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s 5 s.-v.le is f s u. ' .d Ut of the speech
. - f jrcinee tor the Pre.Jecy of the United
.' r C... i i ; ,se!y before toe Houston Texas Ministerial
i en . ten tr 12. We are running the luD text vm at the
expressed in tee speeeh by local citizens.'. We bop all of our
t will read tttls statement through la order that they snight have
rer vision of the. religious issue and lttcSeets gaa Kennedy when
Isxtei President of the United State 1. November. Faul Barak.)
rca'S NQT2: There hat been a great deal of discussion of the o-
- reueious iisue u me rresidenaal rampaign Senator Kennedy,
-muiion towara closing that discussion and focusing the public
t oa the hnportan.i&sues ol the campaign, snade the following atate-
o uie ureaier Houston i Texas) Ministerial Assoelatlbnen Sept.
believe that editors tvimlwn Mmni ikii tv.. a,ut iui-
Nation of this statement serves the cause of public enlightenment
e national interest, we t&erefore nope yoa will print the full text
n ffrateful ior your ffenpmmi fnvttnftnn m
liBe the so-culled relijjioui issue ta necessarily and properly the chief
nere uiaigni, i want to empnasue t rom tne outset that We have
sore critical Issues to Iocs in Out rata winm thn nmni rvm.
it Influence; Until it now festers Mnlles off the coast of Florlda-
unuuaunK treatment oi our resident and vice President by those
no . longer respect our power - the hungry children I saw In West
iijia, the old people who cannot pay their doctor bills, the families
;d to give up their farms as America with too many shims, with
few schools,, and toe late.te the moon and enter apace. :;, . . v
These1 are, the real issues which should decide this campaign. And
are not religious Issues for war and hanger' and tfrmT and
air know no religions barriers. . . .-v- r
But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected
;ldent,.the reel issues in this campaign have bees obscured perhaps
berately, in some quarteri less responsible than this. So it is apparent
ecessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I be-i
- ' . - e - . . iUL to Bi tat ..t kd ol
1 ill .'eh. I kt'Jgve In an America where the atr oration of
C uJ sle is aUkite where no Catholic prelate would tell the
Pre,:.' ..t ( should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister
would tell his parishioners fer whom 'to vote where no church or
church school is granted any public funds or political prefereoce-and
.i i ... .
wimb w maa U uemea puouc oiuce merely because his religion differs
from the President who miffht aminint him At - that Mnnlav'.whA smImM
elect him. I believe in an America that is officialy neither Catholic, Pro-
esuuu jor wewisn wnere no ouduc ouiciai either requests or accepts
Instructions on nubile oolicv tram ih pw. th NtiAni r..n j rn...
rches or, any other ecclesiastical sourcehere no religious body seeks
i i j . n ji t . .. .... .. . .
f uuki IK wiu otrecuy or uiairecuy upon tne general populace or the
nfihlta arfa itm J' 1: i ,., . . ......
" ... pw wm.4Vj ,CU(1WH uwvrij IM W9 wuivunlUv
t&at an act against one Church la treated a an art ffalnt n ,-' ' :
I Jr, while this year It may be a Catholic against whom the finger of
suspicion Is pointed. In other years it has been , and may some day be
sum, a oitw or wuaxer or a unitarian or a Baptist. It was Vir
(lnia'i harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to
Jefferson's Statute lor relielnua frAnm Tnrfav T m n.
but tomorrow H aay be" you untfl he whole fabric of our harmonious
DCltV is riDOed at a llm, nf ornat natlmiol'iuvll T
' Finally, I believe la an America where religious intolerance will some
lay end t- where U men and all churches are treated as equal where
jvery man has the same right to tfttevd or not attend or not attend
the church of his choice where there Is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic
Ote. no bloc VOtinff of anv kltutanrt whara Cathnlt. . D..IW..I. .j
- w " . wwawui BUU
Jews, at both the lay and pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes
V disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the
past, and promote Instead the American idea' of brotherhood.
