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Absoluts Purity
FEBRUARY 11,
KO. 66.
1909.
TEXAS,
GALVESTON,
XXIX.
VOL.
7
AMUSEMENTS.
EDUCATIONAL
VOTE ERROR
Sample of Values
VOTE CLOSE
DISCOVERED
REGULAR SI,00 BOTTLE GOODS
85g
25 c.
85c
TELLER FINDS
MANY MISTAKES
75c
75c
petitions freely.
■i
!
-'PHONE 725
EkA. Cook
the
THE
Amusements.
STARTS TO KENTUCKY.
CORSICAN BROTHERS
WILE PASS HOUSE.
CALIFORNIA RECONSIDERS.
THOMAS’ CHARGES.
Tex., February, 1909.
Galveston,
TO REDUCE SALARY.
What
Ward No.
Let us wake up.1
KANSAS CITY FIRE.
FRENCH POSTAL SERVICE BEGINS.
The
REV. BEAUDEQUIN DEAD.
VICTIM OF OWN KNIFE.
KILLING TAX MEASURES.
JOHN DONOVAN DIES.
an
his
PRICES ARE HIGHER.
1
V
States Improperly Certify
Presidential Returns.
PEOPLE WANT THE SALOON
DISTRICTING BILL PASSED
Dr. Wiley Says That Pure Milk
Cannot be Had at Cheap
Price.
Monsignor Mundelein Declares
Church Demands Only Square
Deal-Praise for Roosevelt.
Congress Will be Asked to Pres-
cribe Form for Future
Elections.
Judge Landis Tells Embezzler
That “Not Smoking Doesn’t
Excuse His Crime.”
Young Man Had Made Success
of Robbing Maie Compan-
ions After Flirtation.
Legislators Will Hear Address
From Sole Survivor of San
Jacinto Battle.
CONSUMER GETS
MOST OF BLAME
NO BETTER GOODS THAN OURS—ONLY DIFFER-
ENCE OUR PRICES ARE ALWAYS LESS.
URGES CATHOLIC
FOR PRESIDENCY
POSTMASTER IS
GIVEN SENTENCE
MASQUERADES AS
WOMAN; CAUGHT
RIDGWAY MAKES
A STRONG FIGHT
Think It Will Give Churches “a
Merry Chase”--Benefits
Not Denied.
Since the days were younjf the tonic
properties of hops has been recognized.
TODAY.
Dumas’ Sensational Bo r antic Drama,
Banana Cordial,
per bottle .
Paul Jones Four-Star Whiskey,
per .bottle................
Apricot Cordial,
per bottle................
the
speedy
To Hon. T. W. Masterson, Senator,
and Messrs. Jens Moller and Marsene Johnson, Representatives.
Austin, Texas.
turbances
upper
DOCTORS DISCUSS
PSYCHOTHERAPY
having
A.
ROSENBERG HALL
Y. M. C. A. STAR COURSE
Saturday. Feb. 13, 8:15 p. m.
Neil Litchfield Trio
Popular Entertainers
Prices 50 and 75 Cents-
Gentlemen:
The undersigned, a qualified voter aiid citizen of Galveston, respect-
fully petitions and requests that you introduce in the Legislature and se-
cure the adoption of the amendment to our City Charter, incorporating
the limits, as prepared by City Attorney Kleberg, districting the barrooms
from out of the residence section.
Please sign and send at once. .............’.......................
such sensations
to the
Compulsory Bill Passes
to Engrossment.
THURSDAY,
our
aftd
And the man who gives
us that, we will vote for in the future
as in the past, be ^ie Catholic, Protes-
tant or Jew.”
Roosevelt Will Do Honor to Memory of
Lincoln.
By Associated Press.
Washington, D. C., - eb. 11.—Begin- '
ning the last extended trip he will
make as chief executive of the United
States, President Roosevelt left Wash-
ington by special train at noon today
for Hodgenville. Ky., where tomorrow
he will do honor to the memory of Ab-
raham Lincoln at the war president’s
birth place.
Accompanying the president are. Mrs.
Roosevelt, Miss Rosevelt, Secretary of
War Wright, Secretary Loeb, Surgeon
General Rixey and Capt. A. W. Butt.
. The presidential party is due to arrive
in Hodgenville, which is several miles
from the railroad, about noon Friday.
