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-7,- VOL. III. No. 12.
AUGUSTA, GA., JULY 10, 1922.
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ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY
FR. KEYES NEW BISHOP OF SAVANNAH
Protestant Leaders Of
Atlanta Urge Georgia
To Repudiate Ku-Klux
: TERMS IT A BULLY
Says Klan Attacks Catholics
Because They Are Power
less, and That Others Are in
Danger.
“Encouraging” Baltimore
Sun’s Opinion on Appeal
Baltimore.—“Not all Georgians
Are Watsons,” is the caption of
an editorial in which the Balti
more “Sun” discusses the action
of the Christian Council (of Pro
testant Churches) of Georgia in
denouncing the Ku Klux Klan and
characterizing it as “a night
riding inoli.” The “Sun” declares
that “the finest and most en
couraging word from (jkjorgia in
many a day is contained in the
statement of the committee on
church co-operation of the Chris
tian Council, representing all of
the Protestant Churches in At
lanta.”
“The Church Council recognizes
the danger to ail elements of so
ciety if the demon of religious
intolerance is unloosened and is
permitted to form an alliance
with the political demagogue,”
says the “Sun.”
Condemns Masking and De
plores Intolerence—No “In
visible” Government During
His Reign, He Declares. -
(Special to The Bulletin).
Atlanta, Ga—Governor Thomas W.
Hardwick of Georgia, in an address
before the newly organized Georgia
league for enforcement of law
through constituted authority de
clared there will be no “Invisible”
government in the state as long as
he is chief executive, and that he
favored a law forbidding the wear
ing of masks in public. The Gover
nor also denied that he is a mem
ber of the Klan. He said he had
been invited to join and had read
its rituals and printed principles,
hut had declined to become a mem
ber. Lawlessness, where it may
exist in the state, must be broken
up at any cost, lie declared, even
if it be necessary to declare martial
law, and lie declared himself ready
to give the sheriffs and judges of
the various counties assistance to
the limit of his power to apprehend
and punish lawbreakers.
RT. REV. MICHAEL J. KEYES, S. M., BISHOP-ELECT
OF SAVANNAH
(By N. 0. W. G. News Service)
Atlanta , Ga.—Protestant leaders
who have begun to realize the mencc
of the Ku Klux Klan in politics and
. the excuse which it furnishes for
lawlessness are making a sincere and
vigorous effort to dam the wave of
bigotry and fanaticism which for
several years has surged back and
forth across this and adjacent states.
The Christian Council, represent
ing all the Protestant churches in
Atlanta, has thrown its powerful in
fluence against the Klan and is now
branding its members and its prac
tices in stronger terms than any
Catholic has used. The Christian
Council has issued a statement in
which the people of Georgia are lie-
sought to repudiate the Klan and op
pose its secrecy and violence. This
is only one of the signs that point
to a revulsion against the Klan in
the section in which it had its be
ginning and shows its greatest
strength.
The statement of the Christian
Council had for its occasion the re
cent meeting of the Atlanta Board of
Education and the report that Com
missioner McCalley’s allegation that
lie had been threatened wtih death
in the event he should vote for the
retention of Catholic teachers,
against whom the Ku Klux and
their allies were making a virulent
attack. This fight on the Catholic
teac.i.irs was made by Commissioner
Hutcheson, who declared after the
meeting in question that all the
members of the B6ard of Education
had taken a solemn pledge to dis
charge all Catholic teachers from
their positions.
Doom of Democracy.
“Can you doubt,” says the state
ment of the Christian Council, put
ting the question to the people of
Georgia, “that democracy and our
fellowship are doomed if we permit
the night-riding mob, the masked
bully and the secret assassin to drive
the ‘light’ from Georgia, enthroning
in this state the most evil of all
tyrants, religious intolerants and
hate?
