Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-15

Will uuu AdfOr Will any ClIiLou VI 0CauUl-
navian birth or descent. Yours,
R-D.
The Kno,o Nothing Cry of the Chronicle
Rebuked by an ITisisman.
To the Editor ofsthe Globe:
If there is anything more amusing than
the gyrations of the clerical tyro in poll
tics, it is the avidity with which his drivel-
ling platitudes are seized upon by the
despairing end downfalling organs, as
creditable arguments. The Northwestern
Chronicle, the alleged organ of the irish
Catholics of Minnesota, this week has an
article weakly advising Irish Democrats
not to vote for the Democrat candidates
because one is scandinavian and the
other German, and straightway
the zealot Of the Dispatch anxious
for distinction as the party organ,
elevates his ears and brays like a jackass
with the blind staggers. He is in ecstasy
because Know Nothingism has tacitly re-
ceived pontiical sanction 1t is a waste
of words to argue with such mendecious-
ness, and indeed it were waste of words
70 give the incident any mention but for
the necessity of demonstrating the fallacy
of the amateurish arguments of the self
assumed preceptor to the Irish Democrats.
If the Chronicle be the official organ of
the Catholic church, as the organ of Hub
bardism claims, then its utterances
are inspired by the acknowledged
chief officer of the church. This is said
with all due respect to the eminent Bishop
Ireland, but it must be said that it illus
trates the old adage, "a shoemaker should
stick to his last," and to follow out the
conclusion, "a prelate to his beads and
prayer book" The argument of the
Chronicle writer is so absurd and incon-
sistent that it is very evident that he is
more familiar with the intr1cacies of
church craft than with the political code.
His article is absurd because untrue and
unwarranted by facts. he deplores the case
because there are no Irishman on the
Democratic state ticket. Now for prime
facts: The chairman of ths state central
committee that placed Mr.. Biermann at
the head of the ticket, is an Irishman
The most ardent advocate of Mr.. Bier
mann's candidacy before that committee
was an Irishman. The men who have
contributed most largely of their means
to the expenses OF the campaign are Irish
men. and it may be added the men who
will vote solidly for Mr.. Biermanu, in
spite of this clerical bull, are
Irishmen. When the vacancy en-
the ticket existed, had any Irishmen of
ability (and there are hundreds of them in
Minnesota) desired the nomination he
could have had it; but it was forlorn hope
then, and now that victory is in sight it
would ba the basest treachery on the part
Of Irishmen to desert the party
and the only party that has
ever honored or cared for them; the only
party that ever espoused their cause
either in the national halls or in its politi-
cal platforms. Irishmen have reason to
loathe treachery. They have reason to
deliver them boupden into the
treachery is but little removed from the
perfdy of the ''informer."
The argument of the Chronicle writer is
inconsistent, because it declares that the
Democrats have brought the race issue"
into politics by nominating Scandina-
Wan, and then goes on to urge Irishmen to
stand together and force recognition, and.
if they do not get it, to go over in body
to their enemy. What is that but advo-
eating the "raoe issue?" The Chroni-
Gle writer advises all to vote
as American citizens. The Democratic
candidate is an American citizen, and the
Democrat who votes against him is the one
who brings in the race issue and its con-
tamineting miasma-the virus of Know
nottingham. The Irish Democrat who
does not vote for the candidate of his
party solely because that candidate is of
foreign birth is himself Know-nothing,
and the advocate of such creed or code
of politics is eminently fitted to be the
master of Know nothing lodge.
In all this drivel, SO gleefully qouted by
the administrators anointed, there is not
an argument, only plea to
Irishmen to ley aside all honor, all ideas
of right and betray their own candidate.
There need be no fear that Irishmen will
do this Their prompt rebuksl Of clerical
interference with their politics, wide Pope
Leo and the Parnell fundl, leaves it safe
to say that even Bishop Ireland's mandate
will not change the color of their ballots.
This is free country and votes are not
counted in the vestry. IR1sHMAN.