Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-10-27

u Rrepeeteren1 Claim.

IIUWOAI BvBNiN0 OOT.s At sSoTs
A Prepsstersus Claim.
Tho NeW Era enters into q long
nzxument In its issue Of Friday to prove
~ Why Irishmen are for Blaine" There
= one promise for the conclusion arrived
~ and that 10 that such papers as the
AIjsk World, . journal Of vast circula.
11on and influence, 10 devoting all its en-
oaWiss TO the election Of James G.
Blaine" This argument may perhaps
Dove some weight with the Irishmen Of
1loW Zealand or Brazil who may not
hnow that the lrish World was bought to
novoeate the election of Blaine and
'okat it has never had any standing
~ : representative Irish journal. But
~ chief burden Of the editorial rests on
= hypothesis, and that Is that the Demo-
oraoy, and Cleveland in particular, are In
alliance with England to crush the
Irinh. The mere statement Of the propo-
oltion is its own refutation. The
Democratic party battled for the rights
q foreign born citizens when the Know
Nothing father Of the Republican party
Vas assailing them in the most savage
hltterness. Thinking Irishmen cannot
~ easily forget that James G.. Blaine
Was the Know Nothing editor Of the
Gfate organ in Maine, the Kennebec
Journal, which extenuated the outrage
of tarring and feathering Catholic
priest on the streets of Ellsworth.
The whole record of the Republican
candidate breathes an indifference to
Irish interests that in some instance
Ammounted to open scorn. In 1878
Blaine delivered an uncalled-for and
bitter anti-Irish speech at Saratoga,
New York, and 1t has been proved that
hs stayed away from the funeral of a
Catholic relative for fear that he would
b charged with IeaniDgs towards that
faith. He was the author of the in
famous Madigan circular in 1875, which
charged the Democratic congressional
candidate, in the Fourth Maine district,
with being . Jesuit, in order to stir up
religious hatred against him among
Protestant Democrats. AS secretary Of
state he allowed Irishmen to 1anguish
In British prisons untried, when one
word from him would have forced the
British government to give them the
protection to which they were entitled
as American citizens.
It is, indeed, most preposterous that
Mr.. Blaine should pose as an Irish
saviour. When in 1882 the lamented
Judge Black pronounced his great ad
dress. in behalf Of justice to Ireland to
the Baltimore Land League, Mr.. Blaine,
who was invited, neither came nor ex'
planned his absence. He perhaps did not
wish to disturb the friendly relations
existing between himself and Granville
England's foreign secretary, which mani
fested itself in a deliberate snub given
to Minister Lowell when making feeble
inquiry concerning the Irish suspects. .
1t has been charged, and the fact:
seem to bear it out, that an under
standing exists at the present time be
tween Mr.. Blaine and the English
ministry by which the home influence o
the ministers has been exerted to induc
the English press to support Clevelan'
In order to iDjure him in the estimation
Of patriotic Irishmen In the country
The plan was to have these favorabl
British opinions cabled over here ant
copied by the Blaine papers" Certainl.
England could desire no more pusil,ani
NOUS head to the government than Blain,
would be II past actions are at all indica
tive of future conduct.
On the other hand no man can say tha
Cleveland ever uttered q word agains
Ireland or Irishmen. He is broad
guage statesman who has known nj
race or creed in his appointees. He i.
supported by Irishmen In New York O.
the stamp Of ex Senator Herman, Rev
Drs. McGlynn and Ludden, and Bishop
NcNeiruey. He can easily dispens,
with the meretricious aid Of Journals O
the '.vsst circulation and influence" lik,
the Irish World.