Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-25
any other people on this earth, and accord ingly they have become so.

The British Conservatives have gained by the retirement of Lord Ramsay from the Commons another in Liverpool Six Con- servatives have been unseated on petition Of the seats thus lost, three have been re- filled by Conservatives and three for the
 present remain vacant. On the other hand, fourteen Liberal members have been unseated
 on petition. Six of the seats have been rec filled by Liberals. one has been wrested from
 them by the Conservatives, and seven are now vacant Besides these, the Conserva- tives have won five seats at by-elections- Oxford, Wigtown, Sandwich, Buteshire and
 Berwiek-while they have only lost one, at
 Bandon. The total summing up, therefore,
 of the party gains and losses up to this time
 shows a strength for the Conservatives of 237
 as against 343 for the Liberals, or a Liberal
 majority, Independently of the Home Rulers,
 of 1O6, instead of 118, the figure at which it
 stood at the opening of the session, when
 there were 236 Conservatives, 354 Liberals
 and @ Home Rulers.
 The Irish-Americans of Maine, like those of
 several other States, show signs of revolt
 against Democratic despotism. MT. W. H. .Loon-
 ey, young lawyer of Portland, in a recent in-
 teryiew with a correspondent of the Boston
 Herald, said that last spring and fall in Port
 land large number of Irish-Americans voted
 the Republican ticket. Ward which had gone
 Democratic the year before, went Republican,
 chiefly by the accession of Irish votes The
 is tr11a nf Ipar6 4 ypharn Irish Americans voted straight Republican ticket. Governor Anderson said in Fryeburg the other night that they were bought for $3, which was grossly untrue. They were hon orable and high-minded men, and this fall would resent this vile islander upon them by voting against General Anderson. MT. Loon- ey said he knew a number of young Irish- Americans in Portland who would vote against the Fusionists From reliable information he had good reason for believing that the move ment was strong in Bangor, Lewiston, Bidde- ford and other cities in the State. He asked,
 'Iow could Irish Catholics vote for a man like General Plaisted, who, when he ran for Congress against MT. Madigan in 1875, dis- tributed anti-Catholic circulars throughout the district, bitterly assailing him on account of his religious principles" /" MT. Looney said the statement so often made that the Irishmen were indebted to the Democratic party was not true He believed that patriotic Irishmen had nothing in common with that old pro- slavery Democracy. Every Irishman was ipSo .tucto an abolitionist. To the Republican party the Irishmen were much indebted. It was the Republican party which passed the homestead act which made repatriation laws, and gave us the protection laws He could not understand why laboring men could sup port party like the Democratic party, which pledges itself to free trade Free trade means competition with the slave labor of England. Mir. Looney said, in conclusion, that Judge General O'Bierne and Captain O'FarreH were to stump the State in the inter- est of the Republican party. He believed that Irish-Americans would advance their own in- terests more and benefit the country by being of either party.