Show The Sacr Sacred and Candidates For the Papacy Cardinals Gotti J Van nut ell I and HERR h Is nothing un unseemly I seemly or Indelicate rr In the probable probable able successor lo 10 Pope I ILeo Leo XIII since Ince the r l the I 1111 has ha been elim eliminated I by b no less a nAt than the I holy father himself as I Ih hu h i b 1 n the necessity sity It fur tor providing for tor th Ihl p l of th t holy hob In III advance ad of the con by b his hili demise the present Incumbent IMS on many oem occa occasions u lr alluded to 10 hit hll sure e Mor MorIn or orIn In terms lh t admit no doubt u to his hi He hat bus not nol In so In many mall words named that for Cor that would woold b tie a k departure from trem papal but IMS fx M l a wish that h he mAY mAYbe be et without 1 kout or l Ilk tay i the time UI shall bar ar at d for Cor c This Thill mM tAM being e l H II Is II per fr I that lh Ih be In an anI I m person manner and brought before betote the public U tt Is III well known that Ihal while hll not actually attu Incumbent upon the tM cardi cardinal nal s Of or Uw tn church to one 0 of or own it u h more than Ihan like Uke likely ly I th t t he be will be drawn fn f m Ih m IMm m mb b r bt of th lIMo ss red i 01 The Of NI II 0 II Ilie mi cn or to ao th tM primal h hafI Ix n en l in tn body bod for tOr mora than fw yr nine leu and amI It Is II hi 11 with lone ellab Uh 1 MII d custom that the popes recoe counselor tOun torA In III th government of the church should hould be considered mom mORt eminently to 10 succeed to the Ih va a I tancy mu d by b hi IIa N They TIle ai lirt i he the ordinary advisers of the tope and assembled u bled In the tM enatt or con n debate of oC moment pr to 10 he church When n varan IY y oeun In the papal they main maintain laIn tain or r in tn the church and safeguard Is ts Interests until a an n i pe is lit J i I and In selecting oni f c n n bu at iii the hi Uey je only n 1 FOUR WELL WEIL KNOWN CARDINALS ONE OF WHOM HAY SUCCEED LEO LE XIII AS TOPE POPE I JM I d i the tre of u work ork h II ey h OUt KI primarily by b the Ihl pope tir III m In I j vt t a u uc r to 10 the th aier aar i 1 11 T ii n the moment I n II m Pit tin HI ai fc no oi I th Ih of or nl or the th fa B i n hi III m I Itin tin h tenth da d l t t o d ni n i i iI II I pope lOpe Nine da are f fr r the Ille i I 1 upon the last lut id I ria and on Oft tb the l nh th the voting l e lM which Is I to 10 14 the IU lm m y W brief or H Hn f fm n m t i II 1 i t I r 0 J 1 q W 1 1 ii n l rigidly to tD thin It il own In n In 10 the Ih 1 I j Hi II I i J Ii v j t po f id 1111 or v a j ettlis F from which they ther emerge I I twite a n day Ita to cast their votes Until Untila a Sel Is made by br a majority of oC all the votes they the are Br rigidly segregated i from the public Iu cardinal waited I upon by two Iwo attendant termed con conclavists on i who like themselves and the t custodians of oC the entrance 1811 lo 10 i palace ar to JI Formerly Form all the doom were sealed spall up but bul ont one through a small aperture In which sus sustenance I wai 11 and en ODe CIOllo ly Iy watched by a sworn This custom has lu since or eara t I Ine sacred cred college consists when full Cull Cullor I of or seventy or six cardinal bishop fifty cardinal priests tA and four i tern cardinal deacons Macons but U II Is Ie seldom eel tom found Coul several v At Atthe Atthe the tax consistory for example the pope POll appointed ar many to the collide which bad bun reduced by I death tar far below the plenum or full tull number at one time lime In fact showing but Lut members No les p than HO cardinals It Is tR sold have hn died und r Pope I eos pontificate and In truth there Is but ono one surviving member of or the sacred college created eren by Ills his predo predecessor cessor Plus IX In the th person of or Car Cardinal Cardinal dinal for the only ani other sur lur survivor up to 1001 Cardinal died last January Among the members of oC the sacred college who rank next to the pope po and Join with him In council on ecclesias ecclesiastical Cardinal Luigi stands preeminent As dean of oC the college and c of or the Itoman Homan Catholic church Cardinal Or will willIn willIn In the event of oC Leo XIII decease be bethe the Ih acting pope until n successor Is elected He will nol possess the title but will hold the actual power and If IC not elected to the high om at least may be the It Is that the present pope held the po position I o of or when be bo was wa elect elected elected ed to the tho office and there ore are many who look upon the venerable ns nil the legitimate successor or by reason of oC his being the highest official In the church next to tho pope and of oC bill bis billman many man and anel superlative attainments As he will formally declare the pope dead after lapping his forehead three times with the silver r hammer hammerand and will wll break the seals and assume di direction direction of ot affairs until new nelV pope Is It Is he who bo asks new pontiff pon prin tilt tiff what name he has hall to as assume sume and who places upon his hi finger 1 tho ring of oC the fisherman I This dean d lIn of oC the tho sacred college who ns nl survivor lIu of oC Leo o XIII will m become temporarily the supreme hend of or the church Ii looked upon as tho candidate for tor the HIt succession He Jio was I reeled cardinal In 1573 and Is now no In i his hili year being oldest of or tho mentioned for tor the holy bol office and eight years rears older than was the present pope when elected In I ma Nut to him In j cf t p f tand rII rf It I who w was Io s Ii CI cJ Ice 4 In to I t Ill U ame ad bU strong In political II Ile I many Wen h V position adl abroad hav hlll luO t U to l II and lIU JI Munich n nhat t fb hat Ilat u I 1 III hiI m In wal al Vienna ane he I and In It III TI Ik and Gold I fed of 11 the pr t u to wa for but 1111 not 11 R lis he hat has in w an anY fC that bJ this assertion to tm laoo r whO hili or forti I boe dt 11 on l the I th or As A a I ft rs 10 M II bul aJ JIll 11 was If II In ot youngest IM JW tJ D Ibe E del oC anI or l the of I fAll He He and nde Ur 0 tat at III aJ or be rolf l fr mot Ssi 0 |