Aft^r the exercises they will return im-
mediately to Washington, arriving here
early Saturday afternoon.
DUFFY MALT WHISKEY,
Per Bottle..................
beer is made from Bohemian hops and
the best malt. It’s a pure
liquid food.
Well Known Surgeon Dies From Effect
of Blood Ptfson.
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 11.—Dr. Adolph Von
During, a well known surgeon in the
Bronx, is dead, the victim of his own
knife. The surgeon, while handling a
keen edged instrument during an oper-
ation, cut one of his fingers very
slightly, but blood poison set in and
death came yesterday. Dr. During was
57 years of age and a native of Ger-
many.
Knox Will Then Be Eligible to Cabinet
Position.
By Associated Press.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 11,—The sen-
ate committee on judiciary today reach-
ed the conclusion that by reducing the
salary of the office of secretary of
state to $8000 Senator Knox will be
eligible to appointment by Taft to that
position.
THE CAMERAPHONE
He Wds Chicago’s “Most Regular Po-
liceman” for Years.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Ill. Feb. 11.—John Donovan,,
knotvn among his fellow bluecoats as
Chicago’s ‘‘most regular policeman,”
because of the fact that he was never
absent from duty „a day during eight-
een years in the police department, is
dead of a complication of diseases. H«
J was 55 years old.
Is maintained in all stages of the brew-
ing of “High Grade” beer. It’s
a pure liquid food. Order
today.
he
needed
money and found that by dressing in
women’s clothes I could mix freely in
crow'ds. After being wined and dined
bj’ men I found it easy to take all they
had from their pockets. 1 am some-
thing of a hypnotist and by this means
and sleight-of-hand I usually got the
money.”
ROYAL
ALL THIS WEEK.
LORRAINE & HOWELL
Grotesque Comedian, Singing and
Dancing Soubrette and Their
Novelty Racing Dogs.
HOLMES & HOLMES
Musical Merry Makers—Expert
Novelty Musicians.
THE DUNBAR DUO
Presenting an Eccentric Novelty
Singing and Dancing Act.
Two Thousand Feet Latest Life
Motion Pictures.
Matinees Wednesdays ani Fridays
at 3:00 sharp.
-
1
The Crystal
TODAY
THE BLIND MUSICIAN
AND
Willie’s Water Sprinkler
—Continued From Yesterday—
WHY THEY FELL OUT
AND
Vulture Hunting in Africa
Special Announcement—The Great
Gans-Nelson Fight will positively be shown
Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 15 and 16.
In three thrilling scenes enacted by the cele-
brated star tragedian, J. MONTGOM-
ERY IRVING.
With a strong supporting company,
The greatest production yet attempted by
the Cameraphone.
ADMISSION 5c.
bur Novelties loday^
The Lyric
A MODEST YOUNG MAN
An Up-to-Date Comedy.
The Vaudette I
SAVED BY MIS DOG
Featuring the Thrilling Rescue of
a Lost Child.
“THE ZAMBESI RIVER”
—and— • |
L “VICTORIA FALLS.” . J
House Committee on Revenue and Tax
ation Acts the Executioner.
Special to The Tribune.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 11.—House commit-
tee on revenue and taxation evidently
following out its program arranged at
the outset to kill all tax measures
brought before it for consideration,
decapitated three measures yesterday,
two by Strickland, one providing a di-
rect inheritance tax. and the other
(Continued on Page Five.)
Special to The Tribune. ,
Austin, Tex., Feb. 11.—Because of
proceedings of the investigating com-
mittee in the senate yesterday little
more than a quorum of the house mem-
bers were in attendance during the
greater part of the house session, nev-
ertheless the discussion of various
measures was sufficient to prolong the
session until close to 6 o’clock. The
most important business transacted was
the passage to engrossment after a
hard fight of the Ridgway compulsory
education bill by a vote of 56 to 51.
The opponents of the measure predict
that it will have a still harder passage
on the third reading, than it had to en-
grossment yesterday, for they intend
tb scour the highway and byways and
secure a full attendance of the mem-
bers when it comes up for its final con-
sideration.
Speeches in opposition to the meas-
ure were made by Maxwell, Robertson
of Travis and Terrell of Cherokee, and
in advocacy of it by Trenckmann and
Ridgway, the latter making an espe-
cially strong talk and practically win-
ning the advancement of’ his bill by
his arguments.
