful picture of modesty you must be; you
who so shamefully betrayed your calling
into which you deliberately entered after
years of prayer and study. But Guiteau
had his admirers even among the ladies'.
Poor ladies fawn upon traitorous sneaks, 1
suppose because of the sympathy peculiar
to their sex. How little they think that
while pressing the half benumbed body of
the serpent to their bosom to revivify it's
frozen coils, they are but giving it an
opportunity of Installing its deadly poison
| into their unsuspecting hearts. Good by
'Jim." I understand you had the honor
of marrying Bishop Mcnamara, and that
he in turn had the extreme felicity of
coupling you. But such is the work of all
reformers, and GA woman is at the bottom
of it," Yours a fellow student,
| M. CONNOLLY,
Pastor st. Stephens, Anoka, Mimi.
August 18th, 1888.