The American Eagle from Kansas City, Kansas • 2

LODGE DIRECTORY. A. I. A. HONOR TOJHE FLAG The Old Plag Eaised Upon the County Oourt House in the Presence of Assembled Thousands.

Prospect Councl No, 61, A. F. Meats every Monday evening at corner 29 and Prospect avenue, Kansas City, Mo. Persons desiring to Join may enclose their name, street, number, ward, age and occupation, and direct to box 621 Kansas City, Mo. every one of paid reasons being worth $10 cah to his credit.

The Governor's aspirations for a second term will get cooled down before the next state election. We have previously stated that the Republican party is on trial, and we now believe the Republican party of Kansas Is doomed. About two-thirds of the delegates to the A. P. A.

state council were old soldiers, and within two years the A. P. A. Will place at the head of our administration none but true Americans on whom they can rely. Dawes and God-dard will go with the others.

Council Mo. 6, A. P. A. Meets every Saturday evening at b.

Cor. Packard and Osage Arinourdale. Visitors cordially Invited. ThG American Eagle. Published every Friday by the American Eagle Publishing Co.

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7, A. P. A. Meets every Monday evening nt Chambe of Commerce ball, Klvervlew. Visitong cordially invited.

Gate City Council No. 8, A. P. A. Meets every Thursday evening Minnesota Ave.

Visitors cordially invited. Lincoln Council No. B. Meets the 1st and 3d Filday night or each, month at 43" Minn. Ave.

Council Mo. 10 Meets every Friday evening at Grigsby'a Hall, 16th St. and L. Koud, Kansas City, Kan, Council Mo. 11, A.P.

A. Meets at Woodward's hall every Wednesday evening at 8 p. in. sharp. 3d street and La fayette avenue.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1895. We hold that the right of suffrage, should be granted to those only who can read and write the English language, regardless of nationality or Argentine Council Mo. 19, A. P. Meets every Monday night In Nokes' Hail Argentine, Kan.

All visitors welcomed. J. R. Horn, Recording Secretary. Kosedale Council, Mo.

13, Meets on the second and last Monday even-ningofeacli month, at McGregor's Mall A cordial welcome extended to visitors. Topeka Council Mo. 14, A. P. A.

Meets every Monday night In A. O. TJ. W. Hall, 418 Kansas Topeka, Kansas.

All visitors will be cordially welcome. Leavenworth Council Mo. 18, Meets every Wednesday night at Red Man's Hail, at o'clock sharp. A cordial welcome Is extended to visiting friends. Leavenworth Council Mo.

31. Meets every Tuesday evening in Lincoln Hall, on Main St. between Shawnee and Delaware, at 8:30 P. M. All friends and visitors are cordially invited to attend.

Wilsey Council Mo. 36. Meets every Friday evening In Francis Hall Wilsey Kansas. Friends are cordially in vltod. Olathe Council Mo.

40, A. P. A. Meets every Saturday evening at Encampment Hull, Cor. Park Chestnut Olathe, Kansas.

Visitors cordially invited, b. P. Howland, Uec. Sec'y. sect.

We claim that all men who hold a mental reservation in favor of a Pope, while swearing allegiance to the United States, should not be permitted to hold any office in the gift of the American people. Rosedale council will give a 'grand Charity ball and supper on Monday evening, March 4th, at McGeorge's hall. Tickets, 50 cents. It ii our wish to notice any and all entertainments and public proceedings of councils. We wish our paper to be a good local as well as a state paper.

Send us items oi interest for publication. The Great Controversy between the Romanists and the A. P. A. of California will run through several numbers of the Eagle and will be very interesting.

Subscribe NOW and get the full benefit of both sides of the question. One year's subscription, 6 months, 50 cents, Address J. W. Hile, or The American Eagle, Kan Paola Counci Mo. 45 Meets every Monday evening at 7:30 p.

In Knights of Honor Hull, I'aoia, Kan. Visiting members are cordially invited. Address all communications to 11, C. Kellers, bec'y. Council No.

49. Meets at Wheeler's Hall on James every 1st and 3d Thursday evening. Visitors cordially invited. Llnwood Council No. 50.

Meets every Thursday night at Masonic Hall, Linwood, Kansas, Lansing Council No. 56. Meets every Friday evening at A.O.CW, Hall, Lansing, Kaus, A cordial invitation is extended to visiting friends. Conrson, Secretary, to-day no men on earth will do more honor to that flag than the ex-confederate soldiers. (Applsuse).