. fliL.l f it. - t ? . . m . , , ... .... ...
vv- ajau jb tuo juna junenca m wmcn i neiieve. And it represents
,he kind of Presidency in which- t believe-a great office that must
leltber be humbled by making It the instrument of any one religious
roup, nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the
members of any religious group.' I believe in a President whose religious
iews are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation,
ior imposed by the nation udob him as a conriitlnn tn hnMina thot Afna
I WOuId not lank With favor limn I Praalriant nnrlrlna .k.. H.'
- " r " W BHUTCll U1C
?irst Amendment's guarantee of religious liberty ( nor would our system
I cnecss ana oaiances permit nun to do so) and neither do I look with
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GET THE HIGH $
For Your Tobacco
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PKone LY 2-2966
SALE SCHEDULE
Monday, October 10 ..L..U. . . .: 3rd Sate
. Tuesday, October 11 2nd Sale
Wednesday, October 12 1st Sale
. Thursday 13 1........:, 3rd Sale
; Friday, October 14 .........:. ..w 2nd Sale
' ' i Our Sales Continue Hish . . S
ISrins Us Yoer Next Load..
SELL WITH - s
A. E. Racltley
tlliy
Guy R. Boss
' GiaBuck -
George Ifenaett
r .-v Clareoce Kirwn, Jr.
Floor Managers: A. F. Powell & M. T. Parsons -,
Leslie llobbs, Auctioneer
Satisfied Customers Are Our First ConseridatHm
I Amos Brmson And
Bill Shiff ield
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Presented Citation
Amos Brinson of Kenansville
Drug Company; and" Bill Sheffield,
of Warsaw Drug Company, owners
of the Kenansville and Warsaw Re
xall Drug Stores, rescectivelv. to-
day were awarded a Citation by
President Eisenhower from the
Small Business Administration nf
the United States praising their ef
forts in promoting registration and
voting. .
Brinson and Sheffield have dis
played registration and voting in
formation in their stores and havf
urged all eligible citizens to take ad
vantage Of their voting Drivileee.
The campaign conducted here was
part of a nation-wide "Let's All
Register. Let's All Vote" camnaitrn
We are most grateful to President
Eisenhower and the Small Business
Administration. More than ever be.
for we must all Darticinata in pW.
-lions ana worn to get more Ameri
cans, to tne polls," they said. . The
Citation, the first ever made bv the
email Business Administration, was
Jointly signed by Philip HcCallum,
SBA administrator, and reads:
'Demonstrating the Community
emce ot this and other Rs 11
LXR-ur Stores and .of .United States
retail pharmacists and the phar
macy industry In general by their
active-leadership of the non-partisan,
nation-wide let's All Rfflter
Let's All campaign has made a maj
or, ana mgniy important contribu
tion to the welfare of this country.
Bv enceuraalna fellow Amerfeana t
vote, and making it easier for them
to oo so, ue members of the Rexall
Family have Bet an ezamnla far all
cosinesses, ana nave done their ut
most to insure the permanence of
ue American way of life."
favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution
by reaolruig a relielaus teat-avim hv faitfo-aMUn w i. i....
with that safeguard, they should be out openly working to repeal It, J
I want a Chief ExecuUve whose public acta are responsible to all
mm naifam w ww , woo can auena ' wt$ , ceremony,
ervice or dinner his office may appropriately require of him and whose
fulfillment of his President oath is not limited er conditioned by any re
ugious oau, nuiai or ODUgauona.-;W:.ov;.,a;s: r,
This is the kind of America I rllv in .nVM. t. tt,.
fought for In the South Pacific, pnd the kind my brother died for In Eu
rope; No one suggested then that w mieht hava a "itivM4 I,.ifW k.
we might ;"not believe in liberty or that we belonged to a distoyaly
aroup uuu ureaienea ue "treedoms for which eur forefathers died."
And in fact this a the kind nf Amarfra for whlh ... j.-j
- - T ".w. mi, MUCtRUICll IUCU
-when they fled here to escape religious teat oaths that denied office' to
members Of less favored churches-When thev foimHwi
the Bill of Rights, and the Virginia Statute ar Ralisian. v j
- - aw w ...wamaw . KVUVN-WIU
when they fought at the Shrine I visited today, the Alamo. For side by
u wiw oowie ana crocseR aiea Mcuauerty and Baily and Carey but
n. I. ...U.t .1 n i. .
u"c kikuht uiey were vainoacs or not. r or tnere was no re
ligious test at the Alamo. , .