“In this State, politically, the
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INTOLERANCE CONDEMNED
Atlanta, Ga.—Religious intolerance
was denounced as “the most shame
ful thing in the modern world” by
Governor Thomas W. Hardwick in
his address at the 1922 commence
ment exercises of the Georgia School
of Technology in this city recently
“If intolerance be allowed to rule
it will blacken the pages of Ameri
can history,’ he said. "It is con
trary to the principles and pillars
upon which the commonwealth of
Georgia is founded. It runs direct
ly counter to those fundamental doc
trines of human rights and human
liberties so clearly and unanswer
ably voiced by that great Southern
statesmen, Thomas Jefferson, in the
Declaration of Independence.
“Oh the other hand moderation is
one of the cornerstones of our com
monwealth, upon which has been
builded the greatness of America.
It is part of the soil and spirit of
Georgia. Independence of political
and religious beliefs, and considera
tion of the rights of others, have
long been recognized as the basis
upon which true American demo
nocracy rests, and to do away with
moderation means the ruin of dem
ocratic principles.”
Governor Hardwick declared that
wisdom and justice were the other
principles, in addition to moderation
upon which the constitution of
Georgia rested. He pointed out that
the great charter, wrested from
King John, of England, several cen
turies ago by the barons of Hunney-
meade, contained these principles of
wisdom, justice and moderation, and
James Oglethorpe brought them to
America and established them in the
early colony of Georgia, which he
founded “for the oppressed of all
lands and for peoples of every na
tion who were persecuted for relig
ious or political beliefs.”
Governor Hardwick said that
“equal and exact justice for all men,
black or white, rich or poor, was the
proudest boast of our modern civili
zation. The third cornerstone of our
civilization is wisdom, and wisdom
is not necessarily the same as edu
cation. Wisdom is common sense
and practical vision and is essen
tial to true education.”
Two years ago Governor Hard
wick as a candidate for chief ex
ecutive of Georgia, was championed
by Senator Thomas E. Watson, and
be in turn supported the present
Junior Senator from Georgia.
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APPOINTED TO HEAD
Bishop-elect Is President of
Marist College at Catholic
University of America—A
Native of Ireland.
NOTED AS AN EDUCATOR
AND PROFOUND SCHOLAR
Succeeds to See Occupied by
Brilliant Prelates—Date of
His Arrival in Georgia Not
Yet Announced.
Courtesy of Savannah Morning News
Religious Issue
Fails In Maine
Gov. Baxter Renominated
Despite Attacks on Him for
Friendship Toward Catho
lics.
Portland, Maine,—In spite of the
effort made by a Protestant minister
to defeat Governor Pcrcival P. Bax
ter for renomination in the Repub
lican primary election, last Monday,
by appealing to anti-Cntholic pre
judices, the Governor easily trium
phed over his opponents by obtain
ing a plurality of more than 20,000.
The minister who sought to fo
ment religious intolerance in the
campaign was Rev. Judson P. Mar
vin, pastor of the Universalist
Church of the Messiah in Portland,
and the pretext upon which he acted
was Governor Baxter’s gift of an
organ to Sacred Heart Parish of
Portland, coupled with the Gover
nor’s attendance at religious ser
vices in the church on the occasion
of the instrument’s dedication) and
his action in sending a message of
condolence to Rome on the occasion
of Pope Benedict’s death.
In a letter which he circulated
throughout the State, Rev. Mr. Mar
vin urged the defeat of Governor
Baxter. One excerpt from this letter
is the following:
“W ill the people of Maine stand
idly by and allow the Chief Execu
tive of this State to recognize of
ficially any institution that has the
disruption of our public schools as
its purpose? Are we to have the
school system of the Middle Ages
and Continental Europe grafted upon
us?”
Belfast Police
Search Bishops
Cardinal Logue Among Vic
tims of Indignity—Protes
tants Blame Craig for Mas
sacres.
London.—A well known Catholic
of Herefordshire, in the diocese of
Cardiff, died here recently on her
100th birthday. She was Mrs. Mary
Jane Riley and until the time she
was well over 90 she walked a dis
tance of nine miles regularly every
Sunday in order to attend mass.
Dublin.—Approval by the Belfast
Government of the outrages being
committed against the Catholics of
that city and the adjacent districts
has been definitely established by
two facts. In fixing the responsi
bility on the present heads of the
Lister Government these facts also
indicate that there is little hope of
('cessation of the persecution of
Catholics while these leaders remain
in power.