It was. announced that Alphonse
Steele of Mexia, Limestone county,-
would address the house tonight and a
committee was appointed to receive him.
and arrange for his entertainment. Mr.’
Steele is the sole survivor of the actual
participants in the battle of San Jacinto
and his address Promises to be very
interesting.
BILL WITHDRAWN.
Considerable time was spent in the
discussion of an appeal from the ruling
of the chair by Strickland, who wanted
to recall a bill from a committee after
it had been acted on adversely, the
chair holding that he could not do so,
but later it was discovered that the
rules permit the withdrawal of a bill at
any time, so the appeal was withdrawn.
The house refused by a vote of 58
to 56 to reconsider its action in passing
finally the bill making the offense of
burglary of a private residence at night
punishable by death.
A resolution offered by Robertson of
Travis was adopted, providing that
the University of Texas should be ad-
mitted to the rights and privileges of
the Carnegie fund, thus endorsing the
action of the university board of re-
gents.
The house at the close of the after-
noon recessed until 8 O’clock, the night
session being devoted to the considera-
tion of local bills.
THE WEATHER:
day, somewhat^* unsettled.
GALVESTON TRIBUNE.
Arizona and New Mexico Statehood Bill
to Go Through.
By Associated Press.
Washington, D. C.. Feb. 11.—Repre-
sentative Watson of Indiana, Republic-
an whip in the house, told President
Roosevelt today that the bill admitting
Arizona and New Mexico to statehood
would pass the house next Monday un-
der suspension of the rules, which will
prevent amendments in that body.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Feb. 11.—Thomas Levis,
postmaster at Grant Works, Ill., who
pleaded guilty to 'embezzling $882.05 of
postoffice funds has been sentenced by
Judge Landis to serve two years in the
government penitentiary at Leaven-
worth.
A statement by Levis that he had
spent all the embezzled money to sup-
port an aged mother and dependent
I sister, coupled with the remark that
“he never chewed, drank, gambled or
smoked,” brought forth caustic com-
ment from the court.
“Do you consider smoking a crime?”
asked the court. “The fact that a man
has had no personal bad habits is no
excuse for the crime of embezzlement.
Smoking is no vice that plays a part in
this case. I am tired of hearing men
hold out as a palliative fact that they
not smoke.’
Does 850,000 Damage in Heart of Retail
District.
By Associated Press.
Kansas City, Feb. 11.—Fire early this
morning destroyed the interior of the
Houston building in the heart of the
retail district. The structure is four
stories, occupied by James & Sons,
queenswrare, on the first and second
floors; physicians’ and dentists’ and
other offices on the other two floors.
The loss is estimated at $50,000.
“High Grade”
on a
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 11.—Opening prices
of stocks today moved sluggishly up-
ward on a slight volume of trade. In-
dividual stocks continued to forge up-
ward but the rest of the list was not
benefited much by these special move-
ments.
FEOFLE’S-MAJESTIC
Postoffice St., Between 21st and 22d<
TONIGHT .AT 8.15 AND ALL WEEFL
NEW BILL.
The Home of Vaudeville.
6—BIG ACTS—6
HARRY RICHARDS AND COMPANY,
GEORGE AUSTIN MOORE.
GARDINER AND REESE.
GEORGE (Pork Chops) EVERS.
THE GREAT JARROW.
MERRITT SISTERS.
MATINEE EVERY DAY EXCEPT
MONDAY AT 3 P. M.
MATINEE—Prices, 15c and
Night, 10c, 15c, 25c, 35c and 50c.
By Associated Press-
New York, Feb. 11.—James Daley, a,
slender youth who was arrested last
night in Yonkers, N. Y., while mas-
querading in feminine attire, admitted
that he had been posing as a young
woman for the last four night and flirt-
ing with -men in order that he might
rob them. Daley was captured after
conversing with a detective who be-
came suspicious that his fair companion
was not a woman and proved
theory by tearing off Daley’s wig.
“My reason for masquerading,”
told the police, “was that I
GRAND OPERA HOUSE
TODAY, MATINEE AND NIGHT,
The Man of the Hour
PRICES—Matinee, 50c to $1.00. Night,
25c to $1.50. Seats on Sale.
MATINEE AT 2:30.
FRIDAY NIGHT,
ROGERS .BROS.
—IN—
“PANAMA”
Seats on Sale. Prices 50c to $2.00.
