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Rev. J. A. Dearborn, ex
President of the A. P. A.
of Missouri,
Waylaid by One of Rome's Faithful Fol
lowers and Lert For Dead In a Back
Yard on East Sinth Street
The Re?. J. A. Dearborn, ex-state
president of the A. P. A., but at pres
ent holding no office in the association,
was found lying In a yard in the rear of
J. S. Stone's confectionary store, 1821
East Ninth street, at 5 o'clock this
morning. Mr. Dearborn had been
struck over the right eye with a heavy
blunt instrument and had been stabbed,
but only slightly, three times In the
left sidejust over and above the heart.
The assault occurred about 11 o'clock
last night. The injured man was not
founduntil,5 this morning. Although
none of the wounds are serious the at
tending f phyBlclon fears that possibly
the exposure may make the case a seri
ous one. r '
The news of the assault spread like
wildfire throughjthe city. Members of
the A. P. A. passed it from Hp to lip
with startling rapidity, and soon in
tense excitement had been aroused.
Not only 'were members of the order
highly excited, but politicians gener
ally, and especially Republicans, on ac
count of oto-day's primaries, eagerly
soughtrellable information. This ex
citementjwas largely caused and greatly
added toby the claims of the A. P. A.,
made even'. before any of the details
were known, that it was an "assassina
tion" or ano attempted "assassination."
Careful investigation of every cir
cumstance In connection with the as
sault failsItoHbeartout the theory that
Mr. Dearborn's life was sought. He
was rendered unconscious, doubtless,
by the .blow, and was at the mercy of
his assailant. A knife found in the
alley presumed to have been the one
used was big enough and keen enough
to have reached the heart, yet the
three wounds in Dr. Dearborn's breast
are merely superficial, say the doctors,
and half an Inch deep almost. There
was no robbery, as Dr. Dearborn had
no moneyjor valuables about his person
except a nickel and a shirt stud. The
latter may have been overlooked.
J. S.JStone arose for the day's busi
ness shortly before 5 o'clock. He un
locked .-the rear door of his store and
heard groans.' He walked into the
yard, and "there, in a little garden
patch, lay4an old man. A battered
stiff hat was jammed over his head,
and his Jclotbing was torn and bloody.
Mr. Stone irecognlzed him as the Rev.
J. A. Dearborn of 1107 Michigan
avenue, andfchailed a passing newsboy,
who ran to the Dearborn home and
notified L. L. Dearborn.
The wounded man was removed to
his home in the police ambulance, and
the polioesurgeon sewed up the stab
wounds in the left side, assisted by the
family physician, 'Dr. L. G. Van Scoyoc.
The doctorsCsay the stab wounds are
sllcht. andnot in the least dangerous,
the bladej bavlngpenetrated only half
an Inch.
A morej Berious wound is that made
with a blunt Instrument over the right
eve. A large, discolored swelling over
and above 'the eye shows where the
blow fell. A-careful examination by
Dr. Van Scoyoo failed to reveal a frac
ture or .concussion, and it is believed
that it will not prove very serious If
blood poisoning. does not set in.
Mr. Dearborn could not give a very
clear account of the assault, as he was
suffering from exposure and lapsed fre
quently into delirium. Last night he
attended a meeting of Council 72, A.
P. A., held at Ninth and Locust streets.
After thesjmeetlng had adjourned he
started to walk home and was accom
panied by another member whose name
ifl unknown. At Ninth street and
Michigan avenue they separated, Dear
born going south on Michigan and his
friend east on Ninth street. The
streets were very dark, there being no
eras lamp on the corner. Mr. Dearborn
says he noticed the figure of a man at
the alley obetween Ninth and Tenth
streets, but it was so dark he could not
tell whether the man was white or
black. As he passed the waiting figure
he
received a stunning blow over the
eye
which rendered him unconscious
nd nrevented an outcry.
The rest is problematical, but tracks
In the alley show that Mr. Dearborn
was dragged through a broken fence
into Stone's yard. The men must have
struggled as the left lapel of the vic
tim's heavy cutaway coat had been
ripped and cut before his assailant had
an opportunity to plunge the knife Into
his side. The brim of the stiff hat
worn by Mr. Dearborn was broken by
the force of the first blow.
