The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-04
Says President Traynor in an
5000 Word Circular.
Congressional Measures Favored
by the Order.
HARRISON ALL RIGHT
But Cleveland is Attacked as a
Trucker to Papacy.
Upholds theMOnroeDOctrine but
DenOunces the War Scare.

Travnor, the supreme president of the
American Protective Association, has
issued to the councils of the order
throughout the country a circular OF
nearly 5000 words. reviewing the
progress of the organization and the
political situation. Mr.. Traynor states
in his circular that large number of
the members of Congress are also
members of the A. P A, pledged to
the following measures:
A bill to open to public inspection
all monastic and private or semi-pri-
vate public institutions that are under
State control.
A bill prohibiting the official recog-
milton by the United States or any
officer thereof of any dignitary of any
official recognition of such as the dele
gate or representative of any church
or ecclesiastical power.
A bill 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 act not to extend to the
uniform ranks of benefit societies eX-
cept to debar them from drilling with,
carrying or keeping firearms.
Mr. Traynor reviews presidential
possibilities and attacks President
Cleveland in these words:
1T is doing no injustice to Mr..
Cleveland to assert that. if the United
States had been a papal country and
the pope a temporal sovereign, our
president could not have given more
recognition to the papacy as q tenn
poral power than he has during his
present term of Office, commencing
with his obseqUious present of mag
nifcently bound edition of the Ameri-
can constitution to the pope and con-
Guiding with the disgraceful promotion
of Colonel Coppinger, who is worthy
of notice only, and that VIGOROUSLY,
as fervent adherent of the pope of
Rome and an ardent admirer of pa pal
institu tiOns, two facts sufficient in
themselves to eternally debar him
from any public office in the gift of p
free nation or any of its representa-
tives."
Allison and Reed come in for a fair
share of condemnation for what Mr..
Traynor alleges as their propapal atti-
tude and their antagonism to the pa
triotic orders. He presents the names
of Hon. W. S. Linton of Michigan,
Senator John Fl. Gear of Iowa, Gov
ernor w. o. Bradley of kentucky and
ex-President Harrison as worthy the
support of the A. P. A. He affirms
that in the event of any Indication of
the Republican party trucking to
Rome" that a new party should and
must be the result"
He criticises Chairman Carter, of the
Repu blican national committee, and
Harrity, of the Democratic national
committee, as uEcompromising papists.
Travnor declares that the arming and
drilling of Irishmen in this country is
a sinister movement of the Roman
Catholic church to mobilize n Catholic
army in the republic, to supplement
the moral force of the church to secure
ascendency when the nation shall be
involved in a crisis such as war or
rebellion.
He upho1ds the Monroe doctrine but
denounccs the war scare as the result
of conspiracy between the president,
the priests and plutocrats; the first to
secure reelection; the second, to gain
ascendency while the nation is in
volved in war with a foreign country,
and the last to profit by bond issues
at war rates of interest upon gold
interest bearing basis. Mr.. Traynor
opposes bond issue as infamous and
declares that war between England
and the United States would be a
mutual calamity and an interna-
tiOual sin -