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l)e3effersonian
Vol. 11, Mo. 48
How the Southern States and the Common People Generally Have
Been Wronged and Insulted By This Plutocratic and
WILSON’S nomi
nation was brought about by
the concerted action of such Roman
Catholic bosses as Roger Sullivan, Charles F.
Murphy, Tom Taggart, Cardinal Gibbons,
iWilliam McCombs, and Patrick Tumulty.
During the recent campaign, W. F. Mc-
Combs, the official head of the Democratic
•National Committee, made speeches for Roger
Sullivan, who was running for the Senate in
Illinois.
National Chariman McCombs declared,
that Roger Sullivan—the twin-brother in
Chicago politics to William Lorimer—had
flung the 55 votes of Illinois to Wilson at a
critical time in the Baltimore Convention, and
had done it on his own motion, and that this
unauthorized act of Sullivan had stampeded
the Convention to Woodrow Wilson.
• On this ground, McCombs claimed that
every Democrat in Illinois should vote for
Sullivan.
’ Instead of helping Lorimer’s twin-brother,
these McCombs speeches hurt him.
The Illinois Democrats were already sore
enough and suspicious enough; and when the
How the Pope Ex-Communicated and Cursed the Barons On Account
IT was my pleasure to serve
1 in Congress with the Hon.
Bourke Cochran, of New York,
.Whom I found to be a strong lawyer, a power
ful debater, and a most affable gentleman.
When it was known that he was to address
the House, the galleries were always full. To
him, more than to any one member, was due
the defeat of Free Silver, in the bloody fight
that ended in the memorable night-session of
1892-3.
1 This magnificent orator has often made
speeches glorifying the Roman Catholic
Church in connection with Magna Charta.
Mr. Cochran is a devout Catholic, who repairs
his health occasionally by a trip to Rome;
‘and he dwells eloquently upon the conduct of
‘Archbishop Stephen Langton and the Catho
lic barons who forced the wicked tyrant,
King John, to his knees at Runnymede.
(What Mr. Cochran fails to do, is to dwell
eloquently upon the Pope's conduct, in that
fateful crisis.
What Langton did was not the act of the
Church. What the rebellious barons did, whs
not the official act of the Papacy. That the
glorious rebels were Catholics, is true. Every-
The South Could Not Even Get Back the Illegal Cotton Tax Fund
Americus, Ga., Nov. 17, x 1914.
DEAR SIR: Enclosed find clipping. Won’t you
please tell your readers the whole truth
about this cotton tax. As I remember, the United
States Supreme Court has already rendered a de
cision upon this question, and it now only re
mains for the Hokes, Hardwicks, etc., to pass
some kind of a law to make the money available.
Hurrah for Carranza! Yours truly,
JAMES T. COTNEY.
(answer.)
Your memory is correct. The U. S. Su-
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, November 26, 1914
Roman Catholic Administration
of the Great Charter of Our Liberties
official head of the, National Democratic parti t /
—HE HIMSELF A RANK PAPIST
FOOT-KlSSEß— boldly asserted that the
Roman Catholics had nominated Wilson, it
was too much.
With Tumulty, the Jesuit spy at the White
House, and Cardinal Gibbons issuing orders
to Congress for more papist chaplains. and
Wilson’s official family attending Roman
Catholic functions in their official capacities,
and President Wilson himself appointing such
Catholics as the blood-stained (TShaughnessij
to high ministerial positions, the
United States Army virtually put under the
Pope's command at Vera Cruz— with all this,
the Democrats of Illinois had more than a
plenty of Wilson, Tumulty, Gibbons, Mc-
Combs and Sullivan.
The Democrats of Illinois acted like pat
riotic Americans, and voted against the papal
twin-brother of that infamous embezzler,
cheat and bribe-giver, William Lorimer.
Now let us see what this Administration
body was Catholic, then : they had to be. The
Papacy had so harried, and butchered and
burned at “heresy,” that all people desiring
to live professed to love the Papa, who
had demonstrated that they could not live,
unless they loved him—or at least said they
did.
But the official attitude of Popery, toward
civil liberty and human rights, was of course
determined by the Pope himself; and as it
may be interesting to our readers to know
how the Pope regarded the Great Charter
of our liberties, I will lay before them a
translation of the decree which the Infallible
Papa issued on that historic occasion:
(Notice to the Papal legate, Pandolfo, of
the excommunication of the English barons.)
While our very dear son in Christ, John
the illustrious King of England, has more
than satisfied the hope of our Lord, (the
pope) and that of the church, and especially
that of our brother, Stephen Langton, Arch
bishop of ’Canterbury and his bishops, we
preme Court decided that the money was
wrongfully taken from the cotton growers of
the South.
Why it is that we can’t get it back, remains
a mystery.
The amount which was placed in the U. S.
Treasury has been variously reported from
$50,000,000 to $68,000,000.
1 The Government has had the use of the
money for 45 years.
has done for the general good of the
country, and for the Southern States,
PSDcciall v.
vcpttldll V •
It has enormously increased the govern
mental expenses.
It has created an immense number of new
offices.
It has raised salaries in the higher ranks,
where the salaries were already large enough,
according to Republican law and practise.
It has created more Bureaus, thus adding
vastly to the undemocratic tendency to make
our Government an affair of autocratic Bu
reaus.
When Mr. Taft created a Tariff bureau, the
Democrats railed at it, and Congress swept
it aw'ay.
But this Administration has given us a
Money-Trust bureau, with an imported Ger
man Jew to rule it: also, a Manufacturers’-
Trust bureau to regulate whatever the Com
merce Commission leaves unregulated; and an
Appeals bureau in the Department of the In
terior —all of these new’ Russia-like Bureaus
being immensely expensive.
(continued on page four.)
far from what was befitting
and in accordance with the interest of the
sacred Cross, and the mandate of the Holy
See, and the oath of firm fealty, have not
rendered the due aid—(on the contrary, mx
respect) to him against those disturbing the
kingdom, which belongs to the church of
Rome in the name of the pope, nor have they
given him their good-will as it were, being
conscious of, (not to say leagued together in)
a conspiracy which is unjust, in that it is not
free from the restlessness of a society which
is unjust in that it takes no step to prevent
a manifest wrong. Beloved, how are the
aforesaid pontiffs defending the inheritance
of the church of Rome?
By no means do they show so much zeal in
opposing those who attempt to destroy the
business of the Cross, as they show in pro
tecting the Crusaders.
"Worse by far than the Saracens are the
present (bishops) when they attempt to drive
him from the kingdom from which rather it
(continued on page four.)
At 6 per cent, simple interest, the sum now
due the South is around $200,000,000.
Isn’t it strange that this Democratic Ad
ministration, which lends the. bankers $78,-
000,000 at 2 per cent, and creates hundreds of
millions of dollars for them to use at 3 per
cent interest, COULD NOT PAY THE
SOUTH AY HONEST DEBT, when the
Cotton Belt was in such a fearful need, of
money?
Price, Five Gents
wonder much and are ritoved
because certain ones of them