Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-07-03
REPUBLICAN TICKET,
The Irish Americans.

The Irish Americans.
A circular has been distribute
throughout the nation addressed t
representative Irish Americans, req uest
ing them to send a delegation from eacl
State in the Union TO a Convention 0
their countrymen to be held at Indian
apolis, Indiana, August l4th. Til,
Convention is to bear upon the polit
ical situation of the times, and from al
able article which we publish else
where, taken from the New York Tab
let, representative Irish paper, W
infer that the proposed Convention is t.
be in the interests of the Republican
party. We will allow the article to b
read without comment of our own 81
far as 1t relates to New York, but W,
would simply say that what is true il
that City and State is true in Whining
ton and Delaware, and we hope WI
shall be pardoned for referring to the
question as it exists here, while at the
same time We would ask q careful
perusal of the article published from
the Tablet.
As is well known the Irish American:
have almost enmasse, allied themselves
10 the Democratic party, there being
few exceptions. There may be a reason
for this Of course the Irish people
think they have reason for belonging
almost exclusively to the Democratic
party or else they would not belong to
it. That there might have been rea-
sons for this during a score or more
years ago we will not attempt to deny,
but since then there have been great
revolutions in politics. As the article
from the Tablet says, nearly all the
most intOlersnt Knsw-Nothings Of a
quarter of a century ago have gravitated
into the Democratic party and we will
add where they remain TO this day,
monopolizing oil the high political Of
Hoes Of honor, trust and profit, while
the smaller Offices are doled out in
scanty parcels to the large voting
masses, who may not inappropriately
DO termed the hewers of wood and the
drawers of water for the party. We
know we will be accused by unprinci.
pied Democratic organs for even saying
this much, of trying to deta9h from the
Democratic party part Of the Irish
vote and Of endeavoring to convey it to
the Republican party. We frankly and
honestly say that all who are actuated
by principle, after having given this
question intelligent thought, and will
in consequence ally themselves with
the Republican party, will be warmly
welcomed, for these are the kind of
men who have made the great National
Republican party what it is, and these
are the kind of men who will carry on
the party to fresh conquests in the fu-
ture, even though it should at times
meet with reverses.
Not long ago when we we're referring
to this subject and pointing out the lit
tie patronage the Irish voters received
from the Democratic party in proper
fion 10 the vote, we were asked by the
Gazette why the Republicans did not
give the Offices more to the Irish voters
when they were in Iower. We did nos
answer the question then, but we will
do SO now while we are writing upon
this subject. This Gazette knows as
we'll as We do that where there il ons
Irish adopted citizen votes the Rspub
llcan ticket there are ten who vote
the Democratic ticket, so that even had
the Republicans been ever so much dis.
posed they could not have given many
offices to that class without doing iDjus-
tice to the Others. The article from the
Tablet shows now Irish Americans have
been favored by the national iminis-
trat' On in New York. L. will be seen
that when Francis herman, one of the
best men Of the Democratic party, and
now U. s. Senator from New York ran
for Governor OF tat State on the Demo.
cratic ticket he was defeated by ma
jority of over 10000, but that when
General J. B. Carr ran :or Secretary of
State last fall on the Republican ticket