Mr. Djarborn's diamond shirt stud
was not taken and five cents, all the
money he had, was found in his pocket
At Irst it was thought he had been
robbed of his watch, but his son, L L.
Dearborn, said this morning that his
father had left the watch at home
when be went out last night.
L. L Dearborn talked freely aboat
the assault, claiming that no robbery
had been intended, that his father was
a marked man and that a cowardly at
tempt had been made to murder him.
Mr. Dearborn, In his seml-uocon-
sclous state this morning, was mutter
ing:
"You don't get up, you can't get up,"
as though he had been struggling with
some one. Becoming rational for a
time this morning he said: "It was a
white man," but no further explanation
came.
L. L. Dearborn says that his father
had not attended lodge meetings for
two months until last night.
"It looks as though they had been
waiting for him," he said. "We have
known of threats, but everything has
been quiet lately and my father has
not been making any speeches. I am
not speaking of any individual, mind
you."
An attempt to assault Mr. Dearborn
was reported eignteen monies ago,
while he was state president of the A.
P. A. He had been speaking at
Twenty-firBt and Drlpp stneets, and
was walking to Sixteenth and Summit
streets to board a car for home. He
took a short cut across Borne vacant
lots, and as he neared Sixteenth street,
was a1 most struck by a large rock that
was thrown by an unknown person.
Liter on he was assaulted and beaten
so that he was confined to his bed for
several days.
The knife used by the mysterious as
sailant last night was found in the al
ley about 9 o'clock this morning by
John Moore, a young man living at 919
Brooklyn avenue. The large blade,
three Inches long, was open. The knife
is of a cheap pattern, with a black
wood handle. It doubtless cost about
85 cents and is brand new. The blade
has been ground until it was quite
sharp. It was turned over to Police
man Register, who will endeavor to
find out who sold such a knife recently.
Mr. Dearborn joined the A. P. A.
three years ago. He at once took an
active and aggressive part In the af
fairs of the association. His vigor and
activity attracted the order through
out the state to him, and In 1894 be
was elected president for the regular
term of two years. He was a candidate
for re-eleo ion at the convention held
in this city in March laBt, but was de
feated. It was charged against him
that he had allowed his enthusiasm for
the growth of the order to get the bet
ter of his judgment. He was censured
for organizing extra councils without
the sanction of the association by men
who had been refused membership in
other councils on account of their
moral and political standing. He is 71
years old.
Dr. L. G. Van Scoyoc, who has an
office In the Deardorff Building, was
called by the family as soon as it was
known that Mr. Dearborn had been
waylaid. When he arrived at the
house, he found Mr. Dearborn suffering
from spells of nauseau and s ffocation
at intervals of every five minutes or eo.
He looked the patient over carefully,
and to a reporter for Tlte World after
ward said:
"The wounds appeared to be slight
incisions made with a penknife or sharp
Instrument. The police suigeon had
dressed them and they appeared to be
in proper condition. I understand that
they were only a half inch deep. Mr.
Dearborn seemed to have bled rather
freely from them, but not excessively.
The wounds are situated in the region
of the left nipple near the region of
the heart. The greatest danger in his
case, in all probability, is to be found
in the concussion over the right eye.
There is some danger there that a
blood vessel Las been ruptured. I re
mained by his bedside for an hour and
during that time he was suffering from
extreme nauseau and experienced a
feeling of intense suffocation. His con
dition would Indicate that the blow
had been very severe."
The police are investigating the case,
but are reticent in discussing it.
An American Nobility.
That there is a class In the United
States who are hungering for the titles
of nobility, and would be glad of a
monarchy Bet up in the United States,
admits of no doubt. According to Jus
tice, a wealthy American and ex-senator
talked to the interviewer of a Paris
paper In the following style:
"We cannot continue as we are going
on at present. It is unnatural. We
are a Teutonic and therefore an arlsto-
c ratio people. We have had always
with us a monarchial party, which, if
the truth must be told, Is a respectable
minority. The time is now ripe for a
monarchy whea we have among us
great millionaires that is to say, a
class from which we can create barons
and marquises and dukes.