' NO FREE LIST,
Coming—“BUSTER BROWN.”
Coming-“THE LION AND THE MOUSE.”
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Ill., Feb 11.—Psychotherapy
as taken up by the Emmanuel move-
ment for the treatment of mankind by
the application of the mind rather
than the drug store was pointed to as
a possible “Frankenstein, which may
give the churches a merry chase” at a
big joint meeting of the Chicago Mdd-
ical Society and the Chicago Neuro-
logical Society last night.
The physicians and neurologists pres-
ent generally admitted there is much
benefit in psychotherapy when used
by physicians as an adjunct to medi-
cine, but some professed doubt as to
the safety of its use in the hands of
clergymen and laymen, except in clear-
ly defined cases of moral turpitude or
religious disquietude.
Dr. Sidney Kuhn, in urging the ap-
plication of the treatment in the hands
of a physician who may skillfully com-,
bine its use with medical attenion,
said:
“Psychotherapy is of the greatest
value to all of us. That- we have not
made full use of it has driven hun-
dreds into the hands of the laymen.
Some of them have been more or less
capable.
New System Between New York and
France Gives Good Promise.
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 11.—The new postal
sea service between this city and
France was inaugurated today on the
French line steamer La Bretagne, sail-
ing for Havre. Postmaster Edward M.
Morgan of New York and P. Raguet,
general agent of the Compagnie Gen-
erale Trans-Atlamtique, both expressed
themselves today enthusiastically about
the new service and are hopeful of its
success and for the permanent estab-
lishment between the two countries.
It requires the installation of two
federal clerks and two French govern-
ment clerks aboard the La Bretagne to
handle the mails.
For a number of years the United
States government had been trying to
get the French government to adopt
the service and the Cunard line is now
the only one without it, according to
Postmaster Morgan.
“It will be of great benefit in facil-
itating the movement of the French
mail in this country,” said Mr. Morgan.
“Under the new system -all the mail
is sorted aboard ship and ready for
distribution upon arrival. We will be
able to save from eight to ten hours
time in New York city delivery and 24
hours through to the Pacific coast.”
The federal authorities believe the
success of the new service on
French line will insure its
adoption by the Cunard line.
He Was Formerly President of Spring
Hill College.
By Associated Press.
Mobile, Ala., Feb. 11.—Rev. Domi-
nick Beaudequin, S. J., a native of
Lyons, France, former president and
vice president of Spring Hill College,
and for twelve years rector of St. Jo-
seph's Catholic Church here, died last
night after a lingering illness, aged 82
years. He was widely known .through-
out the South.
In response to requests from Galves-
ton’s representatives in the both houses
of the legislature, members of the
Home Protective League and others
deeply interested in freeing the resi-
dence section of Galveston from sa-
loons, are. circulating petitions asking
that .the districting bill be introduced
and passed. This task was commenced
some days ago and if there was ever a
doubt in the minds of anyone about the
feelings of the people -of Galveston on
this subject, the way they have come
out on this occasion should certainly
remove it instantly.
From one end of the city to the oth-
er, among all classes and both races,
an overwhelming percentage of those
approached have come out strongly in
favor of the movement and signed the
In fact, the securing
of about 2000 names now on the peti-
tions was accomplished with so little
opposition and developed so few who
declined to sign for any reason, that
those circulating the papers were them-
selves somewhat surprised. They knew
that the people sincerely and earnestly
opposed to the pernicious barrooms
scattered among the homes, schools and
churches of Galveston were vastly in
the majority, but it was not so well
understood,. until now, that such a pre-
ponderance of these were -willing and
in fact desirous of being put down
for the proposed bill. No movement
for a cleaner and better CfalVeSton has
ever met with, a more hearty and cor-
dial response from so large a propor-
tion of the citizenship.
It will be remembered that at the
hearings before the city commission
last Winter, when the districting ordi-
nance was undei’ consideration by that
bodj’, the only people who had a word
to say for the continuance of the bar-
rooms in the residence section were the
keepers of the places and their attor-
neys and those who sold them goods
of one kind or another. On the other
hand every one of the many Galveston
citizens who came out for the passage
of the ordinance were interested only
in the bettering of conditions in the
city by the removal of a blight from
among the homes of its people. The
same conditions exist now in connec-
tion with the Work of securing and ar-
ranging the names of the qualified
vorers of the city for presentation to
the representatives at Austin in re-
sponse to their requests.
