The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-04
AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR.
Archbishop ireland Issues Cam
paign Document.

n1irn Document.
New York, Nov. Am nterVle"
with Rev. Alfred Young, of the Pauiist
Fathers church, this city, having
been published yesterday, Archbishop
Ireland, who is in New York, dictated
a reply tonight. In the original inter o
view Father Young claimed that fV'ooV
Catholic Republicans in the state
would on election day cast their votes
for the Democratic state ticket because
of the alleged affinities OF the Repuo-
ltcans of this state with the a. f. "A.
Archbishop Ireland says in part:
at have read the interview with the
Paulist Father, Rev. Alfred Young, on
the political issues OF the hour. he
saws in this interview that although ne
has heretofore voted the Repuohcan
ticket he feels compelled at the ap-
preaching election to vote the straight
Democratic ticket, and furthermore
that in his opinion 10000 Cath
ole Republicans in the state Oh
New York will likewise at
this election vote the Democratic dlcket
and this change OF 'front.' IN pollllca
comes, according to Father Young,
from the ATTITUDE oft he Republican
party, as he sees it throughout the
country and notably in the treatment
of the question of education and char
ity in the constitutional amendment OF
the state of New York is such as to
show him that its members and inner
ents sustain, so far as they dare, tho
movement set on foot by anti-Catholia
bigots to abridge the civic and religious
liberties of Catholics.
"An anti-Ca.tholic movement does, it
appears, exist in the United States,
that of a. P. Aism, a sort of renewal Of
the thingism Of forty or moro
years ago.
''But whatever of a. P. A. is in itself,
the Republican parity has neither as+
stunned nor brought upon itself any re-
sponsibility for its existence nor it's
| workings. No one act of the party can
be quoted to support different view.
In certain Republican conventions re-
quest that Interpolation of A. P. Aism
should be made a plank in the party
platform was unheeded. Nothing in
this occurrence alarms Catholics. A
great political party cannot be expected
to take notice of every fleeing wind
that passes over the field of American
politics.
"Know-nothing tickets polled much
larger percentage of state votes in
Democratic Virginia and MARYLAND than
in Republican states of the north
and west. While New Hamp-
shire was Democratic state,
the constitution refused the Catholics
1.-THE right to hold Office. So soon as it
became a Republican state the consti-
tuition in this regard was amended. IN
more recent years, in the state of New
York, Catholic, Francis Herman. who
mad been nominated for the governor
ship on the Democratic ticket, was
slaughtered at the polls by the anti
CathoiIc higots in his party. A Catho-
] nc, w. K. Grace, running for mayor in
New York city, found himself cut down
! to small majority by bigoted Demo-
Gratis. AS the reverse, when a Catho-
lie, Carr, sought the secretaryship of
STATE on the Republican ticket his fell
low Republicans proved loyal to him.
The church, allied to che political
party, Is narrowed in her influence.
dragged down from her high pedestal
of universal teacher and guide and ex-
posed to meet the hatred and opposi-
ton of other parties. She courts ruin
to herself by identifying her power and
interests with a portion of the popula-
| ton. She has suffered too much in the
past from a supposed protectorshfp
which the Democratic party pretended
| to exercise over her. OF late, she has
been DISTINGUISHING herself from that
slavery and must not return to it. /
would have the church wrapped in no
one political party which ever it may
be. She cannot afford to be in politi-
cal antagonism to any party.
Il have no mission to give Catholics
political counsel. In politics, priests
and laymen stand on the same ground
as citizens and they vote as the judg-
ment of each one dictates, but I can
counsel them, as I do, to allow no cry
of religious bigotry to sway them, to
he moved hU M Sectional +o
give credence to no vain rumors and
accusations. If there are men who
drag religion into politics, let it not be
the Catholics who, even under penalty
of some sacrific, must give the country
the highest example of exalted citizen
ship and of politics utterly free from
religious bias. The peace and pros
perity of our country demand this of
all her citizens"