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Show FATHER IflALONE'S SUCCESSOR. His ITiece, Miss Malone, Tells Why i He Accepted the Nomination j of Regent. J To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: I should like to say in regard to your editorial in Wednesday's Eagle, headed "Father Malone's Successor as Regent." Re-gent." that Father Malone accepted the nomination for regent as an American citizen, a life long Republican and defender de-fender of the American public school 1 system, and not at all in his character ' as a Catholic priest or as the approved candidate of either the Ireland or Cor-rigan Cor-rigan "branch of Roman Catholicism." In his authorized interview of March 30. 1894. he writes: "I said to Assem blyman Wray, when he first mentioned the matter to me, thf.t as. a Republican and as a lover and upholder of all that America and her free institutions meant to the world. I would not object to my name going before the legislature legisla-ture for this otiice, this honorable trust. On this latter ground and on none other did I believe the question should be discussed. On no other ground whatsoever should any political question be discussed." The Eagle, at the time, with the Sun and the Mail and Express, held the same position. Fitness for office was the peaceful contention, and it was not until Archbishop Corrigan sent Chaun-cey Chaun-cey Depew and George Bliss up to Albany Al-bany to work agaiqst Father Malone's election, and the Bishop of Brooklyn, in the papers, said that the candidate would not accept 'the nomination, that the question of "the religious convictions convic-tions of regents forming a necessary qualification of candidacy" was introduced intro-duced by the bishops. It was the entering wedge of the un-American un-American policy which seeks to obtain a foothold that in order that Catholics be treated fairlv in all matters they must be represented by Catholics as Catholics and not as Americans, thus making the Catholics. a foreign body inimical to American Interests. In the diary of Father Malone of November No-vember 20. 1S98. regarding the opening of the Henry MeCaddin Memorial, to which he had invited all the regents, Father Malone writes: "Bishop McDonald Mc-Donald showed an ugly disposition be-I be-I fore we went to the hall He would not j sit on the same platform with Biahor I Doane. There is much to be done yet . with our churchmen before they can really talk of themselves as ambassadors ambassa-dors of Christ, who loved all and laid down his life for all." I Under date of December, 1S98, we read that the bishop wrote him, forbidding him to attend the meeting of the regents re-gents and telling him to be present at a conference of the priests to be held at the same time. Father Malone , writes: "It seemed an unwarranted in-' in-' terference on the part of Bishop Mc-: Mc-: Donnell. I wrote my reply. It suits ; me at this present time not to leave : home, as we have no one to attend the ; church. Father Hopkins is dead, and Father O'Brien is sick at his father's-: father's-: home. I have written to Bishon McDonnell Mc-Donnell for help. He is too slow with : me. He writes me he has no one at j pre?ent." I If. as you say. in the election of a , reerent "denominational or religious ! lines are to be regarded in any high 1 state office." perhaps it is as well to ' sr e beforehand that these ecclesiastics nominated may not be hamnered in the discharge of their duties, either by instructions in-structions or commands of bishops, , "acknowledged enemies of the public j school system and of any public edu-! edu-! cation mnless inculcated by Romanist I instructors at the public expense," "as I Father Malone was sought to be "by ! I the discree. temperate and greatly re-! re-! sppcted Bishop McDonnell." I I do not think the clergy c? his dio-I dio-I cese felt themselves unrepresented , by Fpfher Malone in religious matters. Wherever rrieti were trathered publicly public-ly to celebrate srrne great church event or ceremony Father Malone was chosen cho-sen by the clerjrvmen of his diocese to be their spokesman and representative. Father Malone's jubilee presented an uniq-ie spectacle in the diocese governed govern-ed by Archfcishon Corri-ran. Arch- i b'shep Ireland, Bishop Keene and i Bishop McDonnell sat together in the I sanctuary in Sts. Peter and Paul's church. The scandalous conduct of the b'.-f-ion in prohibiting bishops and rriests from other diorpPes even those f-n i thf diocese of New York, from , offcifitlntr in th'? diocese, was for that orsir-n set a''tfo by Fatbr Malone actinr In aronr vHH- the spirit of Pope Lf-o pnd Mgr. PatoHi. CnthoMcs have yet to learn if the P-me himself is to be but a "minor portion of te organization" which he pwernt f head eouallv in New York and Brooklyn, as well as in St. Paul. Minn., but I clearly remember that it wa8 Pope Leo himself who lifted the excommunication ex-communication and gave back to Dr. McGlynn his priestly faculties, without one word or act of retraction, in spite of the fact that "the controlling forces within Roman Catholicism in this state" spent time and money and venom in trying to keep the doctor without the church on their interpretation of Catholicism, Ca-tholicism, which interpretation . is not the interpretation of head interpreter of that faith, and hence cannot be true Catholicism. MARCELLA MALONE. |