The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-04
4. P. A. NOT AN ISSUE.
Archbishop Ireland Rebukes a
Democratic Priest.
FOR TELLING FALSEHoooS.
Republiean Party Has Always stood for
Religious Liberty. and Ssvsr
Wronged . Catholic.

NEW Yosx. Nov. 3-An interview with
Rev. Alfred Young. of the Pauiiss Fathers
church. IN this city, having been published
Yesterday, Archbishop Ireland. who is in
New York city, tonight dictated q reply.
In the original intsrview Father Young
claimed that 1e.0oo Catholic Republicans
in the state would on election day cast
their votes for the Democratic state ticket.
because of the alleged affinity of the Re-
publicans of this state with the A. p. A.
Archbishop Ireland says in part:
al have read the interview Of the
Paulist father, Rev. Alfred Young. on the
political issues of the hour. He says, in
this interview, that although ne has here
tofo,e voted the Republican ticket. be
feels compelled sc the approaching cleo
ton 70 vote the straight Democrstic
ticket, and, furthermore, that in his opin-
lou 10000 Catholic Republicans in the
state of New York will likewise at this
election vote the Democratic ticket, and
this change of front in politics
comes. according TO Father Young. from
the attitude of the Republican party, IS
he sees Ii. throughout the country, and
notably the treatment of the question OF
education and charity in the constitutional
amendment of the state of New York Is
such as TO show him that its members and
adherents sustain, so far as they dare, the
movement set on foot by anti-Catholic
bigots to abridge the civic and religious
liberties of Catholics
IAN anti-Catholic movement does, il
appears. exist in the United States, that
OF a. P A.-ism, q sort Of . renewal of the
Know-Nothingism Of forty or more years
ago But whatever there 10 Of A. p. A.-ism
itself. the Republican party has neither
assumed. nor brought upon itself any re-
sponsibility for its existence or its work
ings. No one act of the party can be quoted
TO support Q different view. In certain
Republican conventions q request that the
Reputation of A. z. A-ism should be made
a plank IN the party platform was I'M
needed. Nothing in this occurrence alarms
Catholics. A great political party cannot
be expected to take notice of every
fieeting wind that passed over the field of
American politics. know-Nothing tickets
polled q much larger percentage OF state
votes in Democratic Virginia and Mary
land, than in the Republican states of
the North and West; while New Hamp-
shire was Democratic state, the
constitution refused the Catholics the right
10 hold Office So soon as 1t became .
Republican state the constitution in
this regard was amended. In more
recent wears in the state of New York
a Catholic, Francis Herman, who had been
nominated for the governorship on tho
Democratic ticket. was slaughtered at
the polls by the anti-Catholic bigots In
his party. A Catholic, w. r. Grace.
running for mayor in New York city,
found himself cut down to small majority
by bigoted Democrats. As the reverse.
when q Catholic. Carr sought the secre-
taryship of the state on the Republican
ticket, his fellow Republicans proved
loyal to him.
party, is narrowed in her influence,
dragged down from her high pedestal of
universal teacher and guide and exposed to
meet the hatred and opposition Of other
parties. She courts ruin TO herself by
Identifying her power and interests
with q portion of the population.
She has suffered TOO much in the
ship which the Democratic party
pretended TO exercise over her. OF late
she has disfranchised herself from that
slavery. and must not return to 1t. l
would have the church wrapped In no one
political party, whichever it may be. She
cannot afford to be in political antagon-
ism to any party.
81 have no mission to give Catholics
political counsel. In politics. priests and
laymen stand on the same ground as citi-
zens. and then vote as the
but can counsel them. as
do, to allow no cry of religious b,gotry
to sway them, to be moved by
no sectional hatred, to give Gre
dence to no vain rumors and accusa-
tons. If there are men who drag reli-
gion into politics let lit not
be the Catholics who. even under the
penalty of some sacrifice. must give to the
country the highest example of exalted
citizens ship, and of politics utterly free
from religious bias. The peace and pros
perity of the country demands this Of all
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