The Orange campaign against
Catholics began in July, 1920. By
the middle of October of that year
7,000 Catholics has been expelled
from the shipyards and other works
in and around Belfast. On October
14, 1920, Sir James Craig, then Par
liamentary Secretary to the British
Admiralty, addressed an assemblage
of the Orange shipyard workers. In
his speech on that occasion he said:
“Do I approve of the action you
boys have taken in the past? I say
‘yes.’ ”
The action taken by the “hoys” in
the past included the forcible ex
pulsion by them of 7,000 Catholic
workers from their employment. A
few months afterwards Sir Janies
Craig became Premier of the Belfast
police force. During the regime of
that Government 1,500 Catholics
(making ail together 8,500) have
been driven from their employment.
No fewer than 20,500 have been com
pelled to leave their homes and
hundreds have been killed.
These facts prove that what Sir
James Craig approved of as Secre
tary of the British Admiralty he
also approves of as head of the Bel
fast Government.
The primary duty of a government
Special to The Bulletin.
Savannah, Ga.—An Associated
Press notice received here Saturday
evening, July 8, stated that Rev.
Michael J. Keyes, S. M„ president of
the Marist College, at the Catholic
University at Washington, D. C„ has
bee,. appointed Jiy the Holy Father
Bishop of Savannah, to succeed Rrr
Rev. Benjamin J. Keiley, D.'D., whose
failing sight caused him to resign
last February.
When the Bisliop-cleet will come
to Savannah and the date on which
tie will be consecrated are not
known. Very Rev. Jos. D. Mitchell
continues as administrator ■ of the
Diocese in the meantime.
The announcement of the selection
of the -successor of Bishop Keiley
was greeted with widespread inter
est through the state, in non-Catho-
lic as well as Catholic circles. The
Catholics of the state especially are
well pleased at the designation of a
man of the character and calibre of
Father Keyes to head the Church in
Georgia. They believe the Diocese
of Savannah has a brilliant future
and it needs only a leader such as
the Bishop-elect to develop it and to
realize on the foundations laid by
Bishop Keiley and his predecessors.
Bishop-elect Keyes will he the
eighth head of the Diocese of Sav
annah. He is a member of the Mar
ist society, the religious congregation
of priests in charge of Sacred Heart
Church and the Marist College in
Atlanta, the North Georgia Missions,
the Church of St. Francis Xavier in
Braunswick and the Southeast Geor
gia Missions, including St. Joseph’s
Church. ‘The appointment of Father
Keyes recalls the fact that of Geor
gia’s eight prelates, four were mem
bers of religious orders or congre
gations, Bishop Verot, who was a
Sulpieian; Bishop late Cardinal Per-
sico, a Franciscan; Bishop, after
ward Archbishop, Gross, Redcmp-
torist; and Bishop-elect, a member
of the Society of Mary Rt. Rev. Bis
hop Gunn of Natchez, formerly pas
tor of Sacred Heart Church, Atlanta
was also a member of the Society
of Mary, the Marists.
(Special to The Bulletin)
Washington, D. C.—Bt. Rev. Mich
ael J. Keyes, S. M. Bishop-elect of
Savannah, is a native of Ireland. He
was born in the town of Dingle,
County Kerry, Ireland, February 28,
187fi. He obtained his classical train
ing in Ireland, there winning high
scholastic honors, and later became
a teacher in the national schools of
his native town.
While still young he came to the
United States and became a mem
ber of the faculty at All Hallows
College, Salt Lake City. The col
lege was in charge of the Marist
Fathers, and in 1901 the future Bis
hop of Savannah entered the nov
itiate of the order at Washington,
D. C. He made his pliilosphical and
theological studies at the Marist
College and the Catholic University
at Washington, was professed in
1905, and ordained .Type 9.J. 1507.
After his ordijufion Father Keyes
was appoJjgfEd professor of moral
theology and canon law at the Mar
's 1 ^Gllegc. On March 22 of this
year? Superior-General of the
“JS'rist Congregation appointed Fa
per Keyes president of the Maris.
College at Catholic University, asy
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