Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-04
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 FROM ALL QUARTERS. BISHOP POTTER PROTESTS He Did Not Mean To ViIifv
 Andrew Jackson. ARBOR DAY CELEBRATIONS. ParneII's Testimony Causes
 Great Surprise. C0lUMBIk'S ANNUAL REGATTA. The Issuance Of Railroad
 Passes Investigated.
COlUMBIA'S ANNUAL REGATTA.
BISHOP POTTER PROTESTS.

BISHOP POTTER PROTESTS.
 Called to Account For His Utteranees
 in His Centennial Serm0n-His Explanation-He Did Not Mean to Vilify Andrew Jackson-He Says
 the Present Incumbent Of the Press
 iden,ial OMce ssMakes Him Tired.''
 NEW YORK, May 3.-Criticisms of Bishop Pottsr's centennial sermon, in which he said that 'Jehersonian simplicity means Jack sonian vulgarity" continue to be made. In an interview last night, the bishop explained the remark as follows: Vulgsrity as I used it, did not refer to manners, but to the political atmosphere. Vulgar means com- mon. The manners of the people may be very high but the moral tone very low. Look at some countries in Europe" and the bishop named them. "Now you catch the idea. am no mugwump, I've been g Republican all my life. but I hate 'taffy' and platitudes. Besides, there were plenty who were sure to pay sounding compliments to MT. Harrison and the nation that honors him.
 I was not needed for that. Apply what I said, regarding my estimate of the presiden- tial office, to the present situation. How much time has Harrison given to statesman ships Not an hour. Not an instant, so far as anybody knows. He was put where he is to maintain the nations dignity, to protect the rights of the poor and rich, to rule, not to engage in barter and trade. But, alas, what spectacle we have. We behold the President of the United States of America intent only on getting congressman out of the house at night, so that he can go to bed. What's the use of beating about the bush in this matter2 It makes me very tired"
 "Then you had no thought of assailing the personal character of Andrew Jack son?"
 "Not in the slightest" replied the bishop, land I regret that such an inference has been the protext for reprisal in the form of attack the personality of Lincoln. MT. Lincoln had not 8 vulgar figure in his nature. He was rustic, and the distinction between yulgarity and rusticity is fundamental They don't coincide, even by vulgar fraction. When I spoke of the Jacksonisn vulgarity had preference, as said to the political atmos phere. I cannot forget that under the Jack son regime the hateful diction was pros nounced: 'To the victors belong the spells" "'
 "What is your definition of plutocrsoy?"
 "When I speak of this as the era of the plutocrat nobody can misunderstood me. I do not intend that they shall. Everybody has recognized the rise of the money power. It's growth not merely stifes the independence of the people, but the blind believers in moneys omnipotent power assert that its liberal use conoones every oHense The puIplC ooes not speak out as it should. These plutoerats are the enemies of religion, as they are or the State, and not to mince matters, will say that while had the politicians in mind promi- nently, there are others. tell you I have heard of the corrupt use of money in the elections and the sale of the sacred right of the ballot openly defended by ministers of the gospel. I may find it necessary to put such men of the sacred office in the public pillory. The social tendencies in the great cities, outside of politics, are most inspiring, most elsvating. But the spells system and it's related vice, the purchase of votes, are things to be afraid of, to be jumped upon and stranQled," :"