I ask you tonight to follow in that tradltlon-to judge me on the
basis of 14 years in Coneresa ar mv Horlarorf forvrln on.inst
- i - -v BfMiui wi miiuaa-
sador to the.' Vatican.' against nnconstltntianai '
-f 1 , WM aauwuam oviiwio,
and against any boycott of the pubUc. schools which I have attended
iuseu; insieaa oi juaging me on tne oasis of these pamphlets and pub
lications we all have seen that carefully uWt niWM,n. f t
- - r iihwiw vut vi VUUirAt
from the statements of Catholic church leaders, usually in other coun-
irequenuy in omer centuries, ana rarely relevant to any situation
here and always omitting, of course, th ttmnf r th. a .
Bishops in 1948 which strongly endorsed Church-State separation, and
which more nearly reflects tte views of almost every American Catholic.
I do not consider these other auotations binding
why should you? Bue let me say, with respect to ether countries, that I
iu wuouy opposea 10 me state neing used Dy ony religious group. Cath
olic or Protestant, to compel, prohibit or persecute the free exercise of
any omer reunion. Ana i none tnat vim and i mnm. ...uu t
i - - . - - .w..Mb.u. mui djutu LVlVvr
j unB unuuns wu.-u aeny meir rresiaency to rrotestants and those which
I Honv It f PothtHttf Awrt .1 ii t , , ...
- ' lamci woii kuk me misaeeas oi tnose wno differ,
I would cite the record of the Catholic Church in such nations as Ireland
and Franca and the independence of such statemen as Adenauer and De
Gaulle. But let me stress again that these are ny views for, contrary to
common newspaper usage, I am not the Catholic candidate for President.
I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President who happens also
to be a Catholic. I do not sneak for mv church nn nnhlir- nttro...t it-
church does not sreak for me.
Whatever issue may come before me as President nn.hirth mn.
trol, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject-I will make
my decision in accordance with these
.-v,.f a vkwuwiv a v hi nuai
-my conscience tells me to be the national interest, and without regard
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N.Y, YANKEI HOME BUM nuniut Th.f. r.mi
smoker, Roger Maris. He says he was a switch
smoker ---until he switched to Camels. They
t. Rive him everything he wants; flavor, mildness
j. and complete smoking satisfaction.
VALUABLE FARM PROPERTY
21 Acres Of Farm And Timber Land, Located In
Cypress Creek Township Approximately 5 Miles
South-East Of Chinquapin. Approximately 11
Acres of Geared Land With 1.05 Acres Tobacco
Allotment.
Must Be Sold By 15 October, 1960. For Further In
formation Contact Russell J. Lanier, Attorney At
taw, Kenansville, N. C.
to outside religious pressures or dictates. And- no power or threat S
unWunent could cause me to decide otherwise. .c-J'Xt,
. ; out a ue tune should ever eome-and I do not concede any e
to be even remotely possible when my office would require me to i
w conscience or violate ue national interest, then I would i
he office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the i
uut i oo not intend to apologize for these ivews to my Crete T
either Catholic or Protestant faith-or do I intend to disavow .either aay
views or my church in order to win this election. If I should ke ea Om
real issues, I shall return to my seat in the Senate, satisfied that I heat
tried my best and was fairly fudeed. But if thi aiai. i. a
basis that 40 million Americans lost their chance of being President ea Ow
v uwr were oapusea, men it is the whole nation that win be the laser,
in the eyes of Catholics and nonCatholica aramui th mu i- v -
of history and in the eyes of our own people.
But If, on the other hand. I should win thi .wtinn i... t .t..n
vote every effort of mind anH niHt to .,tr,iu., .'.tw n.- ,
- i -- -w .m iiu wvii vi uiv near
dency-practically identical, I might add, to the oath I have takes m
years in the Congress. For, without reservation, I can "solemnly swear
that I will faithfully execute the office of ProaiHont r th
and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the te-
jsiituiwu. bw ueip me uou
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