Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-10-13

11oNDAY HvIsIrno, OCT, Is. 1854.
CIeveIsp1 and the CathsIIcs.

MI CAeveland and the Catheltcs.
Descent people of all parties will rejoice
1ot The Republican attempt to excite
}1u1lGious hatred against Governor Cleve.
! - has recoiled on its originators. 1t
oD claimed after his nomination at
Oh1sagn that he had, as governor, been
oilty Of the most fragrant bigotry
= 1Dnlnst Catholics. The allegation was
Z ~ ; time treated as an ordinary cam
zIolgn insinuation for which no one In
( roEticular was responsible. But it was
i Ally fAthered by the Republican party
( u . pamphlet Issued under its authority
Gntltled Gov. Cleveland and the Cath
Gle Protectory," charging that Cleye
lond had shown an intolerant spirit
Stewards Catholics In vetoing an appro-
8 reiation to the above named institution
The pamphlet was widely circulated
among Catholics with the intent to drive
them from the support of the Democratic
party.
But the bold attempt has failed.
4 Indeed it has more than failed, for 1t
~ stirred up some doughty warriors
who love to nail lie wherever they see
Il. 1t has thus lent aid to those whom
4 was intended to injure. The lie is
thrust down the throats of its authors
b two Catholic prelates of no less dis
tinction than Bishop McNeirny, of
Albany, N. Y, and Rev. DR.. Edward
NcGlynn, the famous pastor of st.
Stephens Catholic church, New York
city. These men, appreciating the
dignity that hedges in their sacred pro.
fession from the turmoils of politics,
would never have opened their lips to
commend any candidate. Knowing the
vast moral influence on his flock of
Catholic pastor, they would, in common
with the best clergymen of all creeds,
have held their peace as to the merits or
faults Of the candidates. But they are
men as well as clerics, and they have the
honest mans love for fair play. When,
therefore, they saw the Catholic religion
used as club to beat out the brains of
m innocent man, what WAS more
natural than that they should rush to
the rescue
Hear what Bishop M'Neirny, in an
swcr to an inquiry from recipients of the
Infamous circular, has to say of Cover
nor Cleveland al would beg leave to
say that have followed with some in
terest the course of the governor since
his assumption of the duties of the chief
executive of the state, and relying solely
on my resources Of personal knowledge
! am aware Of no act of his administra
tration which would argue a narrow,
int0lerant spiriu Of hostility to the Cath
Olic church or her institutions. On the
contrary, from what has come under my
own observation, l am led to, believe
that he is free from bias and enmity
agatnst Catholics and actuated by spirit
OF fair dealing toward the Catholic
church and her interests.
Few voices in the Catholic church of
the country are more potent than that
Of DIR. McGlynn, and the following Ell
thusiastic endorsement of New. "
governor from h;ss,
ually scatter < pE........'....id effect
'Green sorupyr doz-narges OF religious
snaasp,ss.p ssaas q .pE::s.gsainst TX. the latter THAT
Cabhsyeiand has no personal aDtipathy
4 prejudice against Catholics is more
han proven by the oft published and
1ell known fact of the appointment by
him of Catholics to some three or four of
he highest offices in his gift and on the
,ther hand that Catholics, as such, among
hose who know him best, namely those
Df his own city Of Buffalo, Of this city of
New York, and of the whole of his own
state, 30 far from thinking him bigot,
love and and admire the man for his i'm
partial liberality as well as for his sturdy |
and old fashioned honesty and public |
virtue, and are therefore in the immense
enthusiastic in his support"
Thus has another Republican boomer
ang recoiled with terrible effect on its
projectors. The Republican party must
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