The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-21
SEVERE CALL DOWN
 FOR MR. ROOSEVELT
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which may be the result of having re- ceived SO many letters on the same sub
 Where I say. sIt is being circulated ana Constantly urged as the reason for not voting for Taft that he Is an inh- def;" after the word infidel you choose to supply the word Unitarian in paren- thesis. which makes 1t in opposition with the word infidel. umeaning the same thing1, It. is misleading to the general public and misrepresenting what l actually wrote It Is quite an easy thing to take part of a letter and change it's wording. and thus place one in false light II you choose 60 quote from nly letter, 1t was not so long put what you could have taken time and want the general public to believe thgt brand Unitarian as an infdel. There is another reason why you may nave supplied the word Unitarian after inti- del, (but l hardly think this possihle,) nizing the words as being synonymous.
 About rafts reliigon. you say he is q Unitarian. uuoting from pamphlet issued by !. c. Capehart, of Morgans- town, w. Va, q have much proof to support his assertion). Edward Everett Hale says the Unitarian church denies the Deity of Jesus Christ: the Unitar- ian church denies Jesus Christ was with God in the Creation; denies God the Fla : ther promised Him as the Messiah; de- nies he was not the son of Joseph or 4 bastard: denies he was very God of very God manifest in flesh; denies he did the miracles recorded of him; denies his blood atones for the sins of the world, denies he arose from the tomb; denies he ascended into heavens denies he is to be worshipped as God Jointly with the Father: denies he Is coming again tc judge the world; denies the Bible is the word or God.
 I believe Charity, like light, should radiate on every side and bend to all fSas ,fU 0f hra h 0n1 0Q does not oppose God and the Bible.
 History shows us that if Unitarianisin disqualified one from rendering service to his country, then Horace Mann one of the foremost educators of Amer ica, would nave been shat ouc; pavid Starr Jordan. preskdeht of Leland Stan. ford University; Carl D. Wright, presi, dent of Clark College. and many other professors and the last seven presidents of Harvard pniversitys including PreEi. dent Eliot, who has just resigned after forty years. of service. during which hs won for himself the foremost position in the field of American education. Then again. think how much our Ma tlona1 Congress is indebted to Edward Everett, Charles Sumner. Daniel Webs- ter, John c. Calhoun and George F. H0aF, ali Unitarians, and fourteen of the Governors of Massachusetts. ineiud- ing John A. Andrew, the great war Governor. belonged to the same denom- ination; seven of the Supreme Justices
 
 faith: many illustrious names which have alike graccd the history of our nation. do not wish to deny or rob the Upitarlan church of any good or bene. the world; but after admitting all the claims of the Unitarian Church, then asw all Evangelical Protestant churches --Methodiss Baptist, Presbyterian, Lu. theran. Disciples. EpiscopaI, etc, Gas well as Roman Cntholics)--since the very vital questions which have here- tofcre named, are foundations upon which these churches rest. if they can consistently cast aside all the funda- mental doctrines of their church and support man who denies what they acknowledge to be their duty to their Gpd? That is a question for the churches to answer And, in the event that these churches or members of these churches should decide that their duty to God stands paramount to all things else, and declare they would not SUD- port a. man for the chief executive of the United States who does not believe in theIr religion and in their God, de- nying the doctrine of the Trinity. or three persons in one God, and all the fundamental doctrines of their church l say, Mir. President. will you dare 20 on record as branding them as foul slanderers of their fellow-countrymen and of narrow bigotry7 If not them.
 Now, Mir. Presidsnt-you say foully slander my fellow countrymen and q when I say the mass of the voters who are not Catholics, will not support d man for any office especially for Pres Ident of the United States who is a Roman Catholic. I repeat. believe nineteenth of the voters of the United States. including all religious beliefs, will say state fact, and in your, own heart after due thought you will agree with me.
 Tn a letter written by Bishop Hart -zell of the Methodist Episcopal Church. OntnhQF sent me by William Loeb. IT,. Secre- tary to you. he. Bishop Hartzeil. says: some man running for office whose re- ligious belief would prevent my vot- ing for him. In Mir. Taft'sr case, how ever. no such hindrance exists" The clearly implies that man might have religious views that would prevent him . (Bishop HartzelD voting for him. Now, Bishop Hartkell of fouIIy slandering his fellow countrymen and of narrow bigotry. If not him. why me?
 to say I would or would not simply gave an opinion which repeat again believe in your own heart you know
 Then. sir. the New York pastorial conference of the SYnodical conference of the Lutheran church. per Wilii%@ conference convened in New York city November 15. 1908, in an open letter which had been submitted to practi- cally every clergyman in the con fer ence before it had been mailed, advised you that two millions and more Luth- erans. not to speak of the millions of other Protestants, would consider a mans religion and that they would not vote for a Roman Catholic so long as the Catholic Church does not officially through It's pontiff or church council, revoke its dlametrically opposed dec larattons that they are opposed to the complete separation of church and state. full religious liberty of speech and of the press. Now Mr. President do you want to so on record as accus- ing these millions of Lutherans be- sides the millions of other Protestants of foully slandertnS their fellow coun- trymen and of bigotry? If not them
 Next. MT. President. I desire to call your attention to the convention held in Philadelphia. Pa. on November ia by the Philadelphia Baptist Ministerial Association where Rev. Dr. A. A. Ho- bart, Professor of the Bible and of at Chester, Pa, in which l desire to call your attention to two of the many res olutions read as presented by Rev Ho- bart: Whereas. the President of our country has seen fit to denounce from his high office as unwarranted bigotry the action of some of our citizens wh o refuse to ignore religious tenets In connection with their voting: Resolved, further that 1t Is not in accordance with our American liberty that men be called bigots who exercise the right of private judgment in matters Of so much Importance as their votes" As to other resolutions. you are referred of November IS. Now, sir, dare you go on record as accusing Rev. Dr. Ho-