THE AMERICAN
A JESUIT TRICK!
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H. C. Gano Joins the Independent American Citizens Party
and Attempts to Bring It Into Disrepute He Writes
a Letter to Leo J. Richardson, Is Taken
Into Its Councils and
He Has Evidently Ban a Tool fur
First, as They Fear Defeat-After His Trickery Was Discovered
The Executive Committee Was Called Together and He
WAS UNCEREMONIOUSLY BOUNCED
Not Only From the Treasurership, But From the Councils of the Party
To Get Even He Tells That Roman Money Is Paying the
Expenses of the New Party.
SOME H
It has now been more than four
months since the idea of an Independ
ent American Citizens party took form
In the minns of a number of patriotic
gentlemen in Cook county, but it has
been less tha three ninths since that
idea was placed before the public in
the shape of an Independent American
Citizens party ticket, yet in that length
of time the greatest dailies of the Union
have devoted more time and more
space to abusing its originators and sup
porters than was ever bestowed upon
any other political association in the
same length of time. And why has
this been so? Because the American
people have shown by their affiliation
with it, by their interest and by their
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daily conversation tnat tuey ucuevcu
the move was not only timely, but was
an absolute necessity. And. why was
this soVji Because the two old parties
the Republican party and the Demo
cratic party had become the willing
tools and submissive slaves of the Ro
man Catholic hierarchy, of the gam
blers, and the lawless elements which
go to make up the population of this
cosmopolitan city, and which have for
years dominated the party conventions,
dictated the nominations and controlled
cflicials. This state of affairs became
nown to the patriots, to the respecta
ble portion and to the law abiding ele
mentjof our population and they re
belled against a continuation of the uu-
holv and desnieable alliance, and hailed
i . ( . i l .. i : U ,1 nr .kin
new political party, ou wiue spreau
was the feeling, and so general was the
V""l,u' """-u 6v . r
,the hearts of honest men and loyal pat
riots throbbed in unison as they read
the square-toed pronunciamento of the
founders of the new party, and with one
accord, they decided to cut loose from
the rotton, corrupt and unprincipled
organizations with which they had been
affiliated for so many years and cast
their lots with the new but thoroughly
American movement.
This revolt was so extended and be
came so noticeable that the managers
of the two old parties, who are Roman
Catholics decided that the influence
and usefulness of the new party must
be broken no matter what the cost.
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most despicable methods resorted to to
attain their end.
While the Independent American
.Nitiona rtcift.xr nnt.i t.inna nrorp Vwin7 iMt.
Vulated, men in the employ of theDem-
rnt.ii? and Rprmhl .ran nartifiS would
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mose parties, or suosuiuie unsigned
petitions for those being signed, in the
hope of having the petitions declared
illegal by the election board, or for the
luroose of retarding the work to such
& extent as to prevent ine securing oi
enough names to entitle the ticket of
the new party too a place on the official
ballot. But those J tactics also proved
to be totally worthless. Nearly twice
as many j, nances were secured to
the petitions - asfc the law required.
When this became known the enemies
of the movement knew where to find
names on. the petitions that had been
placed there without the knowledge or
consent presumably of the parties
bearing" the same. The newspapers
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contained accounts of "forged signatures,"!-"stuffed
petitions" and "bogus
names."c But that, too, failed to pro
duce the desired effect. The people
continued to enlist under the banner of
the Independent American Citizens
Party; enthusiasm in the cause con
tinued to increase;everybody was discus
ting the new movement, and it became
necessary for the corruptionists to
adopt heroic means in order to stay the
tide. Many schemes were thought of,
and some of them were put into execu
tion. Men who vere considered high
in the councils of the new American
party were subjected to arrest; a paper
of alleged A. P. A. proclivities was in
ducted into the city to labor with the
members of the American Protective
Association, and to make war upon the
Independent American Citizens Party;
TURNS TRAITOR!
the Two Oil ranks From the
I8TORY.
and the most trivial circumstance was
distorted and magnified, by the partisan
dailies and their less honorable assis
tant, Into the grossest abuses of the
confidence of unwary and unsuspecting
members of the A. P. A. (a class that
does not exist to any appreciable extent
in Cook county and Chicago). Yet even
these attacks and these petty persecu
tions had an effect oouosite to what was
desired. The rainbow of promise of
the new party ascended near the zenith
of the political heavens and Romanized
politics were on the downward trend.
