Arizona republican., 1916-10-24
DEMOS TRY TO NIX RELIGION
 WITH POLITICS
Special to The Republican,

NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-The repub- lican national committee has received evidence that the democratic campaign managers are undertaking to effect religious census for political use at the very time that for public consumption they are vociferously decrying the in- jection of the religious issue" into the campaign. It was only a short time ago that Henry Morganthau, chairman of the democratic finance committee, sent out a special appeal to Jews to support President Wilson on the direct purchase and sale argument that MT. 1 Wilson had appointed a Jew to the l United States supreme court and had 1 done other things specially favorable l to Jews.
 Now comes this religious census, | avowedly laying the ground work for | new appeal that will be differentiated according to the results of the census | The democratic managers want to know the religious affiliations of the i voters so that suitable literature may be sent to them.
 i The scheme is not even thinly yelled. It is a bald attempt to make political capital out of any strong religions prej- udices which the proposed census may ! reveal to the democratic national com mittee. Some time ago the democratic ! ! masters everywhere copies of a docu- ment entitled The Wilson Workers Manual" Now this is followed. natur- ally, by a flood of letters to democratic workers" asking their help in taking this religious census. These letters are marked confidential" and are on stationery of the democratic national committee, dated at New York and sent from the office of Daniel C Roper. chairman of organization" This is the man who was first assistant postmaster general until this campaign opened and who resigned that position
 to take the job as part of which he
 sends out this appeal for a religion. , census.
 Mir. Roper writes that he wants. fol
 the democratic national committee.
 religious census MT Roper write.
 that he wants for the democratic ma.
 tional committee, the names and ad dresses of any persons who 'shoult ! have personal letters or to whom ap E propriate literature should be mailed , Mr. Roper adds that he is sending cer
 tain special lists on which the work ! CT is to transmit to the national com mittee the names of any doubtful
 voters Gin accordance with the head ings on the sheet) to whom letter f should be written or literature be sent The special list is a blank divide, in two parts. each containing sever
 columns. One is headed Republicans
 Progressives and Independents Favor ~ able to Wilson" The other is heade, | Other Republicans, Progressives an, Y Independents Who through Appro | priate Literature May Be Persuaded L F Vote for Wilson" Al the top of eac i; of the seven columns is a caption de ii scribing the information desired Thes n headings are: 1, Politics." 2. Name: {, 3, "POstoffice;' 1, Occupation:" !. Ma : uonality;" s. Religion" :. "Disturbin
 Issue, if Any
 The covering letter from AIr. Rope
 makes it clear to the worker who re
 ceives it that the democratic nationa
 committee will reward him suitably fo J his efforts
 The democratic national committe
 has waited until the last weeks of th
 campaign to attempt this special injec
 ton of religious issues with the ob
 vious purposes of avoiding detection
 possible. MT Roper is not as ope
 in his appeal to religious prejudices a
 his colleague, MT. Morgenthau, bu
 fheir purpose is just the same