The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-05-24

were called upon to apply it. For a
new policy new men We're required.
On the contrary, Cardinal Langenieux,
Archbishop of Reims, was chosen. He
owed everything to the empire, had
been created by the reaction, and had
been Marshal Maenlahon's confessor.
The Pope thus lost in France the game
which he had courageously undertaken,
the death of the great Lavigerie de-
priving him of his best auxiliary. On
the other hand, Cardinal Rampolla ac-
quired the friendship of the French
cardinals. the enemies of the republi-
can policy. Already he could count on
five votes from them. This, with his
own, was all that he could count upon
Meanwhile, Leo XIII began to move
backwards both in religion and poll
tics. All along Gioachino Pecci had
seemed to have lofty, philosaphic
mind. 1t had been hoped that he would
Danish from the church the little prac-
| tices, the trivial methods of worship
which stifle Romanism as brlars do the
trees.
| Cardinal Rampolla took advantage of
the first illness Of Leo XIII to make
him sign the Encyc1ical to the Sacred
Heart The official conservation OF this
devotion ruined the hopes Of the philp-
sophical Catholics by installing a
fourth person Of God who Is Jesus
| Christ without being Jesus Christ. No
| the other hand, the mystical cardinals
and the women's religious orders were
grateful to Rampola. He became the
| friend the protector and the protege OF
| all the communities of women through
out the world, which Is important even
| in order to be d Pope. All this did not
secure for Rampolla more than twelve
votes in the future conclave. Then came
| in France the associations bill. The
Pontifca1 tradition, at all events that
of Leo XIII, made for silence, at least
during the Parliamentary battle Car
dnal Rampolla did not hesitate mo-
ment He made the old Pontif sign the
letter which took violently the side OF
the religious orders. and which cut In
advance the road to Cancellation and
new concordat prudently indicated by
the Archbishop Of Rouen. In 1925, when
the congregations In France passed
through the worst possible ordeal. Rome
had not stirred. The same was true IN
1852. 1t is well known that the letter In
favor of the congregations signed Leo
XIII was written by the French Cardi-
nal Matthew, resident in Rome and that
Cardinal Fverrata, the former Nuncio
was simply directed to see to the Latin,
and to insert few infelicties. By UNI
dertaking this fine scheme Cardinal
Rampolla secured for himself the votes
Il. no ot.c n
Thus the candidate for the tiara who
had not engle vote ten years ago has
seventeen now. assured him. All this
while the same prince of the church has
directed the appointment Of new cardi-
mails. The twe1ve3la elected, in April,
are the creatures OF Cardinal Rampol
la They belong to him by gratitude
and by ambition. They are directed by
the man, great solely from the physical
point of view, who goes by the name
Tripepi and who, only the other day
was the auxiliary Of Cardinal Rampolla
Add to the seventeen votes already
mentioned the twelve new cardinals,
and you have twenty-nine, and do not
forget, moreover, that the four Sicilian
cardinals all hope something from their
compatriot, and YOU will find twenty
three votes assured to the secretary of
state even suppos'ng that he has not a
single disinterested friend
Now, how many votes are required to |
be Pope? Theoretically thirty-six. since |
the Sacred college is composed Of sew
enty cardinals but In reality the sew
enty princes Of the church are never
complete. Death and Illness cause gaps
therein. AS the enemies of the secreta- |
ry of state are the Oldest of his col |
leagues Cardinal Rampolla even has
death on his side
There remains but one single obstacle |
to overcome, an obstacle that Is i'm
mense In an affair where tradition is
everything. 1t Is contrary to custom
for the secretary,of state to to Pope to