National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-19
TO he Ediior.

following among your Political Notes:
The Boston Pilot of this weok says that
the Irish-American who would trust
the republican party with his vote, after
these twenty years OF experience, would
DO rs foolish as tho Indian who has
trusted its rascally agents on the reserva-
tons"
As a companion piece to this permit me
to give you tho following:
Boston, MASS, July S.--CoL. A. A.
HAGGARTY: Dislike of Cleveland Is in
tense and general. His nomination will
be democratic suicide. It will merely
change million votes to Blaine Butler
can take as many votes from Blaine as
Blaine from Cleveland.
John BOYLE O'RErLLY."
When your readers are informed that
John Boyle O'Reilly, the author Of the
above dispatch to the Chicago democratic
convention, is the editor Of the Boston
Pilot, and tho author also of tho paragraph
wherein he compares his countrymen to
tho Indian, 1t will be Mt once seen that
he can "eat crow,"wit tho feathers on,
with the best of them, and wash 1t down
with tho democratic suicide" By tho
way, democratic suicide" might be taken
up as tho ndmen ct omen Of Cleveland rs a
sort of offset to the white Plumed
Knight"
While your readers have now fair
idea of Boyle OReilly's capacity for
"eating crow" in all its upplucked and
unwashed uncleanness, as we'll as for
giving q fanciful name of omen to the DEM
ocratic candidate for the presidency. they
may not be aware of the fact that to him
is also due the now popular psoudonym in
New York restaurants Of boiled O'Reil-
lys," as applied to dish Of potatoes
boiled with their Jackets" on.
A few weeks after John Boyle OReil-
| ly's arrival in tho United States, after his
escape from one Of tho penal colonies of
| New Zealand (be ii understood that his
imprisonment was on account OF political
not criminal offeuses, and highly honor
able to the escaped felony, Dan O'Sulli-
van, an able and witty newspaper man,
and Maj Haggerty, tho well-known
Emancipation, happened to be
taking seats at Crooks dining saloon. on
Chatham street, when O'Sullivan espied
the then noted "exile" entering the res
taurant door, and Immediately shouted,
In true Irish hurrah style, "John!"
To his chagrin, instead OF O'Reilly
answering, one of the walters cried out,
Coming, SIR"
This only made o'Sullivan all the
madden, aud to insure against any fur
Their blind of Johns he yelled In his most
stentorian style, Boyle OReilly y
To his utter astonishment the original
John again took up the refrain, and, goinl
to the dumb waiter, sung out SO that thu
whole restaurant could plainly hear him
and to O'Sullivan and Haggerty's dis.
may, Boiled O'Reillys for two"
Scarcely had O'Reilly taken his sea
with his friends when the waiter cam,
along with dish of Irish potatoes il
their Jackets, as "hot and laughing" a
could be desired.
When O'Sullivan and Haggerty coult
"draw sober breath" from laughing
they explained the joke to O'Reilly, VIII
enjoyed the whole affair as much as di'
his friends.
From that day until the present "Boile
O'Reillys" has been the poetic" nam
: for potatoes cooked au naturelle. Tn
: present, however, is the only occasion o.
which any Irishman Of note has eve
crow with the ieet aIefffer9s JRleiilvs and ray
By the way, the comparison of tn
. Irish-American who would trust the re
publican party with the Indian VIII
trusts the agents is but happy from tn
O'Reilly standpoint, for this simple rea
a son, the agent feeds the Indian, and til
!. Indian must trust him or starve or 20 70
: scalps, while the Irish-American VIII
trusts the republican is only protected b
$ that party, in common with all his fellow
I citizens, from the same enemy who ban
ished O'Reilly to Australia and for who's
commercial greatness and political glor
the Pilot editor and his democratic cap
talists are now eating crow aud workin
80 assiduously II am tempted to spell tn
thing right-ass- hideously) under th
> banner of democratic suicide and FIRE
trade" AN IRIsH-AMERICAN,
Who Is not afraid to trust the republ
!. can party.
WAsHINGToN, July IL.