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Vol. 13, No. 35
Shall the Pope’s Law Override the law of Georgia?
A FEW years ago, when the French Re
** public was separating itself from the Ro
man church, and closing the cess-pool nun
nkries, Bishop Keiley of Savannah roared
angrily, every time Cardinal Gibbons shot
off his resonant mouth; and the Bishop de
clared that if ever Georgia passed a law which
the Roman church did not like, the Catholics
'would defy it.
Well, the time has come ■
The State of Georgia has enacted a law
which Rome does not like, and Keiley says he
will not obey it.
The Veazey bill provides for the question
ing of inmates, out of the hearing of the
keepers : otherwise the law would be a farce.
Keiley says that no officers of the State
shall inspect Rome’s dungeons, m his diocese,
unless accompanied by a “gentleman” ap
pointed by himself.
In other words, no papal prisoner shall be
questioned by the State, except under the
stern eye of the jailer.
This of course would defeat the very ob
ject of the law.
Keiley knows that Rome’s Bastilles will
not bear inspection, and he is therefore, de
termined that they shall not be subjected to
a genuine inspection.
He defies the State, rather than risk scandal
for his church.
Bishop Keiley is the man who caused the
enforcement in Georgia of the Pope's infa
mous Ke teniere decree.
Let me again give you the literal facts in
one case, which illustrates how that foreign
law works in Georgia:
On the 4th Dec., 1912, Frank Boifeuillet. a
citizen of the State, took out a marriage
license, in Bibb County, to marry Edith Mae
Taylor, also a citizen.
Rev. John G. Harrison, a Methodist min
ister, united the couple in marriage, the same
day.
As the law requires, Rev. Harrison re
turned the license, with his certificate, to the
Court of Ordinary, and the record of the legal
marriage was made Dec. 7, 1912.
Mr. Boifeuillet and Miss Taylor were both
citizens fry birth. Miss Taylor is the daugh-
The Secret Deal Which We Democrats Made with the Republican Megroes.
IN June, two years ago, the Associated Press
* sent out a special dispatch which appeared
in most of the dailies.
At Macon we have one of these dailies, now
edited by a Canadian, whose recent arrival
in our midst suggests that be may have
folded his tent and got out of Canada, to
escape military service, at Verdun, and other
hot fronts.
The name of the sudden adventist from
Canada is George Long, and if King George
ever needs Telegraph George on the battle-
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, August 24, 1916
ter of a Baptist deacon, well known in Mid
dle Georgia: Air. Boifeuillet is cousin to
John T. Boifeuillet who has been Clerk to
the House of Representatives for many years,
and who was sent to England on a secret and
special mission by President vV’lson.
As you will see, here was a perfectly legal
marriage of two citizens of Georgia, under
the laws of the State, and by a minister of
the Gospel.
The State made a record of Pus legal mar
riage, and it is found on pag * 475, Book M.
of Marriage Licenses, Ordinary’s office, Ma
con, Georgia.
Boifeuillet and wife consummated the mar
riage, went to living as man and wife, ap
parently happy.
WILL YOU DO THIS FOR ME?
On September 12th, we want an
active worker at every voting place
in Georgia, to work especially for my
old school-mate
ALEX. KEESE.
There is no money in it, but I ask
it as a work of friendship and patriot
ism.
We must beat the Yankee Book
Trust which has been robbing our
children so long.
B KITT AIN IS THE BOOK TRUST
TOOL and we can never hope for
free text-books until he is put out.
WILL YOU HELP US IN OUR
FIGHT FOR THE CHILDREN ?
Send me your name.
Dr. Keese looks to us to attend to
this detail — a worker at each precinct.
COME OVER AND HELP US I
THOS. E. WATSON.
Bishop Keiley considered the marriage null
and void— why?
Because Boifeuillet was a Catholic.
Was he a citizen? Yes. Did he enjoy all
the rights of citizenship? Yes. Did he claim
and exercise the privilege of voting? Yes.
line, and asks me to tell him where his evasive
subject is to be found, I mean to tell tales out
of school.
If George fights as valiantly as he writes,
the Germans may congratulate themselves
upon bis extemporaneous departure from his
native land.
If the expatriot from Canada will look at
the file of 77u; Telegraphy for June 30, 1914,
ho can refresh his memory on the following
Associated Press dispatch from Washington,
D. C.:
Was he qualified to serve as a juror, and to
hold office ? Yes.
But because he belonged to a foreign
church, Bishop Keiley held that be could not
be legally married under the laws of Geor-
O V
gia.
Although a citizen, the State had no juris
diction over him, in the most important of
social relations.
Only a foreign law could marry him.
Consequently, Bishop Keiley, acting
through the local priests, in Macon, ordered,
Boifeuillet to put away his wife, unless shs
would admit that she had been living id
“filthy concubinage,” and would permit
bachelor priest to “cure” her defective mar
riage.
In KeileyG eyes, the Protestant wife ha<l
no rights whatever. She was an accursecl
heretic, and he is oath-bound to persecute
such persons, to the utmost of his power.
Not only is he bound by the ordinary
Bishop’s oath to persecute to the utmost all
heretics and schismatics, but he is presuma-*
bly bound by the devilish Jesuit oath, whoso
obligations include every form of torture and
murder —for Keiley, like Gibbons, is a Jesuit,
Instructed by big foreign church, Frank
Boifeuillet had the unspeakable baseness to*
tell his wife that she was not his wife, but his*
concubine, only; and that their children would
be bastards.
When she refused to make this shameful
confession, he deserted her. For no other*
reason, than that she would not admit that?
the State has no jurisdiction over Catholics
citizens, in the vastly important province of
marriage, Frank Boifeuillet forsook the trust-*
fid woman whom he had courted with words?
of love, and whom he had vowed to protect?
until death should part .him from her.
Who is chiefly the man of guilt, in this foul
outrage upon a Georgia wife?
Ben. Keiley, the Jesuit Bishop!
It is he who brings into this State a for
eign law 7 , in conflict with Georgia’s law. anil
enforces that foreign law, to the ruin of citi
zens of Georgia.
He did the same thing with Bernard
Brown’s legal wife, and he has repeated his?
(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.)
WILSON KEEPS PROMISE
Negro Delegation Told Their Race Would be
Protected.
Washington, D. C., June 29, 1914. —President
Wilson has promised to fill all positions under the
Federal Gov’t. —now held by negroes—with other
negroes in case of changes. He toid Representa
tive Smith of Maryland, who urged him today
to appoint a white man as Recorder of Deeds for
the District of Columbia, that soon after his in
auguration a delegation of negroes called on him
to ask appointment of negroes to positions for
merly held by negroes, and that he promised to
accede to their request.
Price, Five Gents
