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4 THE AMERICAN. THE AMERICAN Knb'n-4 at IVi.irt.- !- -rlua n.n-r 4 )NN C. THOMPSON, - loiro. W" '. k M.I.I V. 8uln- Munaarr. ITBLIMIKI' BMKI.V HV THK AMERICAN FGELISHIHG COMPANY, 0H U1: I ; l i II,..,, nl Slrwl, Omaha, !Vlir. TIIK AMI-KUAN UKHt KS. IM llrl M ni I lltimh. Vh K.iotu o r'" M;lu Str-t. Kmiiamm c'lly, !!,. CS. 111. Mfi Ml TH'N i.ATr : uO-riot',nt. tvr V-nr : Moi.th . , I hi " Ttin-o Mouths mi STJRIAMT IN IM1XI -KIMIHTKHK H A 1.7 HAT til H KATr- I Ciilo mif y.ir (Mrt'i(y II i It " " " " , , 1 1 lo 1 it I Thfl aNofp rtea to rliil. good tin I y whfn full iiniiiU r. ami r.e.i fir inn con puny or,i. r Hi-inll ly UrHft, ripr." or ,niiitftl.' mom-y (irilrr. uytile lo Aukkican I l hi.imiimi TO ADVERTISERS. Tli ti fr KilvprtlM'itn'iiu lu tli i i- Mnril three edition of Till Amkhicak are HI Celll M'riHl lllHTni ll InwUIOM lU IIM tot lif Inch, ii1 mi avria,t of elclit word to lii line). 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Terms will bo easy, $10.00 down and $10.00 per month on each share. If there are twelve Americans read ing this paper, members of the A. 1'. A., Oratigcmon, or Protestants who would like to associate with us in busi ness, they should take advantago of thlsolTer. It will bo their last oppor tunity. If not sold by March 10, 181)5, the otter will be withdrawn, and stuck sold to present members of the com pany. Do you want ti put $100.00 of your money Into this fight for your lib erties and jour country? Address American r uhushino Co., 1015 Howard Street ONK of our friends tells us that the reason Chas. Conoyer, the Humanist, was not named as jiosl master at Omaha, was on account of A. P. A. Influence. How is tha Chariot? Tins office was invailrd lt week by Ihe American Pope. He was seeking a place on our exchange list. We found it for him, and hereafter Spokane, Washs., new A. P. A. paper, which goes by that name, will know what is happening in this part of the hemis phere. Ling live The American 1'ojie. About a dozen of the Hiberians who purtioii :at d in the riot in Savannah, Ga., atid attempted to mob ex Priest Slattery, have been sentenced to a term in jail. All the cases have been ap pealed. Iiev. Slattery has pursued the course wo predicted ho would pursue and declares that ho will remain in Sa vannah until U will be possible for him to walk the streets without police pro tection. A Meeting of many of tho leading men engaged in this movement for a more pronounced Americanism was held In New York Wednesday and Thursday of this week for the purpose of mapping out a course for all patriotic citizens to pursuo in the future, and to insure har monious action on the part of all pat riotic orders. Heretofore much force has been wasted by patriots working at - Cross purposes. We hope much good ay result from the meeting. A Dispatch from San Francisco, makes this reference to Rev. J. Q. A. Henry: As Mr. Henry will soon leave for Chi cago to assume the pastorate of the La Selle averue church, he was requested to make a farewell speech to the breth ren with whom he has labored for five years. He bad been reviewing his work in this city and when he came to his connection with the American Protec tive Association he said, with intense emotion: "Brethren I do not think the outside work against Romanism that I have been engaged In during the last twelve months has demoralized me or been detrimental to my church. The report that is being circulated about my congregation's dwindling and the membership's decreasing on account of my outside work Is false. I have not lost one church member and the con gregation has not wandered off. On the contrary, the membership has increased and many conversions are due to my out aide meetings in the interest of patriot ism and good citizenship." MURDtREO BY A PEN i;.iri-A Mriinrtt. ho li t B .jult" l,'k for M-tt-ral u.oittlot 1 r Mrt-U In a fair way to fully t'ir Tin aill t el lo hi iliouitiit of f rl'Mii in IM city. Su.'h lira the ani;uini- mrnt mail' in tbi column lat week, jet tho patter had hardly hn-n delivi'n'd lo our iu crib r when a telephone mow-age con veyed to u tho Mid intelligence that lleorsn I. mil gone lo that undiscovered country from whi bourne no traveler return. A dm , a melancholy, nay, a grh f, a Klonant a U. at experienced by David at the death of hl lieloved win Absalom, tiwik tmwcixdiin lint only of our heart, but if Itiat of ewry one of his friends who l.i ard llu dreadful news. We kn.