, 1880-10-31
RISHMEN, READi


Last Appeal to Irish VoterB Of the State
| of Illinois.
| 4TncAGo, Oct, 30.-My CouNTnYMEy: Once
| more I appeal to your intelligence, your self
interest, and the love you must bear for your
adopted country, to consider well before you
throw your ballot for the Democratic candidates
| next Tuesday.
Many of you very well know have seen the
| folly Of being eternally swanped In the Demo-
cratic slough, aud with vigorous independence
| have extricated yourselves .herefrom; some OF
| you indeed have already rendered valuable aid
| to the great cause OF Truth and Freedom.
| To those still houndering In the ENHANCEMENT
I Of old associations would say last word In
the first place, you are either UP for offices of
one kind or another or you are not. II you arc,
ali right. There is no disgrace in wanting Gov
ernment employment, and, pEesuming you are
Iaw-abidtng citizens, and think You have
specInt fitness for such duties, you have as much
right to make an effort in that direction as
any one else. But / might just as well
say to >you ut once, and dismiss this
part Of my ;djscourse, that since the recent
elec lions OF Ohio and Indiana certainly presaga
Republican victories in New York and Connect
fcut, and all along the llne OF the Northern
States, your chance Of obtaining office from
Democratic Administration is simply nosr'1erE
If, on the contrary, you help on Tuesday next to
swell the victorious majority, those into whose
hands you place Official PATRONAGE on that day
cannot ignore your claims Republican admin
fstrutou5 have not been in the habit OF neglect
Ing the claims Of foreign-born citizens who have
worked and voted for thnt purity: Poss-ofaces
and CUSTOM houses tecm with Germans #ho
have espoused the cause of truth and freedom.
There nre also some trishmen, out not many. be-
cause they have unfortunately and unnaturfisy
<espoused the cause Of falsehood and oppression.
Therefore DO I most earnestly impress upon
those OF you, my countrymen. who are desirous
Of Office to fat not in voting next Tuesdayfor
The majority, the. great majority Of yor,, my
seekers, but enengeaan thebrdinaryoccupatio
enough to dispense with the dangerous and
uncertain temptations Of Office, w"u!u
now say word. I take you to be natuEany
desrous Of promoting those poi 1t1cal principles
which will tend to your individual rs well ns to
the general prosperity OF the country: Now
KGa icrs ay the I'D
they are the exception here II, then. you are
capitalists, you want safe e1nvestments which
to be mainly found iu manufacturing enter
prise. Now, frce-trade. or "tarih for revenue
only, as they call i ts ths sh,b69lsth Of ,9 iho
country to be Hooded with foreign products,
will cause our home manufacturers to at once
oot TOO iafe ana ne ncoae IS s11pe i
you are laborers you are still worse of you can
get no employment except on farms. Flood the
men and what wages viii you ret? Wages lower
than the starvation rates so long ruling in Ire
land h1 dFeg Is n hsn 10
coat for yourself MT Il lower price if you have
not the means to make the purchase; and that
your so-caued Democratic party Is the
party of the Solid South, whose prosecutions.
h gor wiz ao shs Noh
.*rule of the people" but the Solid South is an
n aristocracy." not a democracy they do not
peap w he
no voice in the Government If the party OF |
tho Solid South should: with your aid in the
set in an exodus Of colored labor from the South
which will reduce wages and place you, my !
conntrymen in very great @ straits Ell, In Indeed; OF
the South will not be again manaclcd as slaves: !
they will leave first Some one may say, But |
many Southern counties slavery Is not dsad and,
active. vigorous life. These two results Of
sion OF colored labor in the South, win strand !
you, my countrymer; wilt leave You trnmps and |
a 70 s 6s fefra
selves from political thraiidom: y
your posterfty may not curse you for sxddiins
them With woes innumerlble- 1appeal to your |
ntsgg%Gs to w9Fy e
losing side. False counts and stuffed ballot
boxes shnll not longer prevail. Truth m must ultt-
Watcly win. lc on her SIDE. Ihe dark clouds |
which have 50 long lowered in the Southern /
horizon md so long intlmdated ynu with their |
and their lightntngs Will soon pass
nway forever r. and that lovely half OF this greRt I
cont nent will soon smile In the sunshine Of the
same prosperity which has made the Northern
s1 o tas 80 Of s.
freedom; xhose who vote for oppression will be
In turn the oppressed
Inppeal to you, my countryn1en, By the hap
ptness Of your f7restdes whose glow you would |
have ever fllume your beloved households. I
appeal to you, by the love you boar your chill
] appeal to you. by the aspirations for liberty
which animated the sword Of Sarstield and the
eloQueucc Of O'Conuell. vote next Tuesday for
Garfield and Arthur. Your countryman,
WILLIAM l.. DARLINGTON.