The best best friends I have to day are the men who bared their breasts to my bullets. So long as the spirit of 1776 dominates this country, it will stand, but when it is forgotten, this country will go down as the other nations of earth have gone down. God bless the county court ot Jackson county for raising that flag to-day." W. L. Brown, secretary of the Kansas state senate, said he cafne from the great soldier state of the union a s.ate which pays due reverence to the stars and stripes.

"We may be divided on political questions," said he, "but there beats in every true Kan-san's heart a love for the old flag that floats over every school house in the state. We are one people, whether we are in Texas, or Missouri, or Kansas, and if the nation is ever again in danger there will be no jayhawkers in Kansas or red-leggers in Missouri. We will be all together." Mr. Frank Griffin represented the state of Missouri, and declared that he who would not protect the flag of the land, renouncing every foreign potentate, creed and clime, was unworthy of naturalization papers. Master Jos.

Karnes Lipscomb recited "Ringing of Independence Bell." He is only 13 years of age, and the excellence of his recitation was loudly applauded. Mr. Marshall A. Pursley recited Ingersoll's famous oration, "The Meaning of the Flag Prof. I.

C. McNeill, assistant superintendent of city schools, delivered an excellent address, in which he paid a fitting tribute to Washington as a man who fulfilled his every duty to his mother, to his family and to his country. Prof. McNeill closed as follows: "This flag, this emblem of our national existence, this cloth colored red, white and blue, this token of our freedom and independence, should ever suggest to our minds and hearts, and to the minds and hearts of those who come after us, the feeling of love for mother, for home and for country. The sentiments back of this piece of bunting, the heart throbs that it represents and not its beautiful colors, should make us ready to defend it.

One who travels around the world, when he sees the flag of his country floating from a consulate in foreign lands, feels that where that flag is are those whose impulses and whose friendships are the same as his." Major Ross Guflin made a few remarks in which he said, "The G.A.R. thanks the county court of Jackson county for the object lesson in patriotism it has given us, and we say to you that we present to you here on behalf ot the G.A.R. in the uniform of the United States, the companion piece of that flag, Veteran Company the only militia company in the country made up of honorably discharged union soldiers. We expected all of Kansas City to be here to-day, but we did not expect to see Texas, Kansas and Missouri thrown in." At the close of his remarks, Major Guffin called for three cheers for "Old Glory," and they were given with a will, then three cheers for the county court. In response to loud calls, Judge Stone made a few remarks.

He said: "I think you have had enough of the county court fcr one day. I can only, on behalf of the county court, thank you for your attendance here on this occasion. Every man who loves his country, whether he wore the blue or the gray, indorses all that has been said to-day. War is a terrible thing, and I pray God I may never see the day when Americans shall shed each other's blood again. If we must fight, let us shoulder arms and fight the enemies of our country.

I stand ready, and I speak for all who wore the gray, to shoulder a musket in defense of that country. War under some circumstances is beneficial, and I sometimes think a war with some foreign nation would be a good thing. We are all friendly with each other, and are mad at some who don't owe allegiance to this country. If the time ever comes I shall be found in the front rank. I was fool enough to be in the front rank before, but I was on the wrong side.

I will be on the right side next time." The assemblage joined in singing "America," and thus ended the first flag-raising on a county court house in the state of Missouri. Let the good A. P. A. work go on.

Ike Gentht. Kassas City, Feb. 23, '95. Harlem Council No. 76, A.

P. Meets every Wednesday night at Midway hall. North Kansas City. sas City, Kans. Council No.

74, A. P. A. Meets every Friday evening. Hall 15th and Myrtle avenue, K.

C. Mo. ministration, and in running out the old Romish, thieving politicians. The grand jury has already reported 21 indictments against the last election frauds, and yet more to follow. Whither the ballot-box stufl'ers and election thieves have gone to escape justice, they and the devil only know.

EOMISH PRIEST AND THE T.M.0.A, Columbus, Feb. 24 Right Rev. John A. Watterson, bishop of the Columbus diocese, addressed a big meeting of the Y. M.

C. A. to-day. As many persons as gained admittence to the hall was turned away. This is the first time in history that a Catholic clergyman has addressed a meeting under the auspices of the Y.