"It Is unnatural that John Smith, a
car driver, should be called Mister and
George Gould, a railroad magnate of
the first-class, should have no higher
distinction. It Is still more unnatural
that John Smith's vote or voice should
have the same potency as that of
Gaorge Gould; in fact it is monstrous.
Wo shall soon change all that. The
signs of the coming change may be ob
served In New York, the metropolis,
the seat of the arts, of wealth and of
culture. Take our hotels In that city,
the grandest In the world. Do we call
tbem after Washington, or Lincoln or
Madison or Grant? Do we name them
after any of our heroes or cities? No,
they are called Brunswick, Victoria,
Grosvenor, Albemarle, Buckingham,
Marlborough and after other great
English families. Why? Because
great hotels are patronized by the
wealthy, and wealthy Americans in
cline toward titles."
It Is certain that there Is a systematic
effort being made to familiarize the
people with titles of nobility. The
daughter of a millionaire marries a
foreign count or duke, and more space
is given to it in our daily papers than
would be taken up by a royal wedding
In the countries where coronets and
titles are indigenous. Back of this
movement stands Rome. Can any in
telligent student of history doubt it?
A monarchy and hereditary titles of
nobility in this country would mean
the fulfillment of her dreams to rule in
the United States. Let every patriot
watch with jealous eye this un-American,
un-Republican trend, and give it
no quarter. Woman's Voice.
Somlsh Mob in Louisville.
Louisville, in the old Kentucky state,
is in a state of terrible excitement;
riot and bloodshed are threatening the
fair name of the city.
Some time ago three members of the
Board of Safety were imprisoned and
tried for malfaieance in office. They
were found guilty by a properly con
stituted court of aldermen, and un
seated. As might be readily surmised,
the malfaisants were Roman Catholics,
for whenever heard of that persuasion
are abusing the trust of office. The
Board of Safety had control of the
police and fire departments of the city.
The mayor of Louisville, consequent
upon the discharge of the board, ap
pointed a new board, who are Protes
tan's and, we believe, members of the
hated A. P. A. The Romish rogues,
the old officers, refuse to vacate and
have appealed to the Roman Catholic
Officers on the police force to come to
their aid and guard their offices against
intrusion from the newly-appointed
board. A dispatch to the New York
Ilerald says that the whole trouble rep
resents a struggle for spoils between
the Republican mayor and the Demo
cratic Board of Safety, but It may
bring on a riot. This might be so, yet
eidently the mayor has the law on
his side, for he appointed a new board
in place of a board defunct on account
of being by a competent court adjudged
of crime and therefore disqualified for
continuing in office.
Rome is always and everywhere the
same; she is no respecter of laws; her
will must rule supreme. Even a lot of
hoodlums and thieves when ousted
from office for their crimes have a
right, according to her, to resist all
law and appeal to her followers at
large, who, as In this case, are ready
and willing to violate their office oaths
and rank themselves among rioters.
This event proves conclusively what
Rome would do if she gained the upper
hand In the United States.
We hope that everything will be set
tled in Louisville peacefully. But
should It come to a violent outbreak on
the part of the Romish hoodlum of
ficials, we also hope that the rebuke
and the punishment dealt out to them
will be so thorough that it will serve as
a practical, even If painful, example of
American methods of dealing with
Romish impertinence, for all time to
come. Primitive Catholic
With the Pope.
Zola, now that his "Rome" has been
on the Index LIbrorum Prohlbitorum,
finds himself classed with Descartes,
Fenelon, Malebranche, Locke, Rous
seau, Voltaire, Cousin, Burnouf, Sainte
Beuve, Mill, Renan, Edgar Qulnet,
Taine, Edmond de Preseense, Lamen'
nals, tha pope himself (if Cardinal
Pecci really wrote the famous pam
phlet attributed to him), Lamartine,
George Sand and Dumas to mention
just a few out of an ecdless list that
might be made.
PAPAL IRISH TYRANNY.
It Crops Out at Unexpected
Times and in Unexpected
Places.
The I'lan of the Human Church to Cap.
ture the Cities Throughout the
Couutry Exposed.
