Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-12-27
4 False Charge Refuted.
IN Lrisl.n.ans reasons for quitting Tie Den.ocraeg

IN Tisbmdn S reasons for quilting The Democracy.
Just after election the editor of the Neeuah
Democrat wrote to the Ne,rs. giving the vote of
Neenah and Menasha. with the following excuse
for the unsatisfactory result in the latter town
In the towr of Menasha, the Irish votes Were.
through the treachery of certain prorninent Irish
men, sold out to the Republicans" We ex-
pressed at the time, our doubts about the story,
and looked to its contradiction. The last
number of the Menasha Conseruator brings the
expected rntradlctiOn, in the shape OF a spicy
letter from MICHAEL HOGAN. one of the prom
inent Irishmen referred 10. addressed TO his
accuser. Indignantly denying the charge, and
defining, at length. his own political position
We make some extracts from the letter:
MY POLITICAL POSITION.
l have for some time felt ii my duty to aban
don that party whose professions and practices
are so much at variance. l. in common with
most of my countrymen, attached myself TO the
so-called Democratic party, for The reason that
that party protessed 10 be the friend of the Ia
boring man. particularly those Of foreign birth.
have been long enough in that party to know
that their professions are false, and made only
to deiude the ignorant IN order 10 secure their
votes, and when secured, their rights and IN
terests are ignored, and the power thus created
i. used to oppress and degrade large majority
of those whose suffrage created It.
THE TARIFF MEASURE.
The laboring and mechanical interests of our
latitude require protective tariff Our coun-
try Is depressed, times hard laborers are
thrown ont OF mploy ment, compelled To
work for pistance hardly sufficient 10 support
life. from the fact that there restrictions
upon foreign import ations. Our country IS flood
ed with the labor of the old world IN exchange
for the Gold and Silver required at home. This
is the result Of Democratic rule, and all the hard
ships and degradation the laboring democrat Of
the North and Wes. now suffers is the direct
result OF his vote.
RIVER AND HARBoR IMPROVEMENT.
Our Commercial interests are suffering. and
millions of dollars and hundreds OF valuable
lives are annually sacrificed, for the want of ap-
preparations which Democracy In its wisdom
deems proper 10 withhold from US, and bestow
upon more Southern and Democratic latitude.
THE HOMESTEAD BILL.
The millions of Iandless poor from Ireland,
England Germany. DC, by whose sl:ffrages the
Democratic party have maintained the uscen-
dance had right to expect that the Homestea |
Bill would receive hearty support from their
hands. Eut were doomed to dIs2ppoint-
meut al our only hope IN this as well as other
measures enumerated was In the triumph OF
those whom we had labored to defeat.
/ TIE SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE LABoRER.
Labor IS the poor man : capital In Repnb-
4 lican Government 1t should be respected. II is
honorable even in the Monarehiai Governments
Z of the Old world, but in this country we see q
persisrent effort 10 degrade labor. Democratic
4 Senators and Representatives in Congress de-
clare. and the sentiment is echoed by the pres.
/ and sanctioned oy the party. tba, labor is the
h Legitimate sphere of Slaves. That Slavery il
the natural condition Of the laborer. dc. Tha
labor should be owned and not hired. thus stri
king blow at the very liberties of nineteenth