Daily Republican., 1880-09-13

who has not yet paid his county anG
poor tax, do 50 Immediately, and b.
prepared to vote.
why should freshmen be Demo
crags?
1t is estimated that there are 100, 00C
Irishmen who will vote for the Republi
Oan candidate for President who have
never voted the Republican ticket. AL
over the North where there are large
centres Of Irish population, Irish Re
publican. clubs have been formed. This
Is sign Of increasing intelligence and
reason amongst our Irish fellow citizens
There is 10 reason in the world why
they should as class be welded to the
Democratic party, any more than any
other race or nationality. We frequent
ly hear Democrats say that the negro
solid line ought to be broken, and they
are making every effort. to get part o.
the negro vote for the Democratic party
But the negroes have a reason for being
solidly Republican, which the Irishmsp
have not for being almost solidly Demo
cratic. 1t was the Republican party
which struck the shackles. of slavery
from the limbs of the negro and
gave him all the liberty he
now enjoys. 1t was the Repub.
lican party which gave effect to ana
put into practice the declaration Of the
immortal Jefferson that all men are
created free and equal, and it was the
Republican party which declared
equality before the law to all people
all kindred and nations, without regard
to creed OF color. OF course the Negroes
know who their friends have been, and
1t would be the basest ingratitude for
them even to break solid line for The
Republican party. But our Irish fellow |
citizens are under no such obligations
u the Democratic party that they
should present almost an untroken
front in favor of its candidates. Durn
the war Of the rebellion the Irishmsn
as rule were loyal, while the party
with which they were allied had dis
union sympathies, and the most of the
Democrats who fought on the side of
the Union during the war and Of which
We hear SO much during. the preser
campaign, came from the Irish ranks.
While IL is true that the Irishmen as a
mass are allied to the Democratic party,
1t is no less true that there are distiu-
guished Irishmen who belong to the
Republican parry and who that party
has highly honored. Its principle as
party Is to make no distinction in race,
creed or color, so long as race, creed or
color makes no fight against its prin.
ciples Of honest government and equal
rights. 1t demands the same fealty TO G
these principles from all, and it pro. I
scribes none who possess it.
But there is still another and a
stronger reason why Irishmen should
be Republicans. They are mostly la i
boring men who earn their living By 4
The sweat Of their brows. They dig +
bur canals, build our railroads, unloo g q
bur coal, iron, silver and gold from the r
bowels of the earth, and in short q
there is labor Of any kind ;
there are 1rishmea to labor except in
The South where labor is degraded
by Southern aristocracy falsely called D
Democracy. The Republican party has v
been in power in the nation for the last d
twenty years, with the exception of one fl
or two short intervals, through the pro. Z
lection afforded to American manufac- n
tories and industries, Irishmen have C
had labor and remunerative wages com. s
pared to that which they would have
received in the country they left. It is q
only through the wise system of Iro- b
lection afforded by the Republican par
~ that American manufactures have y
been stimulated and kept in operation y
that canals have been dug, railroads u
built and minerals mined, and which h
gave labor in abundance TO the toiiing
whether Irishmen, Germans,
Englishmen or Africans. Without this n
protection to American interests Amer. Ii
lean labor would be sunk to a level tt
with the pauper labor of Europe. Not Ii
'nly lrishmsn but all who live by labor
should reflect that they are under OBJ
legations to the Republican party for =
The wise system of tariff protection a,
which gives them labor. Those vhol
vatchad the Democratic primary elpc V
ion last Saturday must have noticed
he large number of Irishmefi Who took b,
art that eleciio I4detd, without a