The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-08-02
ISLANDERS Against Cleveland.
speech of Patrick \, Collins mt the Al
bany, n. ", Meeting,

After referring 10 the fraud of 1876 and answering
various charges about the Governor being monop,
olis &c, he came ID the religious questions lugged
in the campaign. lie said:
THE advocates of Mr.. Blaine have not hesitated
to drag the question of religion (hissesl into the
contest and Catholics such, invited to desert
the Democratic party and vote the Republican
ticket this year on account of alleged religious bias
on the part of Gov. Cleveland. Their bill of paric
ulars Isl First Gov. Cevelands eto of the Freedom
of Worship bill, and second, his veto of the appr0
priation for the Catholic Protectory.
1T ought TO be asufcient answer to the first charge
to say that the governor did not veto the Freedom of
Worship bill. lie never had chance to do So as it
never passed the Legislature. II did pass the SEES
sion of1SS1 when his Republican predecessor vetoed
It, which is probably the foundation OF the lie told
HThe Catholic Protectory is a excellent ipst-
tuition located in New York city for the shelter and
cinity. 1t is not public institution. though by
long usage all such institutions receive more or less
financial aid from the county treasury and i'll some
rare cases from the state The Catholic Protectory
in 1888 was granted $4,000 by the Legislature, and
the Governor withheld his approval on the ground,
among others, that the cost of maintaining that n-
stituton was properly chargeabe upon the city and
county of New York rather than upon the state ut
large. In this view every lawyer will concur, in
Guiding the eminent counsel for the Prolectory,
John L. Develin. Cloud applause)
Those who attack the Governor for this veto are
careful to conceal the fact that all denominations
were treated alike by him. and that he approved no
bill or any item in bill giving dollar out of the
treasury 10 any such institution, whether managed
by Catholic or Protestant Jew or Gentle. The safe
and decided ground always taken by him is that
public moneys shall be raised and expended only
for public purposes q.
II find AMONG other evidences of Gov. Clevelands
deep hostility to the Cath oics that he has caused
salaries to be given to three Catholic chaplains in
the prisons of the state. No Catholic chaplain ever
received a salary there before. The three leading
positions in the gin of the Executive of the state of
New York-indeed. the only three important ones
Gov. Cleveland filled as follows:
RAILROAD Commissioner John ID. Herman.
'Superintendent of Insurance, Jchn A. Mccall, jr.
superintendent of Public Works, James STAMINA
han.
1t happens that all these gentlemen are of Irish
blood and Catholic i'll religion. knoY the Gov
ernor did not appoint them TO these high positions
because of their race or creed, but because they
were eminently fit for the places. presume he
never thought of creed. But If he were mar
row, bigoted, or even tmid, he would have done SO
and hesitated. Why? Because never before in the
whole history of the state those offices. any
of them, filled by men of Irish blood and Catholic
| faith When the act to establish an Emigration
Commission went into effect he did not hesitate to
! appoint an eminent Irish -American Catholic, VIM
H. Murtha Commissioner, TO carry out its benefi-
cent provisions, l ask you, in all candor, what
other Governor in all the long, Industrious line has
such reeord2 (Applapse:l dislike exceedingly
to descend to the level of those who haye imported
this race and religious issue into the canvass But
would fail in my duty to myself If failed 70 de
fend our candidate from Misrepresentation so vile
and charges SO mean and mendacious."