Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-28
EFFORTTOSTIR
UP CHURCH WAR
is DENOUNCED
Spurious Anti-CathOlic Edi-
torial in Distribution
Called False.
FAKE PAPER IS QUOTED
sac,a, 20 rbs Times


NEW YORK, Oct. 2S.-George White,
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, issued the following state
ment last night:
Accommodating evidence that the Re
publican campaign has followed a plan
to array class against class and creed
against creed justi1es Governor Cox's re.
4 cent picture of the alignment Of Interior
I, forces against him.
''Such prejudices have been stirred up
in the name of strategy that the passing
Of a generation will not remove.
Z "These tactics were brought definitely
into play as the progress of Governor
T Cox's campaign bestirred the conscience
+. of America, and they came directly from
/. Middle Western State following the ele-
vation Of State politician there to a
national position.
Every selfish class has had its prom
, ises, regardless of the conflict of these
promises
But one of the most despicable meth
DDS recently brought to light is the re-
ported quotation from the reputed Ma
honal Catholic Register
This paper does not exist so its name
and the extract are forgeries.
Their. purpose is to arouse non-Cath-
olics against the Democratic party, with
an implication that religious factors
have entered into the administration and
the Democratic campaign.
This fake extract from a non-exist-
ing journal has been mailed TO mem
hers Of all Masonic lodges and distriD-
uted surreptitionsIy at the close Of serv-
ices in protestant churches.
PURPOSE TO START
RELIGIOUS WAR.
''The purpose of such. tactics is to start
religious war between friends of peace
who belong to all creeds.
at is on a par with the blasphemous
cartoon in Haryey's Weekly, circulated
by the intimates of both the Republican
nomin>a and the national chairman, by
the man wno claims to have nominated
Senator Harding.
These ruthless appeals to religious
feeling, these sneers at faith and these
mischievous attempts at religions schisiu
concern me not so much because OF
their possible bearing On the campaign,
as because of their tendency to create
religious differences among our people.
Governor Cox cannot be injured by
them nor can his campaign be arrested
by them.
1.-THE people know his sincere espousal
of sacred cause.
They know him as. the member Of
Protestant sect who has been able 10
obtain the endorsements Of Catholic.
Protestant and Jewish leaders for the
cause Of peace, for which he is fighting.
When the time Of reckoning comes. let
those who lave tried TO stir up this feel
ing between the sects come to Judgment
The following clipping from the Louis
ill e
by the Democratic National committee
to supplement Chairman Whites state
ment. on the Republican attempt to stir
up RELIGIOUS prejudicesa
"'Sect Article Is Nailed as Fake by
church paper Western Recorder says
there is no National Catholic Register.
Discovering there is no such pub
hcation as the National Catholic Register
and that the propa ganda which 1t repre-
scented was, fake material, the Western
Recorder, published here by the Baptist
State Board Of Missions. in n recent issue
disavOwed the article which 1t had
printed under the heading, Rome in Our
Government
1.-THE fake editorial has been discovered
to be contained in pamphlets handed ou5
by Republican organization workers
! here in vain effort to arouse religious
Rnta~onisrn.
1.-THE editorial follows:
"SOme months before the Western Re
eorder was sold to its present manage
ment there appeared in our columns an
article entitled Rome In Our Govern
ment'
This article was copied.
THE genuineuess % t4e article having
been called into question we proceeded
to establish its truth or falsity.
1--WE ascertsined that 1t was written in
Cincinnati for a paper published in the
Office of the Western Publishing Com
pany.
''At the close Of the article. written in
an illegible hand. were the words From
the National Catholic Register
after diligent search we have failed
to find any such publication with any
such name, with any such article
with these facts before us, without
suggestion or request from any one we