Political Corruption and the Catholic Vote
As showing the trend of public opinion and morals, take the following item from a letter by Rev. E. J. Stanley, written from Helena, Montana, to the St. Louis Christian Advocate, and appearing in the issue of that journal of the 6th instant:— “I felt greatly humiliated at the outset of the campaign when I saw the eagerness with which both the political parties were bidding for the Roman Catholic vote. It is a virtual admission that the Romanists held the balance of power. But on later, I was disgusted at the corruption that was so evident on every hand. It is astonishing, yea, alarming, to see the means that are resorted to by political tricksters to carry their partisan ends.”