Unitarians Don't Just Vote for Unitarians

1908

Sensible Remarks

The Christian Register, the able organ of the people who profess the Unitarian faith in this country, indulges in the following sensible remarks concerning the religious opinions of political candidates: "Unitarians in America have never acquired the habit of voting for a candidate because he was a Unitarian, or of voting against a man became he was a Roman Catholic or a Methodist. But, if they were inclined to carry their denominational interests into politics, they would be restrained by the saving grace of common sense. They remember the sad fate of Mr. Burchard, the honest gentleman who by the alliteration of the three R's, rum, Romanism and rebellion, was charged with defeating Mr. Blaine, the candidate whom be supported. Any public man who in his private capacity is a loyal Unitarian has the right to let his denominational preferences drop out of sight when he becomes a candidate for office; and he is neither a consistent Unitarian nor a wise supporter of such a candidate who challenges the vast majority who are not lovers of Unitarianism "to make it an issue at the polls." All of which seems a rather pertinent deliverance.

--The Charleroi Mail, Charleroi, Pennsylvania, September 19, 1908, page 2.