St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-15
DONHELLY sims DEBATE
ON TIE PR0ScRIPTIYE A. p A. or
GARiZAT TON.
GOTH APPLAUSE AND KISSES

GANiZATlOK.
GOTH APPLAUSE AND KISSES.
Capt. CASTLE Presided Because He
Was Ignorant-Sims Declared
in Favor Of Religious PrOscrip-
tim Entering Into Politics
Donne!Iy Exposed the Heinous
Character of the Organization
and Riddled the Monstrosity-
A Bigotry Which Wonld Lead
to Starvation, Murder and
Riots.
Market hall was we'll filled last night
with A. 2. A. enthusiasts and others
who were DESTROYS of hearing tlies duel
of words between Ignatius Donnelly.
the orator and champion of free thought
and speech, Oh one side, and Prof.
Walter Sims, OF Grand Rapids, Mich,
the founder and champion of the
A. 2. A. The gathering was divided in
its sympathies and was profuse in its
expressions of approval. Occasional
statements made by Prof. Sims vera
greeled with Kisses indicative of dissent
from the truth of the statements. but
the speakers were not treated discourte-
ously further than that. MIR. Donnelly
was once or twice Missed, and
when he rose for his final
reply paused few moments for dis
turbance to suUSide. caused by num-
Der of the men in the front part of the
hall, who had been applauding Prof.
Sims at frequent Intervals. leaving the
hall. Mr.. Donnelly fired a shot at the
retreating men to the effect that they
seemed unwilling to hear both sides OF
the case.
The meeting was. on the whole, an
enthusiastic one, and, owing to the
good natured way in which MIR. Don
nelly handled his end Of the argument,
went away in good humor. There Is
no doubt that the humOr, wit and
sarcasm of Mr.. Donnelly in meeting
the statements of his opponent made
favorable impression on even those who
might be disposed 10 the A. z. A. Prof.
Sims took much OF Mr.. Donnelly's
SpCCCIl III IL Wei Gu way anu
many times laughed heartily at the wit
and humor of the Sage. Mr.. Sims
made no effort to reply to the hard
blows struck by MI. Donnelly, but
stuck closely to his notes. On the other
hand. Mr.. DonnelIy attacked one after
another of the chief statements of Mr.
Sims. and carried the house with him in
his ridicule and denial of the inaccura-
cies and Measurements emanating from
the A. p. A. side of the debate.
Capt. Henry A. Castle acted as chair.
man. He made humorous speech at
the beginning, in which he told the au-
disnce that they were not invited to
seats on the platform, not to take part
in the debate except they should be
challenged to do so by the debaters. He
had consented to act as umpire or
starter for the debate. and had as one
qualification for the position dense
ignorance of the subject.
THE IMPORTED CANADIAN.
Prof. Sims was announced to make a
twenty fve-minute speech as the open
ing. He arose from his table at the
stage. and as he came forward with a
large A. P. A. badge on his breast
was greeted with hearty applause
from people in the front of the
hall. He began by declaring he
is a member of the American Protective
association, which he claimed was
framed for the protection of homes and
and schools, which he believed was
raise up for the righteous purpose of
fighting the Roman Catholic church.
The parochial schools of that church
were assaulted as being an interfere nee
with the rights of American citizenship.
He declared that the pope wants to rule
America and propagate treason against
the country, and claims the right to alb
solve the members of the church from
oaths of allegiance and observance of
laws. He expressed surprise that no
American flag was found in the hall,
and charged the Catholic church with
prescribing its use in the churches of
the country.
Prof Sims declared that the pope, the
archbiShops. the bishops and the priests
dictate the politics of the members of
the church, for which statement he was
greeted with Misses. He then made a
TRADE against the Catholics, as be-
ing known by their Kissing,
and declared that Protestants do
not go to meeting to hiss. He con-
tinued by saying that when Catholic
dies he has to confess whether or not he
ever voted against the instructions of
the priest, and was again greeted
with Kisses. There you 60 again.
he said. You are Catholics" And
he fairly clenched his fists and
hurled the declaration through his teeth.
''No one can 90 behind the returns of
ali election but the priests. You must
submit your politics to ecclesiastical
dictation." Kisses were again heard at
the end of this.
He declared that in Catholic countries
there were great majority of iilegiti-
mate children, and was again Kissed.
He declared that publication in an
Eastern paper was made to the effect
that the pope had organized council
with view of controlling the United
States. The A. P. 4. had coma iHto ey-
istence to boycott the power of tbs 70
man church.
In his second speech of fifty minutes
Prof Sims accused Mr.. Donnsllv of adj
miniStering the laughing gas, while he
was trying to administer the medicine.
He declared that the officers OF state
have hppn handing ovar thu ,ro,y