BISHOP MORAN'S CANDIDATURE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 4495, 18 January 1883, Page 2

BISHOP MORAN'S CANDIDATURE.

Bishop Moran, who spoke last on the occasion of hia nomination, had an enthusiastic reception. Ha asserted that he came forward on behalf of 70,000 Catholics in the colony to demand justice -in the matter of education. He replied to statements that the Catholics as a body did not want schools, but that only the clergy made the agitation. Did they, as honest men, think that the Catholic body were fools or slaves, or that they were ied by him (the Bishop) ? They paid him an undue compliment to imagine that he could have fhe power, the influence, the eloquence, and the argument to lead , 70,000 of his fellow-»citizens. If he was strong, the source of his strength was to be found in the sentiment, principles, and determination of the Catholic body in this country. [Applause.] It was not true that he was the nomiuee of this man or that, or under their instructions. Wa3 he a man to be under instructions from any man beyond hia own principles ? [Applause.] It was said that he was one of a hierarchy that had been tyrants everywhere ; was that true ? Take the history of the British Empire, and it would disprove that assertion. Every time time that Catholics had power in their hands in Ireland, they refrained with great praiseworfchineas from inflicting mi justice upon any man, and from doing an injury to any man on the score of religion. Maryland, one of the flourishing States of America, was founded by Catholics, and they established in it the principle of universal liberty ; but when the other j party gained the ascendancy, they in* troduced the penal laws, and it was the men who introduced penal laws there and in England and everywhere where penal laws existed, that turned round on him and said — "You are the advocate of penal laws and of tyranny." He was the victim of penal laws and tryanny, and was of the race and religion that had been the victims of penal laws and tyranny for centuries. The men who made these accusations could not but know that they were speaking untruth, and that they were charging falsely upon him the principles en which they were acting in this very election. He had been told by the papers that morning that he had been sent by the Pope under in« structions. He did not want to say anything disrespectful, but would give them this advice — Try and not let old women be the editors of newspapers. [Loud laughter and applause.] He was there under instructions from no one, and he obeying orders of no one. He asked them not to reject him because he was a Catholic, and advocated justice to 70,000 people, because if they did it would be a disgrace.and would resultin injury to them and to the community at large in the long run. [Loud applause.]