The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-06
OI,EVELAND'S IRISH OPPO.
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There ATE only two IRISH week.-Mrs.
: in this country which oppose the
y election of Cleveland. One is the
e irish Nation, edited by John Dewey,
and the other is the Irish World,
= edited by Patrick Ford. The Irish
e Nation is a much better and more
: influential paper than the World,
but in opposing Governor Cleveland
MI. Dewey shows very plainly the
marks of his personal hostility to the
/ Governor, who refused to pardon
: HIM when he was sentenced to serve
four months on Rlackwell's Island,
a year ago, for having libeled August
> Belmont in his newspaper. That
the Governor, in refusing the pardon,
was not actuated by political infu-
ences, is shown by the fact that
Belmont, the victim of Devoy's
newspaper attack, was n Of the
Governors most bitter opponents at
Chicago delegate cutspoken
against Cleveland.
As for the Irish World, it will help
Cleveland by opposing him, AS
American politics 60, it has always
been opposed to the Democratic
party. In 1876 it advocated the
election of Peter Cooper on the
Greenback ticket, with such signal
success that Samuel ]. Tilden was
enabled to get a plurality OF nearly
81, 900 in New York State, Four
years ago it advised Its readers to
vote for Gen. Weaver, the Green
back nominee for President. The
opposition of such a paper as the
Irish World the Democratic party
can bear, and it is safe in always
counting such opposition.
And then, again, it will be remem-
bered that when Michael Boynton
and insolvency were suffering in
an English prison, James G. Blaine
was Secretary of State. At that time
Patrick Ford was editor Of the Irish
World and adore ssed an open let er
to Mi. Blaine in which the following
occurs:
You, MI. Blaine, Immediately on
entering upon the office of Secretary I
Of State. raised great expectations on
this subject. 4 You I
trumpeted it forth to the nation, :
with a vigor and volume that speak I
we'll for your political lungs, that
henceforth the badge of American
citizenship would be a pride and a
safeguard to a man over the wide {
world. These ex- ;
you haye not realized: ,
< I cannot understand l
your conduct. Iii is explainable only +
by ignorance of the law or treason to d
duty. As a substitute for your dis +
of duty, however, you tell us :.
that you would cheerfully counsel u
the President to appeal "to the il
benevolence of the British q
in behalf Of Mr.. Boyn> \
ton. This is very kind of you. in y
deed! But you mistake, Mr.. Blaine.
This Is notan "Irish relief measure"
The man who asks yon to do him f,
Justice who asks you to do your n
simple duty In the matter-is not a :,
Deggar at your door, He scorns you .
md your appeal. When he read your il
insulting proposal in the British T
press his indignant soul flashed this ~
,ver the ocean to President Garfield: =
Il hope you will never submit the q
1onor of the Republic which [ L
to MAINTAIN to the degrade CT
ion of an appeal to the tenevo- !;
ence of the coWardly British gov -
,rnment, which is incapable of ex- d
ending to my countrymen the COM II
honest Justice! x X x y OF
Whatever humiliation the country is CO
objected to is due, not to such noble
but to the Administration of
which you are chief minister and ad.
User, and which, ignoring the tradi- B
ions Of better days, meanly and G.
raitorously abandons citizens to ~
whom it is bound by every principle -
f honor and law to extend protec- q
iOn.'
The writer of the above is now
Importer of the man whose conduct D
n the matter Of the imprisoned Irish Ii
was "explainable only by ~
ignorance of the law or treason to III
uty." OF such is Ford, He is the >"
ohm the Baptist crying in the will
erness about the man who intends -,
, humillate England and free Ire 49,
md as soon az he is elected Presi- -.
ent. What nonsense: The Irish 49,
we repeat, is a paper of in> 10
uence, but if Mr. Dewey expects to
oliver the votes Of Irishmen or
rish-Americans to Mr.. Blaine, who tn
as Secretary of State while poor a
[cSweeny was suffering in jail, he gil
lust give some better reason upon be
hich to base his hope than those he pa
ates in his paper. The fact that he
overnor Cleveland would not par
IN him will be generally accepted
the true reason why lie now OPP Ia
oses the Democratic nominee for Gil
resident. Mr.. Blaine MOI his man g,
,ers have no reason to feel proud of p,,
only two Irish weeklies which 49,.
pose Governor Cleveland. -.
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True to their "Know Nothirgn H. {
Incts the leading Republicans of cc1
est Virginia Joined some Green frl'