Some time ago the representatives of
the corner grocery barrooms were per-
sistent in urging that no law what-
ever be considered to cure the technical
defect found by the courts in the one
passed by the last legislature. Later
they demanded that the question be
settled by an election and still later
they undertook the petition plan to
circumvent the people in their efforts
to secure a clean home district. Each
of these positions have been met by the
Home Protective League acting for the
people and the last one is now about
, being concluded.
A bill was prepared by City Attorney
M. E. Kleberg, who handled all of the
litigation over the ordinance for the
city. He had given the subject much,
thought and was thoroughly familiar
with the requirements of the situation.
In this bill the limits are defined as
they are in the Dallas saloon district-
ing charter amendment that has with-
stood all attacks in the courts. The
limits as asked for in this bill are even
more .liberal to the liquor men than
was the city ordinance. The entire
business section from the alley between
Winnie and Church street to the wharf
front and the entire wharf front from
one end of the city to the other is open
for saloons, as is also the gulf frontage
from the fishing pier at the foot of
20th street west to the city limits and
all of that portion of the city from
the gulf to the bay west of 45th street.
Woollam’s Lake, the Garten Verein and
a park for the colored people are also
exempt from the operations of the law.
Only the homes of the people and their
schools and churches are designed to
be protected from the inroads of the
saloon by the proposed act.
As soon as the advisers of those run-
ning the saloons in the residence sec-
tion saw that a good and unassailable
bill would be offered in spite of their
opposition, they commenced to call for
it to be submitted to a vote of the peo-
ple before it could become effective.
This plan was open to the serious ob-
jection that a campaign such as they
could wage with an immense “slush”
fund, that all who are familiar with
the situation know would be forth-
coming, would be especially undesira-
ble in any city, particularly in Galves-
ton, •• where a city commission election
is sure for this spring and a prohibi-
tion election is possible before the year
is out.
Later investigation, based upon the
opinions of several of the most prom-
inent members of the Texas bar, have
resulted in discovering that the appar-
ently innocent, catchy proposition to
have the bill provide for a vote of the
people is “loaded.” The" state constitu-
tion, with which all laws must comply,
or be void, provides just how elections
on the liquor question must be ar-
ranged.
As the territory included in the pro-
posed districting bill does not comply
with these requirments and can not be
made to so comply unless a portion of
the business section is included it can
be,readily seen what the results would
be to the proposed bill if the people
had permitted themselves to be led into
this trap- of the wily leaders of the
corner saloon men.
As the Galveston representatives in
the legislature desired an expression of
the people on the proposed bill and the
circulation of petitions had been sug-
gested in lieu of an election, those
operating for the residence section bar-
room keepers at once sent out several
men Wired to circulate ' their petitions,
which contained 'the clause referring
the matter to an election which would
practically render the law valueless
and prove a fraud on the people. This
trick was, however, detected in time
and the citizens are refusing to be led
into signing any such document.
The petition of the Home Protective
League is a simple, clean request of
the Galveston legislators to introduce
and secure the .passage of the bill out-
lined. The Tribune prints- it below in
the form of a coupon and requests that
every one in sympathy with the move-
ment to district the saloons away from
the residences who has not yet signed
one of the petitions of the league will
cut the coupon below out and after
signing send .or bring.it to the Tribune
office, or any member of the Home Pro-
tective League that they know, who
will see that the coupon reaches the
Tribune promptly. None of these signa-
tures are desired for publication; they
are only to be used to present to the
members of the legislature. The Trib-
une is requesting them solely in the
aid of a good cause that will prove of
inestimable value to Galveston in
many ways;
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 11.—Dr. Harvey W.
Wiley, head of the chemistry bureau
of the department of agriculture is of
the opinion that the person most re-
sponsible for impure milk is the con-
sumer, rather than the dairyman or
dealer. In an address delivered at
Columbia university he described con-
ditions which must be combatted on
the farm, told of the difficulties which
confront the dealer and then said:
“Now we come to the real offender,
the buyers. He wants his milk at eight
cents and if you sell milk at„ eight
cents a quart, you have to sell all
kinds, clean and dirty, in order to have
any means of carrying on the business.
The way to reform in the milk prob-
lem is to reform the consuming public
and let the consumer know that he need
not expect a sanitary milk at eight
cents or even ten cents a quart.”
