The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-09-10
PROMINENT PRELATES
ELIGIBLE TO ELECTION
Present Signs Point To Election
Of An Italian To Leader
ship Of Catholics.

Unless all signs fail. and they often
do in a papal conclave, n Of the
Following named cardinals, all Italians.
Will be the fortunate, or If the late
pope's view be accepted. b unfortu-
nate person.
Catetan Cardinal De Lai. bishop OF
Sabina, one of the five suburban sees OF
Rome.
Peter Cardinal Maffi. archbishop of
Pisa.
Peter Cardinal Gasparri, one Of the
great administrators of the Curia. or
governing body of the church.
Alexander Cardinal Lualdi, arch
bishop OF Palermo.
Guistana Cardinal vico, the famous
Nuncio of Madrid.
Giuseppe Cardinal Pompili, secretary
OF the consistorial congregation.
Dominic Cardinal Ferrata, long in
the diplomatic service of the church,
but for Is years past a foremost adj
m1nistrator of the Curia.
Some mention is heard Of Cardinal
Richelmy, archbishop of Turin and of
Cardinal Della Chiesa, archbishop Of
Bologna.
Younger Men Favored.
In h sacred college there are some
famous leaders remaining, but it is 20
be remembered that they are advanced
in years, and some Of them i'll hi
death. The brothers Vannutelli are IS
n so years Of age, and the elder Is
blind and Ill. Cardinal Gotti, long
has been so for three years. The new
pope will be one of the younger men,
probably one of the Curia.
Personality and not policies will de-
mi the election. Never was there
need for a stronger nan han now in
the papal chair. Questions decided by
former popes are small when compared
with those hat will confront him In
connection with the present war.
Millions Of Catholics are f~ighting-on
opposite sides. And all are true Cath
olics. so they think. Rebuilding of
Catholic Europe after the war, what
Is to become Of Austria, the remaining
stronghold Of the church in Europe, in
the event Of Germany losing? Is it
any wonder that every cardinal is re-
that the election may not fall upon him?
Rise OF Cardinal DeLair.
Within the last three years there has
come up from the bottom to the very
top Of the Curia, from the bottom to the
top Of Influence in the Sacred college,
one prelate, and he has done so with
out mourning jealousies, SO great is his
usefulness to the pontiff, and his adj
ministrative ability in delicate affairs
of the church. He is Cardinal De Lai,
Venetian by birth, and in part by edu-
cation, and just passed his 61st birth
day. In a singular sense he represents
the present policies Of the church, as
laid down by the late pope. There are
many uncertainties Of conclaves, but If
present policies are to be continued this
strong leader is held to be the man to
continue them.
OF the others named Cardinal Maffi
Is perhaps most liberal in his ideas, in
so far as that church must accept on
ditions, perhaps hold better relations
toward the quirnal, n certainly enter
more upon work for better social on
ditions throughout the world than the
church has done heretofore. Cardinals
FerIata, Gasparri, Pompili and Vico
often mentioned. 1t is to be said again
that personality will determine. The
c%onclave will seek to choose the strong
est man. The policies of the Roman
Catholic church in attitude toward
modernism, toward education, toward
governments, Is settled.
| Powers of Council Less.
There used to be councils of the
church that were legislative bodies. The
late pope made new laws. He began
to make them because in the last con
clave Austria, some say at the behest
of Germany and Italy, interfered to
prevent the election Of Cardinal Ram
polla because he was supposed to be
too close to France. While he was
about it, however Piu x revised the
whole code. In so doing he made the
Roman Catholic hurch less a council
and more a single pope church thar
ever. The striking thing about the laws
he made is that fact. The cardinals
as individuals or as a council or even
in the conclave cannot touch q single
provision. They may only elect a pope
n that pope must do ell, or nearly
all. The work Of American cardinals
is in their provinces in America and
not as members of the ruling power OF
their church.