Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-04
IRISH INDIGNATION.
A BOSS BOOMERANG BOUNDING BACK

lhlOa lNUldNAIlUN.
A BOSS BOOMERANG BOUNDING BACK
What the Catholic Citizens OF Columbia and
Lancaster Have to Soy About the
Attempted Cheat.
Among the circulars that are being sent
all over the state from the Stalwart head
quarters in Philadelphia is one addressed
to the ''Irish-American Citizens Of Penn
sylvania" It is a copy of the state
ment published in the New York Tablet, a
paper which was bought up for the occa-
sion, and which is being circulated by
certain postmasters free Of charge. The
circular contains the bogus ':Mac and O''
speech Of Controller Pattison, q speech
which PattisOn denies ever having made.
Tho circular has eighty signatures Of per
SONS all over the state, said to represent
tho ''Irish Catholic Association of Penn
sylvania." Among the names are those
Of Joseph f. Kearns, who runs . bogus
Irish state committee 1T 2113 German
town avenue ]. G. Delaney, one Of the
men employed by Cameron to attempt the
purchase of voters Captain Gallagher Al d
other eminent statesmen of that sort.
Copies Of these documents have been re-
ceived by many of the Irish Catholic
citizSns of Lancaster, Columbia and other
places in the county, and how the at
tempted cheat is resented will DO seen by
the following card printed in the Phila-
delphia Times this morning.
Columbia IrIsh,nen Denounce the fraud.
To the Editor OF the Times.
We, the undersigned, have been placed
i'll possession of q circular, addressed, ITO
Irsc1,- A (N;ts1o,,o 0f oy0,
MIA, issued and circulated by tho paid
servants of tho "Clan Cameron The
intent and purpose of this brochure is to
mislead the careless and credulOus, to turn
them from the line of duty and corrupt
their fidelity to fixed principles. We take
this method of denOunciDg tho circular
alluded to as shameful tissue of false
hoods, colored and CLOSED to effect the
ends o; i, herd Of political rascAls. This
reteratiOn of exploded lies-notably the
one imputing to Robert T.. Pattison CON-
temptuous allusiOn to the Mes and Os-
rehashcd and certified by thinkers
and covert 'OraEgemeD," will not do
its inventors any good. The Ostensible
authors of this detestable work, though
they bear the names of an honOred an.
cestry. are not true Irishmen. The dirty
drop" shows itself in their actions, and
10 Irishman with a soul in his body is
likely to suffer himself to be made the
dupe or 4 fool Of \ tribe of hired rascals
aud renesades. We are Irishmen-true
blue-iove every blade of grass that grows
upon our island home, but the false and
deceitful appeals made to our patriotism
by such tramps as Delaney, Gallagher,
Kearns and their fellow tinkers must for
ever fall unheeded upon our ears. We
know that nothing emanating from such
men can have in it the substance of honesty,
for "figs do not grow upon thist!es."
These men haYe proven false to principle,
false to their true interests, false to the
honor of their race. We are Democrats
because the Democratic party has been
our shield, the protection of our people.
We-sO:ne of us at least-well reElem-
bor the fact that leading Staiwart Re.
publicans, tho present owners and mas
ters of Delaney, Gallagher and their tribe,
wero the head and front Of Nativism in
1914 and leading Know Nothings ten years
later. We remember who led tho wretches
who burned our churches and schools,
dcsecratcd our affairs and proianed even
tho graves of our dead. Wo cannot be
duped by the Cameron clan, the hOary-
headed chief of which affiliated with our
bitter enemies, and we have rot forgotten
that it was the glorious old Democratic
party led by tho indomitable Henry A.
Wise, of Virginia, that slew the foul mon
ster that sought to take away our liber-
ties and our lives. In conclusion, we wish
it to be distinctly understood that. whilst
We arc attached to our dear mother chu.ch
as it were with hooks of steel, and are
ready to offer up our lives in defense of
our faith, We detest beyond expression the
conduct of the wretches who would drag
religion from its place upon tho alter to be
disgraced by an unhOly alliance with poll
tics. Let this DO our answer to Delaney,
Gallagher and tho New York Tablet, dis
graced by its alliance with Quay and Cooper.
To the newspaper referred 70 wo shall
hereafter say ''Get behind us, Satan !"
and seek for . monitor not likely to sell
itself for . mess Of pOttage IA pitiful
bribe. We call upon our cOuntrymen to
stand aloof from anything that looks,
smells or tastes of Cameron. In behalf of
the Irish American citizens of Columbia,
Pa.
JAMES GAGIN, JAMES O'HARE,
DENNIS MCCARTy, WM. MCCALL,
CHARLES MCCALL, Committee
November 2, 1882.
P.S.-The authors Of the circular re-
ferred to say they represent the g Irish
Catholic association Of Pennsylvania"
There is NO such association. The Irish
Catholics have not banded together for
any purpose, and when these men init
mate such q thing as fact they simply
lie.
Row it Oper ,tes In Sncasler.
A fierce storm of Indignation has been
aroused among the Irishmen and Catholics
of this city, many Of whom nave received,
within the past few days, documents bear
lug on their faces tho brazcn marks If
falsehood, and calculated to influence their
votes against the Democratic ticket. The
thorough exposure which PR esdcd their
distribution has turned them into boomer
args, tho recoil of which their rOjectOrs
we'll may fear. This last desperate trick
Of the Stalwarts to save their ticket by ap.
pealing to race and religious prejudice of
voters will increase and intensity the feel
ing that the machine must be Overthrown.
The documents in question are an ad-
dress to Irish Americans, exhorting them
to cut the Democratic ticket because, it
has treated them uDjustly and rehashiDg
many of the lies about Democratic hatred
for tho Irshmen and Catholics. Enclosed
in the circular is Stalwalt aud Green
back-LabOr ticket printed together. A
cOnv Of fha New Wort T,,LIpf n venal abeot