But the wiser heads had matured a
plan which they believed would work
They would send a nan into the In
dependent American Citizens Party.
He should acquire the confidence of the
men at the head and assume to be a
leader. He should even become the
solicitor of the funds, and, if no other
opportunity presented itself to him to
work an injury to the party he should,
a few days before election, with a great
show of sincerity and with augreater
flourish publish to the world that Ro
man Catholic and Democratic money
was paying the running expenses of the
new party.
The plot was put in operation.
II. C. Gano wrote to Leo J. Richard
son as follows:
Chicago, Sept. 17, ;i S04. My Dear
l.eo: i see you are running on an
American ticket. Am glad of it. Don't
let the Gestefeld faction of office hunt
ers pull you off. I am with vou and
your movement. Would be pleased to
see you and friend McComas. Can I do
anything to help the cause? Yours
truly, H. C. Gano.
Mr. Gano was a personal friend of
Mr.'Richardson. He was invited to
call at the Independents headquarters.
The"invitation was accepted. He
proved a hail-fellow-well-met. He was
asked to repeat his visit. He did so,
not only once but often, and each time
he had some words of encouragement
and some advice to offer. Finally a
vacancy in the treasurership occurred.
Then the question arose, who would be
thejbest man for the position? Several
names were mentioned, then H. C.
Gano was suggested. He was qualified.
He knew all the men who usually con
tribute to campaign committees and
would be a tower ef strength for the
new party, and it was decided that he
should be offered the position. The
tender was made. He would accept it
under certain conditions. One was that
the power to raise money be placed en
tirely in his hands. The managers
reasoned that he was an acknowledged
A. P. A. therefore this unseemly re
quest could be of no material interest
to those in charge of the campaign. He
was installed. One day he reported a
collection of over $200 but he could not
divulge the donor's name. No, the
donor was in sympathy with the donee
and if necessary would aid the move
ment later on but must not be known.
Time ran on and other subscriptions of
like amount were reported by the treas
urer. Finally the chairman grew sus
picious of Gano and set a man to watch
him. His suspicions proved to be well
founded Gano was hobnobbinguwith
the Romans and at the next meeting of
the executive committee a motion was
made that the office of treasurer be de
clared vacant and that Gano bo ex
pelled or read out of the party. Both
motions were carried and when he
found he and his confederateo had
been unearthed he rushed before
the Republican central committee and
charged the party with accepting
money from the Democratic mayor of
Chicago who is also a Roman Catholic.
This charge was made for a two-told
reason. One was to make Republicans
believe the new American party was an
adjunct of the Democratic party, the
other was to convince the members of
the various patriotic associations that
the charges, so often made by inuendo,
that the new party was put up in the
interest of Romanized Democracy,
were true.
Yet with all their scheming and plot
ting they have failed of their purose.
The Independent American Citizens
Party Phoenix like arises from the
ashes of their disconsolation and stands
as the representation of true and loyal
citizenship, unbought and unpurchasa-
ble. And while the managers regrvt
that even one man, who Las been ad
mitted to their inner chamber to par
ticiatti in their deliberations, has been
found wanting has been the willing
tool of partisans, and while the new
party may have been the beneficiary of
Roman Democratic money, through the
traitorous conduct of iU ex-treasurer,
yet, it is none the less loyal to the In
terest which it was organized to per-
jetuate and which are set forth in no
uncertain language in the declaration
of principles and the platform adopted
at a nuass meeting in Central Music-
hall.
