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5 U 04 THE AMERICAN ttfff.r NEWSPAPER. v "A HE filC A FOR AMtRICAk8.''Wt holt that all m$n art Americant who Swtar Atlegionct to the United Statet without a mental tttetvation in favor of th Pop: PRICE FIVE if HI Volpmk IV. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1891. - Number 41 FRIEND Which Shall Govern the State, is the Question that Confronts the American People in Nebraska Today. SHALL IT BE Or Shall It Be the Nominee cf the Party That Was Con trolled and Dominated By the Roman Catholic Church. A VITAL And One Which Should Receive the Careful, Prayerful Con sideration of Every Protestant Before He Casts His Ballot Next Tuesday. SOME SCRAPS Tuesday of next week a jury of nearly two hundred thousand loyal Americans will sit in judgment upon the case of Hon. Thomas J. Majors vs. Hon. Silas A. Holcomb, and from their verdict there will be no appeal. Before the case is finally left with that jury for a fair and impartial ad judication, we, not as the representa tive or the paid champion of either of the honorable gentlemen, desire to sub mit a statement of facts to the jury, which we hope will receive its careful and thoughtful consideration. In the first place we have not a single word to utter against the personal char acter of either of the plaintiffs who will appear at the bar of public opinion on the sixth day of November. We believe they are both honest, honorable, fair and capable men. Mr. Holcomb has that reputation among his neighbors in Custer county, and Mr. Majors we know to be such from a personal acquaintance with him of almost a quarter of a cen tury. With two such excellent men t0 choose from one would naturally sup pose that Nebraskans could make no mistake in choosing; and they could not were there no foreign influences to take into consideration. To those influences we now invite your attention admitting In advance that they are more serious than many of you have realized. To begin with we shall take the case of Hon. Thos. J. Majors. He was nom inated by a convention that was over whelmingly Protestant, even though it was known that he had been 'publicly branded by the Omaha Bee as a mem ber of the A. P. A. and with the full knowledge that such a charge would be used to his detriment throughout the pending campaign, in every Roman Catholic communitv. To be sure there were a large number of A. P. A. men in the convention which nominated him but a large majority of them favored Hon. J. II. McColl. This you know to be so if you consldirthe situation carefully. The great hot-bed of A. P. Aism, Douglas county, cast its 108 votes for McColl, and more than seventy-five per cent of that number were members of the A. P. A. But those gentlemen were Re publicans, and are not sulking in their tents. They are today doing all in their power for their party nominee. But suppose Tom Majors was an A. P. A., is there anything in the platform of principles of that association which any loyal American can object to? You shall be the judge. These are the prin ciples of the A. P. A. The following are the declarations of orin ciples adopted by the National Council of the A. r. a. at ues.noines: "Lovaltv to true Americanism, which knows neither birth, place, race, creed, nor party. Is the Brst requirement for metuber Bliiu In the American Protective Association "The American Protective Association Is not a political party, and does not control the political affiliations of Its members: but It teaches them to be Intensely active In the discharge of their political duties in or out or party lines, Because it believes that all problems confronting our people will be bound solid by a conscientious discharge of the duties or citizenship by every Individual. 'While tolerant of all creeds. It holds thai subjection and support to any political power not controiiea oy American citizens, and which claimsequal If not greater sovereignty than the government of the United States. Is Irreconcilable with American citizenship. It Is. therefore, opposed to the holding of otlices In state or national government by any sub ject or supporter of such ecclesiastical power We uphold the constitution of the United States of America, and no portion of it more than its guarantee of religious liberty, but we hold this religious liberty to be guaran teed to the Individual, and not to mean that underits protection any un-American eccles iastical power can claim any absolute con trol over the education of children, growing up under the stars and strics. "We consider the non-sectarian free public school the bulwark of American IriMltutioiis. the best place for the education of American children, To Keep them such, we protest against the employment of bubjects of any OR FOE! A PATRIOT? QUESTION. OF HISTORY. un-American ecclesiastical power as officers or teachers of our public schools. "We condemn the support out of the pub lic treasury by dlrec appropriation or by contract of any sectarian school, reform atory or other Institution not owned and Controlled by public authority. "Believing that exemption from taxation Is equivalent to a grant of public funds, we demand that no real or personal property be exempt from taxation, the title to which Is not vested in the national or state govern ments, or In any of