The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-03-12
WHO SHALL BE The NEXT POPE,
The Various Candidates ThouGstfuily sad
Iapnrtinliy Consldercd.


ROME, Feb. all the Conclave holds It's ncx
session in the Etornal City. II is probable tina
the successor OF Leo XIII. will be an italian Car
dinal. For short time. at the commencement
OF the anti-slavery crusade. few Italian
| groups turned their attention to Cardinal
| Lavigerie; but soon the tyranny OF histori'
| cal recollections and the jealousy OF M.
| tional rivalries took the upper hand and began
to claim their rights 1t Is perhaps somewhat
delicate and maybe q little indscrcet to treat
upon these personal matters: but Will guard
| myself against all irreverence. and my in
dications will deal less with purely personal
questions than with tho great currents OF
ideas which are agitated around the candi-
| dates for the tiara-
Tho foremost candidate at the present time
Is Cardinal Parocch. since 1882. when no.
body had as We. lifted the veil OF the future. n
| French and italian pnrty. more sympathetic
| perhaps with Plus IN than with Leo HII1.. has
| sauarely advocated the candidacy Of the Vicar
| of Rome. Mgr. Mermillol was fond OF snyng
| to his friends: Look In tho direction of Car
dinal Parocchi: there you will find tho future"
At first n journalist. afterward Professor ut
Mnntut. then Archbishop OF Bolo:na-a post
which he had to quit BY tho order o. Leo MIL.
because tho Government accused him Of rnis-
Northumberland finally Cardinal of tho Cura
and Vicar of the Pope. that Is to say. Bishop
OF homo in tho delegation OF the Holy
Father. Cardinal Parocchi Is person.
ality standing out in bold relief. The
school of Plus IX.. founded upon him its high
est hopes. enormously perhaps. because tho
Cardinal has no party. He is himself lle is a
unity. a powerful individuality. an undulating
and versatile mind. open to all the winds OF
the century. prodiCously erudite. studying
languages In the evening OF life. endowed with
IN extraordinary activity. thoroughly nc.
uuainted with all subjects. an orator. u savant.
a democrat, and very modern man. The COM
plexity OF his moral and intellectual physog-
nomy Is astonishing to everybody. to friends
as we'll as to Anniversaries. Friends. as we know.
arc sometimes compromising. They are
bad counsellors when they have to deal
with tho great OF this world. They ad-
vsed him to hand in his resignation.
to tako back his liberty and boldly
to como out as a candidate with coltrudic-
tory programme. We are assured that Leo
MIL. who had suspected the secret thought.
heaped upon the Cardinal all kinds of marks
OF confidence. whilo Mt tn, same time attach
ing him immovably to his post. Tho Cardinal
would be modern Pope. He is n frank demo-
crat He considers monarchy as an institu-
ton OF the past. He is the admirer. and may
say the friend. OF Cardinal Gibbons and Of
Archbishop Ireland. He was also pro-
foundly sympathetic with Cardinal Man
ming. He is progressive: but his mis-
fortune consists In tho characteristics Of
his nature. He Is not q centre: neither
is he focus. He is brilliant unity n Il xed star
without satellites. Ho loves independence
and il he counts some friends among the
foreign Cardinals. no political group sustains
him. He will not be a candidate: neither will
he be great elector at the Conclave. He will
- IT,
at the last moment. whom the several parties
shall have vainly contended for precedence.
Tho isolated and the solitary are often. in
times Of crisis. providential solutions. Tho
history Of tho Tapacy is full Of these surprises.
candidacy less ideal and less problemati-
cal. is that If Cardinal Battaglini. tho Arch
bishop OF Bologna and the successor OF Car
dinal Parocch himself. Aphiosophical mind.
thorough and able administrators. moro of u
churchman and an apostle than a diplomat
and man OF politics. Cardinal Battaglini has
for n considerable tme attracted ntten-
ton and awakened hopes. 1t was Car
dinal Czacki. tho Mazarin Of Leo MIL. the
charming Pole. blending the elasticity o. the
Slave with the fnesse of tho Italian. more
Florentine than Roman. and belonging
to the school OF the Loderini and OF
the Medicis. whose genius loved to play
like Aicyone upon tho crests OF the
angry waves it was he. l say. whose
salon was formerly sort Of mysterious Secre-
tary OF States Office in Rome. who invented
this candidacy. OF II marvellous and all
embracing elo1uence. this Pole with thou
sand facets and vague promises succeeded in
bringing about engagements. He had his
court. and he had his courtiers. Among tho
foreign Cardinals he had many admirers. more
scduccd perhaps than persuaded If he had
lived. he certainly would have played lead
ing part in tho Conclave: but he Is dead.
and IL his departure has not caused the papa
bile shadow Of Cardinal BattaGlini to disap-
pear. the malady Of the latter has put an end
to the work which was commenced by tho
former Nuncio at Paris.
Less fugitive Is the candidacy OF Monaco 10
Ealletta. 1t Is whispered around that King
Humbcrt 1.-THE Cardinal has a brother Scna-
tori is in favor OF him. Why? That Is tho
mystery: because the Ncnpolitan Is n saint
and n man universally beloved. Gossips pro-
tend that the Italian State. terrified at tho
stir that Leo XIII. is making in tho world,
would be delighted to see modest and passive
Pope emerge from the neX. Conclave NJ
do Cesare in the MORA .4ntolo0ia has SIX etched
the ideal portrait OF the choice OF the Con.
suta: that is to say. a sort OF hermit gentle,
turned toward heaven loving solitude and
rcpose. not troubling himself with the
vital questions OF the century. accent
ing. Mt least taoitly. tho status quo, not
attacking the Triple Alliance. making Of tho
Papacy sort Of mystical Tabor toward which
tho passions OF the century would never rise
The Government Of Italy Is afraid OF Leo MIL.
afraid of n Pope who leans toward republican
Ism. What frightens it is less the claim for
tho temporal power than the prestige which
tho Papncy may acquire through tho eminent
qualities Of modern Pope. 1t fears to see the
despoilcd Holy 500 becoming moro than over
tho ideal and material centro. the Intangible
Romc. the impnlpable Romc. tho fruitful i'm
pulsor OF social life.
But II the Consulta counts upon Cardinal
Monaco as tho ideal type OF weak Pope, It Is |
mistaken. Cardinal Monaco is saint and u
man OF good counsel. For long time no has
leon tho confldnnt Of Loo Mi. He Is OF a
contemplating mind. 1t is true. but his knowl-
edge is profound and his character irreducibc.
His protests against tho status quo would BIO |
as loud as the warnings Of Loo NH.
A grant Roman mr. might olmoSk Gnu