- that be wa wi ak lor ere his life i tit out, jet hoped that cold, rclontlrsi death would i-Iumw mnoe other mark. Hut that was not. to lx. Our frleiv), our brother, so full of love, m) tender, true and good; pure of purMiite, an houes' man a noble one 'gainst whom no truthful man could say a word, mut-t needs pay time his debt. Yet while no honest man could sny a word against this model man, a ghoul, who lives by blasting lives, might hero have seen the seijuel of his power. For Dennett died, not from some ravenous disease, not from a wound in flicted where the eyo of man could trace its course, but from a broken heart. Murdered, yet his slayer will go un whlpt of justice, fordid not his calum niator, tho same character asmirsm, murder In the same despicable way, Senator Hitchcock and Congressman Welsh? Did not his slayer also cease plunging his poisoned ion Into Con gressman Laird only when the grave cloned o'er his lifeless form? Yes, that human hyena, which lives on the ti ui s and the heart's blood of his opponents; who Is posses-ned of neither principle, decency or manhood, could have complacently watched that impos ing funeral cortege and exultantly ex claimed, "This In my victim!" Oh, God! Thou divine Father, Thou who lovest righteout-tiOfS and who abhors iniquity, how long must Thy children suffer? Must we continue to offer up our best men, our purest fellow-citizens to appease tho insatiable appetite of this aocursad and unclean bnest? Must we sit in silence and weep, with none to comfort, because of his ghoul like work, allowing him to continue to blacken characters, to drlvo to destruc tion young women and to wreck homes? No, Almighty God, this cannot be lt lll not be! Thou knoweBt the American people have suffered long, that they complain but little, yet when aroused no power but Thtno could cheat them of their vengeance. And they are aroused. It would have taken but a word on Tuesday to have set their hearts aflame for vengeaace of their brother's death, and wreak upon the species of a brute that broke their dear friend's heart, the punishment he long ago had earned, for everywhere the words were passed, ''ItosoA'utcr is to blame for this," and "Call It murder that's the proper name." Yet no one said the word. So live on, thou dastard live to blacken other characters; live to wreck yet other homes and to dcsoll yet other virgins of their fairest flower. Live on, live on, live on, until thy hellish course is run; until thy putrid, fest'ring mind no evil can devise! Live on, thou sprite from hell's foul 881110), for soon thou, too, wilt stand bo fore the bar of God, and get thy just reward. And now, while we deplore the loss of our dear friend and conscientious brother, we would not wish him back again to live bebide that fiend and hear the mean, untruthful things which hell's prccurer would heap upon him. No, we would not call him bick, for now, not only death, but the Bee, has lost its sting for him. Peace to his soul. TO SEAVEY AND THE PUBLIC. To So ivey : You have seen fit to ask to be suspended, pending the investiga tion of rumors of bribe taking and blackmailing which the grand jury said could be traced to those directing the police force. Now, who Is to make this investiga tion, a regularly constituted court of justice or the board of fire and police commissioners? The latter has no power to compel the attendance of wit nesses or the giving of testimony. Yet it is to try you! And why is this? Because they dare not convict you. They dure not do any thing but whitewash you. Tuat fact you well know. To the Public: We will sho,v you why he will be whitewa.hed: In the first place the board of fire and police commissioners is composed of: Wm. Coburn, Chris. Hartmaa, George P. Bemis, Howard B. Smith and V. O. Strickler. The last two gentlemen are believed to be honest and faithful officials, al though Mr. Smith is a moral coward, caused probably by the lamentable fate of his brother, who was murdered while prosecuting the very class Mr. Smith no has to deal with. The other three would do exactly as Rosewater said. Demi la own. d body and coul by ltoa water; dhurn would not dare to opMW him, and tho opinion of Mime of our citizens is that Chris. Hartmaa ought to be imw chej along with the other two for malfeasance or tnii-fe .sauce in ofiictt. It is currently charged that Coluro and the neurits show part of the charge is true, at least e say it la currently charged that ho mild hU home to a x ion named H.ddison ai d a Hiililimin aUo ran a gambling houso (or $27,tl, and that the deed was never plueed on record as long as the gamb ling houses wore allowtd to run wide (ien, but that the day following the ord.