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National Politics Briefly
Told .
Have you read the notice served by Henry
Lincoln Johnson on the Republican National
Committee? If not, read it. It is the richest
political document of the season.
hUtiMiai r ^CommiUeeman' , frorn°the^ hd,^ e ^^eTl^®’^
Georgia. His title to said seat of -nt
be questioned, because it bears tWe official
okey of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massa
chusetts
Lincoln Johnson-pardon me, I meant
—Henry Lincoln Johnson tells the G. 0. P.
that a Carpetbagger, named J. L. Phillips, is
operating in the State of Georgia under tho
name and style of the Republican Committee,
with headquarters in Asa Candler’s Coco-Cola
building in the City of Atlanta. Committee
man Johnson savs that Phillips is not a resi
dent of the State of Georgia; that he is a
citizen,of Pennsylvania; that hepays no taxes
in Georgia, therefore has no right to vote in
this State; and in addition, Johnson savs that
Wilsonism permitted Phillips to add a. couple
of million dollars to his bank account, for
which Phillips has been indicted, etc.
On the face of the matter, I am not willing
to defend either Johnson or Phillips, but I
desire to point out a few weak spots in the
record of both.
As to the Phillips indictment, I will not
discuss that. An indictee is entitled to the
presumption of innocence, until his guilt is es¬
tablished by evidence, etc. Phillips will not be
eonvicted. That is a sure guess. Daugherty
is in full control of the U. S. Department of
Justice.
This Johnson-Phillips war involves this:
Under the rules of the Republican party,
each National Committeeman is entitled to
©am© a committeewoman from his state, that is
to say, the Committeeman’s State. Henry
Lincoln Johnson is Republican National Com¬
mitteeman from Georgia. J. L. Phillips is
Chairman of the “Republican State Commit¬
tee,” whatever that is. Now, Johnson says
brows that Phillips, Republicanism, by the consent of certain high¬
of usurped the right to
distribute, give away, barter, or sell, patron¬
age inwiis State, which right, under party law,
is tbe personal asset of the National C it
T nil
tions have been ignored by Washington offi¬
cialdom. He says that Phillips has controlled
Georgia patronage, and is now trying to usurp
the National Committeeman’s right to name
this Republican CommitteewoUian. Henry Lin¬
coln Johnson says that he will hand in the
name of a Georgia woman and that if his
nominee is not promptly confirmed by the G,
0. P. that hell will be played to at least six
different tunes in the State of Georgia.
If Johnson names a white woman, what,
etc.?
If Phillips names a negro woman, what,
again, etc.?
It seems to me that both Henry Lincoln
Johnson and Chairman Phillips should leave
|his democratic wrangle National to the Committee Honorable Dictator, Cordell Hull,
who
Appears politicians to be on of the friendly North terms with the ne¬
gro and East. Chair
fcan Hull has extended the hand of fellowship
the negToes of Northern and Eastern States,
and the presumption is, that Mr. Hull is quali¬
fied to pass judgment in this contest between
Johnson and Philips.
been For sixty years, th.e Southern States have
the dependable assets of the Democratic
party. It
establish has been opposition impossible party for our account people to of
an on
this eternal Negro Question.
Whenever independentism tried to assert
itself in the South, Democratic bosses and the
Southern newspapers have pictured “Negro
Rule”, wing which of the scare-crow Democratic has Party ruled the South¬ since
ern ever
the War between the States.
The politically Solid South is the Nation’s
Dead Sea.
It is ruled by the Wall Street element of
the Democratic party.
The Democratic bosses could not handle
the Southern States in this way were it not
for the work of our Southern papers.
The Southern newspapers will not print
the truth in reference to the negro incidents of
Democratic campaigns. If Chairman Hull had
not been assured in advance that Southern
newspapers would not use the story of his
“fellowship politicians, interview” with Baltimore negro
he would not have told those negro
leaders that their people had nothing to lose
by voting the Democratic ticket next year.
