The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-18
TROUBLE IN A. 0. H. CAMP
NEW ToRKERS KICK AT FATHER
 KENNEDY'S APPOINTMENT.

Claim Made That Position Was Ac-
 quired Through PoIitics-J. D. Cum
 ninham BIames New York People for
 Having Tried to Break Up organiza-
 tion on Three OccasiOns--what the
 Rev. Father Kennedy Says.
 Members of the local lodge of the A. 0. H. were much excited yesterday when they read in a New York paper that the appointment of the Rev. John ID. Kennedy of Danbury and late of Westville as national chaplain had been brought about by a political deal.
 John D. Cunningham, ex-state secre- tary, in referring to the matsar said:
 Why, there isn't any politics allowed in our order, for if there was the dem |ocrats would control the order. And yet there are a great many republicans in the order and independents, too"
 The article in question went on to state that the Right Rev. Mgr. Charles McCready had announced his resigna- tion as county chaplain in New York because of what he terms "a slight" given Archbishop Farley at the A. O. H. convention at Saratoga last month. And further, that trouble hinges on the belief that Mgr. McCready that the archbishop of New York, who was na- tional chaplain of the order, was dis- courteously treated at the convention because the Rev. John D. Kennedy was appointed national chaplain to succeed Archbishop Farley without the con- vention extending to the archbishop the courtesy if he wanted to serve an other term.
 Ex-Secretary Cunningham, who, by the way, knows as much about the i'm side history of the Hibernians as any man in the state, when shown the ar ticle in question said further:
 "The real trouble, in my opinion, is because that Bishop Dolan of New York state, who was a candidate for national president, came within five votes of Matthew Cummings of Boston of being elected. The New York people feel bitter over that defeat, and that, in my belief, is the whole affair in a nutshell. The members of the order have the highest respect for Archbish- op Farley, and had it been known that he wished a recollection for national chaplain he would have been given the elention. But 1t has been the custom to elect for only one term, and don't know of any exception, although I am |not sre that Bishop Foley of Detroit had two terms, as he was treasurer of the fund that was being raised for the, Catholic university, There are kickers in our order, just as there are in any organization. The New York people have tried to break up the order on three different occasions,
 Father Kennedy made the following statement yesterday:
 ''I was put forward for the national presidency by the Connecticut delega- ton, and withdrew in the middle of the week at Saratoga for purely per- sonal reasons. II saAN that if elected I would be unable to attend the A. 0. H. tt1Ad 44l9 i|SetJAIS prL4AaAl, lUU, NV pA 9IIt- ise whatever was made to me of the chaplaincy, and there was no attempt that I know of to make the A. O. H. a tail to the Clan-na-Gael kite, I think I would have known it if there had been, for I was pretty well on the inside.
 T would have been the last man in the world to accept the position of chaplain if thought that His Grace wanted it again. No slight either, was intended by President Cummings, who naturally believed that the archbishop would prefer to follow the example of previous chaplains and drop out after one year, The national chaplain is al- ways appointed by the national presi- dent. and is usually personal friend Cummings and I have been friends for years, and to both of us my appoint ment seemed perfectly proper
 Father Kennedy said further that he had not yet heard that the archbishop desired another term, and that friends of his grace had assured him that the archbishop would be the first to con- graduate him on his return from Eu- rope.