Still It was not either the wish or
the purpos-e of the leaders of the new
movement to accept money from any
source which would leave the faintest
suspicion that the new party was being
kept In the field for the benefit of any
party; yet there seems no doubt but
what the viper they took to their
breasts stung with its most deadly sting,
in the hope of causing its d solution,
and the establishment of its adversar
ies, whose agent it was, upon its ruins.
But, the most carefully planned be
trayals have always been discovered,
and it was not different in this instance.
While the Republicans and the Demo
crats and the Romans were agape with
expectation; while Gano was bearing
the olive branch in one hand and a
dirk in the other, the managers of the
Independent American Citizens party
were in secret consultation trying to
devise means to protect their party
against the unholy designs of the allied
forces of Romanized Republicanism and
priest-ridden Democracy.
At that conference it was proven be
yond the possibility of a doubt that
their treasurer, a Democrat, was play
ing a double game. While professing
loyalty to their cause and to his friends,
he was consorting with tueir most im
placable enemy, was pe rsoually accept
ing money from them and turning it
into the treasury of the new party as
donations from men favorable to the
move, the while running back and forth
between the three parties, waiting for
an opoituue time to carry out the
despicable bargain.
The manager of the Independent
American Citizens party assures us
that he nor any of tue other men at
the head of the movement were aware
of the source from whence the revenue
was derived until the day they expelled
the treasurer from the party. And that
is no doubt trie truth, if we but con
sider the agreement under which Gano
took the treasurership we clear up a
good deal of confusion. "I will ac-ept
under one condition only, and that is
that the entire work oi raising cam
paign funds be placed in my hands. I
am to have absolute control No one
but myself Is to know who contributes."
Such was Mr. Gano's ultimatum, and
he was elected to the position.
Now, we have said there was an
understanding between the two nold
parties. Let us see if the facts do not
bear this assertion out. Gano is a
Democrat self-confessed. We will ad
mit he took Democratic money. When
the hour to expose the "perfidy" of the
new party managers arrives, he goes,
not to his own county committee, not
to the councils of the A. P. A., but to
the Republican central committee, and
Roman Catholic John M. Smyth, and
his committee hear that Roman Catho
lic John P. Hopkins, through a con
fidential friend, has paid $950 into his,
Gano's, hands to to what? To help
build up the movement for true Ameri
canism? Oh, no! To cripple and
destroy it, If possible, a few days before
the election. In his statement ho said
the company which publishes this paper
secured $120 of that money for 10,000
copies of the paper, which were to be
addressed and mailed. We desire to
admit this charge, and to go even
farther; we desire to say that we have
sold the committee, in good faith, two
lots of 10,000 each at the same price,
addressed them and paid the postage
out of the amount, and if it was John
P. Hopkins' money which we got in
exchange for those papers he is a
greater fool than we ever gave him
credit with being.
S) much for Mr. Gano's expose. Now,
a word about the daily press. When
ever the Republican end of it got onto
anything which it conceived to be a
detriment to the new party, they mag
nified it to unrecognizable proportions,
while the Democratic end would either
ignore it or treat it with silent con
tempt. On the other hand if there
was anything done which would re
dound to the credit of the new organi
zation, the Republican press would
ignore it, while the Democratic press
gave it a prominent place in its columns.
This was part of a preconceived plan.
It gave the Republican papers an op
portunity to weaken the new party by
declaring it to be a side-show to the
Democratic party, and gave the Demo
cratic papers a chance to rub the other
faction of the patriotic element of Cook
county. Thus patriotic sentiment was
between two mill-stones, and but for
this expose of Gano, might have re
sulted in the complete disruption of the
American party in Chicago. But that
exposure has afforded the leaJers of
the Independent American Citizens
parly an opportunity to show that they
are not corruptible, if they were un
read in politica. Even Mr. Gano, when
testifying a to whether Mr. Kelley
could be Influenced bought he claw-d
that hd could not, that ho was in the
fight for principle, and nothing could
induce him to lay down. Such is the
report of a gentleman who heard his
testimony, yet the Republican -press
omit to tell the public that the iwru
tlo n fund could not influence the man
ager of this journal.