M. C. and naturally attracted wide attention. The bishop was introduced by General Secretary W. T.

Perkins, and spoke for an hour and a half on Christian Citizenship the audience being held in rapt attention and frequently breaking into applause. When the bishop advanced on the platform the applause amounted to an ovation, and he thanked the audience for their generous welcome. It showed him he said that they did not regard him as a bull in a china shop, and especially a papal bull in the beautiful china shop "of the Y.M.C.A. The climax of his eloquent address was reached in the following passage: "While I am uncompromising in the matters of my faith and inflexible in those lines of conduct which depends on the principals of faith, and while I would deserve the contempt and scorn of every right-minded man if I were recreant to my conscience in those things which I hold as truth yet I know of no doctrine of the Catholic church which prohibits or prevents me from working for the good of my fellowman, no doctrine which interferes with my allegiance to the government and laws of my country. On the contrary I know that the whole teaching and the whole spirit of my religion requires me to be trne to my country and its government and to promote its honor by the faithful discharge of all the duties of American citizenship, and all of you would know it too if you knew my religion as well as I do." (Loud applause.) It seems almost incredible that the Y.M.C.A.

of Columbus should not have discerned the cunning deception and uncompromising Jesuitical trickery of Bishop Watterson, before the Y.M.C.A. of that city, when in fact Protestantism, in all forms, including our public school system, has been so bitterly denounced by the priests, bishops and hierarchy of Rome. Father Stick, said at a funeral in Pana, 111.. Feb, 28th 1894, that "The Y. M- C.

A. is a hell-hole, Mothers I implore you to keep your sons from going to such places. There is not a moral young man in Pana, that is a Protestatant; the only good young men are Catholics." He said "I would rather stand up with a gambler, a saloon-keeper, or a drunkard, on the judgment day, than with a Protest-tant, for they will all go to hell." Priest Phelan, editor of the Western Watchman, said: "Protestantism, why we would draw and quarter it, and hang up the crow's meat. We would tear it with pincers, and fire it with irons, we would fill it with molten lead, and sink it in hell-fire one hundred fathoms deep." "We are no advocates of religious freedom. Religious liberty is merely endured until the opposite can be carried into effect without peril1 to the Catholic church." Bishop O'Connor.

"Priest Hecker said: "We will take this country and build our institutions over the graves of Protestantism." Rome changes her policy, but her tendency, she never has changed. Her motto always will be to rule, to domineer, and to have absolute power. Her motto is semper idem always the same! When the A. P. A.

was in its infancy the Roman Catholic journals and priests were exceedingly bitter in their denunciations, proclaiming that its members should be hunted down like wild beasts and treated without mercy. Since, the A.P.A. has become a power the priests have been exerting their cuuning to the utmost to work not only the Y. M. C.

A. but weak, silly members of Protestant(P) churches. In Bay City, the Romish priests succeeded in forming an alliance with Protestant(?) ministers in opposition to the A. P. A.

It is time such ministers and church members were brought to an understanding of the contempt which is becoming deeply rooted in the hearts of all loyal Christian ministers and members of Protestant churches against all such as would drag Protestantism down into the filthy mire of Jesuitism. They appear to be ignorant of the fact that such conduct on the part of Protestant religionists must have the natural tendency to abuse the good will of many honest persons, and lead to infidelity and skepticism. Elders Mitchell and Hopkins, of Kansas City, have incurred the displeasure and con tempt of a large number of Protestants, on account of their association with Romish priests before a mixed audience in the Auditorium. The division in Protestant societies on Romanism will work a division of Protestant church societies. Wellsville Council, Mo.

55, Meets on first and third Thursday nights of each month. A cordial invitation extended to visiting friends. B. F. Kinsey, Rcc, Sec.

A Grand Patriotic Occasion, Many Visitors from Abroad Enliven the Program With Sentiments of Warmest Appreciation. Three thousand Americans crowded every avaliabie foot of space in the grounds of the county court house last Friday afternoon, Feb. 22d, and witnessed the hoisting of the stars and stripes over the county court house for the first time in the history of the county. The significant feature of the occasion was the fact that an ex-confederate colonel presided over the ceremonies and that an ex-union soldier and an ex-confederate soldier held the rope that drew the flag into its proud place at the top of the building. A few parochial school children from the Annunciation parish (Father Daltons parish) attended by two nuns were present bearing two small flags, and Veteran Company A.

of the Third regiment, stood drawn up in line in front of the speakers stand, 'while twenty seven hundred A. P. and one hundred Jr. O. U.

A. M. composed the balance of the vast audience, not speaking of probably fifty P. I. R.

(Poor Ignorant Romanists) who appeared lost in the crowd. Presiding Judge John Stone, of the county court, who as an A. P. A. was instrumental in the purchase of the Hag and its elevation on the occasion, was master of ceremonies.

Addresses were delivered by L. H. Waters, 3 members Nat'l Reform Press Association then meeting in this city, Major Ross Guflin and Colonel Stone. Recitations were given by Master Joseph Karnes Lipscomb, and Mr. Marshall A.