Just after the murder ot Robert Rots
by Bat Shea, in Troy, N. Y., the follow
ing letter was sunt to the New York
IVibune, which refused to publish it,
but It was printed in the Cleveland
Daily Leader:
To the New York IVibune: I have
always studiously refrained from In
terfering with the management of a
newspapor, especially a paper handled
with the distinguished ability of the
Tribune. More than twenty years the
semi-weekly has come to my houso, the
trusted messenger of news in event
and news in opinion. Wbea I have
time to read no more, the eighth and
ninth pages are always perused, as
through the knowledge they give of
events, of men, and movements of
thought I am enabled to keep abreast of
the times. It was from those pages that
Greeley hurled the bolts that made for
his paper the deserved title ot "Thun
derer," but his was the the thunder of
Insight and prophesy. He saw under
the surface, and told of things to come.
Corrupt men were stripped naked by
his hand, and their most secret motive
exposed. In this line the Tribune is
doing yeoman service still, but It' Is not
striking deep as its founder. For years
I have looked in vain and hoped in
vain for the gathering of that cloud in
its firmament which betokened a
lightning stroke which would carry
fire into the dark sources of political
atrocity. Many and rapidly increasing
thousands of earnest men know those
sources and wonder at the silence of
the Tribune. Allow me to make my
meaning entirely plain:
In this paper, as In all relating to
the subject, I use the name "papal em
pire" for the reason that I refuse to
yield the name and immunities of a
church to that which, in its essential
features,' is manifestly a political struc
ture. Ever since the foundation of the re
public) the papal empire has plotted to
overthrow it and plant a sacerdotal
despotism in its place. For a few years
only we have known of this conspiracy,
but when first laid bare it had made
such headway and its revealed measures
dated so far back that we 'may rightly
infer that the inception of the plot
was coeval with the nation's birth. For
years the papal hostility to the repub
lic has been growing more outspoken
and Insolent, while their intentions and
methods of attack are promulgated
ith the braggart boldness of crime
unwhlpped and outrage unrebuked.
Dr. Brownson Bays In the Catholic
Review: "Undoubtedly it Is the inten
tion of the pope to possess this country
In this intention be is aided by the
Jesuits and all the Catholic priests and
prelates."
In the encyclical of Leo XIII., No
vember 7, 1885, this order appears:
"All Catholics must exert their powers
to cause the constitutions of states to be
modeled on the principles of the true
church."
Bishop Gilmour says in his Lenten
letter: "Nationalists must be subordl
nate to religion, and we must learn
that we are Catholics first and citizens
next. God Is above man and the
church above the state." And in
"Brownson's Essays," page 282, we are
Informed that "the state is only an in'
ferior court, receiving its authority
from the church, and liable to have Its
decrees reversed on appeal."
The Golden Manual declares: "If
the pope should declare war against the
government of the United States, all
true Roman Catholics would be com
pelled to take the side of the pope
against the government."
The encyclical of Leo XIII. Issued
January 10, 1890, is devoted mainly to
the relations of church and state, and
it says: "If the laws of the state vio
late, in the person of the supreme pon
tiff, the authority of Jesus Christ, then
indeed it Is a duty to resist them and a
crime to obey them." In other word
this old bachelor in the .Vatican, with
out a line or syllable of authority as'
surnes to speak for Christ in all things,
and therefore the state must not dare
to enact laws except by his pontifical
sanction. This same encyclical Is re
plete from beginning to end with teach'
ings treasonable to the state, yet Is
giving shape to the faith and actions
of every Catholic in America.
In 1S51 the Bishop of Chicago said to
Charles Chlniquy, a Romish priest la
Montreal! "We Roman Catholics are
determined to conquer the Unltod
Statjs. We are determined to bring
them to the feet of the holy pope, and
we are determined, at whatever coat,
to make a Roman Catholic country of
the United .States We must destroy
their schools and their godless institu
tions, and we must pulverize the cor
nor stone, as they call it liberty of
conscience we must destroy that."
