blesrrd j rivilege ni.d | hatvre of nuekly
dropping on his knits and kitting the
I corns off the Pope’s holy toe.
It has been asserted that every
Weaver isn't in it. Harrison had bet-
epithet has been app
¡•¡•lajl t<»( tm Ing<.rfo«l jer ¡.^p on giving law lectures for a liv­
except that of being a fool. Put r.ow he ing; Pennoyer will have to fall back on
has to I »ear up, as well as hie delicate con­ Ion his sawmill and every other would be
stitution will admit, under the latter im­ candidate for the presidency might as
putation. The Rev. J. B. Brady, an well give up the race. Chauncey is ahead.
eminent Boston divine, recently took
Ingersoll fora text. Hear him:
“Ingersoll is i a brilliant but heart>M I Tu£ INITIATIVE AND REFEREN­
fool. Esthetic in taste, ornate in rhetor­
DUM.
ic, eloquent in speech, but yet a fool."
Wonder what kind of an audience he
In our humble opinion the adoption of
preached to. The colonel can now claim
one ahead of the late Ben. Butler. The the “direct legislation’’ mode of making
latter was heard to remark that he had laws is the one thing needful to do.
So long as the present opportunities
“been called liar, thief, butcher, murder­
er, etc, etc. etc, but did n’t remember of for corruption exist there can be little
hope of having an honest state govern­
ever having been called a d----d fool.”
ment. The temptations is too great. One
must have unbounded faith in a fellow
mortal—or even in himself—to believe
CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, THE
I that he could successfully resist the man­
NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE U-
ifold temptation of every kind and from
every source that are likely to be brought
N1TED STATES.
to bear upon him when sent as an agent
or represenati ve, with full powers to make
Chauncey Depew has a head for bus­
laws for the people. No doubt there are
iness. None will deny that. He has ev­ I
s< me that can do this, but, judging from
idently got an eye on the president‘al
. the comic-opera farces that take place at
chair. Furthermore he knows just what l|
our state capital once in two years under
road to take to get there the ore that
, the name of making laws, and the con­
leads by the Catholic church. The Cath­
duct of many, if not most, of our public
olic power in America is gaining every
officials, we are led to believe that most
dav.
The Catholic vote is virtualiv
r
• ‘ men are not built that way. . The “spirit
wielded by one man the Pope. Thewih ’ i i
is willing but the flesh is weak.”
Better
Chauncey has studied the situation and i
remove the temptation. The Initiative and
knows the ¡»roper move to make,
He Referendum would, in a great measure,
hobnobs with Cardinal Gibbon« and
accomplish this object. In Switzerland
Archbishop Corrigan, the two most influ­
1 it is a success and constantly growing in
ential Catholic dignitaries in the United
favor. If it succeeds there under all the
States, adroit’y gives them the impres­
difliculties presented by the fact that st v-
sions that he is the biggest Injun in
i eral different languages are spoken there
America and that he ha* a decided lean­
. is no reason why it should not succeed in
ing towards the Catholic faith.
He se­
. any state in the Union. It need not he
cures from these holv men letter« of in-
complicated, cumbersome nor ex|ensivc.
troduction to the Pope. These httcr-
Under its operation the people nil!
I
hint that the l>earer should be the next
have ample opjiurtunity to inform them
¡»resident. Of course His Catholic High­ -elves regarding the nature of every bill
ness is mightily tickled at having th:- that comes l>efore them.
i hev can vote
direct opp>rlunity to obtain a more firm intelligently and for their own Interests
grip on our government and loses no time
There will be no lobying through lav..-
in giving the “»minent American,’ th»- that will Isnelit the ft w as against tie
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