Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-16

American; he is tolerated in their ranks merely for his vote, The essential element of republicanism, the vital spark without which its lamp of life would go out for ever, is know rothingism. And General Harrison is shining light of the anti Irish prejudi"es of his party. He may try to conceal his hatred when he is before the people for election, he may profess sympathy for the race when his political fate is hanging in the balane of their votes, but like the leopard he cannot change his spots. The hands may be the hands of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob" General Harrison has been a hater of the Irish, a maligner of their virtues. a false witness of their qualities as a race. aud a despicatle slanderer of their nttAinments as . people. In the cam paisn of 1876, in q aprbic speech delivered in Durley hall at Bloomington, H., he ex- pressed his opinion of the Irish race in these words: If 1t were not for them we would not need half of our penitentiaries, which ale almost full of them; they have no intelligence; they are only good to shovel dilt and grade railroads, for which they receive more than they are worth, as they are 10 acquisition to the American people"
 That's what General Harrison thought of the Irish in 1S1G, and there is no sub stantial evidence that he has changed his opinion of them since. He is worthy of the Cromwellian Koundhead ancestry that General Lew Wallace has traced out for him, ''worthy of the ancestry the dis tinguishing characteristics of which are thus perpetuated" The know -nothiugs everywhere arc for Harrison they lecog- nize him as one of themselves, as one of the sentinels at the outer gate of their bigoted and intolerant creed. They will vote for him to man, they wih work strenuously for his election. Their official organ, America, urges them to stand fast for him in these words
 Should the voters fo the north who be- lieve in the principles of the much-abuset, know nothinGs desert the republican party Harrison and Morton would not carry . single northern state-not even Kansas or IennSNINdnlil-eNen lnOuSn every 1LiSn Roman Catholic should vote twice for republican electors. Take away from the republican ranks the Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians and other Protestant sects in sympathy with the American principles of ow-nothingism, and there would not be enough of party left to sell at auction for the benefit of Parnell fund.
 In the face of Hhrrison's record of Irish insult and injustice, in view of the know nothing principles of the republican party in memory of it's treatment of the Irish race it is the very essence of presumption for republican organs to ask Irishmen in America to vote for Harrison and his know nothing principles, to turn their backs or the grand old democratic party that has been their bulwark and shield against in suit, intolerance and injustices. Never shal 1t be said that trishpaen are ungrateful, that they are forgetful of the party that has given them their citizenship and that has secured for them every act of beneficial legislation.
 Irishmen WhQ vote for Harrison prosti tute their manhood by subscribing to the tenets of now-nothingism. Fortunately those who do so eau be counted on one;S fingers.