With this statement we leave Hi
matter with you. We believe Gano
told the truth regarding the source
from whence ho secured the money,
and we believe the managers of the
new party, when they say they were
not aware of its source until the day
they exH.'lied him from the party, also
told the truth.
Now, gentlemen, crack your party
whii, and in the language of Mclieth
' Damned be ho that first cries hold,
enough; tiicfiio Amt rteun.
IS ITS Tit I E LIMIT.
The Ancient Order of llllM-rniuiis Shown
up by Father Mi lKrmoU.
The following letter was addressed to
the Philadelphia Prens:
To the Editor of The Press Sir: Per
mit mo through your columns to flatly
contradict the following statements
which appear in today's 1'rtxs, the first
on the authority of a Press reporter,
the second on that of Patrick O'Neill,
state delegate of the A. O. II., in Penn
sylvania: "The Ancient Order of Hibernians
has been under a sort of suspicion, so to
speak, wnlch dates from the office
(time) of Archbishop Wood and Catho
lics have felt in many cases that to join
the order was an act not approved by
the church in Pennsylvania. The
trouble dates from alleged complicity
of members of tlie order in Molly Ma
guiro troubles, twenty years ago, and
although the society quickly disowned
all men proved to 1x3 in the troubles in
the mining regions, the prejudice lias
been hard to live down," so says your
rejiorter.
Mr. O'Neill asserts: "Since the ad
ministration of Archbishop Ryan there
has not been even a suspicion cast upon
us by the church. His predecessor,
Archbishop Wood, was set against the
order strongly because ho believed that
the society sympathized with the lead
ers of the labor (?) troubles in the coal
region in the '70 s. But it was proved
at that time that the order as a body
summarily dismissed all members Im
plicated, and has since lived down such
charges."
Facts will prove that the foregoing
assertions (with perhaps, one exception)
an) without a vestige of truth.
1. The A. O. II. (improperly called
Molly Maguires) in the coal regions
was the root and stem of the order in
the United States, and not, as Patrick
O'Neill and others would have us be
lieve, only a rotten branch.
2. Instead of summarily dismissing
members implicated in crimes com
mitted through the instrumentality of
the A. O. H., the order throughout the
United States persistently sustained
official relationship with those charged
with crime In the coal region; It sup
plied criminals with money to enable
them to fly from justice; by assessments
it supplied funds for the defense of those
who had committed (as they would
have us think against its teachings)
crime through the agency of the order;
it heaped vituperation on Archbishop
Wood and his priests for denouncing
the criminal character of the organiza
tion in the coal region; in state and na
tional conventions it received as dele
gates criminals from the coal region,
while state and national officers at
tended county conventions in Schuylkill
county when the question of rewarding
criminals was discussed; it has never
challenged, much less refuted, Franklin
B. Gowen's assertion: "If the work of
Detective McPharland had not been
interfered with we would now be try
ing, for their lives the heads of the
order in Pittsburgh and New York, in
stead of their dupes in Schuylkill
county;" Its 'summary' dismissal ol
criminals was only a sham, which it
had recourse to In order to save its
charter from being revoked by the
Pennsylvania legislature. The proof
of this last assertion is found in the fol
lowing facts: The A. O. H. has never
ceased to persecute every one con
cerned in the prosecution of its criminal
members in the coal region; fugitives
from justice not only were received
everywhere as members in good stand
ing, but allowed to establish divisions
in the west and to become high officials.
State Delegate O'Keefe, of Nebraska,
said to me in 187S: "Father, the order
was established in this state by low
lived fellows from Pennsylvania, and I
stay in it to keep it from getting worse
than it is." Pinkerton's detective
agency is my authority for saying that
a state delegate in the west was acces
sory before the fact to eight murders in
our coal fields, and this official had the
audacity to threaten a boycott against
his bishop unless opposition to the A.
