Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-01
FLASHES OF IRISH WIT
Cardinal logue Charms Many
at New York Banquet.
TELLS OF P0PE'S ELECTION
Some Pathetic Incidents of the
Church Function.
THE IRISH POPE WHO FLED
Came to America Without Papal
Sanction and May Visit Vatican
Sooner Than He Wishes.
TELLS OF P0PE'S ELECTION
THE IRISH POPE WHO FLED

NEW YORK. May Michael Cardinal
Lcgue. here. as he navely confessed.
without the permission of the pontiff at
all. told yesterday at his second speech
at the banquet OF the men or Maynooth.
some of the hitherto unpublished details
of the election of the present pope.
II was at the very late luncheon Of the
alumni union OF the venerable Irish COL
lege in the Hotel Aston that the primate
of all Ireland responded to the toast to
the head of st. Peters see.
That is a pretty hard task" said the
cardinal. And when a toast is offered
to the holy father no one is considered
great enough or SUFFICIENT enough to make
reply
Now, as. a matter of fact. know pref
ty near as little about the holy father
as you do. About all that l know Is that
he was elected economically.
1.-The election was contaminated a great
deal sooner than II might have been IL
it had not been SO hot In Rome.
Some Pathetic Scenes.
THAT election was hedged about with
some of the most pathetic scenes I ever
witnessed. and I mean this seriously.
Ballot after ballot was taken and still
no election. Finally. when II was certain
the present pope would he elected, he
protested and protested. any many per-
sons gathered about him and talked and
talked
When the pope finally knew that the
election had fallen upon him he tainted.
One Of the cardinals reached into his
pockets and produced smelling salts-you
know Italian gentlemen have all sorts OF
conveniences about them. Somebody took
the smelling salts and somebody carried
up little round black BALL don't know
what II was-and they revived the holy
father.
Prisoner Of the Vatican.
"In all seriousness" continued the car
dinal, II think that the position of the
present pope is the saddest of any man I
ever knew Think of his years as a parish
priest. going about among his people,
laboring hard for the poor. who were al
ways his especial care. Then as arch
bishop ard patriarch of Venice he was
still at work among the poor.
And think of him now. shut up and
away from those he loveo and who were
his children. Think of him as a prisoner
in his little garden. l don't know how big
the garden is. for I was never there. Do
you know IL the lot had fallen upon me I
do not know what I should have done. I
think. though. that IL l had been elected
should have waited my 'cnance and
jumped out Of the window. over the wall.
anybody could have caught me. 1 love
the Irish. and they are my people.
Irish Pope Fled to Mountains.
There was an Irish pope. and he got
away into the mountains. and. / believe,
they never found him.
1T was soon shown that the selection
of the pope was the Providence of God
1t was grand thing. the selection of
hot md INN tA1f
much God did guide his hands 10
shown by the ways the pope has COM
bated with khe hypocritical and danger
ous things Of our age-the foes OF Chris
tianity.
There are those who to obtain their
ends work like moles under the ground
as busly as they do above ground, and
the holy father has been able to beat
them above and below.
Now there is one secret~I have never
told and never shall tell. and that is how
voted i'm the conclave. That secret I
shall carry with me to the grave. But I
tell you that the Providence of God was
i'm that selection. The cardinals voted
blndly and Providence picked out the
man.
Here without Permission.
Now. as matter of fact. am here
without permission. You know. of courseI
that when I go on a long journey. am ex-
pecte- to get leave Of the holy father but
l did not ask him il l could. come here.
wanted to come very much. and so did,
Now. therefore. perhaps on that account
l shall see the holy father sooner than
,s wish sa will wi Mot not 80 step gness
for he was responsible for il ALL
All the men of Maynooth then sang the
song to the pope. which has the refrain
there were enthusiastic expressions OF
love and veneration for the pontiff. The
hour was so far advanced by this time
that there was no time even for the arch
insisted that the archbishop get what he
had TO say off his conscience.
Fun-Loving Cardinal.
Flashes of Celtic wit marked the dis
course of the cardinal all through the day.
and now that the most formal functions
of the Catholic centenary are at an end.
the distinguished churchman shows thar
beneath the dignity of his sacred office
there is the fun-loving and amiable man.
He has repartee ready on all occasions,
and never seems 10 lack for a reply.
The cardinal appeared at the Catholic
Club last night. where he and Cardinal
Gibbons and the archbishop were the
principal guests. He listened gravely to
a half hours discourse on the history of
the diocese by Charles c. Hebermann,
who referred among other things to the
MOVEMENT Dy MdlucW1
apostle of temperance.
The cardinal said he had been. brought
to the club with the archbishop's solemn
pledge that no speech would be required
of him.
Another broken pledge" he said. How
many Of those pledges did the learned
gentleman say there were I'm Father Ma
thew's timer"
The cardinal congratulated the layme1
on the splendid showing of the church,
He said that il he could get some quiet
place he would settle down i'm this coun.
try il he did not have 10 work. for ne
certainly would have to work If he RET
turned to Ireland.
Cardinal sGibbons and the archbishop
also spoke. Many non-Catholics were az
the club. including the Rev. DIR. Silver:
man of Temple Emanuel. T.
FINAL SERVIGES HELD