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"In the 1912 elections, the two candidates for Congress from the Seventh Congressional District in Pennsylvania were Eugene C. Bonniwell, a Democrat (and a Catholic), and Thomas S. Butler, a Republican. Mr. Bonniwell, the unsuccessful candidate, filed an objection with the Speaker of the House, asking that Mr. Butler not be seated to represent the district. His objections were investigated by a House Committee on Elections, which prepared a report (House Report 1523). That report was submitted to the House on February 15, 1913, and, upon request of a Congressman Olmsted, was included in the Congressional Record. The spurious "oath" was among the documents submitted and duly recorded.It is actually a second version of a document anonymously circulated during the heated election campaign to slander and discredit the Catholic candidate; the first version was called the "Knights of Columbus Oath" and is quite similar (and just as false). It's noteworthy to point out that in the Congressional Record, the Committee on Elections states the following: "This committee cannot condemn too strongly the publication of the false and libelous article referred to in the paper of Mr. Bonniwell .... " |
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