The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-07-19
Diocese Of Denver.
THE DENVER LETTER.
The A. o. n. Convention.

mans. By Tuesday morning fully 5000
1 of them had gathered in the Queen
| City. At II o'clock Bishop Matz cele-
| brated Pontifical High Mass at the
Sacred Heart church. He was assisted
by Rev. P. A. Phillips as master of
ceremonies, Rev. Fathers Robinson,
Yorke and Henebry. Father Barry, S.
H., delivered the sermon. He was fol-
! lowed by Bishop Matz, who spoke
| briefly.
After Mass the delegates adjourned
to Coliseum hall, where the opening
address was made by Stephen j. Dom
| leavy on behalf of the local committee
| Governor 0rman, Mayor Wright and
State President c. ]. Mcclure of
Leadville delivered addresses of well
come, to which the following respond
ed: National President John T. Keat-
ing. National Vice President James
Dolan and National Director P. j.
lOConnor.
After the appointment of a commit
tee on credentials the convention adj
! journed until Wednesday morning as
a token of respect to the memory of
the late National Chaplain Archbishop
Feehan of Chicago.
| The election of a national president
will be a most important feature of
| the convention. John 7. Heating de-
clines to run for office, and in all prob
| ability John A. Ryan of Boston will
succeed to presidential honors. At the
present writing feeling is running high
and strong factional fight is on. The
local committee is sustaining Denver's
reputation for hospitality.
o
One of the daily papers of this city
has for the past week been making
OF T,cl
American priests in connection with
the convention, and, failing to arouse
the Indignation of the priests of whom
| they wrote, suddenly took turn on
the whole convention. In Mondays
issue the affair was written up in a
most ridiculous manner to lead astray
persons unfamiliar with the true ma
ture of the assemblage and anxious to
grasp any absurd reports. Father Pc
ter c. Yorke, one of the California
delegates, took occasion to make re-
ply in the following letter to another
newspaper:
To the Rocky Mountain News:
AS an Irishman, a Hibernian and
citizen, 1 ask the privilege of your col
umns to protest against the indecent
attacks of the Denver Post on the
Irishmen of America who are now Den
ver's guests. 1 belong to the west. and
am ashamed that in the west could
be found a paper so devoid of the in
stincts of gentlemanliness as to insult
those who have been asked to accept
the hospitality of the west. For the
past week the Post has teemed with in
suits and calumnies against men, the
latchet of whose shoes its editors are
unworthy to loose. Now, emboldened
by the passivity with which these in
suits and calumnies have been re-
ceived, II attacks the whole race, and
with blundering wit and meat ak sar-
casm stigfnatizes the convention as a
'Donnybrook fair" and sneers at the
'Micks and Pats in the best style of
The &z7ou-saotf7soG and Aas49-Sa3oaae
Sc theFS wfFs a SsAyeAsJ9R OF any
other nationality, OF any other society
in Denver this Post would not dare to
fling mud at it. But it would appear
that the Irish are fair game for the |
stone hatchets of the aberiginals who
inf1ict the Post on the public.
Lame doggerel about adhesion, and |
being stripped for the fray" and !
green on the banner and Erin Alan |
nah" (to be pronounced "Alanner," ac-
cording to the Cockney dialect)-these |
are the stock in trade of fourth-rate
comic papers and of the Post. Then |
sea brogue 'mati H." t'sphalpeen'' and !
the rest of it which has long since been |
relegated to the lumber room, but is |
still good enough for the Post.
Now l beg to state, Mr.. Editor, that |
the gentlemen who have come to this |
convention are every bit as well edt |
Gated, as we'll spoken, as well behaved. |
as well able to take care of themselves |
as the managers of the Post. They are !
not rowdies, bowery boys, hoodlums or |
larrikins. They know their own bust |
ness and they know how to attend to |
it in their own way. They resent these
old English slurs that the Irish are |
always quarrelsome, fighting, reveling, |
unable to carry themselves like hu-
mans. And, think it is not too much
to ask the decent people of Denver also
to resent this attack on the city's
guests.
AS for the Posts attacks on myself
1 don't care to bother with them just
now l am used to the abuse of the
gutter journals from New York to San
Francisco. Such attacks merely
the cause of justice and
right, and to no other cause am
pledged.
AS to the accusations that DR.. Hene-
bry has been getting out circulars
ABOUT the irish league or the temper
ance question, these charges are too
absurd for refutatiUn. However, 1 am
by Dr. Henebry to say that
he knows nothing whatsoever about
the matter.
This is the most nefarious portion OF
the Posts campaign. DR.. Henebry is a
gentleman and a scholar. He is
in strange land. He is just
recovering, under the benign skies of
Colorado. from sickness that brought
him to deaths door. These considera-
tions would have secured him kind
treatment from any man in whose
breast were the common feelings of
But evidently we must not
look to the Post for any evidence of
these higher senslbilities which distin-
guish man from the brute.
Yours truly,
PETER G. YORKE.
%
Again, in respect to what has been
published relative to expelling liquor
dealers from the organization of which
it was reported that Father
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