Show NELLIE i. i ROSS fAVORS CATHOliC UI U. Si S. PRESIDENT Former Fonner Wyoming Governor Gover Gover- nor Says Test Will Prove R Religious li ious Liberty CHURCH NOT FACTOR Calls Intolerance e Greatest Sin of pf the Day Dayo o W WASHINGTON April 25 CAP CAP- AP Nellie Tayloe Ross former governor governor governor gover gover- nor of 01 Wyoming declared today that although she is a l Protestant r she e would like to see a Catholic elected president just to prove that this Is in reality a 3 republic in which we live and not nt one in name only Speaking before the National W Women's Women's Wo Wo- mens men's Democratic club Mrs Ross denounced as as unworthy of ot the precious precious precious pre cious heritage of American citizenship citizenship citizen citizenship ship any declaration Uon by policy or practice that prejudice rather than liberal Ubera principles shall prevail n in this ih Igo government t and called ic upon the women women of th the Democratic Democratic- party parly to back her up In this this' stand She said she was not referring referring- to any particular potential presidential candidate but but speaking only the of-the principle involved involve ant and added that the Issue was one that c cannot not be dOdged or evaded V Vy y lh re e al-e m y ta y to tors Th 7 Tie be taken into consideration n in ln the nomination nomination nom nom- of a president ah she h con con- T X do though i insist insist- that one fact factor that cannot be tak taken n Into intI consideration Is church Alignment nt I believe that the sin ot of Intolerance Intolerance intoleranCe ance Is the greatest sin of the age It is amazing th that t those who call themselves Christians can harbor and encourage in mothers others a sentiment so so inconsistent with the teachings leaching of Christ JEFfERSONIAN PRINCIPLES Mrs 1 Ross then told of a a. recent visit t to Monticello l and the tomb ot of Thomas Thomas' Jefferson adding where There here graven In stone atone Is s the epitaph which he himself composed and directed should be placed above nuove his grave It epitomizes the prin principles for which he stood He stood for the freedom of the Individual upon upon the principle that all ill men are endowed with certain Inalienable rights that no no power power- on onearth earth church hutch or state can take away He He stood likewise for fol re religious religious re- re freedom that is isi that InAm in Am America America- all men are are aie entitled to worship their Creator as th they y plea please e and shall suffer no loss of civil rights thereby He stood for the th education of ot the masses These are the principles upon which the Democratic party part was founded It is charged is-charged that we have receded recede l from them Constantly wehe we he hear r it sald that party activities areno ere are no longer no longer based oh on on principles principle that n neither ither of the the- parties partle is standing that ar are vital to the people people peo- peo peo peo- pIe If It this be true tru and nd It s more true than we like lUce to admit let us us Democratic women women rise in the might that nt hash has h ilent to us and demand that our party shall stand for something that It shall return Jo to o the great tenets upon which it was founded I Im m a Democrat because be anse I be- be beS S Continued on page 5 I 1 I NELLIE NELUE T. T ROSS FAVORS CATHOLIC CATl U 5 PRESIDENT Continued from page 1 lieve in my heart in the traditional principles of the the Democratic party pIrty I am not afraid of f the amplification of any of ot those principles to modern modern modern mod mod- ern problems even een to religious controversy con con- which properly has hns no place in the politics of this country CANNOT DODGE pODGE ISSUE 1 It looks now as If It a l leading ading Issue is iss issue is- is s sue e that that Is going to face us us a as Democrats Dem Dem- D Democrats m- m this coming year is whether or not a Catholic can be nominated to the presidency by the Democratic party It Is an issue that cannot be dodged or evaded Distasteful as it Is to us all allol It Is well ell to have haveIt It brought out into the open Whatever may be our religious creed this Is an Issue that challenges challenges challenges chal chal- lenges our democracy To ro many many it will be and is an acid test I hope that the Democratic women of it this country will not be found wanting but that they will fearlessly proclaim proclaim pro pro- claim Individually and nd from Irom every political assembly where th they y may maybe maybe be gathered that the they will sanction sanc san sanction tion no policy that deprives any 11 ny p person in the United States of or the full rights and and- privileges of ot citizenship cItizenshIp citizenship citizen cItizen- ship because of religious affiliation RICHMOND Va April i f in 5 AP CAP Declaring that Governor Alfred Altred E E. Smith of pt New York had in failed fled to answer answer r the religious questionnaire put to him liim by Charles C. C.- Marshall and that he had done nothing but butto butto butto to avow his faith and to vouch vouch his his record Dg j George W W. McDaniel l president of ot the Southern B Baptist convention n said in a cermon Lermon here yesterday yest that millions of Jod- Jod od- od fearing Demo Democrats rats rats' would not re remain remain remain re- re main quiescent while Smith is ig being be- be beIng being be be- ing mentioned as standard standard bearer of pf his party Dr McDaniel said that the governors governor's governors governor's governors governor's gover- gover over gover nors nor's reply to the open letter of Mr Marshall addressed to him in a re recent recent recent re- re cent i issue isu of or the Atlantic Monthly emphasized what his correspondent conceded and ignot igno ignored d the matter about which his correspondent ent in inquired inquired in- in I 0 |