The morning call., 1890-07-18
NO FAVORS ASKED.
DR.. McGlynn Has Not Asked for a
Rehearing in Rome.
His Case Has Assumed No New Phase, Nor
Has He Withdrawn From His, Old
Position-He Will Lecture Soon.

lHclc otcuo W 10 lulu Iva
the dispatch from Rome to the morning pa
pers yesterday regarding Dr. McGlynn.
The doctor was seen by CALL reporter,
and be made a statement which he regarded
more appropriate than an interview upon
the subject of the dispatch. he was very
particular about having it accurate.
There are several misrepresentation"
said he. underlying the alleged dispatch
from Rome in this mornings papers. am
not aware that my friends have said or be-
lieved that had gained fresh footing in
Rome. have had no case before any
Roman tribunal, and all this talk about
supposed case of mine would seem to indi-
cate regret on the part of the ecclesiastical
authorities in Rome and New York that l
am so thoroughly out Of their clutches and
SO emancipated from certain prudential
considerations that naturally controlled me
while was exercising my ministry, and am
singularly free TO critic iZe without fear their
politics and policies.
"The actual fact Is that l sent message
to Cardinal Simeoni, Project of the Propa-
ganda, about two and half years ago.
will give you the exact words of the trans
lation:
1 will not go to Rome. will not retract the
doctrines which L have sustained. / have no
case before your tribunal, aud wish 10 have none.
have made no appeal aud shall make none 10
your tribunal; aud If kind friends have made
any recourse in my behalf hereby revoke ana
repudia,e IL.
HIS AUTHORIZATIONS.
81 have had no further communication
with those gentlemen. What has happened
to my friend, DR.. Burtsel, is no surprise to
me, and it justifies my authorizations in my
own case"
The reporter asked what the doctors an
ticipations were. and was told that they
were long waiting for hearing In Rome,
and no justice in the end from the court.
" know Rome better than the author OF
the alleged dispatch, and | know that if l
had gone to Rome it would only have been
to be sidetracked and have additional out
RACES heaped upon ME for the m0nStrOuS
oifense vi believing that man and an
American citizen, even though priest, had
some rights that Bishop, the Propaganda
and The Pope were found TO respect.
=" AS far as l can make out DR.. Burtselps
UffeuseS are the same as my own with the
exception that he has been more IT S rived
and reticent than l was before my sLSpen-
sion, yet he would not conceal his LIBERAL
ism in matters where the theology, in which
he is an expert, left him free He was
guilty of loving his country, her Liberties
and the Union, and OF hating slavery at
time when 1t required some courage Tor
Catholic priest III New ork to do all that
Father than sympathlZe with rebellion and
defend or apologize for slavery. He has
never denounced the public schools. lie
mas been entirely resigned to the Pope'S loss
OF mis- temporal power, and has not outraged
decency and religion by filling the ears OF
people who went to his church with denun.
Citations of the aspirations If the people OF
Italy for the liberty, the unity ana the In
dependence OF their country; ana lately ne
did not feel called upon to break off life
long friendship with me to JOIN In a hue
and cry against me, and to denounce me
fnr uol1i 10ptrinpS and making SppeclAS
which l believe that as a man and citizen
L had perfect right to DO.
HE NEVER APPEALED.
cit would he an injustice to DR.. Burtsell
to imply that hc has gone out Of his way 10
show his friendship Tor me III public. As
matter of fact he has been extremely iIu-
dent ana retcent, and the one occasion ON
which he spoke strongly, not exactly III de-
Tense ot our economic doctrines, but OF our
right TO hold them if we chose, was when
lie was forced TO his surprise by subpoena
from the Supreme Court of New York
. tate as witness TO testify IN The case OF
the deceased John Mcguire, whose inter
ment i'll his own plat in Calvary Cemetery
was objected to because Mcguire had died
suddenly at the Academy ot Music when
meeting of the Anti-Poverty Society was
about 10 be addressed by he.
:" / never appealed to Rome. 1t is surely
most extraordinary thing to club man
into taking an appeal, which may be his
privilege, but certainly not his duty. DIR.
Burtsell, Father Lambert and others have
appealed, and with what result is now pub
iicly known. They might dey0utly wish
they had never appealed, since the result
is not merely to approve the sentence OF the
Bishop, but to heap indlgultleS upon them.
l believe that the sense OF equity anu JUS
tice in civil or criminal courts never per-
mts a court of appeal 10 add to the Sell
tence of lower court from which an ap-
peal has been made.
DIR. BURTsELL's CASE.
"If we may believe the dispatches (and l
do believe then), DR.. Burtsell would have
satisfied all requirements Tor the present IL
he had quietly gone to the country parish
to which he was assigned, as | understand,
and il he was prepared at any moment to
give up, in obedience to the ArchbishOp'S
order, the actual administration OF his
parish of the Epiphany. But before aSSum-
ing charge of any other parish he desired
to exercise his unquestionaoe right to ask
the Propaganda IN Rome TO review the
ArchbiShOp's action and TO determine
whether he must accept the country parish
and give up his own.
You VIII notice in the alleged dispatch
from Rome certain Inconsistency. 1t
talks about the fair hearing that should
have got, and yet the writer says i knew
weeks ago that the Propaganda had sns-
tanned the Archbishop, and only consented
to hear DR.. Burtselis appeal at Archbishop
COrrigans request. L was begged not 10
write line, lest it might upset all hope of
friendly reconciliation
Now DIR. Burtsell, it would seem, is
called upon, in addition to his removal. to
make all sorts Of apologies and retractions.
and the result Will probably be that he will
find himself shortly just where am, because
he will feel called upon 10 refuse to sacri-
fee his honor and his conscience by retrac-
ton of what he believes TO be true and as
sorting what he believes 20 be false"
DR.. McGlynn said he would have an &C.
caslGn to make known his views and his pO-
silon TO the people of San Francisco in a
course of lectures which he will give at the
solicitation of friends in Metropolitan Tenn
pie on the evenings of July 10Th and S1st
and August I'd.