The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-11-14

would be an abandonment OF our
real freedom OF conscience and 4
reversion to the dreadful conditions
OF religious dissension which in SO
many lands have proved fatal to
true liberty. to tru religion and
to all advance in civiliza ion.
To discriminate against a thor.
ouehly upright citizen because he
belongs to some particular church,
or because, like Abraham Lincoln,
he has MOI avowed his allegiance
to anv church, is an outrage against
that liberty OF conscience which is
one OF the foundations OF American
lite.
WHAT PUBLIC SHOULD know.
You are entitled to know
whether a man seeking YOU suit.
rage is a man OF clean and upright
life, honorable in all his dealings
with his fellows, and TT bv qualih.
cation and purpose to do well in
the great office Tor which he is a can
didate; but YOU are not entitled to
know matters which lie purely be.
tween himself and his Maker.
liiti is proper or Legitimate to
oppose a man tor being a Unitarian
as was John Quincy Adams, tor in
stance, as is the Rev. + dward
Everett Hale, at the present mo-
ment chaplain OF the senate, and an
American OF whose life all good
Americans are proud-then It
would he equally proper to support
or oppose a a because OF has
views on justification by faith, or
the method OF administering the
sacrament, OF the gospel OF sal.
vation 10y works. II YOU ono enter
OH such a career there is absolutely
no limit at which YOU can leglt.
lmately stop,
so much tor your objections TO
Mr.. TAFT because he is a Unitarian.
Now, tor your objections to him
because YOU think his wife and
lruther to be Roman Catholics.
rs It happens, they are not; but IT
they were, or it he were a Roman
Catholic himself, It ought not to
affect IN the slightest degree any
mans supporting him Tor the
position OF president.
BELIEVES Ir A STANDARD.
You say that the mass OF the
voters that are not Catholics will
not support a man for any office,
especially Tor president oil the
United States, who is a Roman
Catholic | believe that when
YOU say this YOU toully Islander
your fellow countrymen. | do
not Tor one moment believe tina,
the mass OF our fellow citizens. oil
that any considerable number OF
our fellow citizens, can be in.
huenced by such narrow bigotry
is to refuse TO vote Tor any
thoroughly upright and III man be.
cause he happens to have a par.
tlcular religious creed.
Are YOU aware that there are
several states in this Union where
the majority OF the people are now
Catholics5 should reprobate in
the severest terms the Catholics
who IN those states Tor IN any
other states who refused 10 vote
fer the most 1T man because he
happened to be a Protestant; and
my condemnation would be exactly
as severe Tor Protestants who, un.
der reversed circumstances, refused
to vote for a Catholic.
RELIGION NOT A FACTOR
In public life | am happy 20
say that have known many men
who were elected and constantly
reelected TO Office in districts
where the great majority OF their
constituents were OF a different re.
ligious belief. | know Catholics
who have tor many years repre-.
sented constituencies mainly Pro.
testant, and Protestants who have
tor many years represented con.
stituencies mainly Catholic; and
among the congressman whom |
know particularly we'll was one man
OF cwish faith who represented a
district in which there were hardly
any Jews at all.
i believe that this republic will