Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1909 — Ryan’s Quick Repartee. [ARTICLE]

Ryan’s Quick Repartee.

Archbishop Patrick J. Ryan, of Philadelphia, is as famous as he is eloquent as a divine, and many are the stories told of his quick repartee. When Wayne McVeagh, former attorney General of the United States, was counsel for the Pennsylvania railroad he called upon the archbishop in company with Mr. Roberts, president of the Pennsylvania system. “Your grace,’’ said Mr. McVeagh, “Mr. Roberts, who always travels with his counsel, will no doubt get you passes on all railroads in the United States if in return you will get him a pass to paradise." •“I would do so gladly,” flashed the archbishop, “if it were not for separating him from his counsel." On one occasion Archbishop Ryan complained to a Philadelphia editor that one of his sermons had been badly reported. “I am sorry,” the editor responded, "but one of our best men, who is also a Catholic, did it.” “What is his name?" the prelate inquired. “Killpatrick," answered thd editor. “And he came mighty near doing it," was the archbishop’s final shot. Milo Kline, of North Webster, who escaped from the Kosciusko county jail on the night of December 26, 1908, was arrested in Noble county on Thursday and is now in jail at Warsaw, where he will serve 125 days for assault with Intent to kill.