The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15


noteworthy feature of today's session
of the American Protective association
was the innovation made by giving to
the public the annual address of Presi-
dent w. j. H. Traynor While some
parts of the document were erased by
a special committee, the body of it
gives more authentic information upon
the purposes of the order than has
ever before been made public upon au-
thority. President Traynor deals at
great length with the present phases
of the A. P. A He says:
THE American Protective associa-
ton is today a recognized factor in
American politics, whose favor
IS OPENLY COURTED
by political leaders, organizers and
postulants for public office, who year
or two ago ignored, treated with con-
tempt or Denounced it."
Then he warns the order against
eleventh hour converts, and says:
1.-THE A. P. A. is standing menace
to the perpetuity of every party, being
composed, as it is, of the members of
every party. So long as it remains
unmoved by threats, unyielding to the
pressure of party machines, it will be
hated by and respected by every party
which dares not incorporate the plat
form of the order in its own. The
great majority of our order have
waited patiently during the past year
for some sign from one or the other
Of the political parties that it has re-
ceived
A CHANGE OF HEART
which it is honest enough to publicly
express. There are few Republicans,
such as Linton of Michigan, Gear of
Iowa. Bradley of Kentucky and Stone
of Missouri, who have been fearless in
their endorsement of our purpose, and
while it may be fortunate that they
are Republicans, it is more than I'M
fortunate that they are not either the
Republican party or representative of
that body, and the question should be
asked and answered here and now
while the A. P. A.-isms of these men
are tolerated by the party for the A.
P. A. votes which each of them carries
behind him, what assurance have we
that this liberation will not cease the
moment the votes have been deliv-
cred?
The president expresses regret that
the A. P. A. has in some states been
USED BY PARTY MACHINES.
He discourages any attempt to Sc
cure the nomination of member OF
the order for the presidency by either
party and says that mo member of our
grand organization could ever receive
within a hundred votes sufficient tc
make him the nominee of either one OF
the great parties, even though thai
member were the immortal Lincoln
himself
Referring to the advisory board
which created a sensation by it's at
tack on Mckinley, he says:
"a source of prospective danger is the
national advisory board, as it is al
present constructed. In it's present form
it is in danger at any time of coming
into collision with the supreme execu-
tive board, which is the supreme coun-
ell out of session, and undoubtedly the
superior of all other boards. At pres
ent it recognizes no superior but the
supreme council in session. and may
pursue one policy while the supreme
president and his cabinet pursue one
entirely opposed to it," and suggests
tha.
THE POWERS OF THE BOARD
be specifically named. He recommends
that no candidate for a national politi
cal Office should receive the endorse
ment of the board until all state coun.
ellis have passed upon him; that no no.
tifcations of a political nature from
state or supreme council be mandatory
but merely advisory.
The only reference to church matters
in the address are the following:
ga we'll meaning and by no means I'M
important factor of the order has arisen
which advocates peace with the prizes
and his subjects and harmony between
them and the members of the order
Some would even go so far as to ne
gotiate with them politically, thar
which nothing would be more danger
Gus to the perpetuity of the association
Others go so far as to take the posi-
ton that a member of the order pos
sesses the right to determine for him
sen the question of the loyalty or dis
loyalty of any papist postulant for of
flee and reserves to himself the righr
to persuade others to vote for said pa
pist. Such a contention is not only alb
solutely untenable but highly danger
Gus. The candidate voluntarily re-
nounces the
RIGHT OF PRIVATE JUDGMENT
in this essential when he becomes {
member of the order. 1t is a solemn
compact winch he can neither himself
modify or amend. The keystone of thu
A. P. A. is the fact that papist, NJ
matter how liberal nominally, is not
consistent citizen of the United States
Entire remuneration of the papacy mus
precede his acceptance of our associa
ton as a candidate worthy of its suf
frages."
In the council today a motion wa.
adopted requesting the advisory board
to report tomorrow morning at 9:3
o'clock. A member of the board saic
tonight that the body had not COM
to conclusions regarding the matter
before it, and would not be able to re
port to the council until Saturday
The report of the committee on pres
and literature was presented by its sec
rotary, J. A. Lansing of Michigan i
showed that over one and half mil