The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-29
CHAPPELLE'S NEW POST.
NOW HE cor HIS APPoINTME N AZ
ARCHBIsHoP OF NEW ORLEANS.


President Fnurs OF Frauce Said to Have sur.
rested nc ut the Request or the French
Priests or the Diocese-Ds Lonne and Tar.
lor's Lectures at the Catholic University.
WASHINGTON. Nov. os.-The news of tho APP
pointment OF Archbishop Chappelle of Santa
Fe. N. M, as Archbishop of New Orleans. to
succeed the late Archbishop Janssons, has been
the cause OF much comment in Catholic circles,
and was a great surprise to many who had OK
pectod that Bishop Macs would be the ono APP
pointed. The appointment Is regarded as q
signal victory for the conservatives, and is due
entirely to the influence OF the reaotionary or
nationalist party in Rome.
The French priests OF New Orleans feared
that they were not to receive the appointment.
30 they drafted q letter to the daughter of NJ.
Faure, President of France, In which they
begged her TO uso her influence with her father
to secure the appointment of an Archbishop of
their own nationality. The daughter did 40.
and the letter was forwarded to Rome, with the
approval Of NJ. Faure, and the appointment of
Mgr. Chappelle 10 due to this as much as to any
thing.
As might be expected, the Catholics who arc
strongly American do not look on this move
with favor. They are beginning to dread for
eign Interference. Having just recovered from
tho interference Of the Germans and the Jes-
uits in the case of Mgr. Schroeder, they are
again made to feel the powerful hand Of the for
eign lobby at Rome by the appointment Of Mgr.
Chappelle. While they are agreed that he ia
we'll equipped for the place. thoy could not over
look tho interference of NJ. Faure.
There has been much discussion about tho re-
portthat NJ. dc Lone, the Spanish Minister, had
sent his secretary to Mgr. Martinelli. the Apos.
tolio Delegate, and requested him to use his in.
huence to have the lectures of Mr.. Hannis Tay.
lor, former Minister to Spain, delivered at tho
Catholic University, discontinued. While this
report has been denied and Mgr. Conaty has not
received any word from Mgr. Martinelli
concerning 1t. there seems to be some founda-
ton for 1t. and it is probable that If Minister
dc Lome did not make such a suggestion
in so many words. the intimation was conveyed
through his secretary to an attach6 Of the dele-
CATION. Mr.. Taylor, In his first lecture. took 90
casiHn to say something tn about Cuba. and tho
ture was to have been delivered on Thanksgiv-
Ing Day, but he was too Ill to give 1t, and 1t was
Of the American, or Liberal party. as It is better
known, were stated as follows by one Of the
The Catholic Church in America is strictly
Catholic, and united to the Holy See by the
strongly patriotic and American in its political
tendencies Nor is there any reason why the
in France is French. No one is disposed to find
AND F fsaeSo W VIZ thea. m saS H .s7s saSs 30
Catholic University is an Institution that be-.
longs to and represents the Catholic Church in
America. WY should not the university be the
same In spirit as the church erself-Catho and
American AS q teaching body the university
is busy with religion and science. and If she
the politics Of the United States. 'n'' Will
Mi. Hannis Taylor gave a lecture at the
sisn poi}t!ss, n nos ON %e' in,ef PaHtii nSi po ass,
but on The Origin, and Growth Of the
United States. Treated as Mr.; Taylor treated
cana. His second lecture, which would have
ness. is on Parliamentary Government as Il
Exists Throughout, the World" Such be
method Of treatment, Scholarly and ' Scientific
II would seem to be a piece of. supreme
impudence on the part of the Spanish Govern
oficiousiy. with a matter purely domestic. suci
an interference would be an act OF discourtesy
enmity toward NJ. Taylor sS and s iowa . dae esiUn {
prosecute an American citizen for discussing ar
think that De LONE 10 Capable Of such a dipio
matte blunder.
Orleans should be so foolish as to invoke tn
interference Of a foreign power in our domestic
affairs. II is still more incredible that N
Everybody Knows that N. FaTre has enough t
do to appoint the, right kind Of bishops IL
France. The state here does not interfere wit
foreign powers should step in and meddl
with our internal affairs. The time nigh
not be far distant when our Government
colony to be governed by the foreign officers O
the various European powers. nor is 1t an AZ
pendage to the effete monarchies of the OF
World. Catholics OF American birth and Cath
olics OF foreign birth have learned from the cor
dilion of things abroad to put a proper value o
the liberty which they all enjoy in this country.