By such declarations, and they are
legion, all doubts of tho priestly Inten
tion in these United States are swept
away. It Is no less than the absolute
overthrow of tho republic and the
crushing of every liberty except tho
liberty of the priest to dictate and of
the people to abjectly obey.
Let no American lay the flattering
unction to his soul that these pious
traitors have wlahed thendextruetlon of
the republic without plotting to destroy
it. As far back as 1851 the perfected
plot was laid before Chlniquy In Mon
treal. It was to congest the cities of
the Atlantlo seaboard with Irish Cuth
olios; congest them to such an extent
as to have preponderating Catholic
majorities In every one; then vote their
Instruments into power and vote liberty
to death. While this was in progress
Chlniquy was to induce the French
speaking Catholics of Canada, France
and Belgium to migrate to the plains
of Illinois. This was done and fully
done. Chlniquy planted 75,000 French;
then, appalled by the tremendous crime
he was abetting, he exposed the vil
lainy by giving these facts to the in
tended victims of the papal empire.
You need no instruction regarding
the voting mobs of the seaboard cities,
but should you doubt that this Catho
lic inundation Is the outcome of a care
fully laid plot, examine this other page
of evidence, If not of revelation, from
Chlniquy.
His work of colonizing French papists
In Illinois had succeeded so well that
D'Arcy McGee, then editor ot the
Freeman's Journal, advocated, sincerely
and ardently, a similar colonization of
the crowding Irish of New York city.
This was urged so persistently through
the columns of his journal that In the
spring of 1853 a convention ot papists
was called at Buffalo to consider bis
proposition, but from the moment of
meeting, McGee felt his manly expec
tation chilled by the assembled priests.
They came to execute the instructions
of their bishops, and they said: "We
are determined, like you, to take pos
.csslon of the United States and rule
tbem; but we cannot do that except by
acting secretly and using the utmost
wisdom. If our plans were known
they would certainly be defeated.
What does a skilful general do when
he wants to conquer a country? Does
he scatter his soldiers over the
farm lands and spend their time
and energies in plowing the field
and sowing the grain? No; he keeps
them well-united around his banners,
and marches at their head to the con
quest of strongholds. He subdues the
large cities one after another; he pulls
down the high towers and the citadels
which be meets In his way; then the
farming countries are conquered and
become the price of his victory without
moving a finger. So it Is with us. SI
lently and patiently we must mass our
Irish Roman Catholics in the great
cities of the United States. Let us re
member that in this country the vote
of one of poorest journeymen, covered
with rags, has weight in the scale of
power as has the vote of the million
aire As tor, and that If we have two
votes against the millionaire's one, he
becomes as powerless as an oyster. Let
no one awake these Bleeping lions to
day; let us pray God that they may
sleep and dream their sweet dreams a
few years more. How sad will be their
awakening when, with outnumbering
votes, we turn tbem out, and forever,
from every position of power, honor,
and profit. What will these hypocrite
sons and daughters of the fanatical
Pilgrim Fathers say when not a single
judge, not a single school teacher, not
a single policeman will be elected if he
is not a devoted Irish Catholic? What
will these so-called giants think and
say of their unsurpassed ability, skill,
and shrewdness, when not a stogie
governor, senator or member of con
gress will be elected If not sincerely de
voted to our holy father, the pope
What a sad figure the Protestant Yan
kees will cut when we will not only
elect the president, but fill and com'
mand the army, man the navy, and
have the key of the public treasury in
our hands."
Did ever a gang of thieves gloat over
their prospective swag as these saintly
thieves gloated over the ruin of the
nation whose hospitality they insult
and whose liberties they use only to de
stroy them? Yet this Is but a partial
revelation of this plot of the internals
as detailed to Chlniquy at Montreal
and Buffalo. For the whole plot see
Chinlquy's lecture at Grand Arm?
Hall, Chicago, October 1, 1891, and
Chinlquy's letter to the Mubtrul
Wtk!y 117m.u, republished in the
Liijht of Truik, Cincinnati, Octoixsr 29,
1892.
