New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-16

to hooks wcre ont long before even the Republican
Convention was held, 50 that thee was no eaSn
who are proud TO march under the flag Of protection
no matter who is the standard-Dcalcr
PROGRESS IN ORGANIZATION.
by means OF the system already expisineh'
the League has now hour'snhs ci''o
in each Assembly District and central
bodv IN which delegates from each club accredited
Meetings arc gcnbrally held once each week, some
times I'm the hall at No. 90 Union square ana some
tines at the home of Captain George ". s~arha"' a..
No 225 East Thirty slxthst., hmscit an EARNEST
worker I'm the cause and ono OF the Officers vi "o
TIppcrary Mems Association A. H. Hiorr'so"' vi
Chicago an old time Republican, lrishmah VIM ioi
dcred onod service during the campaign of 1854 did
large share Of the organizing work-ihe iarso'' '1a'
Of IT, in fact He Is an orator OF much aDily. ino
nrcs ider OF tho League IS p II. McNamec wen ho
In Irish Nationalist circles and popular WIN az. ,d
ons Of his counr;mcn lie ,s, %nst !" lie IS about
drfyelght years Old well educated goon , snme
and good speaker lie wrI heud S moi vote the DEM
ocrac ticket which the General Commune nhote
so clear that they subscribed out OF their own Az
10 have several thousand copies pfihtcu anu "'
j. Mccarthy tho secretary +; , also 2os s1TH od
fIo Enows his duty and does it we'll jeremiah b.
M1rpby and J. p 0'Fynn Of the XVIII Assembly DIS
c 10 gTe enr pl corres great Victory there in 1855
are welLknown men They worked hau ~ aoop or or
n1cr I'm Iss@ and Is an organizer now Sergeant
Johnson Of the G9th Regiment, was nara "orn mo
many of the anfreo traders under Colonc Caya n
aghs command Captain Maurice Cox. Of me oD.n,
of The Dublin Mems Association. powerful oreai-
cation Another organization known as ,Ie has
been started having In view the same object as me
Anti Free Trade League namely to heat cleYeis am
nortcd Blaine I'm 1884. as organizer and as Editor
Of The Irish Nation Dcvoy is man with wIn
cited as a speaker but as worker or
even as a fighter. no odds Will deter him. ne mas
good many friends IN hG fy S S' by force Of arms
aud failed. Some members OF District nsSe hn
Michael Rresn. brother of John Breslln who
rescued the Fenian prisoners from Nam nf n
land psva Naps9nh a 2SS Dublin and
secretary Of the Bagbers' Unon Jane, d and
formerly Editor Of Tho Catholic 1d eT TaIs6 Am ana
cans In fhe CITY They hold their meetings IN
Clarendon Hail. but have not as yet reriGc'cd ,ny
patrick Ford ia effective work for the RepuDnT3n a
ticket IN 1884 principally in the c2 HGr strong %1 dee
nunclat0ns of Cleveland and the Democra,lc par,
ard well-wrten articles In support OF me Poncs VI
protection one of the articles was especially erect
ive namely that cOndcmnng the KnOw-Nothing
movement which Tho Irish Wor!d' shower 10 10
really more Of a Democratic movement than anything
This wear the paper strongly aivocatcd the nom
ration of Blaine and the week before the convention
went far as TO announce that. sh9ud ,ie
IlumPn
rcutral during the canpaign Yet since theh' no
irish Wordo continues to assail as vigorously as ever
the Cleveland free-tlade policy ana 10 p,%e al u,o
head Of orc OF rs columns beneath which are eN-
tracts from the English newspapers that favor Cievc
laad-anG they all favor hm-a fac-simile OF inc UNI
com and the lion supporting the crown. an emblem
which MS the souls of Irish Amercans with bitterness
Then there Is another class Of 1rlshmen whose
IN aurncc il great but who never touch any organiza
tons These are the wel-to-dO freshmen, mon OF
means men OF business. who look al the situation
more from an American than an Irish standpoint ana
who win sunpoit protection rather than ffeetrade
These Will be dealt with in special article az an0thnr
time, There Is yet one more element that VIII make IL
hot for tic Democratic national ticket election day,
namely those who Will vote simply TO defeat Cleveland
and leave themselves free after that.