Daily globe., 1883-11-04
THE IRISH VOTE.

A Few Words of Calm Counsel from th,
Hon. William Louis Kelly, Relative ts
the Duty of Irish American Citizens OIL
Tuesday.
To the Editor Of the Globe.
do not for an instant doubt that tht
we'll known loyalty of the great mass OF
Irish-American voters to principle will
keep them as it made them Democrats
The men of a race which through ages OF
unparalleled oppression and tyranny has
maintained it's individuality because OF Its
fidelity to the truth, whose history Is but
the lives of martyrs to principle, will not
(whatever an individual here or there may
ao) sacrifice their conviction OF right to
the plea of expediency. If Irish -Ameri-
cans were as body mere place hunters,
they would be Republicans in Minnesota,
because that party has long controlled
the patronage of the state. But holding
the Democratic political faith because
they couscientiously believe it to be true,
they will not desert its altar, as long at
least as the fires OF constitutional freedom
are kept burning there.
This is not, therefore, written as
bugle-call to duty. The men of my race
need no such call-they know their d1ty
and appreciate fully all the Responsible
ties that rest upon them. My only e1
cuse, Mr.. Editor, lies in this: I have
too much Irish blood and Kentucky
breeding in me to suffer such
an elegant fight to pass ,by and
not in it. Just now
let me remind the editor of the Northwest
ern Chronicle, and the others who have
ehlmed IN with him, that every argument
30 far advanced to seduce Irish Americans
from that loyalty to principle of which I
have spoken, is a positive insult to our
race. Boiled down, these arguments are
two in number: First-Irish-Americans
should no longer continue Democrats be-
cause that party denies them official po-
Gition. Second-Irish-Americ should
divide their vote between the two opposing
parties, and politicians will bid higher
for that vote. When the Praetorian
guard put up at auction
the imperial purple of Rome
~ Iuo uOCSuCy W Kill tne SUCCESSFUL
bidder. When Judas Iscariot betrayed his
divine master and the truth that he knew
was in him, for consideration, he had
the decency to go out and hang himself.
If there be any of my race SO vile as to
make a bargain with the truth and sell his
manhood for mess of pottage, the best
advice give him is to follow these illus
trious examples. Dying, for such an one,
will ha g..
dead when the soul of honor is gone.
Now, grow more charitable as I grow
older, and I do not believe that thess
young men who have been 30 freely hand
ling that terribly dangerousthing, the pen,
really intended to advocate the prostitu-
ton of principle for place. They are
amply inexperienced and trifs vain.
But that is the logic of all they have writ
ten-let rs become as people of the Col.
Sellers order,in favor of any administration
and IAN appropriation" 1 do not care to
denounce such a suggestion. Every i'm
pulse of every honest heart instipctiveiy re-
volts at 1t. 1t Is too gross to be handled
and drop the unolean thing as know all
true Irish Americans will
Let me say hero, too, that l have no
sympathy with the abusive style of litera-
cising Capt. MacCarthy's course. Capt.
MacCarthy had the undoubted right to 60
over to the Republican party if he saw fit,
and any attempt 10 belittle or besmirch
Capt. MacCarthy's private life or political
course by calling him vile names-'in-
former and the like-is unnanly,
uncelled for and will recoiI
on those who utter them. If
Capt. MacCarthy or any other Republican
can give a reason for their political faith,
LET us hear them patiently, and after
weighing them, see if they are not found
wanting.
Mr.. Editor, there are special reasons,
independent of the duty of always main
tanning the right,) why the call to action
ahould 90 forth now to every Democrat in
Minnesota. This has been q Republican
state. The signs Of great political changes
are apparent IN every Republican county.
These changes are not of the growth of
yesterday. Numbers of voters, hitherto
Republican, have begun to see how
really barrow and bigoted is that
party Processing to be the evangel of
universal freedom, 1t loses no opportunity
to manacie personal liberty, and it always
does it in the name OF morality. II reminds
mo Of an old 2riut once saw, a solemn
faced, st5eplo-crowued gent-a verit able
puritan uue
Hanging has cat on Monday
To- kllling mou,e on Sunday
The people are ct heart right, and once
conviction goes out among them that the
party OF their choice and love has aban-
doned the truth, thsy will abandon that
party. will coEcsSe that the Republican
party has accom- phshed sone good things
in the past, viz; il has soourged and puri-
fed the Democratic 1t has tried it by fire.
1t has taken from us the vsnsl, or the weak,
and what Is left IS a suTeicdI Of the tttest
Grown arrogant and powe- proud the Re
publican leaders have forgotten that polit-
ical tact which so long has distinguished
them, and have begun to kick some of
their former ailies-notabIy the Germans
and Northmen. These men are usually
mild maunered, but they are dangerous
when aroused.
They were aroused in Ohio the other
day, and the Republican party was knock
cd into smithereens-the fragments have
not Jet been gathered. All the signs are
that they are aroused in Minnesota, and
''hence these tears in Republican circles.
The Democratic nominee for governor or