Pursley. Songs were sung by the G. A. R. quartette, and at the close of the exercises the national anthem, "My Country Tis of Thee," was sung, the assemblage uniting in the singing.

It was an occasion where patriotism was in the very air and love of country the keynote of the whole. The anniversary of the birth of Washington was celebrated in the most befitting manner, the unfurling of the flag of the land over a building dedicated to the administration of justice and the affairs ot the people. Long before the hour for the exercises to begin the grounds began to fill up. Veteran Company A marched upon the and was loudly cheered by the assembled A. P.

A.s as it drew up proudly before the speakers stand When Col. Stone arose to. announce the beginning of the exercises he faced a magnificent assemblage in which were hundreds of old soldiers who fought on both sides of tin line, who had gathered together as Americans to do honor to the flag of their country aad the memory of the great American, in whose honor the day was celebrated. At a given signal the beautiful flag was hoisted into position by M. J.

Newman, who served in the Seventy-eighth Illinois, and by Captain N. P. Leforge, who served in the Second Rentuckey battery under the famous Confederate general Morgan. As the immense banner slowly climbed up the side of the building cheer after cheer arose from the great throng and as it proudly floated at last from the top of the flagstaff, the crowd cheered again. Col.

L. II. Waters, county counselor, was introduced by Col. Sume and delivered a brief sjtfecli in which he said that if Washington we-e present on that occasion the only lamiliar thing he would see would oe the Hug which floated from the top of the building. He reviewed at length the progress of the country during the pant hundred years, and paid a glowing tribute to the public schools of tun eiiy and country, and closed amid- cliecru and calls for a longer speech.

A laughable feature during Col. Watrr address was the applause given by the children of the Catholic school. They were too far from the speaker to hear a word, but with every ripple of applause the teachers would shake their heads and wave their arms at tie children, who would take op the applause. When the Colonel said -We will tolerate no interference, by ary sect or creed that attempts to disrupt oar public school system," the mimic cheering from those children was most ludicrous. Mr.

J. M. Mallette, of Weatherford, said "Thirty years ago it would have been the pride of my life to have seen that flag go down in defeat; bat Council Grove Council, Mo. 35 Meets every Saturday night at Q. A.

R. hall. Visiting members are cordiully invited. J. 0.

Flynn. sec'y. W. A. P.

A. BISHOP McNAMARA VINDICATED. Bishop McNamara is once more a free man. It may be remembered that a year ago last spring a worthy minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. Rev.

J. G. White, came to Kansas City, Mo. On Tuesday evening, July 3, '93, Mr. White was billed to speak in the armory, which had been engaged for his lectures.

When tho time arrived, admission to the hall was refused. About 2,000 vicious-looking toughs (papists) had assembled to break up the meeting and take Mr. White's life if possible. One gang marched through the streets carrying a long rope decorated with crepe, and many police took an active part in inciting a riot. But as Mr.

White did not appear upon the scene of action on account of the hall being closed, the riot was limited to some 18 or 20 knock-downs, a few being more or less injured, due to the sympathy and apathy of the police, who failed to make any arrests. The next Eomish rum riot occurred Sept. 15th, at 21st and Dripp streets. Rev. J.

A. Dearbourne (the speaker) and others were knocked down and treated with unrelenting cruelty and brutality, while the police looked on from a distance. The following week, Sept. 22d, at 21st and Dripp, a more serious riot occurred, in wliich fifteen men were more or less injured. One man Was held by the papist police while devout Romanists hit him twice on the head with a rock, and was then dragged to to the police station; his assailants not being arrested.

Bishop McNamara having learned of the high-handed, dastardly conduct of the blood-thirsty Romanists through the Eagle, resolved to come to Kansas City on his own responsibility, to educate the people in their line of duty to avert a crisis. His first lecture took place at Turner hall, Sunday evening, Jan. 14, '94, which was not molested. It was given out that he would lecture in the same hall on the following Tuesday evening. As he entered the hall on this occasion he was informed that there was a plot laid to murder him in the hall.

He informed the audience of the plot, and began his lecture. In the course of his remarks a voice rang out from the gallery with "Your a liar!" This time the police in part attended to their duty. A little later came the sound of crashing glass followed by the groans of an injured person. All sprang to their feet. "Be still," thundered the Bishop, 'the hounds and hoodlums of the Romish church are at it again; it's part of the plot to murder me." The audience became nervous and soon left the hall.

