Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08
AN A. P. A. ADDRESS.
PRESIDENT TRAYNOR IS-
SUES A CIRCULAR.
Harrison Favored by the Leaders of the
order for President-CievelandI Is De-
nounced-Allison and Reed Condemned
Approve the Monroe Doctrine.

DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 4.-W. J. 81.
Traynor, the supreme president of the
American Protective Association, has
issued to the councils of the order
throughout the country circular of
nearly 5000 words, reviewing the
sprogress of the organization and the
political situation. Mr.. Traynor states
in his sirenlarfhat large pumber 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
ecclesiastical body or church, or the
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 dehar them from drilling with,
carrying or keeping firearms.
Mr.. Traynor reviews presidential
possibilities and attacks President
Cleveland in these words:
''It is doing no injustice to Mr..
Cleveland to assert that, if the United
States had been a papal country and
the pope temporal sovereign, our
president could not have given more
recognition to the papacy as 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 notoriously,
as fervent adherent of the pope of
Rome and an ardent admirer of papal
institutions, two facts sufficient in
themselves to eternally debar him
from any public Office in the gift of a
free nation or any of it's 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 Ii. Gear of Iowa, Gov
ernor w. o. Bradley of Kentucky and
ex-President Harrison as worthy the
support of the A. p. A. He afirms
that in the event of any indication OF
the Republican party "truckling to
| Rome" that 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 pa pists
Traynor declares that the arming and
drilling of Irishmen in this country i.
sinister movement of the Roman
Catholic church to mobilize a Catholic
army in the republic, to supplement
the moral force of the ch 'ch to secure
ascendency when the on shall be
involved in crisis as a war OF
rebellion.
He uPholds the Monroe doctrine but
donounccs the war scare the result
of a conspiracy between ,e president,
the priests and plutocra. the first tc
secure re-election; the second, to gair
escendency while the nation is in
volved in war with foreign country
and the last to profit by bond issue.
at war rates of interest upon a golC
interest bearing basis. Mr.. Traynol
| opposes bond issue as infamous ant
declares that war between England
and the United States would be {
mutual calamity and an interna
! tional sin