O. II. ceased. 1). 1. Mcdkrmott,
Rector of St. Mary's church.
Philadelphia, Oct. 12,
Ireland.
We are glad to see the zeal there is
in the converted Catholics in Ireland,
and we hope they may continue until
the chains of popery are taken off of
that land and th people allowed to
think for themselves. The ex-priest,
Rev. Thomas Connellan, writes he ha
t-een working with one hand tied, but
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Doll ars worth of Goods to Select from.
KANSAS CITY, MO,
MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED.
now it is free. It is hard to understand
the full meaning of the statement, but
if he can do twice as much as ho has
been doing, we hope it will cause other
priests to recognize his worth, and go
and do likewise, and when they have
made Ireland Protestant, they can find
work in some of our cities where the
Micks, the Macks and the Murphys
pose as municipal monkeys and make
laws to maintain the mothers and the
monks and manage the minority In
congress so as to manipulate the ma
jority and move the money matters of
this mundane sphere.
SEDAMA, MO., NEWS.
(I'roiii our special corrimuondeiit.)
It is reported that the Roman Catho
lics held a special meeting a few days
ago lor the purpose of taking some steps
to stop the sale of The American in
this city. The older heads who were
at the meeting convinced the younger
bloods that it could not be accomplished
legally, and that the A. P. A's were too
strong to attempt to squelch the sale
by force. It Is rumored that they in
tended to paint a "skull and cross
bones" on the door of the party who
sold the paper. The party the Romans
are after however Is here to stay, and
all the annoyance and boycott they may
establish will not drive him out.
It Is said that J. II. Pilklngton wants
the names of the members of the A. P.
A. in Sedalia. He wants to advertise
them in a Roman Catholic paper. The
only way for him to do this is to follow
the same plan used by the Romans In
other cities. Go waylay and rob the
secretary, or break into the houses and
lodge rooms and steal the records as
the Romans did In St. Louis. Then
do as Priest Pnelan did in his Roman
paper in St. Louis, Mo., brag that he
had bought the stolen records for fifty
dollars.
All the Americans of Sedalia and
Pettis county should watch and vote
with the A. P. A. on election day if they
desire to down the Romans. There will
be a small ticket placed in the hands of
the voters which will name the right
men to vote for. Vote for the best men
regardless of party.
Eat Dyball's delicious Cream Candies.
1518 Douglas St.
To Help Pat Pay The Priest.
Philadelphia, Oct. 2-"). Hon. Ed
ward Blake, ex-leader of the Libera
party of Canada, addressed a large
meeting at the Academy of music on
the "Irish National Federation of
America." A purse of $;I,,'1H5 was raised
from members of the audience for the
home rule cause. Archbishop Ryan
contributed 20U ,
Deafness Cannot He Cured
by Incnl applications, as llioy cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way lo cure Deafness, and that, ly
by const it ullonal remedies. Deafness is
Ci.used by an inllamed condition of the
mucous linim; of the Eustachian Tube,
When this tube (tet-s inllamed you have a
rumbling sound or Imperfect hcarlnit. and
when It ts entirely closed Deafness Is i he re
sult, and unless the inllammation can he
taken out and this tube restored its nor
mal condition, hearing will be destroyed for
ever; nine cases out of ten are caused by ca
tarrh, which Is nothiiiK but an Inllamed con
dition of the mucous surf;ues.
We will jive One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness caused by catarrlp that
Cannot be cured by Hail's Cattarrh Cure,
feud for circulars, free.
F. J. CHKNFV A CO.. Toledo O
yVSold by Drtmirints. ?"ic.
fell Ifefr'J i Si hiTlMM'
a i m i l i rl III L il k
W?'1 Til1.lt
a Quarter
SEND FOR CATALOUE.
H. K. BURKET,
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
EUBALMER.
Uflloe reiiiovrd from till North I , i
1618 Chicago Street.
Telephone 00.
OMAHA, NEB
G. W. GILBERT.
CARPENTER
Contractor, Builder
Storm Doors and Sob.
