The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-06-30

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"Uncle Sam" by the initial number we
cannot understand how it can live and
prosper in the western metropolis. Tor
onto is more fitting place for such 9
paper than Chicago.
ALPHABETICAL TRAYNOR.
No British-born citizen in the United
States at the present. time is receiving
moro free advertising from the Irish.
American press than WI 81. Traynor
the supreme president of the American
Proscriptive Association, better known
by the abbreviated name Of the A. P. A.
The fact that Traynor is not only the
head of that traitorous organization but
is also the most worshipful past master
of the Loyal 0 ange Association of
America and vice president of the I'm
perial Grand Orange Lodge of the World
renders him a fit subject for comment in
the Irish-American journals. Such
widely circulated papers as the Irish
World and the Boston Pilot devoted con-
siderable space last week to this notori.
Gus individual, who isfplaying double
part as loyal Orangeman and an Amer
lean patriot. They cannot understand
how Traynor can be loyal to two flags at
the same tine-the Union Jack of Eng
land and the Stars and Stripes of the
United States. The organ of Apaism
and Orangeism in Minneapolis comes to
the rescue of alphabetical Traynor from
the structures of the Boston Republic,
which Inadvertently called him the 'su:
preme head of the Orange societies of the
United States and Canada" and empha-
tically denies that he holds THAI position.
That is only hair splitting on the part of
our contemplate contemporary. Accord
ing to Traynor himself he is an Orange
man of high standing, being vice presi-
dent Of the Imperial Grand Orange
Lodge of the World, which includes the
societies of the United States and Can
ada. In the New York Journalist Of
June Is there is biographical sketch OF
Traynor by a sympathetic writer Of the
name of Charles Ritch johnson, who
says:
'tHe is approaching the half-century mark
of his earthly pilgrimage, having first seen
the light of day in Brantford, Ont, on the
Of the fourth day of July, 1s45.
When a mere boy he joined the Independ-
ant Order of Good Templars, and at the
early age of seventeen became identified
with the Loyal Orange Association through
joining L.. o. L., No. 1lO1. Before arriving
gree of Royal Scarlet knight Companion,
and was elected master of his Lodge, which
office he held during the years he remained
in Canada Since then he has taken every
degree in the Orange Institution conferred
in any country, including those of the
American Orange knights, the Royal Black
knights of the Camp Of Israel, and the
knights of Malta, and became member of
the American Protestant Association,
American Union, Order United Deputies,
Crescents American Patriotic League,
American League, and other patriotic bod
les. Mr.. Traynor is a member OF Detroit
Lodge No. 2, F. & A. NJ. Monroe Chap ter,
and Detroit Council York Rite Maso nry.
member of the Ladies' Loyal Orange Asso-
citation Of the United States and Canada,
member of the Women's American Protec-
tive Association, and for years has been an
active worker in the Maccabees, National
Union, Royal Arcanum, and other bene-
ticiary instltutiOns.'
When attending the recent Orange
in Boston, Traynor was in
by q representative OF the Her.
aid and said he left Canada ''as soon as
be could" his family going to Michigan
when he was six weeks old. His biog-
rapher in the Journalist says differently.
According to him Traynor was elected
master of an Orange lodge before the
age OF eighteen and held the Office ''dur-
ing the years he remained in Canada"
He gives the additional information that
Traynor has spent 81 years in Detroit,
Mich, and that the Patriotic American,
which he publishes, has circulation
that extends throughout Canada and the
United States, being numerically the
largest of it's kind in the world. Instead
of Traynor being six weeks old 1t appears
he was ull-fedged Orangeman Of %
years Of age when he crossed from Wind
sor to Detroit to preach "Americanism"
to the people Of the United States. He
gives his age when coming over as six
weeks instead Of twenty-eight years SO
that he could say that his education was
obtained in the Michigan public schools.
Traynor is S consummate liar and hypo-
critic whose sAmericanism" issa fraud
and q sham. He Is rapidly becoming
rich out Of Apaism and Orangeism.
Every loyal and patriotic member OF
these orders takes his paper whether he
can read it or not. TWAS in it's columns
that the Pope's bogus ency cical first ap-
peared. The unscrupulous fellow Is
in his sleeve ct the credulity OF
bis dupes, and growing wealthy in the
unhoIy ayocation Of sowing the seedsof
hatred and 1issension between American]
vi rho Tyanadiar,g saf7vanfnrar II