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Show Diocese of Denver. THE DENVER LETTER. The A. 0. H. Convention. This week has been an exciting one for the delegates to the' national convention con-vention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Hiber-nians. By Tuesday morning fully 3,000 of them had gathered in the Queen City. At 11 o'clock Bishop Matz cele- brated Pontifical High Mass at, the Sacred .Heart church. He was assisted by Rev. P. A. Phillips as master of ceremonies, Rev. Fathers Robinson, Yorke and Henebry. Father Barry, S. J., delivered the sermori." He was foi-. lowed by Bishop Matz, who spoke briefly. After Mass the delegates adjourned to Coliseum hall, where the opening address was made by Stephen J. Don- leavy on behalf of the local committee. , Governor Orman, Mayor Wright and ; State President C. J. . McGuire of Leadville delivered addresses of welcome, wel-come, to which the following responded: respond-ed: National President John T. Keat- j ing. National Vice President James Dplan and National Director P. J. O'Connor. After the appointment of a committee commit-tee on credentials the convention adjourned ad-journed until Wednesday morning as a token of respect to the memory of the late National Chaplain Archbishop Feehan of Chicago. The election of a national president will be a most important feature of the convention. John Ti Keating declines de-clines to run for office, and in all probability prob-ability John A. Ryan of Boston will succeed to presidential honors. At the present writing feeling Is running high and a strong factional fight is on. The local committee is sustaining Denver's reputation for hospitality. $ ' One of the daily , papers of this city has for the , past week been making unwarranted attacks on various Irish-American Irish-American priests in connection with the convention, and, failing to arouse the indignation of the priests of whom they wrote, suddenly took a turn, on the whole convention. In Monday's issue the affair was written up in a most ridiculous manner to lead astray persons unfamiliar with the true nature na-ture of the assemblage and anxious to grasp any absurd reports. Father Peter Pe-ter C. Yorke, one of the California delegates, took occasion to make reply re-ply in the following letter to another newsDanei-: To the Rocky Mountain News: As an Irishman, a Hibernian and a j citizen, I ask the privilege of your col-! col-! umns to protest against the indecent ' attacks of the Denver Post on the Irishmen of America who are now Denver's Den-ver's guests. I belong to the west, and I am ashamed that in the west could be found a paper so devoid of the instincts in-stincts of gentlemanllness as to insult those who have been asked to accept the . hospitality, of the west. For the past week the Post has teemed with insults in-sults and calumnies against men, the latchet of whose shoes its editors are unworthy to loose. Now. emboldened by the passivity with which these insults in-sults and calumnies have been received, re-ceived, it attacks the whole race, and with blundering wit and meat ax sarcasm sar-casm stigmatizes the convention as a "Dohnybrook fair," and sneers at the "Micks and Pats" in the best style of if there were a convention or any other nationality, of any other society In' Denver this Post would not dare to fling mud at it. But it would appear that the Irish are fair game for the stone hatchets of the aboriginals who inflict the Post on the public. Lame doggerel about "adhesion'' and "being stripped for the fray" and "green oii the banner" ahd "Erin Alan-nah" Alan-nah" (to be pronounced "Alanner," ac cording to the Cockney dialect) these are the stock in trade of Tourth-rate comic papers and of the Post. Then we have the never-heard-on-land-or-sea brogue "matin," "sphalpeen" and the rest xf it which has long since been relegated to the lumber room, but is still good ehotigh for the Post. Now I beg to state, Mr. Editor, that the gentlemen who have come to this convention are every bit as well educated, edu-cated, as well spoken, as well behaved, as well able to take care of themselves as the managers of the Post. They are not rowdies, bowery boys, hoodlums or larrikins. They know their own business busi-ness and they know how to attend to it in their own way. Tbey resent these old English slurs that the Irish are always quarrelsome, fighting,, reveling, unable to carry themselves like hu-. mans. And, I think it is not too much to ask the decent people of Denver also to reseht this attack on the city's guests. " ' ' - As for the Post's attacks on myself, I don't care id bother with them just now. I am used to the abuse of the gutter journals from New York to San Francisco. Such attacks merely strengthen the cause of justice and right, and to nu other cause am I pledged. As to the accusations that Dr. Henebry Hene-bry ' has been '- getting out circulars about the Irish league or the temperance temper-ance question, these charges are too absurd for refutation. However, I am authorized by Dr. Henebry to say that he knows nothing whatsoever about the matter. This is the most nefarious portion of the Post's campaign. Dr. Henebry is a gentleman and a scholar. He is a , stranger in a strange land. He is just recovering, under the benign skies of Colorado, from a sickness that brought him to death's door. These considerations considera-tions would have secured him kind treatment from any man in whose breast were the common feelings of humanity. But evidently we must not look to the Post for any evidence of these higher sensibilities which distinguish distin-guish man from the brute. Yours truly, PETER G. YORKE. Again, in respect to what has been published relative to expelling liquor dealers from the organization of which movement .it was reported that Father Yorke was the author the latter said: "I knew; nothing of the matter until my attention was called to it on my arrival in .Denver, on Saturday evening. even-ing. I am here as an ordinary delegate dele-gate to the convention, and had not planned any thrilling speeches. If the temperance question comes up, I shall speak, as all delegates are privileged to. To me there is ho apparent reason rea-son why any Irish-American Catholic earning his livelihood by a business that is conducted on a moral basis, should be excluded from the ranks of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. The report was spread for the sole purpose of creating a political stir, and was originated by some disreputable person per-son to whom dishonesty of intellect is as customary as dishonesty in deed." ,;, Full particulars of the convention will be. given in next week's issue of the Intermountain Catholic.