The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-30
BISHOP WHtpPLE SPEAKS.
In Vigorous Terms He Condemns the
RIasphemous Bryan Campalgn.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK. Oct. 29.--One OF the notable
features of the present political campaign
las been the outspoken utterances of lead
ing clergymen against the would-be cur
rency debasers. repudiationists and law
defiers of the Popocratic party. Arch
bishop Ireland and other preates of the
Catholic Church hive come out openly for
the Republican ticket, and a number of
Protestant bishops have likewise advocated
the election Of Major Mckinley. In an in
terview here Bishop Whipple, OF Minnesota,
says:
when reflect on what has really made
1t possible for this demonstration under
the lead of Bryan to be made. / realize
fully what the awful import of those forces
is 1t does not mean law and order-it
means the opposite. 1t does not mean
tional honor and faith-it means the re-
verse. 1t means the desperate peril of ali
that would put a republican democracy in
have destroyed all republics in the past.
1t is a greater peril than confronted us
In 1851. At the worst, that would have re-
suited only in a division of the Union. We
should have had two republics instead or
lawabiding republics, each of them gov
erned in the main by the same principles
that Il, rEn governed the United States prior to
government l mean. But this proposition
means government without reasonable law
means the beginning and rapid growth of
every detestable thing means the absolute
destruction of our fabric of government as
| the inevitable result of such a thing.
Now" he continued, being convinced
that these abhorrent forces the DOM
inant ones in this new movement / was
filled with anxiety, not because 1 feared
that this or that party would be over
thrown, but because it seemed me that
oGr & NE as a nation, and our honor and our
less things. In my anxiety went to old
friend a man who has been an influential
Democrat, man of high business charac-
L
to him that / was in great anxiety, in
much distress about these things i did
feel that in the end it would ali be well.
and that 1t perhaps might be part of the
purpose which has so signally guided this
tween the forces of order, law and NOR
ality, and the low and vile impulses which
sometimes control considerable bodies of
men,
My friend said to me: Bishop, let US
look at these things What do we see
of intelligent and influential Democrats re-
rudiating this thing and determining to OPP
pose it, either in alliance with the Repub-
licans or by independent action We find
that the great majority of men of business
who have achieved much for the prosperity
of this country are standing with firm front
in opposition to this thing.
- We find that that portion of the press
Of the United States, which is in reality Il
moder of pubic opinion, and a fair rep
resentative of the most intelligent senti-
ment. stands with practical unanimity in
opposition to the Chicago platform We
find not single man who has had expert
ence in matters of finance VINO does not
denounce these propositions as utterly de-
structiVe to prosperity and ruinouS to ad-
we find the religious influences almost
everywhere in the United States firm in
support of public and private morality and
good faith That being so, can it be pos
sible that our civilization has degraded
that all the forces to which these influences
are antagonistic may be SO massed as 10
prevail and gain control OF our country?
/ do not believe it, .
For a moment the bishop hesitated, and
then added: Neither can [. l cannot be-
lieve that we have been taught and gained
experience, and maintained for hundred
years the lessons of the fathers, only to
find them now of no avail. And / am sat
isfied that it will yet all be We'll We may
have needed this experience. but I am sure
that we need not now despair
There is another thing about which /
would like to say word | have been
thinking of the amazing and shameful
recollection has brought TO mind other
presidential canvasses. HOW marked and
abyssmal is the difference! Here is new
departure as they call 1t, vast movement
said to be for the benefit of the doHntrod-
den, suffering people.
'.Ano how is 1t inaugurated? BY a show
of rabbits feet, by spirit seances. like ,he
Forrible pretense of a communication from
Lincoln advising the citizens to support
Bryan. BY charms and superstitions, and
above all by blasphemous comparisons and
by a blasphemous imagery.
Think of a campaign made ostelsibly ir
the name of the poor. and humble ana
weak, characterized by shocking 6.asphe-
my; and these things nave taken the place
of the sober, statesmanlike counsel which
that long list of able and honorable men
who loved their country and who served
their party as it's leaders, gave to their
party from the beginning of the Nation
till this time. 1t is appalling. 1t is humii-~
iating for an American of whatever party
to contemplate.
Il glad to say much this. and
| want to say just one thing more. / hope
and believe that the victory next Tuesday
will be so overwhelming that these forces
will be scattered, that tney may De
wholly destroyed and with this single
ample of the integrity and moral strength
OF The Nation there may be such prece-
dent as will make it impossible for such
an attempt to be made again"