1706 St. Mary's Ave., OMAHA, NEB.
CLEANLINESS
IS NEXT TO GODLINESS.
We Cannot Wash Your Soult,
But We can Make Linen White a Snow.
1110-1112 - DODGE - ST.
OMAHA, NEB.
JAMES AINSCOW,
Telephone 628. Secretary and Mgr.
Articles of Incorporation oft lie Shoshone
(old Mining Company.
Aiitii 1 1 i. Name.
The nan of this Corporation shall be Sho
shone Uold mMiiiiik Company.
AKTICI.K ll.-l'KINl ll-Al, I'LACEOF llDSINISS.
The principal place of transactlnu the
busiuoss of this Corporation shall be the
City of Omaha. Douglas County, Nebraska.
AKTICI.K lit. UKNKKAI. N'ATl'HKOr BUSINESS
The ueneral nat ure of the business to he
transacted by this Corporation Is the loca
tion. acijulrinK, tiuyliiK. owning and holding
of real estut and personal prupeity, rlifhlM.
privileges and franchises of every name and
nut ire, which Is. or may be necessary or
needful In owning, operatmn and conducting
the business of imnlnn.
AKTICI.K IV. t'AI'ITAL STOCK.
The amount of the Capital flock of this
Corporation shall be four thousand five
honored dollars, divided Into foiiy-live
shares of the par value of one hundred dol
lars each--to ue paid In as follows, to-wlt:
Twenty-five per cent.on the 1st day of No
vember. IH'M; twenty-live per cent on the
Uth day of December. ls!U; twenty-live per
cent, on the lllh day of r enruary. Isn.V, and
tweniy-tive per cent, on the lllh day of
April, is.r.
ARTICLE V.TtME r ( OMMK.M KMKNT AND
1 EHMINATION.
The time of the commencement of this
Corporation shall be the Itth day of October,
ism, and the time of the termination of this
Corporation hall be the lllhZdav of October
l'.itti.
AKTICI.K VI INHEBTEOM5SS.
The blithest amount of lLdebledness or
liability to wh.eta this Corporation shall at
anytime subject itself shall be I lie sum of
three thousand dollars.
Article vu.--omi khs.
The affairs of this Corporation shall be
conducted by a Hoard of seven Directors to
be chosen annually by the sun-kholdirg on
t he second Thursday in October iu each and
every year.
Al.HKKT I.. DfclSK.
j Aliii st W asnkkikd,
Incorporators. ; Hksky C. Akin.
Hakoi.d At ki.and,
1. J A M KS W. Do.VSKLL.
STATEOr Nebraska, i
County of Douitbis. (
On this lllh Day of October, l.s'.it. before
me, Clinton N. I'owell, a Notary I'ublic i
and for said County and Male, personally
a.peared the alxne named. A. L. Deane,
.1 au.es W. Dunne 11. August Wannfried, Henry
C. Akin and Harold Ackland. incorporators
of the shosl. Oold Mining Company, who
are severally nowii to me to 1- the identical
persons whose names are attixed to the fore
going Instrument as Incorporators and
severally acknowledged the -ame to be their
and each of their voluntary act and deed.
lu witness whereof, 1 have hereunto set
my band ami notarial seal the day and year
la-t above written.
ISK.M.l CLINTON N. POWELL.
ll-lii-4 Notary I'ublic.
WANTED Agents in each town and
county to sell the greatest book of the
age. F.rrors of the Roman Catholic Church
and its Influence on the General Government
today, with History and Progress of the
American Protective association A. P. A.i
Over ?0U pages and Illustrated with 4S full
page engravings.
Send an cents at once for complete outHt
and terms. Special Utiiis glveu on other
fast selling works.
J. II. C 1.4 AfHIiWN V CO.,
tf SU Locust St , St. Louis, Mo.
SI CATION WANTED By an American,
married ,U years old. Best references.
Willing to do anything, Address J. C. W.
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