Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-10


am much pleased with what have seen
and will report favorably on my return
home next month";"
FORD AND HIS FUNNYISMS.
What He Said of James G. Blaine
Not Many Years Ago.
The New York Catholic News of August
18th contains the following concerning
the gentleman who has taken contract
to deliver the Irish vote to Harrison for
the purpose of elevating James G. Blaine
to the position of Secretary of State:
Patrick Ford was here, there and
everywhere during the week, running
around excitedly, pausing now and then
to make sure that the Irish vote didn't
jump out of his pocket and escape, until
he got into the presence of "the greatest
living American"-Pat Ford excepted.
"You are welcome home," said
Pat Ford to Blaine. The man from Maine
has good memory, and remembered
that not many years ago this same Mr..
Ford in his paper, the Irish World, called
him "a demagogue" when he presided at
an Irish-American banquet. Patrick
Ford then said: "Mr Blaine is reported
as having Presidential aspirations. As
Blaine is thorough demagogue,
he thinks, perhaps, that he may
succeed in winning the Irish
American votes by figuring as one of the
orators at st. Patrick's night banquet.
"He forgets that his presence at such a
meeting, after what he has done, is an
insult to every intelligent Irishman
present."
Blaine must have thought Ford an ar
rant hypocrite when he called to mind
what that gentleman said of him on an
other occasion. Said Ford in his Irish
World:
docs James G. Blaine for moment
suppose that American citizens, with
Irish blood in their veins, will ever for
get that when he was Secretary of State
he allowed American citizens residing in
Ireland to be arrested and imprisoned on
mere suspicion, without his calling the
British Government to account for this
violation of international law, as he was
in duty bound to do?"
But Ford himself seems to forget it al
though he never thought he would when
he denounced Blaine for leaving the
Irish-American citizens at the mercy of
the British Government. On that occa-
sion the Irish World, which is to-day
turning to its vomit like dog, said:
you, Mr.. Blaine, Immediately on
entering upon the office of Secre-
tary Of State, trumpeted it forth
to the nation, with vigor and
volume that speak we'll for your
political lungs, that henceforth the badge
of American citizenship would be pride
Nd Of nd 20 IL,
world. These expectations you have not
realized. cannot understand your con-
duct. 1t is explainable only by ignor-
ance of the law or treason to duty. As a
substitute for your discharge OF duty,
however, you tell us that you would
cheerfully counsel the President( Garfeld)
to appeal 'to the friendly benevolencc of
the British Government in behalf of Mr..
Boyton.' This is very kind in you in
deed! But you mistake, MIR. Blaine.
This is not an Irish relief measure. The
man who asks you to do him Justice
who asks you to do your SIM
pie duty in the matter, is not beg
gar at your door. He scorns you and
your appeal. When he read your insult
ing proposals in the British press his in
dignant soul flashed this over the ocean
to President Garfield: 81 hope you will
never submit the honor of the Republic,
which fought to maintain, to the degra-
dation of an appeal to the benevolence of
the cowardly British Government, which
is incapable of extending to my country
men the commonest Justice. Whatever
humiliation the country is subjected to is
due, not to such noble hearts, but to the
administration of which you are Chief
Minister and adviser, and which, ignor-
ing the traditions Of better days, meanly
and treacherously aoandons citizens to
whom it is bound by every principle of
honor and law to extend protection"
1t is notoriously true that Patrick Ford
has not the general good will of Irish
men. He belongs to the nationalist body
in New York, and has never been identi-
fed with any Irish movement that had
not the success of the Irish World in
view. He has not the confidence of
American workingmen, and the so-called
labor demonstration in New York City
was meeting of the Ford family, moth
ing more, and no representative of
organized labor was on the platform.
Labor men who were invited ignored the
invitation and stayed away. The
reviewing stand was filled with
Irish World employees and with the
Fords. When an acquaintance OF one OF
the latter called out, ''Heh, there, Ford !"
about one-quarter of the crowd turned
around and said in unison, "Who called
me?" In the throng that gathered in
front Of the platform there was not ain-
gle banner of trades organization. Not
even delegation from union appeared,
nor even strikers" labor organization
appeared upon the scene. Instead, there
was the same old-fashioned Republican
crowd, who always cheer the bloody shirt
and the protectionist chestnut around
election times. This gathering was
swollen by the crowds of pedestrians who
usually frequent the thoroughfares near
the square at that hour of night, and who
were, no doubt, attracted by the novelty
of the scene.
shipping Arrivals.
The following is a list of arrivals at
San Pedro during the first six days OF the