The morning call., 1894-11-04
TO NO ONE PARTY.
Archbishop Ireland on the Position
of the Church.

NEW YORK, Nov. 3-An interview with
Rev. Alfred Young of the Paulist
Fathers Church, this city, having beer
published Yesterday, Archbishop ireland,
who is in New York City tonight, dictated
reply.
ID the original Interview Father Young
claimed that 10000 Catholic Republicans
in the State would on election day cast
their votes for the Democratic State tick ct
because of the alleged affiuities OF the Re-
publicans of this State with the A. p. A.
Archbishop Ireland says in part: 'sI
have read the interview of the Paulist
father. Rev. Alfred Young. on the DO
litical issues of the hour. He says in this
interview that, although he has heretofore
voted the Republican ticket. ne feels com
PEELED at the approaching election 10 vote
the straight Democratic ticket, and further
more, that in his opinion 10000 Catholic
Republicans in the State of New York
will likewise at this election vote the
Democratic ticket. and this change of
front iD politics comes, according TO
Father Young. because the attitude of
The Republican party, as he sees
il, throughout the country, and
notably in the treatment of the
questions Of education and charity.
in the constitutional amendments of the
State of New York, is such as to show
him that its members and adherents sus-
tain, so far as they dare, the movement
set on foot by anti-Catholic bigots 10
abrdge the civic and religious liberties of
Catholics.
IAN anti-Catholic movement does, it ap-
pears, exist in the United States, that of
"A. P. A.-ism,' a sort of a renewal of the
Know-nothingism of forty or more years
ago.
"But VIII atever may be the trend of A. p.
A.-ism in Itself the Republican party has
neither assumed nor brought upon itself
any responsibility for iss existence or its
workings. No one act of the party can be-
quoted to support different view. In
certain Republican conventions a request
that the reputation of A. P. A.-ism should
be made 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
fleeting wind that passes over the field of
American politics.
''KDow-nOthing tickets polled a much
larger percentage of State votes in Demo-
cratic Virginia and Maryland than in the
Republican States of the North and West,
and while New Hampshire was a Demo-
cratic State the constitution refused the
Catholics the right to hold office. So soon
as it became Republican State the
constitution in this regard was amended
In more recent year., in the State of New
York, a Catholic, Francis KernaD, who
had been nominated for the goverBorship
on the Democratc ticket, was slaugh-
tered at the polls by the anti
Catholic bigots in his party. Catholic,
". r. Grace, running for Mayor in New
York City. found himself cut down to a
small majority by bigoted Democrats. As
the reverse when Catholic, Carr, sought
the Seeretaryship of State on the Republi-
can ticket, his fellow Republicans proved
loyal to him.
.The church allied to one political party
Is narrowed in her Influence. dragged
down from her high pedestal of universal
teacher aud guide, and exposed to meet
the hatred and opposition OF other parties.
Sue courts ruin 10 herself by identity
Ing her power and interests with a