The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-04-19

Thursday, April 10, 1917

legal marriages, and refuses to allow the State
to ask his imprisoned women whether they
are voluntarily his prisoners!
Apparently there is determined purpose
to misunderstood and to misrepresent the
Macon Vets: they are accused of obiecting to
Kelley because his is Catholic.
Their own letter of protest shows how UNI
true this is; but none of the daily papers, ex-
cept The Macon News, would publish their
letter, and hence it is the easier to SANDER
and malign these old heroes of the Grey.
Even Clark Howell had to join in the
chorus of condemnation; and Hugh Rowe at
Athens had to belly-ache over it; and Lucian
Lamar Knight has sadly neglected the COM
pilation Of mythical Colonial Records, III or
der that he might compile some soporific pro-
Catholic dope.
Last of all, came my good red-headed guide,
philosopher, and friend, I. X. Oglesby. OF
Savannah, who eloquently reminds us Of his
torical events that did not happen, and fell
citously forgets few that did.
An Address was delivered by my friend I.
X O. before the Association in Savannah, and
after asking in effect, "Whither are we drift
ing?" I. X. 0. inquired:
What is the case before us? A body of Daugh~
ters of the Confederacy have asked bishop or
the Catholic church to be the Memorial Day orator
in their city, and Confederate Veterans have
protested against the action Of the Daughters, on
the ground that, being a Catholic, that bishop is
not and cannot be loyal American citizen, nor
a fit spokesman for occasion in commentator
of the Confederate dead. 1t is alleged that the
selection Of a Catholic the orator for such an
occasion shows lack Of due regard ana reverence
for the Confederate cause-for it's memories and
it's defenders.
Now, the slightest investigation would have
show T. X. O. that the Kelley bunch had
deceived him.
The letter of the Vets was t1cice published
in The Jeffersonian, and the letter itself
proves how completely the knights of Column
bus fooled my friend, T. X. O.
Let him read the Vets letter, and apolo~
gize. He is a gentleman, and [ know he will
regret having misrepresented those Macon
heroes, against whom he cannot possibly bear
any malice.
T. X. O. makes the customary Catholic al
fusion to the Catholics of the Revolutionary
and Civil Wars: call his attention respect
fully to the fact that Catholics fought ON
both sides, and that 1t qcas not until 1908,
NINE YEARS AGO! that Papal Supremacy threw
its baleful shadow athwart this Republic!
1t was not till nine years ago, that the
italian Pope issued his orders to the Ameri-
can priests, commanding that they diride the
allegiance Of american Catholics.
I have already shown what the orders were,
and what disasters they brought unto such
innocent Protestants as Edith Mae Taylor,
lawful wife of Frank Boifeuillet.
Both husband and wife lived in Macon,
where the marriage license is recorded, with
the official return of the Methodist minister
who Joined the Baptist lady and the Catholic
gentleman in the holy bonds of wedlock.
Bishop Kelley IS to 90 TO MACON, as an ex-
emplar of civic righteousness and patriotism,
rift tbo mn
dastardzy qcrong upon that Baptist aote-
upONc1Nc HER FOP T1E,F TTN1DFR THE POPE's I'M