Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-21
CAT OUT Of BAG
OVER IN NEW YORK
Religious Question Is Now
Openly Injected Into Po-
IiticaI Campaign.
GOV. GLYNN REPLIES TO
GUARDIANS OF LIBERTY
Published Answers Bring to Surface
the Submerged Issue" and
Basis for Secret Attacks.
BY N. o. MESSENGER.

| NEW YORK, October Fittings ar.
looking up in politics. Col. Roosevelt
calls Bill Sulzer crook. Bourke Cock.
ran turns another f1ip-fiop and landi
back in the democratic party and Gov
Glynn gets his mad up and goes after
the enemies who have been assailine
| him secretly on what is termed here
the Submerged ISSUE" Everybody has
| been talking about this and nobody
caring to write about 1t in the news.
papers, but now it has come to q point
where 1t is a matter of public record
The whole thing can best be illustrat.
ed by publishing the questions pro-
pounded to Gov. Glynn by Martin
Walker, secretary of the Guardians OF
Liberty, and his answer to them. They
follow:
@. Do you believe in the absolute
separation Of church and state?
stands the principles on which this re-
public was founded can tolerate the
suggestion of interference in the affairs
of government by any sect or creed.
Q. Do you believe that no public
, funds should be used for any sectarian
purpose whatever?
A. l answer that I am uncompromis-
ingly opposed to the use of public
funds for the support or aid of any
particular sect or religious denomina-
ton.
Public School Is Lauded.
Q. Do you believe that the free pub
lie school is the best medium for in
structing our children and assimilating
the different nationalities and making
intelligent and useful citizens of them ?
A. 1 answer emphatically yes. 1
IN oTn1 int
tenn, and I have been throughout my
career, as now. firm and unyielding
advocate of every measure that guards
and strengthens the public school sys-
tenn of our country. I was educated in
lie occasions I have given expression
to my views on the subject 1 here re-
peat and emphasize what I have said:
II /! were asked to state what, in my
fairest fruition of liberty I would un-
hesftatingly name the public school
system of the United States"
Institutional Restraint Opposed.
Q, Are you in favor of allow.
ing any organization, sectarian or
otherwise, to maintain so-called re-
formatories or institutions, where peo-
pie are held In restraint without due
process OF law, against their will and
without inspection by public officials?
A. 1 am opposed to holding any
person in restraint against his or her
will without due process of law. All
institutions in which persons are held
in restraint should be subject to in
spection.
Q. Do you believe in absolute
freedom of speech upon all subjects
not in defiance of law and constituted
authority?
A. Yes; free speech and free press
are the bulwarks of our liberties
Secretly Fermenting for Months.
So here the cat is out of the bag
The religious question Is openly in
jected into New York state politics.
Many people hereabouts say they are
glad it is openly brought out, because
every one knows it has been secretly
fermenting for months
1t was the one thing which caused
doubt for a while in Gov Glynn's
mind whether he would run as a can
didate. Perhaps some readers of The
Star will recall intimati0n In these dis
patches last summer to that effect, He
finally decided to go ahead and make
a test for once whether that question
should debar a man from running for
public Office.
This is the big issue In the campaign.
It will be watched very closely between
now and election day.