House Voted Down School Segregation
Hill After Heated Debate.
By Associated Press.
Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 11.—Yielding
to the pressure brought to bear by
President Roosevelt and Governor Gil-
lette, the California assembly retired
from its previous position on the anti-
Japanese matter yesterday by recon-
sidering the former vote on the segre-
gation of Japanese students in the pub-
lic schools and finally rejecting the
measure by a vote of 41 to 37. An ef-
fort by the supporters of the bill to
further reconsider was lost by a tie
vote and the assembly is now clear of
any anti-Japanese measure objected to
by the National administration.
The fight for the suppression of the
bill was won only after many hours of
heated debate on the floor. The strug-
gle started at 10.30 o’clock in the
morning and lasted until 5 o’clock,
when a motion to reconsider was de-
feated on a tie vote—38 to 38.
school bill is still to be considered in
the senate, having been introduced
there by Senator A. Caminetti, but
there ? is little chance that the meas-
ure will be approved when brought up.
“I am highly pleased with fhe action
of the assembly,” said Governor Gil-
lette. “The east has been deeply con-
cerned over the measures pending here
and I feared that if the anti-Japanese
legislation was pressed at ’this time it
would have a disastrous effect.”
Governor Gillette said last night that
the next matter to be taken up by the
assembly would be the proposed appro-
priation of $10,000 for the compiling of
a census of Japanese in California. He
said that if from the data so gathered
it was found necessary to do so. con-
gress would be urged «to enact
Asiatic exclusion measure.
By Associated Press.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 11.—Half the
certified votes in the electoral college,
canvassed by congress yesterday, were
not in due form, according to one of
the tellers. The discovery of the er-,
rors wlil result in a movement to have-
congress jfrescribe a form for the re-
port of the votes from the various
states.
While the certificate from Wisconsin
contained probably the most offending
error, that casting ‘ tne vote of that
state for William H. Taft “of New
York” in stead of Ohio, certificate after
certificate showed the names of no
state after the persons voted for. It
was the failure of the officials who
! prepared the certificates to designate
the state which caused the tellers to
refrain from announcing the certifi-
cates in due form. Only once did Sen-
ator Bailey add these words and that
was in the case of Mississippi, where
the certificate was very short and easily
examined.
Legislators Do Not Know
Prompted His Action.
Special to The Tribune.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 11.—The question
now that is being asked by legislators
is who, or what, prompted Senator
Thomas to make the statements and
charges that he did concerning the vio-
lations of the anti-lobby law and also
assert that members of the legislature
were being molested and intimidated in
the discharge of their official duties.
Never before in the history of the sen-
ate has such assertions, charges or ac-
cusations been taken so seriously by
the senate. Senator Thomas insisted
that he did not make any statements
that would reflect on the honor of any
senator.
The affair has created the greatest
interest, and for atime it looked as if
it would rival the' famous Bailey in-
vestigation. At times the “senatorial
investigation,” was fully as lurid and
dramatic as was the Bailey investiga-
tion, and attracted several hundred vis-
itors to the galleries. The house Could
hardly ' transact any business as the
members thereof were anxious to hear
the proceedings over in the senate. It
seems that all such sensations are
usually confined to the senate, and
rarely if ever, has there been such dis-
in the house. But in the
branch there is not a- legisla-
ture that has passed into history that
did not leave in its tracks the doings
of at least a couple of investigations.
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 11.—Monsigor George
W. Mundelein advocated the election
of a Roman Catholic to the presidency
of the United States in a speech last
night at a dinner of the alumni of-the
Manhattan college at the Hotel Knick-
erbocker. ■
“There has never been a president in
the White House,” he said, “who has
had more regard and fairness for the
Catholic church than President Roose-
velt. He has shown it by his fearless
appointment of Catholics to high of-
fice.”
As to the possibility of a Catholic
being elected president of this country,
the speaker said:
“Give us a Catholic, able, honest and
just, and give him the solid support
of a united party and I believe he
would be elected hands down, even
now. The American people are just.
We are the only people who have never
dragged religion into politics. The
Vatican trusts that it will never see
the day that such is the case. We want
our rights and nothing more. We want
and demand the privileges granted to
us by the constitution. We are 14
millions strong and all we ask and all
we want is the free exercise of
faith, no discrimination against us
a square deal.
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