Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-13
oMAHA AND THE A

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1t now looks as if conflict is ineyits.
BILE between the Omaha police force
and the A. P. A. faction, which claims
authority under recent law to appoint
new police force. Sunday night in.
dications were that a compromise was
probable. but the efforts of citizens who
deplore the present strife, to persuade
the A. P. A. to submit the controversy
to the Supreme Court were Of
no avail. The A. P. A. were
appointing their force last night,
and claim they will take Dos.
session of the city property by force
to- morrow. 1t was stated unoficially
yesterday that those of the Pro.
testant policemen and fremen who
did not notify the new board
by Wednesday morning that they
would hold themselves subject 10
the orders Of the new board would
receive little consideration when the
new board commenced TO discharge
the duties of the Office. The police
headquarters resemble q barracks. The
disquieting rumors which are flying
around, according to the police, is the
basis for the precautions taken in pro-
tecting the headquarters from an
assault an capture in true feudal
style. The door leading from the Office
to the Police Court and the door opening
out into Jackson street from the cap.
tain's Office have been locked and brac.
ed with timbers so that neither of them
could be forced without the use OF a
sledge hammer. The police are Assem-.
bled with their cubs and short handles
such as are used 10 pick axes, and
every one OF them has a revolver.
There are only fifteen patrolmen doing
duty, the rest being on watch at head
quarters and the city hall.
Senator Hoar has written an open
letter upon the A. P. A. to Thomas c.
Evans, of Boston, in response to q let
ter from the latter expressing surprise
at statements by the Senator in
speech that it Qthe A. P. A. movemenl)
''is an attempt to recall on one side
the cruelties of the Catholic Church
and TO frighten old women of both
sexes, and on the other side to band tho
men Of the Catholic Church together
for political action" Both these at
tempts, he says, will fail. Senator Hoar
writes as follows: "There is no more
Jealous believer in the principles of the
New England Puritan and no more
Jealous advocate of them than
I am. There is not man in Mas
sachusetts who has more at heart
the welfare and perpetuity of our sys.
tenn of free common schools than |
have. The difference between you and
me is difference of method. I want
to get the 700, 600 Catholics in Massa-
chusetts on our side. I want them to
send their children to the public
schools, to pay their share of the cost,
and when their young men and young
women are suitable, are intelligent, lib
eral persons, attached to the school
system, 1 want some of them to be en-
ployed as teachers. don't wish to e1-
clude them from my political support
when they are republicans and agree
with me in other matters, because of
their religious faith. You want to join
an association whose members are
ashamed to confess they belong to ii;
many of whom, without apparently for
feiting the respect of their fellows, lie
about their membership in it when they
aro asked about it. You want to mass
together the whole Catholic population
of Massachusetts, to the support of their
extreme and wrong-headed priests, if
any such can be found. I think your
method would overthrow the common
school system, overthrow the republi-
can party and would end by messing to-
gether all the Catholic voters, as pro-
scription always does mass men togeth-
or, to increase and strengthen that po-
litical power which you profess so
much to dread. think The time has
come to throw down the walls between
Christians and not to build new ones.
l think the time has come to inculcate
harmony and good will between all
American citizens, especially between
all citizens of Massachusetts,. I want
the whole 700, 900 Catholics of Massa-
chusetts to believe what John Boyle
0Reilly believed. and to love and rev.
erence the Puritan founders of Massa-
chusetts as he did. You think the way
to make good citizens and good men OF
them and to attract them to Protestant
ism is to exclude them, their sons, and
daughters from all public employment,
and to go yourself in a dark cellar and
curse at them through the gratings Of
the windows"
In conclusion Senator Hoar asks GER
tain questions concerning the A. P. A..
whether it is secret organization;
whether its opponents have an oppor-
tunity to know itspurposes and be con-
yinced by its arguments; whether Italy
and France are not as far from tempo
raj control by the Pope as Msssachu-
sets; whether Gen. Sheridan, if he was
living, would be unfit to hold Office,
and whether his daughter, if she enter
tanned her fathers religious belief,
would be unfit to teach in a public
school.
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