their sub-divisions. "We protest against the enlistment In the United States army, navy, or the militia of any st ate, of any person not an actual citizen of the United States. "We demand for the protection of our citi zen laborers the prohibition of the Importa tion of pauper labor, and the restriction of all Immigration to persons who cannot show their ability and honest Intention to become self-supporting Amerl an citizens. "We demand the change of the naturaliza tion laws by a repeal i f the act authorizing the naturalization of minors, without a pre vious declaration of Intention, and by pro viding that no alien shall be naturalized or permitted to vote in any state in the union who cannot speak the language of the land, and who cannot prove seven years' consecu tive residence in ihls country from the date of his declaration of his intention. "We protest against the gross negligence and laxity with which the judiciary of our land administer the present naturalization laws, and against the practice of naturaliz ing aliens at the expense of committees or candidates as the most prolific source of the present prostitution of American citizenship to tne oasest uses. "We demand that all hospitals, asylums, reformatories, or other Institutions In whlcn Ueonle are under restraint, lie at. nil times subject to public Inspection, whether they are mainiaiueu ny wie puonc or oy private Corporations or Individuals. "We demand that all national or state legislation affecting financial. commercial or industrial interests be general In character and In no Instance In favor of anyone sec tion of the country, or anyone class of the people." Is there a principle thei ein you can not Indorse? No; not one; and yet there will be an effort made todefeat Mr. Ma jors because he Is accused of being a member of an organization that is wag ing a relentless war against foreign ec clesiastical interference in our affairs of state. This much we can say of Mr. Majors without endorsing him. Now for Mr. Holcomb. He is the nominee of the Populist convention. Made such to secure the support of the Omaha Bee which never supports a Re publican for an office whom it dots not believe it can control. He is also the nominee of the free silver wing of the Democracy. The Populist convention which nomi nated Mr. Holcomb was in the main Protestant, yet Douglas and Lancaster counties sent a large number of Roman Catholics as delegates, and they were active in their support of the nominee. From that day until the meeting of the Democratic convention in Omaha, under the call of Euclid Martin, a concerted effort was made by the church of Rome to obtain control of it. And it sue ceeded. We illustrated with Douglas county before, when we spoke of the convention which nominated Tom Majors, suppose we do the same thing now while considering the Democratic convention which nominated Mr. Hoi comb. Let us see, did the Roman Cath olics control that convention? Most assuredly. Look at the list of dele gates from Omaha and South Omaha who sent the delegates to the Demo cratic state convention as published below: FIRST WARD. Owen Slaven. D. Shannahan. C. H. Coffner. E. P. Mullen. J. T. Conors. E. Whalen. John Powers. C. Conoyer. John Murphy. George Bertrand. II. J. McKenney. SECOND WARD. L. J. Piatti. Lee Herdman. A. P. Spitko. H. Eisele. A. Sloup. J. Sullivan. James Slightam. Sol Hopper. Peter E. Elsasser. Charles Hinz. Fred B'oemer. THIRD WARD. Fd. Kothery. Tom Murphy. I). Co.-grove. Gus Carey. John O'Connell Martin Shield. Dick Burdlsh. James ODonnell. FOURTH WARD. C. II. Brown. R. C. Jordan. R. V. Montague. Jeff W. Bedford. W. S. Shoemaker, P. C Hoafey. II. Rot.cnz.weig. T. J. O Bricn. Samuel Roes. -C. C. Crawl. J. C. Morrison. FIFTH WARD W. P. Barton I. J. Dunn. Richard Lawless. A. P. McKenna. P. E. O Donnell. James Daughtoo. Thomas II. Dailey. P. H. Meehan. T. F. O'Brien. Dr. S. R. Patten. John Leahy. SIXTH WARD. George TIerney. W. H. Chadwiek W. A. Page. Jacob Riner. J. E. Reagan. John Reed. Joseph Sherry. L. II. Parker. Charles A. Tracy Ed I1. Smith. Din B. Ilonin. SEVENTH WARD. A. Waggoner. A. Murphy. M. Hogan. William Ackerman J. D. Lacourse. Alma Jackson. J. B. Huse. II. J. Farmer. P. Smith. John Dennis. James Sehniderwind. EIGHTH WARD. H. C. Miller. John McGorry. Barney Boyle. James P. Connolly. J. A. Connors. J. H. Schmidt. W. F. Wappich. P. E. McKlllip. J. A. Leaney. John McGreale. W. R. O'Shaughnessy. NINTH WARD. C. W. Bryan. John Hope. F. W. J. Hart. Joel West. M. W. Payne J. B. Kitchen. ;. George W. Ames Ed. Welch. C. J. Smyth. C. L. Smith . P. W. BIrkhauser. I SOUTH OMAHA. FIRST WARD. Ben S. Adams. Sam Gosney. Clint Morgan. J. M. Tanner. SECOND WARD. James W. Lowry John Flynn. James Holub. Thomas Flynn. THIRD WARD. C. M. Lyons. P. O. Connor. Barney MeDermott. Patrick Curtin. Is theie any doubt in your mind as to the complete subjugation of Democracy by the church of Rome? Would a con vention of 100 members, of whom more than one-half were Roman Catholics, would that convention send as Its repre- sentatives men who would betray thei confidence? Hardly. We can say this much without con demning Mr. Holcomb. Now for the sequel. A large major ity of the men who have gone over to the Populist party have been Republi cans. Why is it then that ex-Democrats are always to the front asking