The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-31
An Irish Miners Speech.

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4 Campaign Hall was the scene Of a
very successful demonstration last
night, fully 1900 people being in at
tendance upon the impromptu meet
ing at which members of the Irish
American Republican Convention
were announced to speak. The pro-
ceedings Throughout were character
lied by an unbounded enthusiasm,
every point made by the speakers
being greeted with loud and sponta-
fleous applause. The meeting was
called to order by Thomas M. SheSny
and Frank Ryan. of Evansville, who
was called to the chair, was making
the opening speech when Hon. AL
bert G. Porter, entered the nall. The
arrival of Mr.. Porter was hailed with
great applause, and there were calls
from all parts of the hall for speech
from 1.-The peoples candidate" for
Governor. Mr:Porter had, however,
come to the meeting simply as lis
tener. and after gracefully thanking
theaudience for the hearty reception
accorded him, stated that it would
give him much greater pleasure and
be a greater pleasure and be greater
serYive to the Republican party for
the gentlemen in charge of the meet
ing to carry out the original pro.
gramme. The speakers of the eve-
ming were Messrs. Ryan. Evansvillej
Mathew Gray, OF Bainbridge Nor
rison, of Illinois Wood, of War
rick county, and Masterson, of st.
Louis. The feature of the evening
was the speech of Mr.. Woods. He
was introduced by the chair as Jim
Woods. the Irish Hoosier, of Boone
zkiiles in WaFTiek county and his
remarks, stenographicalIy reported,
were as follows:
"T have been q lifelong Democrat.
l have workt d faithfully Tor the par.
ty. But l want to say right here to
you laboring men, for it's you l want
to talk to more especially--you me-
chanics, that have been working in
the foundries here the two or three
days when the heat has been enough
to kill you-we're no bankers or
bondliolders, you kfioW-Lla laughter
that the question you have to think
about is whether the laboring men
and the Irishmen should vote for
the Republican party or the Demo-.
cratic party. Cries of That's it,
and cheers. And l have come to
the conclusion within the last two
weeks, that we ought to vote the
Republican ticket, loud cheers. and
l am going to tell you why, Now,
what l tell you is this. That it is
for every honest man, no matter
where he comes from, or who he is,
to see that he does not go wrong on
this matter, and that other people do
not go wrong. feel that l have got
little honor and manhood left, al
though l know the Democratic pa.
pers, will give me fits, laughter,
for am known everywhere down
in my part of this State. Four years
ago / was interested in the election
Of Tilden and Hendricks. They told
us that their election meant econo-
my and reform. Laughter. But one
evening began to look at it and
think about it, and then began to
get weakened, great laug hter, Fand
l have not got strong yet. Re-
newed laughter and uproarious
cheers Can't you keep those peo-
pie quiet, Mr.. Chairman Laugh
ter. 1t they don't mind they'll get
my Irish spunk up. Renewed laugh
ter. Now about this economy the
Democrats are speaking about so
much all over the land. They tell
you they have saved over SAT, 200, 900.
They say they are the party OF econ
omy and reform, and that they have
saved any amount of money. L tell
you what thought about it when /
had read a little about it at home, I
read what they were doing in Con-
gress, and L found that there were
vessels of the Navy that were built
during the war, and that cost the
country millions, that W, re allowed
to become useless just for want of a
little repairs; and yet there were
hundreds of laborers who were
scarcely able to get bread for their
families, and many man was hards