The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1894-11-29
SCORED BY A BISHOP
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND or ST. PAUL
Is DENOUNCED.
rhe bishop Of Rochester, N. Y. says
That the ST. Paul Prelnte's Action
I'm the Recent Campaign In New
York Was a disgrace.

Rochester, n. Y, Nov. 81. Bishop
McQuaid, at the Roman Catholic ca
thedral in this city, preached sensa-
uonal sermon this morning i'll which
he denounceS the action of Archbishop
Ireland In coming to this state and
taking part in the last political cam-
paign. In his sermon Bishop Me-
Quaid said that in his forty-seyen
years of priesthood he had never put
himself under obligations to any po-
litical party, and for twenty-seven
years he had never cast vote out of
anxiety not TO be put in any mans
political power to say that he voted
for one party or the other. Following
is an extract of the sermon:
Having said this much by way of
preface, will now advert to the late
scandal which caused these remarks
Every Catholic having respect for his
bishops and priests and the honor and
good name of his church must have
been panied and mortified when he
learned during the late politics. cam
paign that one of our bishops, the
archbishop of st. Paul, cast to one side
the traditions of the past and entered
the political arena like any layman.
The newspapers were careful to keep
the public duly informed of his ar
rival in New York weeks before elec-
tion, of his appearance on the plat
form at ratification meetings, sur
rounded by the leaders Of the Repub-
lican party, of his views on political
questions, strongly expressed through
interviews carefully prepared for the
press and of his mingling in a crowd
of excited politicians and partisans on
the night of election.
81 contend that this coming to New
York of the archbishop of st. Paul to
take part in q political contest was
undignified, disgraceful to his episco-
pal Office, and a scandal in the eyes
of all right-minded Catholics of both
parties. 1t was furthermore a piece
of meddlesome interference on his
part to come from his state to another,
break down all discipline among our
priests and justify the charges Of
those inimical to us that the priests
are partisans and use their offices and
opportunities for political work.
''If Archbishop Ireland had made
himself as conspicuous in favor of the
Democratic party he would be just as
blameworthy in my estimation. If
his conduct in this last political cam
paign was not censured and con-
demned it would not be possible for
me to restrain the priests of this dio-
cese from initiating his example, and
descending from the pulpit to the po-
litical platform and marshaling their
parishioners up to the polls on the day
of the election. Not one of them but
has an equal right with his grace of
st. Paul to turn electioneering agent
for one party or another, and absent
himself from his parish as the arch
bishop absented himself from his dio-
ceSe.
1T is no excuse to say the arch
bishop was working in the interest of
good government Every other cleri-
cal aspirant to political distinction
would say the same. New York Is
abundantly able to take care of itself
without extraneous help as the last
election showed, and if the newspa-
pers reported correctly the legislature
of Minnesota is sadly in need of puri-
fcation, and his grace might have
found full scope for his political
scheming and skill right at home if
politician he would be-"
Bishop McQuade further said that
Archbishop Ireland was repaying a
debt to the Republican party for plac-
ing a priest opposed to parochial
schools on the New York beard of
regents of universities.