The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-10
A. p. A. FOR HARRISON.
supreme ries dent Traynor issues an
Address.

DETROIT, Mich Jan. CIV. J. RI.
Traynor. the supreme president of tho
American Protective ASSOCIATION, has
issued to the councils OF the order
throughout the country n circular OF
nearly 5000 words, reviewing the
progress OF the organization and the
political situation. Mr.. Traynor states
in his circular that 70 large number Of
the members OF Congress arc also
members Of the A. y. A., pledged to
the following measures:
A bill to open to public inspection
all monastic and private or scmi-pri-
vatc public institutions that are under
State control.
a bill prohibiting the official recor.
milton by the United States or any
officer thereof Of any dignitnry of any
ecclcSiastical body or church. or the
official recognition of such as the dele
gate or representative OF any church
or ecclesiastical power.
A bin prohibiting any body Of men
other than members of the United
states army and navy, and of the
militia of the various states, from
drilling or parading in any army or
using firearms or deadly weapons of
any kind, such net not To extend to the
uniform ranks OF benefit societies cy-
cept 10 dcbar them from drilling with,
carrying or keeping firearms.
Mr.. Traynor reviews presidential
possibilities and attacks President
Cleveland in these words:
at is doing no injustice to Mr..
Cleveland To assert that, if the United
states had been n papal country and
the pope "a temporal sovereign, our
president could not have given more
recognition to the papacy as II tenn
poral power than he has during his
present term of Office, commencing
with his ~obscquious present of u mag
niiiccntly bound edition of the Ameri-
a constitution to the pope and rom
GLIDING with the disgraceful promotion
of Colonel Coppingcr. who is worthy
Of notice only, and that notoriously,
us n fcrycnt adhcrcnt of the pope of
Rome and an ardent admircr Of papal
institutions. two facts sufficient in
themselves to ctcrnally debar him
from any public Office ia the gift If u
free nation or any of its representa-
tives.'
Allison II Reed come in for u fair
share OF condemnation for what Mr..
Traynor alleges as their propapal atti-
tudc and their ~antagonism To the pa
,riotic orders. lie presents the names
Of Hon. W.. 5 Linton of Michigan,
senator John II. Gear Of Iowa, Gov
crnor w. q. Bradley OF Kentucky and
cy-PrcSideut Harrison rs worthy the
support of the A. L. A. He afiirms
that in the event of any indication ofs
the Republican party ''truckling 10
Come that o new party should and
must he the result"
lie criticises Chairman Carter, of the
Republican national committee. and
!larrity, Of tho Democratic national
committee. ms uEcompromising papists.
Travnoa declares that the arming and
drilling of lrishmcn in this country is
Il sinister movement of the Roman
Catholic church to mobilize 70 Catholic
army in the republic, to supplement
the moral force of the church to secure
asccndcncy when the Gation shall he
evolved in II crisis such rs a war or
-sbelliou.
He upholGs the Monroe doctrine but
dcnouuccS the war scare a. the result
of "a conspiracy between the president.
the priests and plutocrats: the first To
secure reelection; the second, to pain
aSccndency while tho nation is in.
volvcd in war with u foreign country,
and tho last to profit by bond issues
NJ war rates of interest upon u gold
interest bearing basis. Mr.. rravnor
opposes Il bond issue rs infamous and
declares hat u war between England
and the United States would be IA
mutual %caiamity and m interna.
tionul sim