The lights were extinguished and the doors were locked. McNamara and wife remained inside await a favorable opportunity to escape. A little later a hack drove to the east door, Mr. and Mrs. M.

entered and were driven away. They had not got 20 yards when a brick came crashing through the window, hitting Mrs. M. on the shoulder. Stones and missiles fiew thick and fast, and several shots were fired, one of which struck the driver, Alhert Gowdy, inflicting a slight wound.

They succeeded in reaching their lodging-house, but the mob followed, threeteningto burn the house, but left after hurling a volley of rocks through the windows. Not having succeeded in taking the Bishop's life, he was arrested for slandering Priests Dalton and Lillis, on three counts. Hislife was threatened while in jail, and old Roman Catholic hags and toughs ware allowed to insult him from the outside in defense of their religion, He was tried and acquitted on the first count at Independence, then placed under bond to appear from time to time until the case was finally thrown out of court last Menday at Liberty. The fact is that Bishop McNamara did not slander the priests named. He was reading extracts from "Ken-drick's Theology," a standard work on the Roman Catholic religion, and the language was construed as applied to Priests Dalton and Lillis.

McNamara, the fatal election riot and the A. P. have resulted in giving Kansas City a good healthy ad American Eagle Council No. 5, Kansas City, meets every Monday afternoon at 2 p. at 23d and Prospect.

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6. Meets the 1st and 3d Tuesdays, 3 p. at 627 State Springfield, Mo. Mrs.Agnes Eversol Secy. Mrs.

L. J. Alien, Pres. Eureka Council, Mo. 1, W.

A. P. A. Meets 1st and Sd Saturday at 2 p. m.

In McClaflin's hall, Aaoiirdale. Visitors are cordially Invited to attend. Excelsior Council No. 3. W.

A. P. A. Meets every Tuesday afternoon at half past 2 o'clock in Bells hall. Southwest Boulevard, near State Line, Kosedale, Kan.

"Friends" ot the order are cordially invited to attend. Protestants and "true American" ladles are solicited to Join, us in this good work, lniation lee, J1.U0. Come one, come all. Argentine Star Council Mo. 4, W.

A. P. A. Meets 1st and Sd Friday of each month at Masonic Hall, Argentine, Kans. Friends are cordially invited.

Mrs. Emma Lucas, Pres. Mrs. Woods, Sec'y. Reynolds Council Mo.

5, Topeka, Meets every Friday night at 418 Kansas Ave. Visitors cordially invited. America Council No. 7, W. A.

P. A. Meets every Tuesday at 2 p.m. In Woodward Hall. Cor.

3d and Lafajetth, Kansas City, Kansas. Visitors cordially invited, Mrs. C. Abbott, Pres. Mrs.

M. E. Arwood, Sec. L. O.

I. Kansas Purple Star L. O. No. SOS.

Meets first and third Tuesdays of each month at 8:00 p. In A. O. U. w.

Hall, corner of Fourth Street and Minnesota Avenue Kansas City, 'Kansas. Samuel Harrison, M. Wtn. Ballagh, Sec, 5S7 Northrup Ave. Visiting brethren cordially invited.

Sunflower Lodge, L. O. No. X64, Meets second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 8 p. at Claflin's hall, corner ot Mill street and Osage avenue, Kansas City Kansas.

Visiting brethren are cordially In vlted to attend. John Davidson, W. M. Win. McNaughton, Secy.

715 Beynolds Ave. want every council to make up a purse for the purpose of disseminating literature. The Romanists are becoming very active in working on members of Protestant churches, and particularly through the Y. M. C.

as you will see by an article in this number of the Eagle entitled, "A Romish Priest and the Y. M. C. It may be remembered that while Gov. Morrill was in Kansas City the Grand Army boys gave hiin a recep-tioa and presented him with a fine flag.

The Governor captured the heait of the boys in his cozening speech, and promised the competent Grand Army men preference in his appointments. lie has since turned that spirit of respect to contempt. By what means was the Governor's new police board induced to appoint a resident of Florida for police judge of this city? What right had he to appoint Roman Catholic police commissioners for Leavenworth, contrary to the wishes of their citizens, also whisky police commissioners at Wichita, and Michsel Heery (a rank Romanist) as member of the board of public works at Topeka, simply because the A. P. A.

did not want him appointed? Word has reached this office to the effect that the Governor stated he would not give an appointment to a prominent A. P. A. if he knew him to be one; also that he had some five hundred reasons for not investigating Warden Chase, each and American Eagle Supplement No. 4, delivered at our express office, $1.25 per express prepaid to desti.

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