Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-25
sULLIvAN TO FRESHMEN.


 bers of Converts to Blaine and
 Logan.
 The meeting of the Irish7American Blaine and Logan club in the American Theater last evening was by far the hveliest in the caln7; paign, and the disorderly roughs who went there and yelled for their favorite Cleveland succeeded in the endeavor for which they tried to pack the hall in so far as they made the meeting disorderly and insulted the speaker in a -disgracefu manner. For the city of New Haven or any other city in the North it is certainly a shame that Republi- can speakers cannot be treated with the re- spect and deferenee due from any public au-. dience not in barbarous country
 The Democratic ward workers were hang ing about with their friends when.the crowd
 began to assemble They worked in as many
 boys and half grown men as they could and
 instructed them to do everything they could
 to break up the meeting. They stationed
 men at the doors armed with circular slan-
 ders. Early in the meeting the Cleveland strikers evidenced their presence.
 The meeting was presided over by J.
 Francis Baker In short speech he intro
 duced the speaker of the evening, Alexander
 Sullivan Mr. Sullivan was greeted with
 rounds of applause. He is a fine looking
 man, with good presence and clean cut, de- cisive features He spoke rapidly and earn 4estly. He proved himself to be quiSk-witted
 and 8 master of the situation.
 2. In opening his speech he said: f'T am glad to meet you this evening and to see so many of you present. for am convinced that you are determined to think for yourselves and to have your country governed according to the American idea. The main issue of the campaign is the tariff. Our candidate,
 James G. Blaine, has declared himself on does not express himself is the guer- fila. His party is a sectional party. It rests upon two hopes. One Is that it can command the support of the solid South, and the other the support of solid race in the North. I beg to call your attention to the menace of solid race or section. The south
 ern States develop slowly because their so- lidity brings about persecution and violence, and men who own capital hesitate to invest
 it in solid country. It is wrong sfor the South to say, no matter who is your candidate you can com mand the 153 votes of our section. This
 is wrong in a republic. There should be the
 same free discussion as in the North. It is unjust and unnatural to have solidity in our race. You cannot get 500 men in my race together and get them to agree upon any one subject. And yet this party which relies upon us stirs up bad blood among us and gives us less freedom than we have in our mother country. Do they treat the Germans so? Do they treat the French SO? They appeal to our prejudices. As came into the hall this cir cular was handed to me purporting to be 8 copy of something that appeared in 9 paper edited by MT. Blaine refecting upon Arch bishop Hughes. Mr. Blaine never wrote this. They also claim that he wrote the Madigan circular. I have talked with MT. Blaine on the subject. He never wrote it. And the man who puts those lies into our hands to stir our hatred and set one man against another is unworthy of anything but our contempt. MT. Blaine said to me that he did not understand how anyone could SUD- pose that he would so forget the religion of his own dead mother.
 q only alluded to this to draw a moral The party which seeks to secure your suf- frage by binding you by such circulars is working for the free trade party of England. How natural is it that it should adopt it's methods.
 ''Three times has this country defeated England on the battlefield. Shall they introduction of race and party preju- dices, and rule us as they did in the country ! from which we came The man who says I no must cast his vote for the best American 1 living, and therefore the man most hated by England, James G. Blaine. Qmmense ap. plause)
 "Why do they hate him2 Because he is in 1 favor of protection to American industry and of extending our commerce all over this con ! tinent. He is an enemy that the tottering
 thrones fear. And, thank God, the thrones are all tottering. The English empire will go, but the republic will ive."t
 Blaine's South American policy that has been cyitieised was discussed ful1y.-ai HIn theology" MT. Sullivan said, fit is a good thing to do what the devil does not wish us to do, end it's good thing for the American
 oTrly what England does not wish us to do.
 England has always advised us to dc tn at which would be for their profit and our in jury. ,...
 "What has the Democratic party done for the IrishP' GA voice, 'tNothing.') k'The Irish people have faults and have made mis- takes. It's time to set ourselves right The Democratic party set us against the negroes, ourselves to be massed as the enemies of jus tice we have put the Irish cause back fifty years. There are tens of thousands of tongues silent which would have been ringing out tones of encouragement had we been arrayed in more consistent position. Now this par ty asks us to take position on this side, which would make us in the same position we were on the other side. If you want to do that vote for free trade Congressman and for Grover Cleveland
 Egypt, India and Ireland are enjoying the
 blessings of English free trade They are agricultural countries and produce more
 than enough for the people, But they have
 been the countries that have been starving
 in famines. They are denied that diversity of industry which is necessary for prosperity
 They are allowed to have no manuf facturesI' I''
 The meeting grew somewhat warm and
 turbulent at this juncture. When Blaine's
 name was mentioned there were cheers and
 misses. Clevelands name was also cheered
 A voice from the body of the hall shouted,
 fsThere's some Englishmen here" Other
 voices cried out ''McSweeney' and 'sMulli-
 gan, and one man yelled out, "Hurrah for
 Ben Butler!" The speaker said he was
 glad there were Democrats present, and
 added that they had exhausted all the argu- ments. "Tel1 us about Hooking Valley" said a voice. E'You heard from Hooking Valley last week, replied the speaker. Great applause followed. Men rose and swung their hats and cheered enthusiastically. Others hissed and one man said, F'Wheres the 20, GOO majorityg'' The Blaine men were largely in the majority, but the Clevelanders had good lungs. S'That's Democracy" said the speaker. ''You never saw Blaine man go- ing into a Cleveland meeting trying to break it up. And you never saw party doing it un- less it was on the run. Prolonged cheers) Auu were SO1HS Io keep In0n on the run. Some of them will live long enough to thank us for it even if they do come here and act like hoodlums.'' ''Is that what you left the Land league fors" asked a voice. eIhaven:t left the Land league and presume the man who said that never gave dollar to the Land league" Hundreds rose and turning to see the questioner demanded that he be put out. 'FI am dealing as hard blows against what the Land league is fighting tonight as any Land 1eaguer.
 The boisterous element subsided, appar ently abashed, and the speaker went on to say that the Irish were handicapped as against Germans or Frenchmen when emi- grating to this country, because they are forced by England to be laborers They have no chance to become skilled in manu- facturing pursuits.
 Fhe crowd had been growing noisier and noisier until man named Con1an, who lives in the Seventh ward and works in the clock shop, arose and objected to something that had been said about Herman. The man also ! objected to-what he called islander that had been put upon Abram S.. Hewitt, of whom MT. Sullivan had spoken in connection with the McSweeny rally. The man was missed and cries of 'sPut him out" sounded from all parts of the hall But Mr. Sullivan ad- vised moderation and asked that the man 1a