St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-17
TO INSTANTANEOUS.

Has Blaine Any Claims Upon You?-Stron0
Letter from I'm Irish--4naerican.
From the Dubuque Herald.
The Republican party through their press
are making the boastful claim that they have
at last presented to the people national
ticket that will capture the Irish and Irish
American vote from the Democratic party
The German vote Is no moro good to those
patriotic politicians of the Republican party;
no, nor the negro vote. Nothing this year
but the Irish vote. Well, it seems to
me that it is about time that the
grand old party'' should make des-
perate effort for the Irish. They never before
thought about their being 100000 Irish
and Irish-Americans in the United States.
1t took the Republican party twenty-five
years to recognize the Irish voter. You
know that the swindler cannot rope in the
same victim twice. He must seek innocent
persons, who can be deluded by his sweet
scented words of deceptionl OF course, the
Republican party has no use for the German
vote now. They got the German to come
into the state of Iowa and other states and
invest his millions of dollars
in an enterprise. Then, when
they got little tired Of him, passed law
making it a crime to engage in the same
misunderstanding him of the natural right
to drink his national beverage. They have
destroyed by their infamous laws his prop
erty. They are sick of the negro likewise
Of course the German and negro are finding
it out, and this has driven the party to work
dexterously for the Irish. Consistency,
thou art jewel.n 80
Are the Irish American voters to be
oil Inv
receptions? 1 hope not. 1 do not be-
lieve they will. What claims have the
Republican party, and much less
James G. Blaine on the Irish votea What
have they done that should entitle them to
the Irish American support? Has Mr..
Blaine ever advocated the cause of the Irish
people? Has he ever denounced Ireland's
tyranical enemy. There is no record that he
ever has. What party was in power while
Irish American citizens were being arrested
over in England, without cause, thrown into
dungeons, deprived OF their liberty, de-
priyed of a trial by an impartial jury, con-
victed on fimsy charges, and sentenced to
the most inhuman punishment, when the
claim Of an American citizen was
treated with contempt, and only inteu-
siied the bitterness against them? What
party has kept at the court of st. James for
the last twenty years men who were hostile
toward the Irish and their cause, and who
were in direct sympathy with the English
policyi Was it not the Republican partyl
Where are the followers of the know
nothing party whom the Democratic party
opposed and annihilated! Are they not
with the Republican partyl Is not the charge
made against Blaine that he was a know
nothingl Has it ever been deniedl 1 think
not. Am not right in making the asser-
ton that the enemies Of the Irish people in
this country are to be found in the vanguard
of the Republican party.
What Is it, then, that entities the Republ-
can party to the so-called American supportl
Is it because there are a few sore heads, who
are not worthy of recognition in any party
that have been taught a lesson by the Demo
cratsi Is 1t because the great convention
which nominated Cleveland and Hendricks
had the independence, the wisdom and the
courage to sit down on few political ma
chine men who undertook to dictate to the
convention its dutyi Is 1t because that same
convention, In spite of the threats of few
personal enemies Of Mr.. Cleveland, nomf-
mated himl 1t certainly cannot be these
reasons that give them the right
to seize by wholesale the Irish-American
voters. Perhaps it is Blaine's ''vigor-
Gus foreign policy" The Republican party
has waited till this late day to uphold the
dignity Of American citizens abroad. Blaine
has recently called the party's attention to 1t.
or course no one ever heard that the Demo
cratic party taught England severe lesson
for her disregard Of the rights Of American
| citizens In the war Of 1912. Why, bless the
| poor innocent creatures, who are bowling
| about Blaine and the Irish, this has been a
cardinal principle OF the Democratic party
long before Blaine was baptized a Cath
| ole. 1t has always been q prin-
cipie OF Democracy and has been car
ried out to the letter. There does not seem
to be any intention on the part of Blaine to
free Ireland. He is for peace. So says his
letter of acceptance. Let not the honest, in
telligent and upright Irish American be de-
ceived by this religious and political hypo-
crite, James G. Blaine. VIII the Irish vote
for man whom his own party, through its
reputable papers, has denounced as a corrupt
politician, political trickster and schemerl
VIII they vote for man who will change
his religion in every town he happens to
stop at! guess not. will
the Irish-Americaus help by their
votes TO place a candidate in the
highest Office within the gift Of the
great American people whose past record
will not stand casual scrutiny; tool of corpo-