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Show T PRIEST'S PROTEST AGAIXST ALDERMAX. An open letter against Stanley II. Kunz, alderman alder-man and candidate for re-election in the Sixteenth ward, Chicago, has been issued in the, name of the Catholic priests of the order of the Resurrectionist Fathers and signed by their Chicago superior, Very Rev. John Ivasprzycki. C. R., rector of St., Stanislaus Stanis-laus Catholic Church, Xoble and Ingraham streets. The letter states that as priests the signers do not wish to mix up in politics for political purposes, but feel it their duty to warn against public sins and misdeeds and drive vice from public life. The Sixteenth ward, the appeal says, is made up largely of Polish Catholics and it is to them and . in .their behalf the appeal is made. The appeal then pictures the deplorable conditions in the ward and says: "To explain and remove all ouostion and circulated cir-culated reports that xr, prYsts, living in the Sixteenth Six-teenth ward, in any way directly or indirectly favor or support the abuses and trickery of Kunz, who had the effrontery to insult, abuse and heap calumny cal-umny upon us as priests, we hereby declare that the whole conduct of the present senator-alderman is bad and opposed to all social order, and particularly particu-larly it interferes with our work for the good of the Polish Catholics here and we are bound to warn all the people of it, the people to whom Kunz ironically declares the people want me.' - "In making this declaration we do not care at all to enter into a warfare with Kunz nor to interfere in-terfere or take part in any street or curbstone politics; we merely warn the people, those "who are loyal to the Catholic Church and the Christian faith, and who are being misled by disturbing individuals, in-dividuals, and we point to them where the danger is. " We have confidence that the people will heed our advice and that the people will on election day speak forth and show that they go the right way and will declare whom they want as representative in the city council whether a man who will per-fonn per-fonn his duty with a conscience, who is recognized as such and has the endorsement of the Municipal Voters' league, or a man who is. deprived of any regard or feeling in the performance of his duties, who is condemned by the Municipal Voters' league and who brings no honor at all to our ward." Catholic Cath-olic Advance. |