The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-10-09
) Irish Republicans

Inc large NUMBER OF irish voters
In New York, Cincinnati, st. Louis
and other places, who are enrolling
themselves in Republican organiza-
tious, is one of the significant signs of
the. times. Cooper's Institute. IN
New York, was filed to Overlooking,
the other evening, by an enthusiastic
Irish Republican meeting which was
addressed BY Senator CONFESS and
other eloquent Irish orators, Hun
dreds of Celtic voters In this city,
who never vet cast Republican bal
lot will. we trust, break away from
the old party trammels and give their
votes for Grant and the Republican
ticket tx Our advices from st. Louis
are Of a similar effect. We know
what desperate exertious will be made
TO prevent this exercise of the free
mans independent right. But we
trust these efforts will not avail In
SURPRISING the good movement SO
auspiciously begun. +.
Intelligent Irishmen, who have
hitherto adhered to the Democratic
party, must have long since become
FESTIVE under the consciousness that
all voters of their race were regarded
as so much political capital always
reliable for whatever Democratic
ticket might be set up, whether their
wishes were consulted or not. They
must have seen. the effect of this
assurance, which the past has SO
nearly justified, upon their political
1 fortunes, and how Injurious it has
been to the Advancement Of Irishmen,
as race, in this country Their well
fare would be largely promoted by at
least division of their political
forces, and by dispelling the Demo-
cratic notion that party-drill is suffi.
cient at all times to carry their vote
in solid column for the Democracy
Their self-respect must be lessene6
by the reflection that citizens oil
every other nationality have refused
to be bound en- n1dSSe to the chario
wheels of any party, while they have
been treated as shackled captives O.
Democratic vietors.
Ia "A little unbiased reflection, party
prejudice being thrust aside, must
convince the intelligent Irish vote
who has for any time watched our pc
litical affairs, that the so called Dem
ocratic party is far removed from tn
influence of real Democratic princi
piles; that, in upholding slavery, /
has done all Ia its power to exalt cap
ital at the expense of labor; that i
has long since ceased to be part,
that recognizes the will of the people
as the supreme law, but aims ever t.
foist the opinions and purposes O
self constituted leaders upon thei
! humber followers, contrivinR. b
means of Opera House clubs, and tn
u like aristocratic combinations, to con
troll, III secret, the action of the mass
es; and that il treats the Irish vot
as Its property, not as political ele
ment fully entitled to its voice in al
that concerns the public welfare
There is little, in truth, save a misap
propriated name, that is fitted to at
tract any foreign voter to the Demo
cratic side.
We appreciate the difficulty which
any man iinds in breaking away from
old party associations. But we re
member, also, how large an elemen
of the present Republican party wa,
but few years ago in the Democratic
organization, and left it on account O
its abject subserviency to pro-slaVer,
dlctatlon, of its complacency toward
armed traitors at the South, or fol
other reasons based in love of free
dom, selt-respect, and patriotic i'm
pulse. We do not expect extensive
inroads, in day, upon ranks hitherto
so compact In the Democratic line as
the voters of Irish origin. But the
time has come for break in this
phalanx. So much as this is already
assured. We hail it as good omen
publican party, without this help, is
strong enough to carry the day tri.
umphantly, yet it is not so strong but
that all new adherents will be cordi.
ally welcomed and faithfully regard.
3D. Cincinnati Chronicle.