-r to cloio the ga-uhlliig hou-o, that deed went on record a ; ear k'Ui H was made. Is there an thing suspic ious in that deal? CiTia uly tie would not vole to convict Seuvij Again, Martin told us. anl Martin U S avey's particular friend, and was the owner of and agent for a number of houses of 111 fame; Martin told us that Coburn was over and visited at his place in 1!';1, and accepted of his hos pitality. Do you think that kind of a man would convict Seavey? Then it is currently rcortcd that Chris Hartmau rented a building in which ho was interested to a firm of gamblers, who carried on their nefari ous business in it until the orjer to closo was given. Do you think a man who is accused of such a thing would vote to convict Seavcy? Again, Martin told us, and Martin is Slavey's particular Iriend, and was the owner of and agent for a number of bouses of ill fame: Martin told us that llartman was over and visited his place In 1H!:I, and accepted of his hospitality. Do you think that kind of a man would convict Seavey? Now, we all know what Bemis Is, and a tool of Itosewater woult not vote to convict a man who was opposed to the A. P. A. Besides it has not been so very long since Bemis was accused of violating the lawsof the state, or this municipality, by being a party to a eer talu real estate deal. So you can see Seavey exjiocts and will receive a whitewash at the hands of those men. The idea of the pot try ing the kettle because it was black, would lx little nioro amusing than to see the board of firo and police commis sioners try Seavey. If Seavey does not want a whitewash; If ho wants to go into court and be vindicated, we stand ready to submit the testimony of two competent wit nesses that the mother of M. F. Martin told us that her ton had furnistud Seavey and his wife with provisions while they camped out on tho Iowa side of the river In 18DH. We stand ready to prove by two competent witnesses that she told us that her son built a portable house, and moved it over on the river bank for ihe use of Seavey and his wife; that he furnished a little steam boat for their pleasure and amusement. Wo stand ready to prove by the testimony of the carpenter who built tho house that Seavey and his wife occupied it; that they received provisions from Martin and visited at his house. If this is not bribery, what is if3 Will Seavey sue us for libel, alleging that we cannot prove by that number of witnesses the things charged herein. If he will not, go on with your white wash investigation. THE JESUITS. Through the courtesy of Col. Edwin A. Sherman, a 32nd degree Mason, we are enabled to give to our readers the secret monitor or Monita ikcrtta of the Jesuits, together with an account as to how it came Into his pot session. To attempt to properly designate creatures that would practice, that would teach, the diabolical things prac ticed by the members of the Society of Jesus, and taught by the samesgenis, as they do practice and do tench, as re vealed by a perusal of Col. Sherman's work, would be a task no man would like to undertake, and we shrink from applying to them any other name than that chosen by themselves, which has become the synonym for trickery, de ceit, cunning, lying, double-dealing and murder. Therefore friends, brothers, Ameri cans, we urge you to read carefully, and to ponder well, the doctrines of the Jes uits as published in these columns and as translated by Col. Sherman. The Jesuits have undertaken to re establish the claim of the pope to tem poral power over the whole world. The re-establishment of the temporal power of the pope of Rome wojld wipe out every ve-tige of liberty, overthrow every republican institution and erect upon their ruins an ecclesiastical des potism backed by the icquisition with all its horrors and all its savagery. This the American people are not prepared to accept; yet the work of these agents has been done so quietly and at the same time so effectively, that tod;iy we are not the freemen we have long boasted of being, for they have in sinuated themselves into so many confi dential positions that they possess not only the political eecrets, but, in many Instances, the business and family se crets of the people, to such an extent that they are able to turn a freeman into a slave whenever the policy of the church demands such a transformation. For that reason it behooves Amerl- cans to give heed to the word of Col. Sherman,. For our elf and ur readers we thank him for hi courtesy in allowing us to puhli-th the firat chapters of hi book. No doubt it will do much good. OSK cannot read of tae frightful wrtck on tho Inter-Oceanic railroad in Mexico, without shuddering. The fact that the train was loadtd with hun drt ds of the poor, deluded, siieri.titiius slaves of Itome, who were returning from a vt-it to the lt man shrine at Sacre Monte, doi-o not lescen the hor ror. Tin y were human U-ings, laugh ing and enjoying li e one insiant, the next lying at the tuti-e of a precipLe cold in d. ath or mangled and wounded !n such