The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-14
ANOTHER 4. p. 4. CRANK.
prof" Simss Tirade Against the
Catholics and Democrats.

ROCKVILLE, Feb 9.-Special.-Prof.
Sims. the celebrated A. 2. a. lecturer,
held forth here in the court house last
night. There were about fifty persons
present. Three ladies graced the audi
ence with their presence.
His discourse was simply villifica-
ton of the catholic church and its mem
beers. He began with the statement that
he was a democrat, and then proceeded
to Villify and Islander President Cleve-
land and congress, which he denounced
as the unamerican congress. He said
the democratic party and congress were
the enissaries of the Roman
catholic church. and that the party owes
its supremacy today to the priests who
receive their orders from the pope and
transmit them TO the people who, as just
SO many sheep i'm a flock, obey their
shepherd lie said he would not dare
make a speech in Chicago because he
would have no protection where the
mayor and police were Roman catholic
democrats. He dwelt at length on the
unamerican policy of congress. He did
not find any fault whatever with the
g. o. p. from beginning TO ending of his
harangue. He dwelt at length, also, on
the insult offered Our old grand army
flag" by the mob in Appleton, Wis,
eggs at the flag that he and his friends
carried" He didn't seem to think this
attack was made or him but on the
United States flag lie characterized
catholics as 'rioting wolves, dogs, an
archists and liibernians," and said the
party i'm power owed allegiance To them.
He said it was our duty as true Amer
lean citizens to oppose them.
The y Z. 4. lodge here is kept very
secret, but the parties that look after
= -Er.g..
Sims are all prominent, steadfast repub-
licans.
His speech made It clear to The Sen
tinel correspondent that the old bloody
shirt cry, which for SO long time Kept
the e. O. p. alive, is a. dead issue. and
that this A. p. a. movement is simply
an effort to excite the prejudices of the
people SO as to strengthen the waning
fortunes of the grand old party that
once boosted the leadership of Lincoln
Grant and Sherman. The catholics here
are nearly all democrats. and Sims
would like to incite the protestants
against them-that is all there is in IT.
The catholics here are. moreover, as
good patriotic. law-abiding citizens as
any in the community. and it will take
a much greater man than Prof" Sims
to prejudice our people against them
This is an unusually sensible part of
Indiana, and the man makes a great
mistake, to say the least of It. when he
thinks he can, by such TRADE as was
made last night. set one part OF It
against another on account of the others
religion. He is simply barking UP the
wrong tree"
ROCKVILLE, Feb -Special.-The
A. p. A. blizzard flag has been up here
for the last three days. and the cyclone
ended last night. and it is hoped for all
time, by two-hours-and-a-ha har-
angue by Prof" Sims
IL
afflicted by cranks before. but never
have they been So harangued as by this
one. lie started out by paying his re
spects' To The Sentinel correspondent.
but did not refute anything which that
scrupul0usly correct journal had said
about him. The charge made that he
was not a democrat seemed to pinch
him worse than anything else, and lie
repeated his allegiance to that party.
Surely. if he is a democrat he is the
same kind they sprout and grow in the
republican hot-bed. The excitement
caused by the discussions around town
brought out an audience that filed the
courtroom, and it was an average i'm
the way of intelligence. but not once
during his lengthy effort did he receive
word or sign of applause or approval.
although he frequently paused III anx-
iOus expectation of it. He said 50 much
during his windy palaver that the valu-
able space of The Sentinel could not be
expected TO print one per cent. OF it, nor
its readers be punished with it. Suffice
to say. il was characteristic of the adj
Vocates Of such movements, and he filled
the measure of all such cranks. The
harangue-it cannot expect the dignity
of being called a lepture-was simply
batch OF assertions, without sciatilla of
proof, and abounded in self-contradic-
tons throughout
At the conclusion of his TRADE, and
when the audience was tired and worn
out, he wound up by singing that e and.
patriotic song America" in a ,oice
that sounded like the bull of Basham.
Thus, sacreligiously, ended three of the
most absurd. senseless and untruthful
lectures that ever abused the ears of
a peaceable, law-abidng and patriotic
community. May his like never be seen
or heard of here again is the wish Of