Los Angeles herald., 1890-10-31
A DESPICABLE DEVICE.

The waving of the bloody shirt has
become almost obsolete, but it has re-
mained for this memorable campaign to
develop a refinement of the war bigotry.
Los Angeles is today being deluged by
dodgers with startling headlines run
ming, President Lincoln's assassina-
"tion. A startling narrative concerning
"his assassination. Who dares say it
''was not planned and compassed
Through the Vaccinations of Jesuit
priests, who were also responsible for
"our own civil war;" The fateful screed
is credited to the Baltimore Morning Her.
aid, of January oath, 1890, and purports
to give the revelations of one Father
Chiniquy, an apostate Roman Catholic
priest. 1t is cock and bull story be-
side which the accounts of the late at
tempt to revolutionize Lower California
by War General Smith and his coadju-
tors look like the prosiest, every day
narrative. This Father Chiniquy who,
if he has any existence at all, is a dead
beat of a colossal type, found out, away
back in 1861, that the Jesuits had per-
fected plan to murder the martyr pres
ident, scheme which they finally ac-
complished through the agency of John
Wilkes Booth and his associates, not one
of whom, by the way, were Roman
Catholics, unless poor Mrs. Surratt was
the exception; and as that unfortunate
lady is now universally conceded to have
been murdered herself, and to have had
as little to do with the assassination OF
President Lincoln az Queen Victoria her
self, she forms rather slender thread
to hang such weighty argument on.
This remarkable narrative goes on to
say:
After the murder Father Chiniquy
came to Washington in disguise. He
found that the influence of Rome at the
capital was almost supreme. The only
rious influence of Rome was General
Baker. But several other statesmen
confessed that without doubt the Jesuits
were at the bottom of the plot: and
sometime this would appear so clearly
that evaenee It eeeG eeIefe nG ha pant
from the public Mrs. Surratt was
Catholic, and her house was the common
rendezvous of the priests.
There is richness for you! 1t is gen.
orally thought by sensible people that
Edwin M. Stanton, Andrew Johnson,
and score of other statesmen OF equal
renown, would have been very apt to set
the influence of Rome at defiance. The
stuff is, of course. too silly for any sane
man or woman's attention, but it is be-
ing extensively circulated, and some
body must think it worth while to give
it vogue. The copies received by us
were sent by the pastor of Methodist
Episcopal Church South, who says: 81
"send you copy of campaign documents
mailed me, and presume the other
Protestant ministers outside the Third
congressional district. Make what use
"of it you may see fit, suppressing, OF
course, any reference to me personally.
81 Go not wish my name to be mixed
"up with politics; but certainly must
"protest against SO palpable lie to
"work upon sectarian prejudices."
Our correspondent writes like Chris
tian gentleman. The animus of the
whole matter is found at the conclusion
of an imbecile screed that would excite
the contempt of any fair man, and
that would fill fully two columns of the
HERALD. Under the heading of "Ro-
man Catholic Candidates. Democratic
Ticket" appear the names: H. G. Hall,
superintendent of public instruction;
R. F. Del Vale, lieutenant-governor;
James V. Coffey, associate Justice; ]. P.
Dunn, state controller. On the Repub-
lican ticket, attention is called to the
name of Joseph McKenna, congress,
Third district.
That such a despicable device will in
jure any of the gentlemen named we do
not believe. That any of them are in
any sense Roman Catholic candidates,
any more than other gentlemen are
Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopalian
Or Baptist, we do not believe. They
are candidates, all of them, on their
merits, and in their nomination no re-
gard was paid to their religion. No
man who respects himself. or desires
the respect of others, Will take any
other view of the matter.