- About fifty priests of the Denver diocese have been spending the week at Sacred Heart college, where they are holding their annual retreat. Father Eugene" Magavney, S. J., one of the finest orators In the Jesuit order, or-der, is conducting the exercises. S- There is not much going on In church circles this week during the clerical retreat. re-treat. $ Mrs. J. C. Hagus and Mrs. Andrew Kelly will entertain the. ladies of the Sacred Heart Aid society at the residence resi-dence of the latter, ' 3132 Stout street, next Thursday afternoon. At the last meeting it was decided not to disband for the summer months, as the society Is in such excellent condition and enthusiasm en-thusiasm is at such a high pitch , : The Denver newspapers have again resurrected the Father Cushing affair. There is not a word of truth in these reports so say the Denver priests, and it is denied emphatically that Father Malone has interested himself in effecting ef-fecting a reconciliation between Bishop Mats and the dismissed priest- If is thought that Father Cushing is demented. de-mented. -- A wedding which-afforded considerable considera-ble surprise to the many friends of the . contracting parties . was that of Miss Odelie Petitclerc and John J. F. Moran,. which took: place at Logan avenue chapel last Monday afternoon. Father Callahan performed the ceremony cere-mony in the presence of the immediate imme-diate relatives. Miss Lee Kelly attended at-tended the bride and Thomas F. Byrnes was best man. Miss Petitclerc is an excellent musician, member of ! the Cathedral choir and secretary of the Young Ladles' Sodality. Mr. Mo- j ran is a prominent young man of Scranton, Pa., who came to Denver a little over a year ago and holds a responsible position with the Denver & Northwestern railroad. Mr. ahd Mrs. Moran will make their future home in Denver. Miss Mary E., Currigan and George Sanders were marriel very quietly at St. Leo's rectory last Saturday evening, even-ing, Father O'Ryan officiating. The I attendants were Miss Louise Currigan and Edward Carberry. Miss Currigan is the niece of the late M. D. Currigan, Curri-gan, and Mr. Sanders has been connected con-nected with the city detective force for many years. . Thomas Kelly and Howard Force of St. Louis are visiting at the home of the Jatter's relatives, 1334 York street. Mrs. M. Guinan and daughters have returned from California. Miss Virginia Dines returned last week from Paris, where she has spent the past year in the convent of the Assumption. . Mr. and Mrs. James Keenan of this city have gone to Grand Junction. Miss Anna O'Brien expects to leave early in August for an extended visit to New York city. PUEBLO. The Sisters of Charity from different places in the state and New Mexico have been on retreat at St. Mary's hospital. hos-pital. The exercises were under the direction di-rection of Father Kranz of St. Patrick's Pat-rick's church, and closed on the 16th inst. 3- The funeral of Patrick Duffy took place from St. Patrick's church July 8, at 9:30 o'clock. The servfee was attended at-tended by many friends of the deceased, and the floral decorations were beautiful. beauti-ful. The pallbearer, were P. J. Hogan, P. J. Lyden, Thomas Lyons, Thomas McGacrict, Daniel Harnett and Patrick Conby. By request of a relative he was prayed for at all the masses last Sunday in Salt Lake. , Major W. F. Townsend, a well known real estate man, has just issued a neat pamphlet descriptive of the beauties of BemaR, witin tiq win mall jo parts of the east. ' J W. H. Schofield, accompanied by Mrs. Schofied and their son and Miss McCul-lough McCul-lough of Chicago, have gone on a visit to Denver. " . The funeral of ThiFlate John Russell took place from the home, Nd. 10 block T, and from St. Patrick's at 2:30 o'clock July 8. The pallbearers were J. K. Dempsey,. A. McGovem, John Carr, P. Flannigan, Hugh Donohue and M. Mc-Gannt Mc-Gannt Patrick Fanning was flower bearer. $ W.A. Morey of the bridge and building build-ing department of the. Denver & Rio Grande railroad, was in Pueblo recently. re-cently. Sister Mary Aloysius of Denver ahd Miss Catherine Mulllien of Kansas City are visiting their cousin, Mrs. r John Nogle. . Mr. and Mrs. E. Themer entertained a few friends Friday evening at their residence, No. 40, block F, in honor of the Rev. J. B. Pitavai, their former pastor in Aspen. The reverend father is en route to Santa Fe, N. M., where he will be consecrated bishop of that dloceEe on the 25th inst. Mr, and Mrs. Themer, who have decided to reside permanently here, will be valuable acquisitions ac-quisitions to the business and social life of Pueblo, they havinng recently purchased a pretentious residence at the above address. Mr. Themer Is also investing in a large livery stable on Grand avenue. V. S. McFarland, the Rio Grande conductor who has been laid up for seme time as the result of an accident on the Missouri Pacific: in the east Over two months ago, is at work again. Rev. Father Pitavai of Aspen, who has been spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Themer, left, for his home in Santa Fe, N. M where he will soon be consecrated bishop. His many friends extend their congratulations and wish 1 him success in his new home. His de- parture is deeply regretted, as he is one of the ablest and most genial j priests in this diocese. |
