Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-07-24
BIssne,s BlFos-r IN ISIS.

now ac2 OF lntolerance and bigotr
do come home to plague the politicia
when he runs for Office. Just now Nj
8 Blaine is candidate for high Office
presented by party. that never -ye
polled majority Of the voters in th,
United States The prospect Of th,
election of--tbe strongest man -tha
could have been nominated woulC
have been gloomy enough. With
vulnerable candidate like Blaine, re
pulsive to the better element OF BIZ
own party, the outlook is folorn on,
indeed. But Mr. Blaine hopes Il
squeeze INFLOW? Not by any merits
OF his own, but by hypocritical ap
peal to race prejudice. He hopes Z
obtain, by false pretenses, a portion O.
the Irish vote, enough in the clos,
and doubtful states 20 turn the seal,
in his favor. This is new and trans
parent device. How long has Mr.
Blaine wanted the Irish voter Verify
only since his nomination for Presi
dent. Let US look at his record.
In 1875, there was a special elec.
tion for Congress in the fourth dis.
trict of Maine to fill vacancy occas
ioned by the death of Samuel F.
Heresy, of Bangor For this vacancy
the Republicans bad nominated Har.
ris M. Plaisted who afterwards left the
party and was elected governor on the
fusion ticket in 1880; and the Demo
Gratis had nominated James G. Madi-
gan, of Aroostook county The latter
was OF Irish descent and a member of
the Catholic church. At the time Mr..
Madigan was candidate for congress
in 1875, Mr.. Blaine was chairman OF
the Republican state committee, as he
has been for many years. Being ex-
tremely anxious to defeat Mr.. Madi-
gan and thus preserve solid Repub-
lican delegation in Congress. Mr..
Blaine wrote and disseminated the po-
lltlcal circular quoted below, which is
about as contemplate piece of cam
palgn literature as man could we'll
be guilty of. Mr.. Plalsted informs the
Albany Argus that Mr.. Blaine wrote
the circular and he saw him do 1t, that
it was sent out oy the thousand by the
State committee of which Mr.. Blaine
was chairman, and that it had its ef-
fects in prejudicing people against Mr..
Madigan. This is the circular re-
ferred to: ..... ...
BLAINE's CIRCULAR.
"Do the Protestant Democrats of
the Fourth District desire to be repre-
sented in Congress by Roman Cath
olic? James G. Madigan, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress In the
fourth district, is jealous Roman
Catholic. 1t is believed by many that
he is lay member of the secret order
of Jesuits, just as the late Senator
Casserly, of California was. Casserly,
was elected to the Senate by Jesuit
money-$lO0,O 900 contributed by the
order---and the fact being discovered
Casserly at once resigned his seat,
rather than stand an investigation, and
thus expose the workings of the order.
In Ohio and other States the Catho-
lies are striving to destroy the only
avenue for education left open to the
children of the poor. They say ave
will have church schools instead"
and thus let loose the worst of theo-
logical quarrels all over the land. It
is a great gain to the Catholics to get
these prominent men in Congress.
They have now four members of the
United States Senate, one from the
states of New York, Missouri, vir-
giuia and Florida. The whole energy
of the Catholic church is now exerted |
to increase its power in the Congress
of the United States. The Baptists
everywhere are watching the results
of Madigan's campaign in this district,
and it will be hailed everywhere as a
great triumph for the Catholics if a
New England Protestant district sends
a Roman Catholic to represent it IN
Congress. Are the Protestant Demo-
Gratis of the fourth willing to aid IN
building up Roman hierarchy? An
swer at the polls on the 18th of Sep
tember, and if you do not feel willing
to vote for General Plaisted, at least
cut Madigan's name off your regular
Democratic ticket. Remember that
you owe more to religious sentiment
than you do to your party; and the
proper rebuke to them for asking YOU
to vote for Roman Catholic is to
support Gen. Connor for Governor and
Gen. Plaisted for Congress"
Catholics will see by the above the
true estimate in which they are held
by Blaine. He urged his fellow citi-
zens to defeat Madigan solely on the
ground that Madigan was a member
of the Roman Catholic church.
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