New-York tribune., 1920-04-26
Anti Catholic
Meeting Ends
In General Riot
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their attention to the two human warn
balls that had been rolling about on
the sidewalk. The balls had disinte-
grated and their cores, flung into a
taxicab, were on their way to the
West Sixty-eighth Street police sta
tior under guard of James Rourk, who
gave his address as the Pennsy ylvania
Hotel He is grand chancellor of the
organization.
Rourk made the charges of disor-
derly conduct against Delany and
Lyscht. He said they had interrupted ID
the meeting and caused disturbance
Delany and Lyscht insisted they merely
had started to walk out when Supreme
Grand Master Forrest declared he
would just as. soon kick the Pope as
Charley Murphy, and that the disturb
ance was forced on them. Several
sons of Washington flung themselves
upon them, they said, before they
could reach the door.
They admitted that once or twice
during the address of the Supreme
Grand Master of the Sons and Daugh-
ters of Washington they had tried to
say something, but declared they never
got chance. These potential inter
ruptlons, they said, might have been
when the Supreme Grand Master was
urging everybody to get the Catholics
out of office and eject good Masons,"
or when he was advocating a law to
abolish parochial schools, or when he
was assailing the Knights of Columbus
for giving away SOAP stamped "K. of c."
=, Although bail had been given for
them, Delany and Lyscht were ar
raigned in night court before Magis-
1 trate Francis X McQuade. He dis,
charged them and ordered Grand
Chancellor Rourk and John w. Yates,
OF 247 West Twenty first Street, who
appeared as complainants, to get out
Of court with the best speed they
could make.
They did so amid cheers from the
spectators which lasted several min
utes after the grand chancellor and
his friends had disappeared. Alder
man William 7. Collins, majority
leader in the Board of Aldermen, APP
peared as counsel for Delany and
Lyscht
Meeting Next Sunday
Mr.. Forrest declared last night at
the Hotel Pennsylvania that the whole
affair was nothing but plant on the
part of the K. of c. and lot of Sim
Feiners who attempted to break up
the meeting" The attempt was un-
successful, he asserted, as he kept
right on talking for three quarters of
an hour. He had noticed some police
IN the hall, he said, but it hadn't
struck him that there was riot.
He made some corrections concern
ing the remarks about the Pope and
Charley Murphy that had been at
tributed to him. What he said about
the Pope, Mr.. Forrest explained, was
that cas- an American citizen | have
right to take swat at him." AS to
Murphy, he said he merely had re.
marked: 81 have as much respect for
the Pope of Rome as for Charles Fran
els Murphy"
Mr.. Forrest said that while he had
omitted to state it at the meeting it
was his opinion that the world was in
a state of chaos. In closing. he de-
scribed himself as the man who had
defeated Martin II. Glynn and was
going to defeat AL Smith and there
would be another meeting at the same
place next Sunday.
The Supreme Grand Master of the
Sons and Daughters Of Washington
was an organizer of another political,
body Of antiCatholc prejudices, the
"P's," which fourished in this state in
1914 in the interests of Whitman and