a way that death itself would have b n far more preferable. The exact tvise of the accident will prob ably ne 'er he known, so we shall not speculate as to why it did occur, contenting ourself with the statement tha.God, In his infinite wisdom, saw fit to allow the subjects of the pojie ol Rome w ho claims to occupy a iiosition equal to that of God who were fresh fror" their devotions to tlwir god, al lowed them to realize that the tinkling bells, the flaring candles, the pomp and show of the church of Itome was power less to savo one soul except it be the will of God. The wearing of a scapular, the breathing of hail Mary's, the call ing uon the "blessed" saints, the sign of the cross, aye, even the crucifix, the ladder by which Romanists seek balva tion, lost their alleged "magical" inllu ence when brought into conflict wiih tho will of God. Moro than one hun dred lifeless bodies were removed from tho wreck. Eighty-live persons were seriously wounded, the engiuc and three coaches were demolished, while two coaches left the track but did not go over the pr.eipieo. The wounded who were able to be moved were taken to tho City of M. xico, where President Diaz, a Maon of high degree, threw open the miliUry hospital for their benefit. The whole staff busied them selves in attending to the injured. This is the second railway accident in Mexico in fifteen years which has cost more than 100 lives. The other oc curred on the San Marelos railway June 25, 1881, and about 200 lives were lost The citizens of Chicago are awake to the importance of taking the reins of the city government out of the hands of tho most brazen gang of corporation tools that has ever infested any city, and unless the indications are mislead ing, will retiro every man who Is now a candidate for office who has been mixed up in any kind of jobbery, or in any questionable transactions during his career as a city official. This paper en deavored to keep a large number of the candidates they have tabooed from be ing chosen at prior elections, but from either a lack of patriotism or a super abundance of partisanship on the part of the citizens, tho members of the gang managed to foist themselves upon the people who are just now industri ously engaged in devising ways and means to keep tht m out of office hert after. We are glad to know that the people, even at this late date, realize that we made t,o mistake when we op posed the election of these very men they are now opposed to, and take pleasure in assuring thera that we will lend ail the assistance which lies in our poor, to retire every man who has a-sisted in passing questionable measures. Some time ago we made up a list of United States senators whom wo thought Rome could tie to. At the time we made that list up we embocied in it the name of McMillan, of Michi gan, but before our paps;r went to press the legislature of that state re elected him to the office he was then filling. Knowing the state was controlled by the A. P. A., we concluded ho was imbued with American principles and would vote and work in harmony with the platform of the A. I'. A. For that reason we look his name out of the list of papist tools we were mentioning in these columns. His action since then would have justified us in keeping him in the list. He offered no opposition to the papist raid on the treasury las; montii. He was as silent as the sen ators from Nebraska, even more so than Manderson, whose term Is just expiring. The American has no time to bandy words with oher patriotic papers. It was established for an entirely different purpose. Our object was to fight politi cal Romanism until it was vanquished. When that happens, when it eschewes politics, our mission will be at an end. Until then, it, and it alone, will receive the opposition of The American. So. if any of our contemporaries tliinit they can strengthen themselves with the public by belaboring us, they have our permission lo sail in. When we men tion them, it will be to commend them. There is no envy ormaliie in our heart. Besides, we know the struggle that is going on constantly in the offices of tho patriotic press to make both ends meei., aDd we would ba a double-dyed villain to do anything to lessen their influence in the noble .cause in which they have enlisted, and from which they derive their support. Sickness Aiming Children is prevalent at all seasons of the year, but can be avoided largely when they are properly cared for. Infant Health is the title of a valuable pamphlet ac cessible to all who will send address to the N. Y. Condensed Milk Co., N. Y. City. ALEXANDER SULLIVAN. Red-Handed and Steeped In Crime, Still a Republican Leader. The Mail Miom (lie lteectulilp People in Hip Tt'iii)-Fourtn Ward Are