Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-09-21
Cameron and the Irish.

iiafFtHNstts Ah''.'r
II has never been charged by any
human being that the Land League OF
Pennsylvania has been sold. or could bc
consciously sold to the ring bosses. But
Col. Mcclure has shown by the evidence
already publishcd-and We understand
there is plenty more behiud-that De.
laney and Condor entered into a cor.
rupt bargain with Cameron TO deceive
and betray honest lrishmcn into the
hands OF their hereditary enemies,
namely, the federllist.know nothing.
ring.republican party. That these men
are quite cabable of such an act is well
proved by similar attempts in the past
which it Is unnecessary 10 dwell upon at
present. That Delaney or Coudon or
anybody else could mi-lcad an intelli.
gent Irishman 10 such crime against
his race and country Is beyond belief
The attempt has come to nothing Of
course. The exposure only serves to
show the disposition Of the Cameron
ring. and the base means TO which IT ia
ready to resort to save Beaver from de.
feat which tho managers confess by this
extraordinary action they plainly forsee.
This il the whole OF it. Delaney and
Condor would no doubt have Flled in
their infamous purpose. pocketed the
ring money and accounted for the oh.
stnacy Of the Irish by telling the bosses
that the hostile attitude of the Arthur
administration has been maintained too
long and that the eleventh hour re.
moyal OF Lowell was too manifestly
trick to deceive any body. They would
have laid the blame of the miscarriare
OF their vile scheme upon the anti-lTish
administration but they would have
had the ring cash in their dirty pockets,
anil. unexpossd. might have gone on IN
such commercial transactions in the
honor of decent, innocent and wholly
unconscious lrishmcn for an indefinite
period.
But Irishmeu. te they land lcaguers
or not. are not to 10 fooled this year.
They would hardly. even were they as
trcacnerous and con- cieuccless "a those
who would lc,fay them. dcsert their
democratic friend. NJ Il incur the deadly
odium ot an alliance with the Cameron
ring at the very time when i's power Is
clearly about to he completely destroy.
ed. But they have other AMI higher
reasons for spuruiur the black hands
which are held ont TO them through the
per6dious creatures who la gained to
deceive them. The republican party il
the historical enemy OF Irishmen and
the cause OF lrelfnd. The federalists,
from whom the republicans boast their
descent. were the British party. They
hated and dreaded the Irish from the
beginning. When they proposed pro.
ha,iun oi twenty Years before natural.
izaton the blow was aimed at the oh
noxious Irish. The alien Law and the
sedition law were both intended TO
operate in the same direction. Bot the
democracy under Jefferson stood then,
as it has ever since. like a wall Of FIRE.
between the Irish and their pro. British
foes, and the Irish are more than ever
devoted To the broad principles OF .Ief
ierson--home rule and personal liberty
for they lie at the very foundation Of
all their struggles both in the old coun.
try and in this. And who ask them to
strike down the democracy now The
descendants Of the old Federalist, the
leaders OF the Know Nothing party,
the men who would have deprived
them of the very votes they now seek
10 buy, and who hissed up the ignorant
and cruel prejudice az 90 birth and re.
ligion TO the point of bloodshed and
church burning. When the Democrats
of Pennsylvania, following the tradi.
tions and upholdinR the catholic princi.
Piles of Thomas Jefferson, were defend.
ing the civil and religious rights Of our
adopted citizens and their Shildren,
Simon Cameron, the founder Of the
present dynasty, and the other bosses
aud subbosses who stand behind the
Beaver ticket, were prowling through
the Know Nothing lodges, taking mid.
night oaths aud inducing others 70 take
them, 10 practically disiranohise every
foreign born citizen, and especially 70