Douglas tyhen President Cleveland dined Fred
and his white wife at the White
House, not one word cf the story did Southern
papers publish. Southern politicians and Sou
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(Continued from Last Week.)
(VIII.) antiquity
The religions ms" of were
Persew.” were unknown.' An
^Sta°te
claim the right to regulate his beliefs.
conduct, in public, was a different matter. ,
As for that, Jesus Himself was
and put to death on account of His
of an established law. He could not be
ed for any mere difference of opinion. Tin
Jews who prosecuted Him did not claim th,
right to dictate His faith. His public eonduo
and teaching led to His arrest and doom.
When Augustus Osar forbade the celebra
tion of the Egyptian rites within a mile of hti
capital, he was thought to have been
All other religions were free to build
and to worship therein; and. Rome had
been familiar with the divinities of the Nile.
After Augustus, came the Emperors wad
persecuted the Christians; but these persecu4
tions did not originate in bigotry. The disci!
P 1 ® 5 * of Christ could not conscientiously obey
a11 the requirements of the Roman law; and fob;
their violation of law, the Christians were punj
ished. j
There was no prophet to admonish th#
primitive believers that, by conforming to
Rome’s pagan custom and ceremonial, they
would simply anticipate by several centuries;
the practices of the Christian popes. There¬
fore, martyrs died rather than be participants
jn what are now the established and orthbdox
rites.
(IX)
Finally came the day when the pagan em¬
perors, Constantine and Lieinius, decreed that
the Roman world should again be the home of
Universal Toleration.
Here is the Edict of the year 313, before
Constantine became a Christian:
When we, Constantine and Lieinius, had
an interview at Milan, and conferred to
gether with respect to the good and secur
ity of the common weal, it seemed to us
that, amongst those things that are reverenced profi- I
table to mankind in' general, the and#
1 first
chief attention, and that it was proper that ’
the Christians and all others should have
liberty to follow that mode of religion
which to each of them appeared best; so
that that God, who is seated in heaven,
might be benign and propitious to us, and
to every one under our government. And
therefore we judge it a salutary measure,
and one highly consonant to right reason,
that no man should be denied leave of at
taching himself to the rites of the Chris
tians, or to whatever other religion his
mind directed him, that thus the supreme
Divinity, to whose worship we freely de
vote ourselves, might continue to vouch
safe his favor and beneflcience to us. And
accordingly we give you to know that,
without regard to any provisos in our for
mer orders to you concerning the Chris
tians, all who choose that religion are to be
permitted, freely’and absolutely, to remain
• in it, and not to be disturbed any ways,
or molested. And we thought fit to be ’
thus special in the things committed to
your charge, that you might understand
that the indulgence which we have granted
in matters of religion to the Christians is
ample and unconditional; and perceive at
the same time that the open and free exer
cise of their respective religions is granted
to all others, as well as to the Christians.
For it befits the well-ordered State and
the tranquility of our times that each indi
vidual be allowed, according to his own
.
choice, to worship the Divinity; and we
mean not to derogate aught from the hon
or due to any religion or its votaries .—
Latanius, “De Morte Persecutorum” (On
the Death of the Persecutors,) ehap 48.
“We, Constantine and Lieinius!” Pagans,
both.
Centimes „ , . rolled by, n the seat of the Roman
Empire moved liiastward, the bishop ot the old
Eternal City was left behind to become the
most conspicuous personage in Rome; 1 lie bar
barians overran the West and erected new
kingdoms-, the Roman bishops took the vacant
place o! the pagan I’ontifl, and, in imitation
of the ( H'sars, seized the reins of power, sub
stdnted an ecclesiastical monarchy for the
Christian republic, and developed the dogma
that a rebel against the Pope, was a rebel
agamst God.
The heretic was a rebel: to kill him
not only no crime, but a meritorius act, a ser
vice to God, ' ■ **• v
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Thomson , Georgia, outlay f August 6, 1925.
THE MASSACRE OF»T. BARTHOLOMEW.
By TkomaMm, Watson.