their suffrages? First it was Edgerton then it was Holcomb, then Bryan and McKeighan, and now it is Bryan, Mc Keighan and Holcomb. We heard W, J. Bryan, in nominating Silas A. Hoi comb in the Democratic convention declare that "it is true that Mr. Hol comb has changed his party but not his principles he is as much of a Demo crat as ever he was." But we care nothing what ever altout his political opinions or his political affiliations aside from the influence that the Roman Catholic church will have over him, by virtue of the voles 6he can and will de- liver to him on election day. Already the edict has gone forth that Tom Majors must be defeated to satisfy the foes of religious freedom and social equality. In Lincoln last Friday John Fitzgerald, 0Shea and a number of other Roman Catholics were in con sulfation, and they declared that they had intended voting forThos. J. Majors, but since they had discovered him to be an A. P. A., a member of a Protestant order holding to the principles set forth above, they had concluded to sup port Holcomb. They also stated at that conference that the following Sun day the priests would through the con fessional instruct their members to vote against Majors, and to contribute a certain amount to defray campaign ex penses. This is not guesswork on our part. It is an indisputable truth, brought to us by a man who was in the conference and heard the whole deal talked over. Knowing this to be so; knowing that the church of Rome is secretly moving heaven and earth to encompass Tom Majors de'eat, we feel that Nebraskans, loyal, patriotic American citizens, could and would make a mistake if Holcomb were elected governor of the state of Nebraska. Today the fight is not between the Republican party and the Populist party, but between loyal American citi zens as against a foreign ecclesiastical lower which declares its laws above the laws of the state, and that power is the Roman Catholi church. You may say this is not the doctrine of that church. We say it is and stand ready to prove it. Besides It claims primary allegiance from 111 til V, 1 1 1 cants. Bishop Gilmour in a lenten pas-1 John Reeves. Pat Horrlgan. Pat Ford. tonal a few yean ago declared that "we are Catholics first and citizens at terward." John Rush, an ex-city and ex-county treasurer who is president of a batik in Omaha, on the 27th day of June,lSS7,gave utterance to exactly the a me words. So you see we have bishop and a layman who believe thei allegiance is first to their church the to their country. The reigning O0 has given them his opinion of the law, and they have no appeal from his decision, and that opinion is contained in an encyclical dated Jan. 10, lf!t0, and Is "that where the laws of the church and the laws of the state conflict the laws of the church are to be tinhtsitat ingly obeyed." Such, gentlemen, are the doctrines of the church of Rome, the church that is in politics today and bending every energy to defeat Tom Majors because her henchmen cannot control him, and to-elect Gaflln, Ellick and Carey, three men who are known to be abject slave to the will and wish of the Roman Catholic church. For these reasons we direct the at tention of Protestants to the fact that the defeat of Majors, Churchill and Moore will be hailed by the church of Rome as a signal victory, and we call upon Protestants everywhere to rebuke the pernicious Interference of the priests of Rome In our affairs of state, Of the rest of the state tickets It mat ters little to Protestants who are elected Yet we favor the Republican ticket this year because it has no Roman Catholic strings upon it, while the other nominees are in a deal with Komo and expect to profit by her votes. Will Protestants be a party to the outrage and be used as cats paws to pull Roman Catholic chestnuts out of the fire? If bo they will vote with the crowd of priest-ridden Irish who are trying to encompass the defeat of the Republican party. Otherwise they will go to the polls and vote for the very men whom Rome has placed her seal of disapproval upon. 7ue next tning to no considered is United States senator. That office is filled by the men whom you send to the house of representatives and to the state senate; for that reason care should be taken in the selection of men to that body. There are, today, practically but two candidates for the position. Johm M Thurston and Win. J. Bryan. The first a Republican the other a hybrid Ro- manized-Protestantism and Populized Democracy. The former wants the flag on every school house, the latter would destroy both by giving public money for sectarian Indian schools wherein the untutored child of nature is taught to be "Roman Catholics first," and law abiding wards afterwards. Between these two, what Protestant will hesitate In choosing? Surely not one who loves our free public schools; not one who fa vors liberty of conscience a thing de nied and condemned by the religlo-poi- it leal organization that is championing Bryan's cause, the Roman Catholic church; not one that believes In free speech and a free press, things which his Roman backers deny in every coun try where they are in control; nor would it be one who honors the stars and stripes for the success of Rome's sub jects, or those who owe their election to her votes, giyis birth to and footers a