The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-11-24

TT WO Roman Catholic priests,
I$I notorious throughout the ma
RH ton because of their lobbying
IMs and political activities, ac-
cording to information from
Greenwood, South Carolina, have
been indicted by the United States
grand jury for the western district,
on charges Of conspiracy to defraud
the government and using the mails
to defraud. The indicted priests are
Lewis J. 0'Hern and Edward
Aloysius Duff.
The above statement coming from
Judge Gilbert o. Nations, vice-presi-
dent of the Free Press Defense
League and director Of the Leagues
Washington bureau, confirms the
Associated Press dispatches emanat-
ing from Greenwood, South Carolina,
under date of November 7th.
Priest 0'Hern is the official rep
resentative of the hierarchy sta
toned at Washington, D. c., for po-
litical purposes. 0'Hern's chief
duties are, according to the state
ments Of the Catholic press, to pre-
side as head of the Roman Catholic
bureau on chaplains at the capital
city Of the nation, which bureau oc-
cupies q commodious suite Of rooms
in the Woodward Building. AS head
of said bureau the political priest is
very jealous in his endeavors to gain
everything that the government can
be induced to grant in the way Of
appointments for Roman priests as
chaplains and he is by no means con-
fined to the narrow duties above set
forth, but looks we'll to the securing
Of political preference for his kind in
other matters at every opportunity.
Priest Duff, under indictment with
0'Hern, is a chaplain in the navy,
and was formerly located at Green
vile, S. C.
The particular case out Of which
the legal difficulties now confronting
Priests 0'Hern, Duff, and Andrew
Ward Knisley, q friend Of the hier-
archy, arose, had their origin in an
attempt to gain for papist Knisley a
congressional appointment giving
him a free scholarship in the Naval
Academy at Annapolis from the fifth
congressional district Of South Caro-
lima.
Knisley had never been a resident
Of the fifth congressional district
and was, for that reason, not the
person to receive such an appointment
but such impediments had no terrors
for Knisley and imposed no restraint
on Priest 0'Hern who, Is ever, was
desirous Of getting something for
Rome and Romanist at the expense
of the taxpayers. Such things as
helping to establish a residence in a
place where one is not even known
must have been participated in be
fore by arch-bigot 0'Hen for, HI
connived in the useless endeavor Il
established a residence for Knisley
3 with a Mrs. Collins In Chester
South Carolina, q city wher'
two, and only two, Roman Catholic
3 reside. THE MENACE has before pub
lished the facts but wishes to refresl
Z the minds of its readers with the fol
s lowing facts which came to our no
tice first in the columns OF the Cies
( ter Is. c. Reporter.
; No one knew of such a person q
Knisley residing in Chester, and |
was at first supposed that he wa
from some other state, and tina
3 there had been some kind Of a typo
) graphical error made in the prepara
( ton or printing Of the announcement
5 Investigation by Congressman Stew
; enson revealed the fact, however
< that the document by which Knisle
5 was certified as congressional ar
Z pointee to scholarship in the Nava
3 Academy had been forged, and tn
2 name Of tho former congressman
3 Paul G. McCorkle attached theret
: by means Of rubber stamp.
K Mr.. Stevenson was surprised. Il
3 was also too wide awake to perm
9 the consummation Of the attempte
X trick. By investigation he found this
8 KnisleY really lived at 25IS Aspi
G St., PkiIddelphid--in another stat
4 and in another city. 1t was also a
2 certained that his former home an
3 domicile was in Charleston, S. {
3 where he had lived for about twel'
X years.
b He addressed a letter to Knisle
g asking him to state the post Office a
X dress Of his father; or, If he We
p dead, Of his mother; or, if she we,
II dead, Of his guardian. This lett
x was posted June /, but no answ'
z was received until June 0. II w