The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03
sHRoUDED IN MYSTERY
The Rumor Buzzes, the World Knows
Nothing Of PapaI Election.

iNSsh'iS VI TaPoi =EICCt'On'
London, Aug. 3.-The special corre-
spondents at Rome say that the claims Of
the various candidates are being urged
with the greatest vigor and that the con-
test is obstinate, yet it Is clear that no
positive information about the voting
reaches the outside world. The Stand-'
ards correspondent mentions a wide
spread rumor that Cardinal Rampolla re-
tired after the first ballot, and says the
competition is now confined to Cardinals
Di Pietro and Sarto, but he add that it
is well to mistrust all such stories
The correspondent Of the Telegraph
says he personally saw hand protrude
from Cardinal Rampolla's window at $40
last evening. Others saw the same thing,
which is interpreted as a sign of coming
victory. In a later dispatch the CORE
spondent says he has been informed that
Cardinal Dt Pietro's chances have in
creased, but that he is still far from hav-
ing the necessary two-thirds majority, and
there are no signs as yet Of adhesion to
him on the part of the other two parties.
Cardinal Di Pietro Is said to be the can
didate of Rampolla's party next to him.
The correspondent further says that the
German and Austrian cardinals are re-
ported to have combined on the basis for
a common program, the g!st Of which is
that the pontiffs policy should take more
account of modern peoples principles. It
is association with this feeling that led
Cardinal Gibbons to suggest Cardinal!
Martinelli, whose name was never once
mentioned in Rome in connection with the
papacy.
Cardinal Kopp, bishop Of Breslau, and
Cardinal Fisher, Archbishop of Cologne.
and most Of the other foreign cardinals,
with a few Italians, are believed to have
joined to lend due weight to this claim
that the AngloSaxon race be considered
by the heads of the church. The corre~
spondent adds:
| Cardinal Gibbons Course.
81 am informed thru an official at the
vatican that Cardinal Gibbons CONVEX
sation before the conclave was formally
closed up, gave an inkling of the line he
intended to take, ard his gertrude that
whatever results might be produced by
the present concave, they would in any
case. serve as good seed, the fruits Of
which time will ripen. cardinal Gibbons
was particularly dissatisfied with the sorry
| part the English-speaking races play in
| the sacred college compared with the
| Italians, and he declared that the church
| would be all the better for a radical
| change in this direction. The Germans
heartily concur in this view. I have just
narrated this to prelate here who Is
| well acquainted with Cardinal Gibbons,
and asked him what he thought. He re-
lplied am unable to say whether your
Information is correct or incorrect, for we
know nothing of what is taking place In
4 the conclave; but I can say that the al
lIleged facts are far from running counter
i to what I should expect to tally with
the estimate I made of Cardinal Gibbons
view Of the papel question and his atti-
tude on any practical question arising out
of the conflict between the currents OF
/ lnationalism and universalism in the Cath
Ollie church.