Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-03

Z Schoonmaker said he would admit that the charges against Mir. Blaine were very serious if they were proved. All the charges arise from circumstances that arose on the 9th of ApriI 1S69 Although the charges were dis missed by the congressional committee, they are renewed at this day. The speaker said he would take the charges in the worst form in which they are put forth. He read the allegations of the Evening Post pamphlet and answered them in detail. His statement of the case was clear and convincing. He said that the Posts charges contained three bald lies. He said the whole case was made up of a skillful manipulation of dates Phrases are misinterpreted and applied wrongly. He said that it i'll became Mir. Beecher to talk against Mr. Blaine, for by his arguments he convicted himself of the charge for which he
 was tried many years ago. He asked what
 Mr. Blaine had been doing in the past fifteen years, who has been called liar and
 morals Nothing. Fhe 42d Congress
 reelected him as speaker, and the Governor
 and legislature of Maine made him Senator, thinking probably that the liar hasn't lied enough or stolen enough. Then the patriot
 ic and wise Garfield chose James G. Blaine
 out of all the people for the strongest, ,ablest, wisest, most prudent adviser, and made him Secretary of State Then the Congress of the United States unanimously selected to be the eu1ogist of the patriotic Garfield this liar and thief from the State of Maine. And then what did he do? Did he sit in his count ing-room and count his ill-gotten gains2 No, he wrote book, the congenial occupation of a thief and although the book hasn't been of the press eight months yet, 200, 900 copies of it have been sold.
 Concerning Cleveland the speaker said the charges against him were so atrocious that | they could not be discussed in the presence 1 of ladies. Politically, Cleveland is nobody compared with Blaine. The latter never made parliamentary mistake. No legisla- I tion of a national character but has the inn | print of his genius. He always stood up for something American as against anti-Ameri- ! can. He is a political giant. As writer his style is equal to Macauley's, only Blaine ! thinks more of poet than Macauley did. I Cleveland was mayor and sheriff. He hung | two Irishmen. Now you can't imagine that
 8 hangman should ever become President. l ''Phat about rum and Romanism?' said a person in the audience. 'EIll make memo \ randum of it,' said the speaker, land answer ! it in moment. l hope the first named isn't ! troubling you, my friend" The speaker went on to discuss the action of Cleveland on \ the fve-cent fare and twelve hour bills He l estimated that an immense number of labor ! ing men would vote for Blaine.
 The candidates were compared as literary | men. Cleveland went to the Adirondacks to ! get inspiration and he wrote letter He ' | CTS, not an'executive office. He also wrcte a letter to MT. .Beecher. The comparison between Blaine and Cleveland was like comparing quail on toast to tripe.
 | MT. Schoonmaker now took up the ques- | ton on "Rum Romanism and Rebellion, " and made the following scathing reply: Referring to the question the speaker said: | My friend refers to the remarks made by Dr. Burchard to Mir. Blaine the other day in New ! York. Well, as the point is put to me will endeaver to answer it. will answer it on the issue should Catholic Democrat who in-
 tended to vote for Blaine change his intention and vote for Cleveland in view of this re- | mark of Dr. Burchard first let say if | there is anything that should be despised in political campaign it is trying to force re- l ligious matters into the politics of this coun- | try. The question is presented to me, and wish it had not been as it is delicate | and difficult one for me personally, but will | state ut once that l am a Roman Catholic. My | father was Huguenot Protestant, and com pelled to leave Holland because of his relig- | ion. My mother was an Irish lady and 6 good Catholic. My father grew more and ! more lenient to the faith of my mother be- l cause she 0 sainted mother and go the | children were raised in my mothers faith ! and I am |; Roman Catholic. My name | would indicate that am of Catholic descent | Felix Xavier Schoonmaker, and was edu- cated for the ministry and got my diploma at the Franciscan monastery in Loretto Cambria county, Pennsylvania.
 am Republican because believe in the constitution of the United States, the only l Constitution that ever guaranteed the people | of my faith absolute freedom of worship; | and l am not q Democrat because that party | tried to break down that constitution twenty five years ago, when l was boy.
 am Republican because my church has | always taught that it was a mortal sin sgainsi I aiT unit ff off 1e l human being, and the party of the opposi l tion lived on human slavery all the time il | was in power.
 My church teaches me, "Thou shalt not
 steal, and your party tried to bring about | repudiation and denounced the efforts o1 1 patriotic men to recompense in some measure l men who fought in defense of their coun- | try; and, sir, am not for the party of repu- diation. You may be more moral and hon
 est than I; if so, vote for your party, the l party of repudiation. You are welcome to l your work.
 am Catholic because my church teaches l me to be pure. The spiritual teacher who hears my confession teaches me this precept
 and teaches it to my wife, my daughter, my 1 son. Every time we go to the father confes- l sor he says to us, "be pure, be chaste." And the purer the family, the purer the State. 1 have been taught that, and have been in- clined to follow that teaching to the extent
 
 Republican because am not asked to vote
 for an impure unchaste candidate, and be-
 cause to give support to such candidate
 would be against the teaching of my church.
 am Republican because you Indepen- dents and you Democrats cannot defend your candidate but at the expense of virtue and chastity in the family, and I cannot be any thing but a Republican except by being recreant to my church and to my party, and as Catholic I am naturally Republican be- cause the existence of the most persistent foe the Catholice ever had in this country was possible only when the Democratic party was in power, and my friends, Know Nottingham was made impossible by the Republican par ty in it's passage of the 14th and 18th amend ments, which provide that no man shall be denied the right of suffrage on account of race, color or creed. Every foreign born citizen is deeply indebted to the Republican party for those amendments.
 1 have an infinite number of reasons why 4, as Roman Catholic, am Rebublican and detest Democracy, and when all Catho- lies, especially Irish Catholics, have had such opportunities to become enlighted on this subject as have had, they will stand ex- actly where stand.
 And now one word more: James G. Blaine is in no way responsible for the words of Dr. Burchard and has taken the opportunity here in your own city on wonder Green to most degraded of men if under any circum- stances or under any temptation he could in any presence, make Q disrespectful allusion to that ancient faith in which his revered mother lived and died"
 With an eloquent showing up of the folly and1danger to the working class of Demo cratic doctrines the speaker closed amid