The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
A WORD TO IRISHMEN.
Where to Look for the Know
Nothing Candidates.
WAITE AND TRUE AND THE .AMERI-
CAN UNION"
PORTLAND, Sept. 10, 1880.

10 the Editor Of the Press:
Dear Sir-The political parties in this State
have made all their nominations-the tickets
are complete Neither candidate for National,
County or city is wanting
1t behooves US, then, Mr.. Editor, to careful
ly examine the principles of both parties, and
to scrutinize carefully the men whom the two
great parties have nominated for the suffrages
OF the people. AS naturalized citizen, who
has always voted the Democratic ticket, I nat.
urally inspected with more than ordinary care
the so-called Fusion ticket which the natural
lied citizens of Portland is called upon to vote
next Monday fail to see upon that ticket
single Irish American. Why is this? Is it
fair? Is it just to our adopted citizens? Let
us see. The Greenback vote of this city is less
that party has two Senators, two Representa-
tives, sheriff and number of other smaller
Offices. The time-honored Democratic party is
left out in the cold. Are the naturalized citi-
zens, who compose the very marrow of the
party, represented? No, not single repre-
sentative. There are over 1900 naturalized
citizens in this city, nearly three times as many
as the Greenbackers, and yet they have not a
single representative. All they are expected
to do is to carry torch, hurrah and slavishly
vote as others dictate. But this is not the only
insult that the Fusion leaders have heaped
upon our adopted citizens. 1 call upon every
Irish American citizen to weigh well the fol-
lowing indubitable facts, and then ask himself
if he can vote the Fusion ticket
Both Daniel W. True, candidate for Sena-
tor, and Albert H. Waite, candidate for Rep
resentative, were members of that bigoted
Know Nothing society called the American
Union. These men solemnly calling the AL
mighty God to witness took the following oath
81 SWEAR TO PERPETUATE THE ORDER OF
AMERICAN UNION, TO OPPOSE THE CHURCH
OF ROME, AND TO OPPOSE THE ELECTION OF
PAPIsT TO POLITICAL OFFICE; TO ALL OF
WHICH PLEDGE MY LIFE, MY FORTUNE AND
MY SACRED HONOR. So HELP ME GoD."
Ichallenge these men to deny it, I have
the record of that society, and know whereof
speak. The following prominent Democrats
we're also members of that Know Nothing Or
der. Let every Irish American citizen mark
them and brand them with the mark of Cain:
Manfred M. Riggs, Charles 81. Haskell, Albert
II. w dlto, 1utHof + TlDgr0e, JOnn 4eatOn,
George D. Perry and Joshua Davis.
Manfred M. Riggs called the Irish Democrat
ic meeting to order the other night and intro
duced that exemplary Irishman T. f. Dona-
hue. Strange inconsistency. A bigoted Know
Nothing calling an Irish meeting to order!
ask Mr.. Donahue, for whom 1 have the
highest respect because know him to be a
clean, honorable, conscientious man, how
can vote for those who have sworn to proscrib
him ana "his grand old church,
Mr.. Donahue is the we'll meaning but un-
conscious tool of Tabulator Chase and other
well known bigots who control the Democratic
party of this city Let him and other young
Irish Americans shun those men who deceive
him and our people. Mr.. Donahue charged
the Republicans with Know Nothingism
Which of the present tickets, I ask him, is the
Know Nothing ticket!
Plaisted, the head of the Fusion ticket, is a
confessed Know Nothing; so is True and
Waite challenge him to name single can.
didate upon the Republican ticket who is OF
ever was Know Nothing.
call upon all Democrats of Irish extraction
to rise in their might and consign to political
oblivion these confirmed enemies of their race
and religion.
AN IRISH DELEGATE.