The San Francisco call., 1896-09-29

Organized bigotry comes into service
whenever there is stagnation or political
agitation, and it was during one of these
periods of political stagnation that this
present controversy sprang up,
we have on our borders country
winch contains great many good peo-
pie, the dominion of Canada. Unfortu-
nately that country has always been
divided by religious strife. This has been
brought here in the track of the Orange
man and the blgot. The leaders of the
A. P A. are men who have never assim-
llated the principles of the constitution of
the United States.
The apostle of the A. P. A. in Cali
fornia was w. J. H. Trainor. He came
out here, went through the State and
then went home and told the barbarians
of the East that the West was under the
dominion of the Pope and that Jesuits
occupied every fat office.
"Trainor is Canadian Irishman. God
help US! It's bad enough TO have to
stand Ryan, but 1t is a terrible thing to
nave 10 bear the reputation of Trainor.
1.-THE Detroit Trainor was a saloon-keeper
In one of the most disreputable portions OF
that city. They always find their level.
After the two houses-of which we had
better not speak-tbat were on each side
of him had been cleaned out by
the police he closed up his saloon. Then
he became a drummer for a wholesale
liquor house, and afterward published
paper, which opposed the license ques-
ton, against the temperance people.
at is this man whom the ministers OF
this City welcomed and who was the
friend and confrere of j. Q. Ananias Henry
and c. O. Brown. At Detroit he started
the Hotel Reporter and made it the organ
of thieves and others until its publication
was stopped by the police. "
In speaking of the Standard. published
by President Hudelson OF the American
Protective Association he said that 'last
week it went to its grave unwept, union
ored and its editor unhung."
Taylor Rogers, he said, was the man
who started the A. 2. a. in this City.
That man was a fitting hen to
sit on and incubate such an egg"
he added; and continued: The man
who accepts the Endorsement of the
A. P. A. is worse than an A. P. A.
hounded for doing so. The first day he
took his office he appointed Taylor Rogers
his secretary, and the first thing Taylor
Rogers did when few poor women came
To the Mayors office to beg for some small
pittance of charity-the first thing Taylor
Rogers'did was to ask them what their re-
ligion was.'
Thousands and thousands, he said, had
been inveigfed into joining the American
Protective Association, and after attend
ing one meeting and hearing the oath
each member was required to take they
never attended another.
He read what he explained was the A.
7. A. oath. 1t pledged the members of
the organization, he declared, to prescribe
Catholics politically and commercially.
Then to emphasize his assertion he said:
AT the last election James Budd and
NJ. NJ. ,Estee were candidates for the Gov
ernoTsh1p Of this State. Estee had the
misfortune to have a Catholic type
writer. The members of the a. 2. A.
dared to go to him and tell him to dis
miss his typewriter or he would be put
under the ban. he was man enough to
tell them to 60 to Halifax-or some
warmer place.
Before the last election some II ,OOO men
were induced to sign their roll and then,
thank God, the advisory board sold out
the II D00 After the election they
started fighting and have been keeping it
up'ever since.
Were it not that one of their number
secured an Office of patronage, were it not
that County Clerk Curry was successful in
that election. many OF the members of the
A. ?: A. would have had TO starve.
1.-The object of that American Protec-
tive Society is prescription on account OF
religious belief While all the newspapers
OF this City. know this. there was not
man among them brave enough to say
word against. it. They weIe dumb then,
and they are dumb to-day gazing at its
rotting carcass.
"One of them went out of his way to
in the San Francisco Chronicle al
lowed the bIackguards to dump their
NTH into 1t, as it was, and is, dump
ing ground, and then refused us
the chance to shovel the offal from be-
fore our door. To ]. P Young belongs
the bad eminence of doing more to foster
and fatten the A. P. A. than any other
single influence. Its swaddIing clothes
were the Chronicle and its corpse clothes
may be the Chronicle.
"The other day there was a convention
In this town, of which the chairman was
L. d. Riordan, When some one in the
hall shouted that candidate was an A.
2. A, Mr.. Riordan said that that conven-
ton knew nothing of the A. p. a nor did
he. He had better change his name to
Rip Van Winkle Rordan if he knows
nothing of the politics of this City for the
last t-two years.
''Fhe nominee of that convention for
Mayor was a Mr.. Taylor. As far as I
know about Mr.. Taylor, he would not be
guilty of the things charged against.the
A. 2. a. Therefore, tonight | wish to
put Question to him which [ think he
should answer.
"At present among the a. P. A. circles
there is a grave dispute as to which is the
dog and which the tail, and whether the
dog is wagging the tail or the tail is
waggihg the dog. do not intend to settle
the dispute, but this Convention, COM
posed of the members of the A. P. A., has
presented for Mayor Mr.. Taylor. AS yet
they have not formally notified him. He
has not accepted their nomination. It is
quite possible that they offered him the
nomination without asking by and with
his leave. 1t is known that they haye in
dorsed men in order TO beat them.
IF he accepts the nomination of that
certain convention-ifh he accepts the nom
ination OF the .so-cailed Citizens
party-he' said he was willing to
accept the nominations of all
classes of men Il do. not think
he knows the class of men with whom
he is dealing. The men who nominated
him are the men who are at the head of
the A. P. A. l now ask him, in the name
of the citizens here Assem- bled and of this
City, if be will accept this Endorsements"
Before the last election, he said, the
A. P. A. distributed printed circulars Civ
ingthe various parties and their candi-
dates with their religious belief. Protest