Evening star., 1933-12-04
PRIEST EXPECTS
SM|TH'SAPOLOGY |!
Father CoughIin Also Declares
RaSkob Will Follow Lead
of Brooklyn Pastor.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
DETROIT, December 4.-Pledged
| anew to support the administration's
monetary program and In receipt Of a
telegram of regrets from one of his
critics, Rev. Father Charles e. Cough
lin, pastor of the Shrine of the Little
Flower. today awaited similar messages
! which he predicted would be forthcom-
ing from Alfred E. Smith and John j.
Raskob.
Shortly before he started a speech
Yesterday, Father Coughlin received a
telegram from Right Rev Msgr. John
l. Belford of Brooklyn, expressing the
latter's regret for an "uncharitable in
terNew" he gave following Father
Coughlins address at a New York mass
meeting last Monday night.
Smith anG Raskob Next.
John Raskob will be next and AL
Smith after him." Father Coughlin
commented.
Both Mr. Raskob and Mr. Smith
have taken issue with some of Father
Coughlins statements
In the interview last week Msgr. Bel
ford referred to Father Coughlin as
IAN internal nuisance" and "a public
enemv."
While Father Coughlin in his speech
was renewing his attack on opponents
of the administration and warning
that 1t was either Roosevelt or ruin,"
Msgr Belford was speaking in Brook
lyn and saying that he desired to
| broadcast "a verv humble and sincere
apology to all whom I offended"
Relieves He WaS N;souof~d
In his speech yesterday. Father
Coughlin repeated his statements re-
garding the controverted Alfred E.
Smith,. p. Morgan incident referred to
in his speech of last Sunday. remarking
that he believed his statements we're
"misquoted to him" and that mo one
has said that Mr.. Smith obtained
loan" on the occasion of his reputed
visit to the Offices of Mr.. Morgan.
Referring to the Smith statement, he
| said:
IF I disagree with Mr.. Smiths finan-
cial philosophy. let no man-no editor
except a liar-maintain that I do not
admire the ex-Governor's Christian
morality.
This I said last Sunday, Never have
SPOKEN contrary to this.
However. I have been accused of ly-
ing for having referred in last Sundays
discourse to a certain visit made by Mr.
Smith to 'Morgan's Office for having
claimed that Mr. Smith obtained loan
therefrom
Father Coughlin said the incident oc-
Cured early in october of 1927, lust
previous to great meeting Of ecclesias-
tics and laymen in one of our large
cities
He repeated his previous statement
that two Roman Catholic bishops &C
companied Mr.. Smith by automobile to
Morgan's Office when there was occa-
sion TO arrange a substantial loan to
finance the Empire State Building"
Wall Street Silent.
Father Coughlin said that "an week
long silence has reigned in
Wall Street Hardly one voice was
raised in public to impede the policies
of Franklin Roosevelt. 1t was the
silence of a beaten bully who realizes
that he can dominate and intimidate
no longer the American public
He added that the tory newspapers"
decided to humble me for having played
even a small part in this contest for
economic emancipation.
Il Immediately exempt from that
category not only the news journals
who are favorable to Mr.. Roosevelt's
financial reforms-reforms that are in
tended to free us from the gold standard
but also those decent American pub