The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-09-25
why Patrick Egan Supports Blaine.

why Patrick Egan supports Blaine.
Patrick Egan, the recently elected president
of the American branch of the Irish land league,
has addressed letter to tho Lincoln, Neb.,
Democrat, in reply to some unwarranted
structures on his political opinions. The fol.
lowing is an extract:
Before the late Boston convention of the
Irish National league had, as the result of
close observation and careful research, made
up my mind that there existed no grounds on
which the Democratic party should hold any
mortgage on my vote because happened to be
an 1rishman. weighed with care and delib-
Grafton the merits of the two presidential can
dldates, and l came to the conclusion that
neither as Irishman or an adopted citizen of
America, could Mr. Grover Cleveland have my
support The case Of Mr. John Devoy, on
which you SO persistently harp, and which
you have again and again reforred to as the on
ly ground of my opposition to Mr.: Cleveland,
was only ono OF the many objections which
l entertained to that gentleman. l did, indeed,
the very basest kind, and strong evidence OF
either the hostility or contempt Of Mr.. Glove
land for Irishmen of national opinions: but
objected also TO Mr.. Cleveland as the pet can
didate of the London Times the London Stan
dard, the London Daily Telegraph, the London
London Saturday Review-in fact, of the entire
English press. L objected to him as the pct
candidate of Puck and Harpers Weekly; as the
author of innumerable vetoes in the interest Of
the great monopolles, and as a man who had,|
as believe, proved himself the enemy of every;
just right to tho toiling millions 7 objected,
to Mr.: EClevelaud because l felt proud of thet
country of my adoption, and because felt that,
in the words of the Boston Pilot-a straight
out-and-out democratic organize has not
single quality to fit him for the presidency OF
the United States. had made up my mind to
support Mr.. Blaine because, from long obser-
walton, had come to regard him as the very
opposite of all this, as an American of Anleri-
cans, man among men, as an able statesman
fitted by nature, culture and experience to fill
with credit to the country and to himself the
position Of president of this great nation.
General Logan's Speech At Toledo.
Toledo spocial:- General Logan spoke at
League Park to one of the largest audiences
that ever assembled in this city. He claimed
that the only monument erected by the Demo-
cratic party had been its course in relation to
free trade. II will not say that they are acting
the part of agents of the British government,
but do say that misguided though they are,
they performed the same service for the
British government while they had the power
in this country that the lords of England would
have performed if they had seats in the con-
gress OF the. United States" In reply to a
portion of Gov. Hendricks recent speech Gen.
Logan said: "Mr. Hendricks stated that tho
Republican party Ii ad teen derelict in its duty
toward foreign-born citizens in distant lands,
who had been permitted to suffer because of
the failure of ono part Of the Republican party
to preform their duty. Now, I am sorry that
Mr. Hendricks made that statement While
the Democratic party stood in control Of this
country for forty years, let my friend Mr.:
Hendricks point out one single statute that
was enacted by the Democratic party, declaring
that citizen of the United States should be
protected, whether he WAS native or foreign
born, when he passed back to his native coun-
try. 1t was left for the Republican party in
the year 1858 to pass a law declaring that citi-
zen of this country, foreign-born, should ba
protected on his own mother soil in person and
property, the same as If he were a native-bOrn
citizen, and never was that doctrine enunciated
in statute Of this country by the Democratic
party"
when proclamation was issued suppress
ing slavery, the Democratic party everywhere
opposed it III congress and out of congress, and
no act has ever been passed yet in favor Of
human freedom by the Democratic party in 81
out of congress-" In reply to a statement by
Gov. Hendricks in his speech at the fair
grounds, as to the passage OF the homestead
act, Gen. Logan recited the history of those
laws During Buchanan's administration the
homestead bill passed, and it was left to Re-
publican congress in the administration of
President Lincoln to pass tho homestead bill
and tho bill for land given for agricultural
colleges was signed by Lincoln. The speaker
ridiculed the tariff plank of the Democratic
national PLATFORM We were compelled to go
back to history to know what that plank meant
The party was free trade party before the
wal, and the constitution of the Sounthcrn con-
federacy contained free trade provision.
The Confederates in consequence received
sympathy and aid from England, because the
eleven seced1ng states would have been opened
to her commerce and manufacturers.