Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-04

of election, and the liberal use of money
to get enough votes to turn the tide
which is now running steadily agains
them. But there is one feature about thi-
whole business which strikes an ordinary
observer with astonishment, and that is
the bold and barefaced insult they offer
to the Irish people. The average Repu' =
lican naturally hates an Irishman. he
never has any use for him except about
election time when he wants his vote !;
and to get that he never appeals to ais
reason or jugdment, but always to his
prejudices. He treats him just
as though he thought he was
Ia natural born fool a sort
of political jumping-jack, that by pulling
certain string can be set to jumping
and jabbering like baboon in raree
show. They don't expect to get his vote
by satisfying the reason and judgment,
nor do they ever think of doing anything
that is calculated to win his gratitude or
regard. 1t is either an appeal to his
passions and prejudices or no appeal at
all. Their idea seems to be that if they
can only get an Englishman to speak of
Mr.. Cleveland with the least degree of
respect. every Irishman will Immediately
rush off and vote the Republican ticket !;
that such is their natural hatred to
anything English, all you have got
to do to have an Irishman vote
against Cleveland is to satisfy him that
Cleveland eats the same kind of food an
Englishman does, and that will settle it.
The use they are trying to make of this
West. Murchison correspondence shows
that is just the kind of estimate they
have of the average Irish voter. To give
our Ir;sh friends some idea of what they
think of him, quote the following from
a late article in tie San Francisco Chron-
icle, the leading organ of the G. o. p. on
this coast:
ga very angry anonymous scribbler
who signs himself "A Briton' says that
the Chronicle is angling after the igno-
rant Irish vote.' Our British CORE
spondent is in error. The Chrontcle has
not the slightest hope Of winning the
ignorant Irish voters over tc the cause
of protection. 1t makes no appeals to
that class. 1t knows that the Ignorant
Irish will vote for Cleveland"
Is it this ignorant Irish vote" that
the Republicans are now after? Was
that the object in concocting this West
Murchison correspondence? That is the
class that the Chronicle says is going to
vote for Cleveland. So if they are going
after Irish votes it must be the ignorant
Irish votes. They certainly would not
60 after those they have already got.
We are bound to conclude, therefore,
that this West-Murchison fraud
has been concocted for the pur-
pose of corraling the ignorant
Irish vote," as the Chr0nice calls it..
If they are not after this vote. why all
this clap-trap and humbug. What do
our Irish friends think OF this compli-
ment to their intelligence? Is it not
about time that Irishmen should teach
these fellows a lesson? There was never
a better time to do it than right now. A
few years ago they nominated county
ticket in San Francisco. and some OF
their leaders boasted that there wasn't
damned Irishman or Dutchman on it..
If this election goes for Cleveland and
Thurman, the Republican leaders will
swear in their wrath as they have done
heretofore, that it was all on account OF
the damned Ignorant Irish" and
"Dutch." ANTI HUMBUG.