The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1916-10-28
WILL VOTERS CHOOSE
R0ME'S FaVORTTE SON?
Mclaughlin, National Head Of
A. o. H., a Most 0bedient
Son Of Roman Church
Seeks Seatin Congress
WILL THE cITIIENRY OF PA.
Who Live on the Ground Made
Bloody by the mOIIie Maguirss
Elect the Hibernian chisj7

Bloody BY the mollie Maguires
Elect the Hibernian chisi7
MCLAUGHLIN, Of
IIO Philadelphia, is a candidate
M for eongressman-at-lArge from
SA Pennsylvania. Whatever his
other disqualifcations may be, Mr..
Mclaughlin is the national prcsi-
dent Of the Ancient Order Of Hi
berrians which is one Of the pOpss
military orders in this country.
Moreover, there is no lack OF evi-
dence 10 indicate that the Ancient
Order OF Hibernians is identical
with the Ribbon Men Of Ireland and
with the Mollie Msquires whose
Wholesale murders, perpetrated in
the Pennsylvania coal fields, are a
matter Of history and court record.
The Mollie Maguires were the
first notable eIemplars in the United
States Of that peculiar papal doc
trine which an Illinois priest has
named muscular christianity"
They were among the first Of the
pope's children in America to settle
all questions with their opponents
by means Of a bullet or a stab in the
dark.
None but an active Roman Cath
olic can belong to the Hibernians.
When, what was probably their first
organization in America, was es-
tablished in New York in 1886, the
order spread gradually throughout
the East TO those parts where pa
pists were numerous; and, in about
the year 1854. many lodges were
organized in Pennsylvania. These
Pennsylvania Hibernians were first
known as Buckshots. but later
adopted the name Of Mollie Ma
guires.
Whatever may have been Their
original purpose or intentions, The
coal fields Of Schuylkill and ada
cent counties soon after became the
scene Of crimes and murders so nu-
merous and so cunningly consum.
mated as TO battle detection as well
as TO terrify the honest inhabitants
Bosses, foremen, and working.
men in the mines were the victims
English and German miners, sus.
pected Of opposition to the Mollies,
we're waylaid aud murdered BY
wholesale; but the assassins could
not be identified or convicted. II
afterwards transpired that when the
local organization Of Mollies had
condemned some citizen to death
the executioner of the decree would
he sent in to do the work from q
distance. This, with other diabol.
ically ingenious methods employed
helped to cover the assassin's track:
and facilitate his escape.
In about four years, from 1868
to 1867, fifty murders occurred in
Schuylkill County alone; and for
six years the reign of terror con.
tinued. Not until 1873 were the
first efforts made that resulted
some years later in breaking up the
organization with a legal hanging
that disposed of numerous leader,
and scared others into quietude OF
out Of the country.
1t so happened that G. B. Gowan
who was interested in railroads and
mining properties, became district
attorney. He realized that law and
order must be restored to preserve
his business; SO he applied to the
Pinkerton Detective Agency fol
help, and gave its operatives what
information he possessed for theil
help and guidance. The Pinkerton'
sent a young IrisRman, James Nc
Parlan, into the coal fields to get or
the inside and there obtain the evi,
dence TO use in breaking up the or,
ganized assassins. McPaFlan tool
the name Of James McKenna, got
work in the mines, got into the or
der, and even got into official posi-
ton. The whole story is told in
Allan Pinkerton's romantic though
truthful story, "The Mollie Ma
guires and the Detectives"
McParlan had not finished hi,
work when a Roman Catholic priest
named 0'Connor, discovered hi
business and told the Mollies that {
detective was working among them
Since McPsrlan was himself a 70
man Catholic, one can readily i'm,
agine with reason that 0'Connol
got his information in the confes