hate of and contempt for things American on the one hand, and a blind ness to and a veneration of the things which are distinctively Roman on the other hand. So, fellow Ameri cans, you who were born here and you who have come from foreign lands, should stand steadfastly and loyally by any man who would make America more American and a trifle less Roman atnouc. ibo Uoman tjatholic pre lates in convention assembled in Balti more declared that in 11XK) they would take this country and keep it. Are you prepared to give up your liberlies for the horors of the Inquisition? Are you ready to accept the doctrine of the Ro man church that those who are the leas educated are the best christians--in short are you ready to have this na tion descend from among the first na tions of the earth to the level of Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Mexico, Italy and Hungary where less than 50 per cent of the people can read and write? If you are not ready you must defeat every man liome is supporting, from Silas A. Holcomb down to the school director. Now is the time for Americans to bestir themselves, if they would not lose their heritage, and see priest-ruled politi cians occupying the various positions, which In time would reek with corrup tion as vile as the corruption of Tam many in New York, and the Democracy in Chicago. I Protestants in this state should re member that the fiirht is not oe- ween Republicanism and Populism as much as between the church of liome nd Protestantism. Let Mr. Holcomb be elected and Rome will not only claim victory, but sue win ruie uiui wiiu.au Iron hand. Are you tvady to have church and stale united? Most assuredly you are not. Then defeat the church of Rome at the ih)11. She has arrayed herself on the side of Populism, and hopes to ride Into power. She has already issued her Instructions to '.er Ignorant dupes through the confessional, and those instructions will be repealed be tween now and election day, and no Roman Catholic will dare to vole against them under pain of eternal uamnaiion, and inose instructions are In favor of Holcomb and Bryan. Such is the testimony of not only a man who was present and In conference with Fitzgerald and O'Shea but It la the testimony of Roman Catholic tailoring men and Roman Catholic servant girls who keep company with Protestant young men or who work in Protestant families. The next office on the list is congress- man. In the First District the contest Is between Strode and Weir. Either ono will do. In the Second It is be tween Boyd, Deaver and Mercer. Boyd truckles to the Roman Catholics, Deav er Is a Roman and Dave Mercer la I policy man, and Mercer will lie elected, In the Third, Melklejohn should bo elected and so should Andrews in the Fifth. McKeighan voted for every sec tarian appropriations which came lie- fore congress during his two terms as congressman and Protestants who aro opposed to sectarian appropriations should vote against him and In favor of Mr. Andrews. In the Sixth Mat Daugh erty and O. M. Kern are the candidates. Mat claims ho will get the Roman Catholic vot and he don't give a d for tho A P. A., while Kem voted for sectarian appropriations. Both should be defeated, yet one or tho other ii bound to win as there Is no third can didate in tho field. Now for tho county ticket of Douglas county. The Populist nominees are all un known except Sam DeNedry who was editor of the Daily jV'eicg for a time, and Sam is a good follow, qualified and cap able The Democratic nominees excepting W. A. Page, W. S, Poppleton, W. S, Felker and Wm. Maxwell are practi cally unknown to the electors of Doug las county, and Maxwell is a Roman Catholic. Aside from the senatorial ticket, the Democrats never nominated a weaker ticket. Yet, had they nom inated the strongest men in their party they would never have elected them on a Bryan platform. The people of thh city do not believe in sectarian appro priations being made from our public treasury, and Bryan stands for that very thing. He is on record as voting nearly a million dollars out of the United States treasury and into the cof fers of the Roman Catholic church. For that reason the men pledged to his support will be defeated, because Amer icans bellve they will have no power to vote against the man who represents that side of the Issue, even though their sympathies may be on the other side. How different with the nominees on the Republican ticket. Everybody knows them. Start with the senators and go all the way down the list of nom inees to the assessor and you find men who have lived in Omaha almost since a time to which the memory of man runneth not, and they will be elected In the city of Omaha the Democratic nominees which stand any show of an election are either Roman Catholics or controlled by the Roman Catholic church. In order to secure that vote the nominee for city clerk on the Dem ocratic ticket has denied being a mem ber of the A. P. A. This action will relieve that association of any suspi cion of complicity in his failure to re port Adam Snyder's shortage as county treasurer, -which occurred while he was county auditor. And that failure brands Jack Evans as incompetent or worse. To our way of thinking Evans would be an unsafe man In the office of city clerk, in the light of his official career as county