Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-08
DEMOCRATS RESPONSIBLE FOR
KNOW.NOTHINGISM.

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The slavery holding States were the home of
Know Nottingham. O'Connell had excited the
wrath OF Southern shareholders by spurning
a9f e nc
for the Irish. which was the war cry Of the re-
peal agitation. was paraphrased in the South by
the war whoop Of America for the Americans"
Know Nothin9ism was Democratic bolt which
seriously threatened to overthrow the regular
Democratic organization. A majority Of the
Democratic leaders had sense enough to see that
to provide for It's own perpetuation the Demo
cratic party Of the period took sides against it,;
but IT most found favor in the cities which
Places like St. Louis and Louisville ran red with
Irish blood, and the malice of the mob found
vent In heartless excesses and cruelties
it's power in 1855. It polled nearly half million
Of votes 7946B) for Fillmore in the hold
ing States in 1856. At the same election John
G. e. Fremont. the Republican candidate received
q. 19D in all OF the fifteen slave holding States.
There was practically no Republican party in
the South in 1856, and in 1861 the vast Know
Nothing army was absorbed bodily into the
ranks of the Democratic party or the party of
the rebellion, which in the South was one and
the same thing. In 1860 the Democrats and
York, the Know-Nothing party receiving seven
ELECTORS and their share Of the joint ticket.
Grover Cleveland was then Democrat resid-
ing n the State Of New York; and If he voted at
all he voted for these seven Know Nothing
electors: and the chances are that he voted.
WAS BLAINE A KNOW-NOTHNG?
The slandefers might as well say that he as
an active Republican in 1855; supported Ere
mont in 1856, and fought for Lincoln in 1860.
The State Of Maine never polled quite 1900
Maryland gave Fillmore 1000: No, Blaine was
not Know Nothing. He is the son of a
Catholic mother, and he has declared in the
most emphatic terms that he would not for a
Thousand PfeS10enC1e4 nnfrinn0lV word
against the religion Of his mother. I challenge
the Democratic press. defy the Democratic
that Blaine has ever spoken or written un-
friendly to the race or religion Of an Irishman.
will 20 farther. The Republican party has
been in power for quarter OF q century, It
apologist: but will defend it against the
foul charges Of which it has been unjustly &C
cused.
challenge the Democratic party press; ]
defy the party bosses; appeal to the letter OF
history, and defy any man to show me an act
upon any statute book enacted by Republicans
count Of bis race or religion: Its spirit and its
purposes have been utterly incompatible with
the objects Of Know -nothingism.
spirit Of intolerance which animated Know
nottingham in it's palmy days, I commend you
to the Democratic party. In Mississippi they
apolis they seek to ruin his business fo1
an opinion. In the State Of Maine the
Irish Know-nothings burn a hieh-souled
Ir1shman In e1figy for the atrocious crime OF
rising above their prejudices, and the Demo
cratic State Convention of Iowa Misses the
name of Patrick Ford, the fearless editor of the
Irish World; You yourselves know well that
on the Democratic ticket run behind their party
vote Quite recently, 1 am informed, an esti-
mable young Irishman Of this city was a candi-
hundred behind the party vote. Need 7 call
your attention to Mayor Grace, Of New York,
who, account Of his religion. ran 40. 100 votes
behind his Democratic party ticket, or to Sen
the Irish race, who lost the Governorship of
New York through Democratic detection on &C
count of his religion?
the Democratic party is the guardian angel of
the 1rishman in America: Open the eyes that
God has given you. See the world promenading
being right. You have it in your hands to-day
to be powerful and respectable in American
politics, or to seek the graveyard and the gutter
See your German fellow citizens. Do they
beg anybody's pardon for their opinions in poll
tics? They are q self-respecting people who
change their politics to guard their interests,
that the Irishman has no right to do the same
thing. They taunt you at the first manifesto
tions of awakening manhood You take it in
AFFECT submission and crawl away like a youth
full spaniel freshly convicted of petty larceny.
Shame on you! Where is the courage of your
race?
Friends have warned me that would be
stoned in Indianapolis for telling you the truth.
I said would face the music and abide the con-
sequences. "The blood of the martyr is the seed
of the church" am one Of you-bone of your
bone. flesh flesh Of your fiesh-eyery fiber Of my body,
thinking men: no longer the slaves Of unmanly
prejudices or miserable decisions. You have
quarter of a century. Give it decent burial.
Let the dead past bury it's dead.
Act, act in the living present,
Hearts within and God o'erhead.