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Show DENIS FLYNN'S AUDIENCE. Oklahoma's Ex-Delegate and a-Ncrr-row-Head -Reporter' I ' (Catholic Advance,' Wichita, kin.) The dispatches from Oklahoma City last week contained a description of the Hon. Dennis Flynn's audience Iwith Pius X in the Vatican. Flynn. it appears, ap-pears, had hot much lime;to spare so he hustled around for an audience. He heard tha.t "Dr. Kennedy: of the American Amer-ican coilyEe, was the most influential person" . for getting audiences for Americans. Getting a carriage. Flynn wertL to he college, and the two weeks' sea voyage having toned down the natural nat-ural breezinefes of the territorial ex-delegate, ex-delegate, the college secretary wanted naturally letters of recommendation, or recognition, or something other than an Oklahoma smile. Flynn had no letters and was told to Return tomorrow. (An Italian invitation of ancient institution, institu-tion, still in vogue.) The traveler came next morning and "another secretary" j they must have a wholesale department depart-ment for secretaries barred the way, but Flynn spied his secretary of the previous evening in the distance and said in the voice of an Apache brave. "There's the gazabo I'm after." (or words to that effect). After admitting the ex-delegate he was given a seat and told to wait until Dr. Kennedy i would arrive. More than an hour passed before the august prence. of Dr. Ken-nedy Ken-nedy manifested itself and Flynn patiently pa-tiently waited that precious hour with- in the cold and inartistic walls of the. American college. Finally he "was conducted to a sumptuous apartment where Dr. Kennedy was in waiting." "The doctor asked Flynn for his letters and when informed that he had no letters let-ters expressed .much surprise tha t ho ! had gained admission to . the college. One of the strictest rules Is that no per- ' son should be admitted without letters.'' If the visitor could not read ho would ! be obliged to take a s?at on the street ! for there is no sidewalk nor curbstone around the American college. Flynn i finally got on the sofe side of the doctor ' bv inviting him to a drive in his carriage car-riage the doctor presumably was., jiot accustomed to. driving and the -last particle of ice wa,s: melted b" Flynn's offering an Oklahoma cigar, the smell of w hich could be heard-in Wichita. Now the carriage drove "to the Sis-tine Sis-tine chapel" (which is pretty much like saying the carriage drove up to the senate chamber in Washington), where "the Swiss guards were passed and the i party was ushered into a receolion j room." Dr. Kennedy left "Flynn and his friends" In ths room and went to look for the papal -secretary (how the ! friends got in the dispatch does not say). After two hours Dr. Kennedy re- ! turned (maybe it took that long to get I over the effects of that cigar) and in- i formed the wearied waiters that they' wouid have an audience at 11 o'clock tomorrow (scrupulously . observing (he ancient institution). Next morning the i American party, accompanied by Bish-op Bish-op McShane of Baltimore (there is no Catholic bishop or priest of that name in Baltimore) entered the Vatican, Flynn dressed in a borrowed su't for the occasion, the audience lasted two minutes. The pope was very affable, etc.. and the dispatch gives Flynn credit for American "nerve." The 'account 'ac-count from which we condensed the i above winds up by saying that "the report re-port that Flynn had renounced Masonry Mason-ry and asked for papal absolution was a canard. Flynn is a thirty-second degree de-gree Scottish Rite Mason, and wears his Masonic emblems as he did bforo h went to Europe." Thi3.iast varn watl undoubtedly spun from the s'ame c-nt-torhead that produced the rest of tin article, which is canardish from beginning begin-ning to end. I We wish to say right here that Flvnn I may. have been a thirty-second degree Scottish. Rite Mason or a flfty-second one. for that matter, but wc have evi- ; d 9nce" that Dennis Flynn abandoned Masonry, made his neace with his church, approached his Easter duties1 and, discarded his Masoiiic emblems , and we ha,ve:Mr. Flynn's letter before us to prove our statement. -The' matter' does not concern the public, aimvav ' and the reporter need not have- lied! about it. I ; ' . i I, , , v . , , |