St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-23
The Mask Torn Off.
TO the Editor of the Globe.


ST. PAUL, July 10, 1SS4.-Whatever doubts
may have existed, after the election last fall,
as to the northeastern Chronicle of this city
having become a ssimon-pure Republican
paper, its course in the present presidential
contest has certainly removed them. It can
no longer be said that its support of Gov.
Hubbard was but an ''independent' impulse.
instead of-as then charged--an attempt to
transfer the Catholic vote to the Republican
candidate, for it is obvious to all that its
present conduct is but a continuation of its
course in opposing the candidates of the
Democratic party. 1t opposes the election Of
Gov. Cleveland to the presidency, and
assigns several reasons all of which are
exploded falsehoods. 1t cannot honestly
claim that its opposition to the candidate of
the Democratic party is because he is
Governor Cleveland, or because of any
objections, real or imaginary, which they en-
terrain against him, for its two issues prior
to the nomination of Gov. Cleveland June
Sd and 10th) contained articles favorable to
and manifestly in advocacy of Mr.. Blaine;
and in the first of those two, undertook, in
a pettifoging manner that should bring q
blush to the cheek of the EDITORS co-religion-
lists, to break the force of the ''Madigan cir
cular.'' In its last ISSUED before Gov.
Cleveland was nominated) it informed its
readers as to Mr. Blaine's 'religion," and
''Why Mr.. Blaine is POPULAR" thus pavings
the way for its support of ''the tattoed man."
The Chronicle has, before last fall, been
justly regarded as a newspaper of Demo-
;rIo
should be So for more than nine-tenths Of
its readers are members of that party, and
we may therefore expect to see it quoted as q
''convert for Blaine" But Democrats
who have paid enough atten-
ton to that sheet to notice
its course during the year past, know
the facts to be precisely as I state them.
And you can assure your readers that with
such representatives as Hon. P H. Kelly, Hon
NJ Doran, Hon. G. f. Mcdonald, Hon. Vim.
NJ. Campbell and Hon. j f. Meagher in the
front rank of the Cleveland supporters, the
Chronicle will not be successful in its at
tempt to deliver over the Catholic vote of the
state to the Republicans. understand that
change has taken place recently in the ed
itoral management of the Chronicle, and
that the chair is now filled by one
who for years has been upon the,
staff OF well known Republican papers in
Chicago, and who is, himself, a thorough
Republican If any one doubts that he is a
bitter Republican partisan, let him read the
following editorial which l cut entire from
the last issue
stDid you ever know the Irish to knife the
Democratic party!'' asked Carter Harrison,
'Chicago's best mayor in the late Chicago
Democratic convention. All we have to say is
that the Irishmen in Chicago deserve no special
honor for not "knifing again and again the
tickets which the Democratic machine OF their
city manufactured for their approval 1t is the
old story-Democratic bosses believe they need
only to nod, and Irshmen must obey.
Note the language of that article. He has
not forgotten his labors lin vain) to defeat
the Democratic candidates, when he was a
scribe in Chicago, and tried to 'knife'
them. ''again and again" He proves con-
cusively that, for years, he has opposed De-
mocracy, and been a member of the party
that he now seeks to serve under false coors,
and has not the honor or manliness to ac-
knowledge.
The charge that Gov. Cleveland opposed
the passage of Liberty Of Conscience bill,
by the New York legislature is simply all bosS.
The fact that such well known New York
Catholics as Ex-U. s. Senator Francis Fer
nan and Hon. Dennis 0'Brien,s (Attorfiey
general for tho state) were at Chicago, labor
ing to secure the nomination of Gov. Cleve-
land, ought to convince any one that this
charge is without foundation.
If these Irish-American hot-heads want
Blaine elected because they think he will
embroil this country in wBr with England,
why don't they have the candor TO say so,
instead of engaging in the dangerous task
Of arousing religious prejudices
and animosities? Such as the
editor Of the Chronicle should ponder well as
to the possible results, in the nation at large,
Of such a course Of conduct as they are now
pursuing. Do they not realize that these
"clubs' they are throwing at Cleveland
might prove s'boomerangs'' to Blainel There
is much more in this contest than the per-
sonaty Of Gov. Cleveland, and Democrats
who have grown gray battling to secure to
such as the editor of the Chronicle civil and
religious freedom and who never hestated to
oppose bigotry and scription-whether
boldly sailing under the banner of "Know-
nothing, Tor the more cowardly methods oftte
'sMadigan circular''-will not De blamed fol
getting Ito put 1t mildly out Of patience with
such ingratitude or want Of appreciation OF
these efforts, As lifelong Democrat chal-
lange comparison Of the records Of the
Democratic and Republican parties upon
this point, and dare the editor of the Chronicle
TO the issue.
OBSERVER.