Expected to Follow. Ti e editor of The American is a Republican one of that class which beKevtstb.it to his party belongs the honor of suggesting and carrying out more actual reforms than can becrtditd to any other party ever organized; lie Is such a Republican as would ordi narily say nothing derogatory of party organization, but who, in the light of recent events, doubts whether his party can much longer hold the pure-minded, liberty-loving, honest, conscientious citizens in line, If the party foolishly places the reins of party government in the hands of such men as Alexander Sullivan. It will bo useless for the Republican party to hold up to public view 6uch men as Hinkey Dick, Powers and Coughlin, and cry "fraud," "boodle" and "ballot box stuffing," and then place a man in chaige of the election machinery, in one of the most deeent and respectable wards in Chicago, who has as black and damnable a record as Alexander Sullivan possesses, and ex pect people to believe our party is less corrupt, is controlled by less vicious and more law-abiding citizens than Is the party of our political opponents. Alexander Sullivan has a record that smells to heaven. Besides being a Romanist, he wears the stain of Cain, and bears the distinction of having been a member of a band of cut throats and criminals, which added that of murder to its other crimes. But we shall not give you the history of this Republican leader from what we know of him personally. We shall let one speak who knew him, who was in timately assojialed with hlui, no less a pjrson than Henri LeCaron, the British detective, who entered into all the schemes Sullivan and his revolution iry co-conspirators were able to hatch. LeCaron says: "It was during the autumn of 1803 that, in the course of my travels on be half of the organization, I first meet Alexander Sullivan. Alexander Sulli van is a well-known man today, but if by any chance his identity has to bo marked, little else need be mentioned beyoi.d the words, "The Cronin affair." Ho was a young man then, but then, as row, he was the same Alexander Sulli van, clever, unscrupulous, careful only of himself, subordinating everything to his personal ambition, using Irish politics as a stepping-stone to advance ment in American affairs, and reckless who or what suffered if but he did suc ceed. "The 'Arch Fiend' of Irish-American politics, as he has been dubbed, and the alleged chief conspirator in the brutual murder of Dr. Cronin, is no ordinary man; he is an individual with a history, and that not by any means a creditable one. The son o' a British pensioner, born in Caiada some forty five years ago, he left that country under a cloud, and settled down in De troit, where he started a boot ami shoe store in the Breler block, Michigan avenue. Oa the night of the 12th of May, 18H8, afire totally destroyed his shop and its contents The occurrence had its suspicious features, and Sullivan was arrested on a charge of arson. Al though the over-insurance of his goods and other questionable proceedings were proved at the trial, he gained his liberty through an alibi, sustained by the evid3ucj o' Margaret Buchanan, a teacher in the public schools of Detroit, who afterwards became his wife. A man, as l have said, of stirring ambition, he had from the outset of his career in Detroit taken a prominent part in political affairs, and his status as an Irish lender (he was then a state "centre" lor Michig id) lent his posi tion and views a certain importance. He took an active part In the then pending national campaign upon the s de and in the interests of G. neral Grant and Schuyler Colfax, who in that year were nominated as the respec tive Republican candidates for presi dent and vice-president ot the republic. "Sullivan's immediate reward was his appointment as United States col lector of internal revenue at Santa Fe, New Mexico. His resignation of his official position in the brotherhood had come too late; his work bore fruit in the presidential election, the vote was split, and so earned his wages. It is worthy of note that this was the first time the Irish vote was split, and that Sullivan was the primary cause of it. Ever since the vote has so remained, to the advantage of the Irish leaders of both sides, who, in the scramble for office, barter the adhesion of their fol lower in the public market-place. "Santa Fe, however, did not hold Sullivan long. Hi shady method compelled him to make an Inglorious txit; and so tie was to be found in the year 1873 working with ti wife, wt Buchanan, in a in p.irting capacity on Chicago newspapers. ' SioArly but surely the Clan-ra-Gael was gaining ground, despite all the forces arrayed a alust it. Triumphing over church opposition, conscientious