The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1914-11-21
VS.. CONSTITUTONALISM
Rpb Of h,Ican Patriot TO the Pspsi Allies Of Hsata-Pssr
We're Net Neutral Bat ThO Carried Rhs and Fuaished
Euals for tie Mudaeu Of President hadsrO the Patriot
HOW IT HAPPENED


that 10 many papist candidates
for office we're defeated az the
recent election for lack Of votes,
candidates and political prophets
are making more or less Effort to
explain how IL happened
Considerable agitation appears
in the brief remarks OF Theodore
Roosevelt, who is especially
Jared since he has played more
assiduously 10 the papist CALLER
les FOR many years than any other
American prominent In public
life. Said he;
II have nothing 70 say. What
can / SAyi Was il really . rsl-
gious issuei"
No, dear Colonel Il was not
a religious issue. Il was . polit-
icd issue masked and dis
guised under the name Of
religion. The origin and injeo-
ticn Of the issue that has upset
the calculations Of 80 many
wOuld.be statesmen is 20 be
found in the organization Of the
knights Of Columbus, now
twenty-ons years of age but not
so much Of a voter as il has been.
Every other nation has tts
Catholic party, operating under
one name or another. The United
States has had It's Catholic party
playing the game by means Of its
own peculiar tactics. In this
country, where they are hopeless
ly in the minority as well as fun
damentslly sntagonistic to the
genius Of national institutions,
they have refrained from opera
tion as q distinct party, but have
used their effective minority az
a balance Of power TO get eonces-
sions from all the parties.
The Catholic party worked Mr..
Taft to his undoing. They have
worked Mr.. Roosevelt 70 a fraz-
zle. They have worked Woodrow
Wilson to his weakening. They
have worked the American people
for years; but the election Just
held marks the beginning Of the
end. The American people are
opposed to pope rule, either di-
rect or through Vicegerent Tu-
multy. They have said it so it
ought to be understood.
Roger c. Sullivan "hints," f"
says the Chicago Examiner that
high personages in democratic
officialdom marked him with the
sign of the double cross" Mr..
Sullivan was the pspist candi-
date for United States Senator
from Illinois. He had the sign
of the cross, all right; whether IL
was single or double does not
matter. But, instead Of demo-
Gratis high in oficisldom spelling
his senatorial prospects, il was
the rank and file Of the demo-
cratic party In Illinois who turned
the trick. Mr.. Sullivan was de-
feated because he didn't get
enough votes. he failed 10 get
the votes because thousands Of
Illinois democrats put principle
above the party label and refused
TO support q representative OF
the papsl system.
In California the patriotic re,
publicans did the same thing,
and disposed Of the papiSt Fred
ericks with equal facility. The
non-psrtisan Catholic party has
been met and defeated by means
of its own tactics. The tail has
ceased to wag the dog. The
pope's invading army has been
located, counted, discredited, and
defeated. They still have their
religion which no one is disposed
to take away; but if they or their
mercensrieS acquire any more
places or power in these United
States it will be when the Amer
lean people have again gone to
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