The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-10-26

Penose ckey Works Like Magic Through Henchmen Of The Roman
Catholic Political Machine Unlimited Capital Of Liquor Interest At
His Command Correspondent Shows How He Has Tried To Trick
The Majority Into Support Of His Candidate.

Penrose men are always satisfactory
to Rome as is proven by the fact that
men elected with the aid Of the Pen
rose machines have invariably been
the men who made possible the large
appropriations of state funds to
Rome's sectarian institutions.
Further proof that Rome must
center its efforts on the Penrose can
didate is found in the fact that DR..
Fithian not only represents the real
anti-liquor people of Pennsylvania
but also in the fact that his plat
form specifically states:
eve stand firmly by the
American principle Of absolute
separation of church and state.
and against the appropriation Of
public funde to sectarian pur-
poses" .l..s
You fellows who know anything at
all about Rome know that she views
such a stand as decidedly anti-papal.
She knew that since prohibition has
been pronounced war measure that
unless something happened to throw
more than the usual support to an
anti-liquor candidate that Fithian's
chances for election were decidedly
good. The only way to beat him then
was to combine as near as possible
the votes Of republicans, (who would
stand for any old candidate so long
as he was a republican, with the
democratic vote that would secede
from the dEaiocratic party because
of its rottencI Indidate and flock to the
support Of the camoufaging Penrose
man, Mr.. Spfoul. 1t was here that
]. Mitchell Palmer, leading demo-
crat and alRn property custodian,
decided to uhhorse the questionable
Mr.. Bonniwel and who can doubt
that he, in an indirect way showed his
preference for DR.. Fithian for he as
we'll as all right thinking and right
voting democrats have always known
that the Penfose machine represents
the autocratie and undesirable ele-
ment in Pennsylvania politics. His
purpose in exposing the plot certain
ly was not to throw votes to Sproul,
| though here, again, Mr.. Penrose had
proven himself cognizant of a pos
sible emergerty. He figured that he
had played i,s best trump card in
engineering tie nomination Of Knight
Bonniwellf tn represent the demo-
Gratis but he still had the joker up
his sleeve and here is card that
Penrose always plays wild. Since
Bonniwell was exposed as a liquor
and Penrose candidate in possible ac-
cordahce with his desires the thing
| to do was to erect the next panel of
/ political fence. Hence, the logical
thing was to try to weaken the sup
4 port that would go to Fithian. 1t
couldn't be done directly through the
prohibition party so he chose the
next best thing.
The dry federation, to the aver
| age person means about the same
thing as the prohibition party. Not
so with Penruse, for among the coIn-
mittee of the Try federation were men
who could bo induced to see things
as does Mr. Penrose. Hence, Mr..
Penrose chose Tuesday, October first,
the date when the executive commit
tee Of the dry federation had but
4 seven persons present, as the favor
| able time toslpring his next trap.
! At that nesting he caused the case
! Of Mr.. Sproui TO be discussed and six
| of the dry federation men voted to
endorse M. Sproul. This left total
| Of nine members not voting for Mr..
| Sproul, one who was present and the
balance absens. A letter was imme-