The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-09-30
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AN 1nIsna1AN,s WE'VE
On Mayor Kiely's Posltion-A scathing and
Truthful Criticism.

Truthful Criticism. No.
10 The Editor atia LaiaItoeaor.
siR:-ltis an old saying that ''there |!
no greater enemy to religion than q rellgi
Gus fool" I was forcibly remindedoi thi.
proverb on reading the speech Of Mayor
kiely, us reported in the Wheeling RtaiAe,
OF last Saturday. From the interest he
appears to take IN Irish Catholics, l make
no doubt he Is one himself, and, taking
for granted that he Is correctly reported in
the Etga.er, l wonder that u man OF his
rcputed intelligence does not SEQ villa,
dangerous advice he gives to his country.
men and co-religionists. lie simply recon.
mcnds That rs Irishmen and Catholics,
they ought to vote the Democratic ticket,
forgetting the corollary SO easily II be de-
duced from this proposition-tllat Protest
ants, Of any nationality, have the same
right TO vote us l'rotestants-American,
Irish, Scotch or German, rs the case may
be. Admit this right and we have Know
through your columns, to Mayor Kiely, or
to anybody else in need Of the
information, that the Catholic Church rs
an organization, knows no politics.
The Kingdom Of its founder was not
Of this earth and there Is no stronger proof
Of its divine origin than the fact that 1t
has survived so long, in spite Of the mis-.
fortune Of its having, in all the ayes OF its
existence, such advocates as Mayor Kie-
ly. am an Irish Catholic, with as fer.
vent d; love for the traditions OF my race
as the Mayor OF Richmond or anybody
else. I have lived thirty-seven years in
this country and I give 1t rs my opinion,
based on long experience, that the wiscst
+, thing my e%ountrynieR can do Ia 10 strike
oil the shackles that have so long bound
them to one party. As long MS it is under
stood that they belong, almost to II man, to
either OF the two. great political ~organiza-
tlons Of this country, they will have the
enmity Of half Of the American people
without the thanks OF the other hull. For
myself, ! am now, Us l have been for n
quarter OF u century, n Republican, and it
may surprise Mayor kiely to learn what l
know to be 4 fact that many Of the Cath
Ollie Bishops and Priests in the United
States are as good Republicans MS | am.
Not very far from Wheeling is al Irish
Priest whose piety and learning are pro-
verbal. This accomplished scholar and
gentleman, l believe, makes no secret OF
his being 4 Republican and l have no
doubt hc>will continue to be one, Mayor
kiely to the contrary, Notwithstanding.
Many Of the Irish people OF this country
have long perceived that to be a Democrat
was to be an advocate or ut least IN
apologist OF slavery aud a friend to free
trade. BY free trade they very sensibly
understood 4 preference for British in
tcrcsts to those OF America. This is the
key to the movement OF so many Trishmen
To Mr.. Blaine and the Democratic party
and Mayor kicly can not stop it.
! Will now reply to a question PROFOUND.
ed by that gentleman, "Where can you
find 4 Know.Nothing who Is not a Repub-
lican2" Al over the country you can find
such specimens, my Lord Mayor. will
engage to give You from the books OF our
County Assessors hundreds Of names OF
old know.Aoihings who are now us good
Democrats as you arc, and, still worse,
who were Democrats before entering a
know.Sothing lodge, Per contra; my
nest.door neighhnf il Q good Republican.
Up to the war he was q Wing, but he
never would join the know-Sothings. Ny
Lord Mayor please to remember that in
the middle ages serfdom and villanage were
destroyed through the influence Of the
Catholic Church. Please, also, toremem-
herthatthe Irish been forseyen
hundred years sIhiected to agrindinetvran-
ny unparalleledin the history oithe human
raec. Please, again, to remember that OPP
position 10 FREQ Trade is auelIectNal wca-
pom il their hands 10 nvemge the Injuries
OF seven centuries and that protection to
American labor Is IN excellent way to
show gratitude for the kind reception
they hlre met in this country, not to men
ton that their own interests are identified
with those OF their American fellow citi-
zens. Cease, then, your trying to induce
them as Catholics and Irisi,men to iadyo-
cate slavery or, at least, to regret its ex-
~tinction and do not imagine that You can
make them love their enemies more than
their friends. Above all, do not try to
degrade the Grand Old Church which you
profess to love SO much by dragging it into
the filth Of a political campaign,
AN IRISH CATHOLIC REPUBLICAN. .
Valley Of Virginia, Sept. %, 1851,
Mustard and Loyd, Fl