The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-27
OUT RAGE PRIEST
 SAYS 0AAA
Declares That the Rum,
 Ronanism and Rebel lion'' of Bolshevist Was a Small Thing Compared to This Ex-. ample of Politics-Is-- sue Now a Moral Issue.

Rev. Andrew J. Plunkett of Shel- ton, formerly of Hartford, one of the best-loved Catholic priests in Con | necticut, has written a stinging pro- test to the Hartford Times against l the sacrilegious perpetration in Har-- vey's Weekly of a cartoon entitled Having Difficulty in Hanging the Mas 1 terpiece." Father Plunkett, who has l always been an ardent advocate of | the Irish cause, debated, last summer. I | before the Derby Board of Trade with United States Marshal William R. Palmer. On that occasion, Father League of Nations, while Marshal Pal Emer upheld Governor Cox's position Il What Father Plunkett thinks of the Republica party's chances after such a wanton outrage as makes the
 Rum. Romanism and Rebellion of
 the Blaine campaign "a small slan-
 To the Editor of the Hartford Times
 want to protest as Christian and an American aga hst the shame ful outrage perpetrated on every Christian man and women by liar vey's Weekly in the blasphemous car
 toon, called Having Difficulty in
 Hanging the Masterpiece." It out
 rages not only our religious sense but
 also our American citizenship, with
 out respect to church afiliation. The
  Heart of Jesus and of the Immaculate
 Conception of the Virgin Mary, so horrible as to make honest man
 of any faith, or no faith, sick at heart The sacred person of Jesus Christ and f hls mother, Mary, are twisted into a, disgusting figure of Uncle Sam who a substitutes flying dollars for the stars
 Of Heaven, floating coattails for the , robes in which the sacred person was clad, and a sinister sheer in place of the rapt gaze of divine vision.
 When politician ms or editors are per-. f mitted to stoop so low in their efforts , 10 elect candidate for office it is = high time for decent men of all faiths and parties to unite and smite them e e and what they represent so that never a again they may dare to use their pens, pencils or tongues to 1ampoon and in O suit what men call holy.
 | l The Rum, Romanisnl and Rebel D lion" of Burchard of the Blaine, cam . paign was a small islander compared
 with this blasphen1y, and the Repub-
 lcan party or no other party can hope
 to be placed, in pawer by so warton
 an outrage by one of their a accredited 1 leaders And while I am not in the \ habit of interfering in political cam ! palgns, as a Christian and an Amer
 lcan, l want to lodge this protest
 and 1t is the protest of hundreds of = citizens of this state against this s@c- Il reHge-because the issue has now . ceased to be a mere political one and II mas become a terribly moral one. z (Signed)
 n REV. ANDREW J. PLUNKETF, J. Shelton, Conn.,. Oct. 25, 1920.
 0 B1ames Republicans.
 Res possibility for the cartoon cari-
 caturfng Coy. Cox as attempting to
 hang painting labeled Prof. Will -S | sons League of Nations, the Immacu- , late Conception" was laid at the doors
 of the Republican National Commit If tee yesterday. This was after an in Il II vesti gation by the New York World 1 r,rin af d toon in the current issue of Harvey S 1t Weekly, which led Allan Ryan. to de- h nounce it as sacriligious in a letter to to the Democratic National Committee T. conveying a $25, 900 contribution, was Is not the first time the caricature had
 been printed. The World discovered:
 That the cartoon appeared in the
 | Oct. issue of the National Repub1i-
 can, recognized organ if the Republi- T can party, with a line reading,
 "Atchison Ckan.) Globe''
 That Albert T. Reid, who drew the 1e caricature, regularly draws for the ye National Republican. and that his car a. toons are circulated among the al smaller newspapers of the country by O. the Republican organization.
 1e That the sworn semi annual state O. ment of ownership, circulation and
 management made by the National I Republican to the Post Office Depart S. ment mentions owners of the news te paper many prominent Republican is politicians.
 of Thomas Nelson Page, author and ly former Anlbassador to Italy, issued a
 statement yesterday characterizing the cartoon as shocking and blasphe-
 nlous.'- He added:
 This is not merely a repetition of
 Rum, Ronlanism and Rebellion, for in that was 'theefoolish speech of an in ay dividual Republican partisan speak
 ing ex tempore. This is the delib- t; crate act of a quasi-official cartoon n- ist, employed by the Republican r. leaders. and it. is published in the b. organ of their trusted advisor and ng oadjutor, in whose room the deal was
 made that flung Wood, Hoover, Low s. den and the rest into the discard for