scruple on the score of joining sex-ret societies, and the single opposing revolutionary fiction still faithful to the memory of Stephens, it had, in lsTii, a membership exceeding 11,000, which included amongst its leading names those of Alexander S illivan, John Devoy, O Donovan Rossi, Thomas Clarke Luby, Thomas F. Burke, Dr. Carroll, James Reynolds, Frank Agnew, Colonel Ciingen, Wm. J. Hynes, 1'. W. Dunne, Michael B daud, Denis Feeley, J. J. B.tslin, Michael Kirwen and General Millen. "Tense were the men who in the after years were to be in the front rank of the Clan-na-Giel, and by their posi tion and influence t i model and direct the policy of the organization. "With Sullivan I have already dealt, and here I need only state that, having established himself in Chicago, he had taken to the study of law, in which branch of the profession he was now In 1870 preparing to practice. Ho had been maintaining his questionable reputation, for he had shot a man in cold blood; and though twice tried, had been successful in escaping the consequences of his act, owing to the employment of that process so fre quently charged against the govern ment in Ireland packing the jury. "I had communications with Alex ander Sullivan and Meledy within a very short period from this (1882), and from them Sullivan being one of the executive and Meledy a leading mem ber of the Clan-na-Gael I learnt, though at different times, that a new p'an of campaign was coming into force, nothing more or less indeed than one of cold-blooded murder and destruc tion. "Contrary to expectation andjthe re quirements of the existing constitution, no Clan-na-Gael convention took place in this year 1883. In the ordinary course of events such an assembly should have met in August, 1S8.'!. For reasons best known to themselves, how ever, Sullivan and his colleagues on the executive of the secret organization Kslponed the gathering, and in the end, by a system of manipulation which Sullivan developed to a perfect science, in connection with his management of Irish affairs, the approval of the organ ization was gained to certain changes which included the putting off of the convention to the following year, 1884. "Meantime, under the plea of im minent danger of discovery, the books ot the organization were all burnt, and no record whatever was left in ex istence which would allow of investiga tion. This had driven very m iny men to desperation, and loud and sweeping were the charges which the seceders made against the Triangle for mis appropriation of funds and other like charges. None were more prominent in leading the attack oa Sullivan and his colleagues that Dr. Cronin, whose murder has recently been the subject of such lengthy investigation. Indeed, from this point onwards, almost down to tho end of 1888, the history of the Clan-na-Gael is the history of the dis pute betweea Cronin and Sullivan. "Alexander Sullivan meantime oc curred himself very busily in purely American politics, and for the purpose of making his position in this regard the more favorable, he caused it to be understood that he had withdrawn from th 3 Clan-na-G.iel. This, of course, was only a blind, for asa matter of fact, for twelve months at least after he had so announced his withdrawal, his name continued to appear on circulars and documents. "I must not, however, travel too fast; and so shall have to go back a little, in order to complete the story of the Cronin-Sullivan dispute, which, ia a way, came to a conclusion in the year of which I write. As I have already stated, the history of the Cronin affair while it lasted was thehistory of the Clan na Gael for the time being, and thus in completing my statement of it I shall be bringing the record of revolu tionary matters down to the date at which they and I parted. To return therefore, to the Cronin matter, which I left at the point in 1880 where ap peals from outside .quarters failed to heal the breach. As- a last resort, a conference was arranged in September, 1887, between committees from each organization, the Sallivan section and the Cronin section; and "a final effort was made to settle t:ie differences; and a united convention was called in June, 1S88, which, meeting first in Madison Street Theatre, was eventually moved to Green Baum, in consequeuce of the allegation that British detectives had gained admission to Jthe former place of meeting. ' Cronin, perhaps, took as prominent a part in the convention as any man, and his conduct naturallyineurred the enmity, and eventually the vengeance, of his opponents. He and Devoy sub mitted formal charges of fraud, etc., against Sullivan's executive. Strong language was used, but Sullivan's friends defended hiniiwarmly. Finally