Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-02-27

banded, and so the Democratic governor
Of Ohio disbanded the Irish company of
Youngstown, the only Irish company in:
this whole section, to make room for
the aristocratic company.
To 20 outside our city: The Demo.
cratic party of the city Of New York,
without the Irish vote, would be in a
hopeless minority; yet who can mention
the name of: an Irishman who. has held
the Office of mayor or any other of the
chief offices of that city during the
whole period of Democratic sway?
The name of General Shields, an Irish
man who carries upon his body the bat
tie scars of two wars in which he fought
for the American Republic, was broug ht
before Democratic congress as candi-
date for an Office within its gift. Ad-
vaneing years and poverty were weighing
down the shoulders of this noble patriot,
but this Democratic congress kicked him
out to make room for a rebel brigadier.
Captain Condor, an American citizen
of Irish, birth, and a brave soldier, with
several others, was incarcerated in a
British bastile, in felon's cell, for words
spoken in the United States. The
American ambassador to the Court of
St. James refused to interfere in their
behalf, and the Democratic party of
Massachusetts Endorsed his base and in
famous. conduct by nominating this
recreant ambassador as it's candidate for
governor.
Let us change the scene. The Hon.
John Welsh, the minister to England of
the present Republican administration
of the United, States, had no sooner
landed on British soil than he demanded
the release Of the Fenian prisoners. He
entered their cell, God bless him, and
gave them the first words of cheer and
encouragement they had heard during
their long and weary confinement, when
he assured them that they should have q
speedy release. And when they neared
our shores on their homeward voyage,
the Republican president of the United
States whom the Democratic leaders
had. sought by every device of fraud and
corruption, of intimidation and violence,
of riot and outrage, to defeatat the polls,
this Republican president, whom these
same Democratic; leaders had sought
to cheat of his honest election
by. bribery and. threats Of revo-
.lution-this Republican president or
dered a revenue cutter to meet
these humble irish prisoners, to fire
a salute in their honor, and to land
them on our shores. And when they
landed this same Republican president
greeted them with q hearty dispatch of
welcome home to the land of their
adoption. This Republican president
did this, God bless him, against whom,
almost without exception, the Irishmen
of America had voted.
=, Brother lriahmen, far be it from US to-
bring nationality into politics, or to
make office the price Of our suffrage and
support, but when the leaders Of the
Democratic party misuse and abuse
Us, when they place 1rishmen in nomi:
nation for Office only when the fight is
hopeless, or simply to trade on and
slaughter; when they openly assert as
they do in this city that 1rishmen will
always vote the Democratic ticket, and
be hewers of wood and drawers of water
for that party for evermore, we
think it is high time for. us to
arise and leave that rotten and traitor
oius party, which, were it not for the
Irish vote, would die of it's own mean-
ness and insignifcance. For ourselves,
We solemn!y declare that we will be the
vassals and slaves of the Democratic
party no longer, and we call upon our
Irish fellow citizens here and everywhere
in this glorious land of ours, to march
out-with us to political freedom:,