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Show JOHN D. LONG. (From the Boston Republic.) In the early .nineties, when Know- nothingism was-rue in tnis commonwealth common-wealth through vthe activity of the A. P. A., the Republic warned public men j against associating themselves with it ' for political advantage. We recalled 1 the efforts made by Henry Wilson. Na-J Na-J thaniel P. Banks, Colonel Jonas French ' and others to obliterate all recollection j of their connection with the Know-nothing Know-nothing movement of forty years before. be-fore. But the opportunists rushed into the movement which had gained possession pos-session of the Republican party in this ! state. Lodge, Guild and others tied ! themselves to the car of bigotry and intolerance and danced obediently to the music supplied by the dark lantern organization. In 1891, when the new governor of Porto Rico, Mr. Charles H. Allen of Lowell, was the Republican, candidate for governor against William E. Rusv sell, the Know-nothing" spirit was rampant ram-pant within the Republican lines. The cloak TThder which it acted was affection affec-tion for the public school system. The multiplication of parochial schools by the Catholic body was regarded as a direct menace to free institutions. The "Little Red Schoolhouse" became a political po-litical feature, and men cheered for it and got drunk on account of it who had never been inside a schoolhouse of any sort. The back towns rallied nobly and delegations were sent down pledged to do uomething to check the pretentions of Rome. Among the men who allied themselves them-selves with anti-Catholic bigotry in a public way was John D. Long, now secretary sec-retary of the navy in the cabinet of j William McKinley and a professed candidate for the great office of vice president. Mr. Long first appeared as counsel for the committee of one hundred, hun-dred, a local band of bigots who, at that time, were publishing the Boston Traveler. Dr. Miner, Rev. J. B. Dunn, Rev. Philip S. Moxom. Deacon. Bradbury Brad-bury and other notorious Rome baiters managed the business and made all the political deals. Later on he took the stump and arraigned the Catholic Church for its alleged hostility to the I public schools. On Oct. 21, 1891, Mr. , Long made a speech at the Vine Street j Church, Dudley street, in the course of which he committed himsslf, so far as he can commit himself to anything, to the doctrines of the-A. P. A. agitators j and ranters. The Republic was in the ; thick of the political fight then as it is! now, and it denounced Mr. Long in j fitting terms. We quote his language j from our tesue of Oct. 31, 1891, as follows: fol-lows: j ' "There is an Influence at work which ; questions the safety, of the public schools, there is a movement which attempts to remove a large number of children from the, public schools. You I may say of that movement that it is ' perfectly honest on the part of those ' who make it. It is something more than an ephermal movement. It is i something more than a mental movement. move-ment. It is a movement made not of the convictions of the men who make it, and it is going to raise some time a great question in the community, one of the deepest and. most fundamental that ever shook it. There are peopl Who tell you, 'Oh, you need not fear about the public schools; don't you think I will stand by the public schools?' Don't you remember that before the war men in Kentucky and Alabama said: 'Oh, We were brought up under the old flag, educated under it, fought for it.' But when the great movement came they riddled it with their bullets because they went with their side. Does anybody suspect that the free public school system is in the slightest danger from the great Republican Re-publican community of this state? Not at all. If there ia any danger, don't let us exaggerate it, but if there is any danger and there is a feeling that there is it ts from the elements of the , Democratic party." Mr. Long in 18S1 believed that there was an influence at work which seri- ously threatened the safety of the pub-1 pub-1 11c schools. That influence came, or I course, from the Catholic Church. Mr. j Long did not say so, but be meant so. "It is a movement," he said, "not made of the convictions of the men who make it." He meant to pay, of course, that it was directed from Rome. All j his associates in the committee of one i hundred and all affiliated bodies did not hesitate to say so openly. They spoke it at heir Music Hall meetings; j they proclaimed it through their organ. or-gan. The Traveller; they loaded the malls with illimitable quantities of stuff designed to establish the responsibility respon-sibility of the Church for 11 the edu- j cational failures recorded here j Mr. Long went so far as to say that the chief menace to our public school system comes from the elements of the Democratic party. He did not specify of course, but everybody that recalls the nature of the anti-Catholic agita- j tion then ir progress knows that he j meant the Catholic elements. The j whole force of the Knownothlng 'party, i all the Canadian Orangemen, all the , Nova Scotia bigota, with the natives added, were enraged in a com .rted effort to iniure the Catholic Chirch. John D. Long knew this. When he prepared his speech he prepared it to please the bigots and fanatics and to hurt the Catholic Church. It wa popular pop-ular then to have the A. P. A.V., the Orangemen and the Junior Orier of American Mechanics on one's sile, if one were a Republican politician. We presume Mr. Long has for7otten the incident, and hopes that others have forgotten it. But the republic remembers it very vividly. And ?t will ask its Catholic contemporaries ;o proclaim pro-claim to the country the fact tlw-t John D. Long has appeared in public on more than two occasions in 181 as an associate of men and worc-n who would deprive every Catholl: in the land cf every civil and religrU us right. If he be nominated as the Republican candidate for vice preslden. he will hava to face not only this out other bits of evidence tending to prove his close affiliation and assoc. ition with the cohorts of the dark laAtern, We should advise him to withdraw from the race before it is too lat?. No man who ever openly espoused the doctrine of religious bigotry and inequality can ever be elected to the great offices of president or vice president. |