The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-04-14

! blyman Wray, when he first mentioned
the matter 10 me, that as. Republican
! and as a. lover and upholder of all that
America and her free institutions
meant to the world. l would not object
| TO my name going before the Iegisla-
ture for this office, this honorable
trust. On this latter ground and on
none other did 1 believe the question
should be discussed. On no other
ground whatsoever should any political
question be discussed.
The Eagle, at the time, with the Sun
and the Mail and Express, held the
same position. Fitness for office was
the peaceful contention, and it was not
until Archbishop Corrigan sent Chaun-
cey DepeW and George Bliss UP to AL
bany to work against Father Malone's
election, and the Bishop of Brooklyn,
in the papers, said that the candidate
would not accept the nomination, that
the question of the religious convic-
tions of regents forming a necessary
qualification of candidacy was intro
duced by the bishops.
1t was the entering wedge of the I'M
American policy which seeks to obtain
a foothold that in order that Catholics
be treated fairly in all matters they
must be represented by Catholics as
Catholics and not as Americans, thus
making the Catholics a foreign body
inimical to American interests.
In the diary of Father Malone of No
vember 20. 1898. regarding the opening
of the Henry McCaddin Memorial, to
which he had invited all the regents,
Father Malone writes: Bishop Nc
Donald showed an ugly disposition be-
fore we went to the hall He would not
sit on the same platform with Bishop
I jc h.
with our churchmen before they can
really talk of themselves as ambassa-
doris of Christ, who loved all and laid
down his life for ALL
Under date of December, 1898, we read
that the bishop wrote him, forbidding
him to attend the meeting of the re-
gents and telling him to be present at
a conference of the priests to be held
at the same time. Father Malone
writes: ut seemed an unwarranted in
reference on the part of Bishop Nc
Dounell / wrote my reply. It suits
me at this present time not to leave
home. as we have no one to attend the
church. Father Hopkins is dead. and
Father O'Brien is sick at his fathers
home. | have written to Bishop Nc
Donnell for help. He is too slow with
me. He writes me he has no one at
present
If, as you say, in the election of a !
'egent ''denominational or religious /
ines are to be regarded in any high /
tate office" perhaps it is as well to
zee beforehand that those ecclesiastics !
dominated may not be hammered in the I
discharge of their duties, either by in /
tructions or commands of bishops.
acknowledged enemies of the public {
chool system and of any public edu-
alton furlless inculcated by Romanfst !.
instructors at the public expense" as
Gather Malone was sought to be "by
he discree. temperate and greatly re-
pected Bishop Mcdonnell"
] do not think the clergy Of his do
csc felt themselves unrepresented by
'atf1er Malone in religious matters.
Wherever priests were gathered public
to celebrate some great church event
r ceremony Father Malone was cho-
en- by the clergvmen of his diocese to
g their Spokesman and representative. 4
Father Malone's Jubilee presented an
nique spectacle in the diocese govern
4 by Archbishop Corrigan. Arch
ishop ireland. Bishop Keene and
.ishop Mcdonnell sat together in the
anctuary in SITS. Peter and Paul's
hurch. The scaudalous conduct of the
igAop in prohibiting bishops and s,
RESTS from other dioceses. even those
ON the diocese of New York. from
Fciating in this diocese. was for that 5
scasion set aside by Father Malone t
citing in accord with the spirit of Pope ]
60 and Mgr. Satoili. ]
Catholics have yet to learn if the Pope ]
mself is to he hut a "r11inor portion {
the organiza ton" which he governs $
head equally in New York and {
rooklyn as well as in st. Paul. Mimi. c
1t I clearly remember that it was t