So said the Pope, so said the Council, so
d dle ^ a P man °f ‘be sword.
[ South u the F in ast the > in castle, the West, m the at hut, the the North, fnght- at
slaughter their own flesh and blood rather
l&n of Pf speech, mit the independence of thought, free
liberty of worship,
( 7,
* Let us read , n Guizot’s ■ account t of the death , ,,
f , the first martyr in France:
John Led ere, a wool carder at Meaux,
seeing a bull of indulgences affixed to the
door of Meaux cathedral, had torn it down
and substituted a placard in which the
pope was described as antichrist. Having
been arrested on the spot, he was, by de¬
cree of the Parliament of Paris, whipped
publicly, three days consecutively, and
branded on the forehead by the hangman
in the presence of his mother, who cried,
“Jesus’ Christ for ever!”
He was banished and, retired in July,
1525-, to Metz; and there he was working at
his trade when he heard that a solmen pro¬
cession was to take place the next day in
the environs of the town. In his blind zeal
he went anil broke down the images at the
feet of which the Catholics were to have
burned incense.
Being arrested on his return to the town,
he, far from disavowing the deed, acknowl¬
edged it and gloried in it.
He was sentenced to horrible punish¬
ment; his right hand was cut off, his nose
his torn nipples out, pincers were applied to his arms,
confinefl in Mere plucked out, his head was
two circles of red hot iron,
and whilst he was still chanting in a loud
voice this versiele from CXV psalm:
“Their idols are silver and gold, ‘
The work of men’s hands,”
his mutilated and bleeding body was
^ I L ow “ ” pon ^® blazing faggots.
■ e had a \ounger brother, 1 e.er I^elcerc,
a fi ira P e wool-cardar Jila It ism
. ^
eaux »
u
si ■ 580 m * if
” L that w which lie had learned from his
? ur8e ’ JU who - bein S thoroughly grounded
hl3 he My 1 * writl *£ s > besides the integrity
> ’ was chosen by the weavers and
l eeam la1 ^ O 0 /, he An. brst old minister of of Meaux, the gospel named m
man
Q, 1 ep ien ^angm, offered Ins house, situat-
7 , no£U ' 1C market place, for holding reg
meetings. . I ortv fifty of the faith
ai or
f u oimed die nucleus ot the little church
, . { ter Leclerc preached
" gr ev 5 r U P- ®
aad a 4wimtered 1 . the sacraments m Ste
? len - angins house so regularly flint,
nty , aft his brother John’s
we ^ ars ®F mar
, the meeting’s, composed partly of
j rcom,
believers wh ° fl( * ked 111 f ™ m th ® neighbor
villages, were from three hundred to
daj " wi en u, ad , celebrated , the
, T 01 _,, a s su PP er the 8th o_ beptember, lo4b,
th ,, ® , house was surrounded, and nearly
v S1 f^ k< ? al.owed P ersoas > themselves men, women to and be arrested children
’
^ithout, i 1 *’ ^ ere making ak sent any before resistance, the were Parliament taken,
Pans; tourteen ,, of toe
men were sen
eaced 0 be burnt alive m the great mar
,. e ^ P ace at Meaux, on the spot nearest to
+ j e house “ tke crime of heresy had
, committed; and their wives, togetner
f W1 d w to be ,b eir P™ nearest 8ent f relatives, the execution, were “ the senten- men
bare-headed T and , the women ranged beside
mdiuduallv, in ^such sort that they
m, lg 1 , )C 1 ls tmguished amongst the i^gt.”
if-' was strictly carried out. (Gui-
20 r s 31fdo U r °f France, vol. Ill, p. 150.)
The Roman Catholics deny that they are
idolaters—deny it vehemently, bitterly, vo¬
ciferously. They deny that they attach any
peculiar reverence to the images themselves.
