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Show LAY IT TO CANFiELD If Unpleasant Scenes Mar the Meeting of The National Educational Association- HE PLATED A PECULIAR PART- After Inviting a Distinguished Oatholic Archbishop to Speak the Invitation Was Oanoelled Other Blunders, St. Paul, July 3. Special. Some apprehension is felt lest any unpleasant scene or incident should mar the meeting meet-ing of the National Educational association associa-tion and council which holds its aujiual convention of a week here beginning tomorrow. - The president of the association, asso-ciation, James II. Canliuld, of Law. rence, Kas., some months ago extended an invitation to Archbishop Ireland and other prominent men to address the convention. The prelate promptly accepted, and in so doing informed Canlield that the subject of his remarks re-marks would be "Parochial Schools." Then the president of the association began a series of almost (incomprehensible (incomprehen-sible blunders. Without a word of parley of explanation or apology ho withdrew the invitation which he had extended to the archbishop. Then the local committee, many of whom' were Catholics, and all of whom heldithe learned prelate in high regard, were indignant in-dignant at this treatment and which they regardud as insulting, turned their guns on Mr. Canlield. They told him that the arrangements for the convention con-vention had been brought to a close by his indefensible action and that if he would not reconsider it he could take himself and his convention to some other city. The vacillating president, in this dilemma, repeated his invitation to the archbishop to address the convention, con-vention, but suggested the substitution of another subject for "Parochial Schools." The archbishop did not condescend con-descend to reply to that epistle, but he used his influence with the local committee com-mittee to go on with the arrangements for the meeting. Many of the delegates havo already arrived, but there are few among them who approves Canlield's course. Some claim that he should not have invited Hie archbishop at all; others that having dono so the archbishop arch-bishop was entitled lo select his subject, sub-ject, and that Canlield's nation in withdrawing with-drawing the invitation is inexcusable on any ground. Tho convention will open in Donuybrook fair fashion, no matter how it may close. |