Hut this is not all. Jesuits stop at
nothing which promises an aocretlon of
power, They have established paroch
ial schools, which paramount allegiance
tJ the pjpo is taught as a prime and
vital article of faith; where tuey can
not geographically Isolate their lay
men, they eroct arouuu Ibcui Wi lei
of invulnerable ignorance, cementing
bljck to block with a gio-'.Itig of ulg
oiry which clogs every chink and ex
eludes every glimmer of HuL If
Americans organize around a temper
anoe nucleus, a Ca'.Lullo UiiupUatuce
society is sure to spring up If enough
sober ones can be fou..u U
Where citizens, without a thought of
sect, establish literary asd debiting
societies, papists follow with clubs of
similar name cut down to safe dimen
sions by the priests. No measure Is
allowed to go unusod rhlsh prcx'.aca
to isolate tho Catholic from the free
soul ot our institutions and porpctuato
that mental blindness which makes him
an easy beast to break to the papal har
ness and pull the priestly chariot.
Agents are placed at every considera
ble immigration port in Europe to con
firm the Immigrants' Catholicism and
warn them against American influence
and Ideas; then, on reaching our shores,
they are hedged up in isolated com
munities and Cahensleylsed by lan
guage, custom and prejudice against
the people whose welcome they Insult.
The Catholic hierarchy Is a trained
host of conspirators who wring a luxur
ious support from their dupes, and have
little to do beside plot for an aggrand
izement their abilities could nevnr win.
Have they succeeded? Are they suc
ceeding? Look for yourself anl let tho
spectacle answer on' y see deeper than
you hsve ever published. Look at this
line of monarchs absolute in their do
main:
Richard Croker, king of New
York; a Catholic first, an Irishman
second, a Democrat for convenience
third, an American last, least, and
only by the Inevitable decree of geog
raphy and a lust for plunder. Hugh
McLaughlin, king of Brooklyn, ditto;
Ed Murphy, king of Troy, ditto; Will
lam F. Sheohan, king of Buffalo, ditto.
Look on the baleful line, and yet your -masters
yes, our masters for no eta to
Is remote enough to escape the poison
of their touch. New York to-day is
ruled from Rome, like Albany, Troy,
Buffalo, Chicago, Baltimore, Milwau
kee, St. Paul, St. Louis, New Orleans,
Cincinnati and Sin Franclsjo. You
have, time and again, exposed these
scoundrels as Democrats. Why do you
not strike at the root of the matter
and hold them up as agents of that
conspiracy whose head is upon the
Tiber? They are Democrats simply
because they can use the D.smocratIo
party, with its glut of toughs and gin
mill inspiration, as Republicans will
not be used. Democrats! Let these
men withdraw from the Catholic
church and In Democratic councils they
would be as powerless as mice in the
jaws of a stone-breaker.
In your issue of Fridar, March 10,
you hold up to the execration of the
American people the despotic ou'.rage
upon Ltnslngburg, and charge it to the
rascality of El Murphy, the Democrat.
I charge it to the priestly stimulated
rascality of Ed Murphy, the Catholic,
whose Catholicism underlies, overtops,
overreaches, dominates and directs his
Democracy. Behind Murphy, as be
hind all the Democratic klags, is the
priest; behind the priest Is the bishop,
behind the bishop Is the cardinal; be
hind the cardinal is the pope; behind
the pope Is the same insatiable luft for
pelf and dominion which has cursed
the Christian world since the absolu
tion of Constantino. The finger of the
priest is potent in every usurpation
since majorities began to be created
in New York city. Those Catholic
conspirators have determined to grasp
authority by any method which prom
ises immediate successss; then defy all
protest and crush all resistance. Of
their kindred Catholic blacklegs of
New Jersey you say, and truly, they
depend on unorganized decency to let
the sense of outrage blow over. The
ruffians of New York and Troy are like
them. You ask it Lanslngburg will
submit How is she to help herself?
Appeal to the courts? What good can
come there with the judiciary fes
tering with papal putrefaction, even
to the appeals? Dare she resist? There
is not a considerable town in the Union
which has not a Catholic military
com pan? thoroughly drilled and armed
with the best modern repeaters. These
aggregate seven hundred thousand
men are sworn to execute the decrees
of his holiness and to grind the United
States into paint to decorate the papal
(Continued on page 5.)