Yet, because John Leclerc broke their wooden
doll > Giey cut off the hand that did the deed,
they tore out his nose, they pulled off the
nipples of his breast, they put red hot bands
around bis head, and then, while lie, a believer
jn Christ, was chanting a Psalm—all torn and
bleeding, quivering with unutterable torment
—they flung him into the fire, to bo burned ns
the old theology said the damned were burnt
What would those Roman Catholics have
done to John Leclerc, had they been idolaters,
attaching peculiar sanction to their images?
■ As to the Protestant worshippers, in Ste
phen Mangin’a house, they had not even ven
to worship God in public. They were
seeking to avoid offense by conducting their
^Continued on Pa£g Two.Jb
Issued Weekly
Alice Louise Lytle.
That. President Harding has not strength¬
ened either his own position or that conclusion: of his par¬
ty in his Alaska tour, is a foregone
In a series of speeches which began in St.
Louis and extended to Alaska, he touched on
so many different phases of the world's wor¬
ries as would he of interest or importance to
his countrymen, and his epitome was:
Normalcy is back; nobody is out of work
who wants it; the World Court was the only,
way in which this country would be made safe
from war; and the ouly thing left for a grate¬
ful constituency would be another term for
Harding.
Unfortunately, this rosy mew isn’t shared
by any one out side the immediate Harding
circle, and no one objects more strenuously
than Senator “Bob” LaFolleite, back in the
thick of things after several weeks spent in
a rest cure -which took off all his superfluous
fat.
A third party seems to be Senator LaFol
lette’s idea of a cure for the political ills if,—
and here are his ifs:
“1. Mr. Harding is not generally re¬
garded as a liberal or a progressive. His
record in the Senate is that of a reaction¬
ary and his Administration has been reac¬
tionary. His trip West during which he
tried to placate the progressives did not
accomplish its purpose.
2. The only way to prevent a third party
from springing existing up in the Presidential cam¬
paign is for party organizations to
nominate liberal men on a liberal platform.
In that, event it is very doubtful if a third
party will make any nominations, as such
a move would not avail much.
3. The League of Nations and the World
Court are not subjects in which the people
are interested. Domestic questions are now
engaging their attention. (This statement
was his only response to what he thought
.of,Hiram Johnson as a possible Presiden-
1 ‘aj candidate.)
'0
agar >
hi irw a i: .uvxjAm t hhim urrwr irauw
akout him.
5. Conditions now .are entirely different
and more auspicious for a third party
movement than in 1912. Things have
changed much since then. Public opinion
is much more decisive and clear cut. It is
more difficult now for the reactionaries to
confuse the public mind about progressive
principles. >
tion. 6. I felt good over the Minnesota elec¬
The people realize that the only way
to improve conditions throughout the coun¬
try is to elect better men to office. They are
doing constantly retiring bidding men who are blindly
the of private interests.
There will be a great opportunity for a
further cleanup in the Senatorial election
next year. I expect to campaign against
Senators who favor private monopolies.
While he did not state positively there
would be a third party, saying no one could
tell what would develop between now and
the time for nominations, he indicated his
belief that such a movement would be ne¬
cessary to provide for the liberal views of
the people to be expressed.
“The election in Minnesota. 1 ’ he said,
“was a manifestation of the dissatistactU ’
of the people with the old parties and.
things as they are. That same revolt is to
be found throughout the country. It is in
the East just as surely as it is in the
West.”
Asked when the liberals will start heir
campaign, be said: “Why it started in
Minnesota.”
Of HenryFord: “He has been a very
great sucqess in his particular line, and
seems to be a man of some creative pow¬
er. ’ ’
Senator La Follette said he was against
the consolidation of railroads favored by
tbe President.
Discussing flic farmer’s situation, be
said: “We have built up iu this country an
artificial business structure. The price of
steel is fixed by private interests. The
price of cotton is fixed by private interests.
* * * I do not like to adopt plans designed
to fix prices, instead of relying on natural
economic laws. But there may come times
when such steps are the lesser evil.”
He favors a government owned merchant
marine started moderately, and is against
a special session of Congress now. What
the country needs is not “specifics for its
ills,” but election of men who will serve i
' t iXQ°ntijued on jPagq Four.^
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