Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-11-13
AN IRISH AMERICANS VIEWS.

JOnn Mauuen, prUlhlueut 1kiou
American of Kansas, was requested
by the Democratic committee to
speak for their ticket. In reply,
among other things, he says:
1 search that platform in vain for
any word that would carry hope to
an Irish heart that the Democratic
party of Kansas is IN sympathy with
our cause in the old land. Was the
convention afraid OF offending its
British alliesg We charitably con-
clude that it was considered ques-
ton outside of the range of Kansas :
politics, and the Irish vote was sure
anyway. Yet the Republican party,
voicing the sentiment of common
wealth, which had its birth IN q life
and death struggle for the liberty of
a race, sent words of eheerand COM
fort aud to make good that resolution
nominated an Irishman, Mccarthy,
of Larned, for Auditor of State.
The Democratic party wants free
trade with our ancient enemy, the
same free trade that has made Ire
land stand in rags at the door ofthe
nations, with pinched face of hun.
gar, begging for bread, and driven
her poor, famished children when
she had not nourishment enough in
her bosom to sustain into shroud-
less and coffinless graves and into
every mans land-poor, lone wand
erers, driven out in the world, their
eyes covered by veil of ignorance
which the tyrant pulled down over
them degraded aud traduced among
their new neighbors by British in
fiuence, which had followed after
them. On the other hand, the Re-
publican party is in favor of protcc-
tion of our industries. No people on
the face of Gods earth need protec-
ton OF our industries, from England
as badly as we do. Protection is q
weapon in our hands; aye, and a
deadly one, too.
Now for a few facts during Cleve-
lands administration for the perusal
of Irishmen. Is it edifying to wit
ness the humiliation of our adopted
country on the fishery question at
the hands of the clustering old ty-
rant and weak secretary OF statef
Shall this country be place where
freshmen eau be hunted down by
England and extradited for what
are fairly understood by jurists to
be political offenses, viz: Resis-
tance to English expressions This
| was shrewdly contained in the Bay
ard Phelps treaty, which so far
Republican senate refuses to enter
tain. Can Irishmen, who as rule
belong to the laboring, industrial and
producing classes, indorse the veto
of the Morrison surplus bill, which
if it had been allowed to become o
law, would have saved to the people
s4,OOO,OOO unnecessary tax every
| years
| Can Irishmcn belong to party
whose every victory brings joy to
the English breasti Can Irishmen
support platform which indorses
the Cleveland administration, and
thereby enrolling in its ranks that
British influence which has been the
milestone around the necks Of Irish
men, and which has ever been at
work to destroy the social, political
and intellectual growth OF the Irish
element In the United States
The action ofthe Republican party
may be called "chaff," but in my
Judgment it is made of better stuff,
as 1T has the effect in its recognition
of Ireland's demands of England to
antagonize the British element in
the party, and to drive it from its
ranks into the Democratic party,
that left the door open to receive
them.
| Shall the Irish elements stand
shoulder to shoulder with their an.
cient and hereditary foe, or go over
like men OF the old blood and Gil up
the ranks of party which has de.
clared itself their friend, and with
their strength close knit, ronte be-
fore them the enemy and his allies,
even as their kindred did on the
field of Fontenoy1
/ Again, /, as the son OF an humble
Irish soldier, who left behind all he
held dear Oh earth to serve as pri.
vate in the ranks, can never, at this
time consent to give my assistance
, to party which, In its platform in
: dorses Cleveland and his veto of the
Soldiers pension bills.
There is another thing that is es-
pecially significant to the Irishman,
, and shows that the Republican party
has bound itself to the Irish cause,