auditor. Now, let us consider the school board nominations. A fair acd candid criti cism must leave the nominees of the Republican and Democratic parties on an equal f joting as to personal charac ter and qualifications, and any one who undertakes to draw the line on personal character or qualification must base such action on prejudice or favoriteism. What then is the difference? One is composed of Democrats, the other of Republicans. But that is a matter of no importance from our stand point. Here is the difference and there is no mistake about it. The Democratic con ention was absolutely in the control of the Roman Catholic political power, and it is with the consent and approval of that uower that these particular per sons are on the ticket. No one who has given the subject thought can be convinced that the Ro man Catholics have suddenly aban doned their designs and desires to either Romanize the public school system or destroy it. The methods approved at the present time by the hierarchy of that church are four In numlier. The first plan Is to procure a division of tho school fund, giving to their pa rochial school a share of the public money In proportion to the number of their children. When this cannot bo be done, they resort to a second plan, which is to procure contracts with the hoard of education to rent tho parochial school rooms at a nominal figure and take the schools nominally under tho direction of the board, the hoard pay ing their teachers and furnishing their school supplies. The third plan Is to procure tho ap Kintment of sisters as teacher In tho public schools, ierniittlng them to wear their distinctive garb, byads, etc., and permit them to teach their sectarian doctrines certain hours of the day to Roman Catholic children and such other as would voluntarily participate, and to permit the priest to visit at such hours and administer spiritual educa tion. And the fourth plan Is to secure tho election of as many Roman Catholics on the board of education as possible, and when it Is Impossible to elect Ro man Catholics secure members of tho board who will In return for tho sup port of the Roman Catholics In tho election, lie "liberal" toward their plans, and secure the selection of as many Roman Catholic teachers as M)S slble who will quietly work to the plans of the organization and keep the priests) K)sted as to the attendance of Catholic children in the public schools; secure the apd ntnient of as many Roman Catholic employees as possible about the school buildings and secure the adoption of text books favorable to the Roman Catholic faith. The fourth Is the usual plan and is in good active working order all over the land in county, village and city. Give them the fourth plan this year and they will get the second plan next year, or try very hard for it; and if suc cessful next year, two years hence you may find yourselves fighting against the second plan. We believe we are informed and therefore assert without fear of success ful contradiction, that the Democratic nominees, against whom we have no word of criticism, stand for the fourth plan of the Roman Catholic church to Romanize or destroy the public schools of Omaha. They stand for that plan, even though the individual opinion of some of them is to the contrary. They stand for that plan by virtue of the con vention that nominated them, regard less of their Individuality. We believe we are informed and therefore assert without fear of success ful contradiction that the Republican nominees stand for the maintainance of the American public school system, without any compromise with the Ro man Catholic power, with open arms and outstretched hands inviting every child of any religious denomination, in cluding the Roman Catholic, to come into the public schools without money and without charge. They stand un compromisingly opposed to any plan of the poM.', Satolli, bishop or priest, to Romanize or destroy our public school system, now or hereafter. That is the honest difference between the two tickets. Which will you prefer? WHAT THEY SAY. "The divine right of kings" is a bar barous myth. "Apistolic succes.-ion" may please prelatos and bishops and befog the minds of those who never think seriously for themselves but human lioerty nev?r grew into self government under the myths of kingly or hierarchial power. The Champion Atchison, Kas. How Rome does howl at the curtail ing of her growing power! She will, have more occasion to howl before she will have less. Rome is the only thing in the United Spates that is permitted to parade without let or hindrance. Everything else is closed down shut out for this great, squalling, illegiti mate, beggarly brat. Qmen Bee, Den ver, Colo. The Roman church has seen tit, in its policy to "let up" a little on frater nal societies. We do not ask it. We do not need it. We do not desire it. Our standard of morality is as high. When a candidate knocks at our door for admission we do not ask him to destroy his manhood by ignoring his reason and becoming a bijrot. We ask him to be intelligently useful to him self and to his brother. Thus will he most honor God. Our leaders are .not tyrants and will not meddle with tho private conscience of others, but wil Insist on the morality of all brothers. Fraternal Neirs. Eat Dy ball's Candies, 1513 Douglas