People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-01-13
CLERICAL MIDDLE.
Serious Charge Against Archbishop
Corrigan.
What Archbishop Ireland's Near Friend
Has to say About the Matter-The Vat
lean Said to Have Ordered
an Inquiry.
Report of Plots.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 9-Archbishop
Ireland would not talk about the story
that he had forwarded charges to the
pope that Archbishop Corrigan and
others had organized conspiracy for
the overthrow of Monsignor Satolli and
himself He had read the story, but
would say nothing about it However,
Rev. DR.. John Conway, editor Of the
Northwestern Chronicle, who stands
nearest Archbishop Ireland Of all eccle'
siasts in the northwest had been unable
to get away on his trip to England in
the interest of the new Hill Catholic
college here and last evening he gave
the following to the Associated press:
THE news from Chicago regarding
conspiracy against Archbishops Satolli
and Ireland has been received in St
Paul with much surprise. Many will
doubtless be astonished at it. Most
people will be except the conspirators
themselves and those who follow eccle-
siastical questions very closely. Jour-
nalists who are directly interested in
church matters knew by journalistic in
tuition that conspiracy was being
Matched. The people at large heard
rumbling noises, but they never dreamed
such plot was concocted. The libelous
pamphlet, written by Archbishop Corri-
gan's Italian secretary; the effusiOns of
Miss Fades, a garrulous old maid, who
is Roman correspondent of the New
York Catholic News; the dispatches pur-
porting to have come from Boston and
other cities outside of New York, yet
all having the same purpose; the pleth-
ora of anonymous letters published in
the New York Sun and other papers,
pointed clearly to the existence of
conspiracy against the representatives.
of the holy father.
Mgr SatOlli is here for more pur-
poses than the settlement of ecclesias-
teal questions He is the representa-
tive of Pope Leo at the Columbian
exposition. As such the most cordial
courtesies were extended to him on his
arrival in the United States. America
was naturally grateful to the pope for
his practical interest in the Columbian
exposition, and her gratitude was
naturally deepened by the holy fathers
unprecedented act of sending over a
Vatican exhibit Now, the United
States does not mean to allow any
body to insult her guests and
this country resents the gratui-
tous announcement offered by
anonymous conspirators to one who is
at present the recipient of her hospital
ity. 1t is not pleasant to have to speak
strongly against anyone; it is decidedly
disagreeable to be plain spoken against
a few individuals who happen to be
members of ones own church. If these
few conspirators do not keep quiet see
nothing left except a choice between
locking them up in a lunatc asylum or
suppressing them as public nuisance
81 have just seen the Chicago Post.
As to the statement that Archbishop
Ireland has preferred charges in Rome,
there is no necessity for his doing so,
because Rome's representative is here,
in the person of Archbishop Satolli
Moreover, he has just learned the clear
evidence from the Post upon which
charges could be based"
Further than this statement from DR..
Conway, nothing could be had, but
there is good reason for believing that
no such charges have been formally
preferred.