Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-01-08
AN A. ?. A. CIRCULAR.
President Traynor Denounces War
with England as Inter-
national Sin.

Detroit, Mich, Jan. Nv. III. Tray
nor, the supreme president of the Ameri-
can Protective association, has issued to
the councils of the order throughout
the country circular of nearly 5000
words, reviewing the progress of the or
ganization and the political situation.
Mr.. Traynor states in his circular that
a large number of the members of Con-
gress are also members of the A. 2. A,
pledged to bills to secure a just distribu-
ton OF federal Offices, to establish ma
tlonaI university, to restrict lmmlgra-
ton and regulate naturalization, to
amend the constitution prohibiting sec
tartan appropriations, to prohibit adver-
Users or others from using the national
emblem as an advertising device, and to
open to public inspection all monastlc
and private or semi-public institutions
that are not under state control. A bill
prohibiting any body of men other than
members of the United States army
and navy and of the militia of the vari-
Gus states from using firearms.
Mr.. Traynor reviews presidential posi-
bilities and attacks Mr.. Cleveland in
these words: ut is doing no injustice to
Mr.. Cleveland to assert that if the Unit
ed States had been papal country and
the Pope temporal sovereign our Pres
1dent could not have given more recOgnl-
ton to the papacy as a temporal power
than he has during his present term of
office, commencing with his 'obsequious
present of magnificently bound edition
of the American constitution to the
Pope and concluding with the disgrace
full promotion of Col. Coppinger, who is
worthy of notice only-and that notori-
ously-as a fervent adherent of the
Pope of Rome and an ardent admirer of
papal institutions, two facts sufficient ia
themselves to eternally debar him from
any public Office in the gift of free
nation or any of its representatives"
Allison and Reed come in for q fair
share of condemnation for what Mr.
Iraynor alleges as their pro-papal atti-
tude and their patriotism to the patriotic
orders. He presents the names of w.
S. Linton of Michigan, Senator John II.
Gear of Iowa, Gov. w. O. Bradley of
Kentucky and ex-President Harrison as
worthy of the support of the A. p. A.
He affirms that in the event of any in
dication of the Republican party truck
ling to Rome" that new party should
and must be the result"
He criticises Chairman Carter of the
national Republican committee and Har-
rity of the Democratic as uncompromis-
ing papists. Traynor declares that the
movement for the arming and drilling of
freshmen IN this country is a sinister
movement of the Roman Catholic
church.
He upholds the Monroe doctrine, but
denounces the war scare as the result
of a conspiracy between the President,
the priests and plutocrats; the first to Sc
cure reelection, the second to gain as
tendency while the nation is involved in
war with a foreign country and the
last to profit by bond issues at war rates
of interest upon a gold Understanding
basis.
Mr.. Traynor opposes a bond issue as
Infamous and declares that a war be-
tween England and the United States
would be mutual calamity and an in
ternational SIM