The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-26
BLAINE ASA DEMAG0GUE
he PANDERS TO THE IRISH VOTE
THROUGH VESTS LETTER.

the Party Heelers.
New York, Oct 25.-At 7:30 o'clack thi:
evening Madison Squsre Garden contained
1000 shouting republicans
The building was decorated with Ameri-
can and Irish flags.
Music was furnished by the Sixty ninth
regiment band, and Irish and American
tunes were the order of the evening.
AT s o'clock the meeting was called tc
order by Hon. A. L. Morrison of Arizona.
He introduced Austin E. Ford, who read a
long list of Vice Presidents.
Patrick Ford was made chairman of the
meeting
Mr.. Blaine was introduced and said;
Mr.. CHAIRMAN-I speak tonight more to the
men of Irish birth, not in relation to their con
nection with the British empire, but i'll relation
TO their citizenship to the great American
republic, on the duties they owe,
TO the policies they should pursue;
and gather the strongest lesson for an Irish
man in America from his experience in his ma
tive land. The fairest and almost the richest
portion of all Europe, destined to poverty ana
TO suffering and to the exile Of millions of her
children because of misgovernment-destin
primarily, to utter financial rum, because her
people were not allowed for her own use and her
own advantage the principle of protection for
which all Irishmen should struggle in America.
rChcers1 So great is the agricultural wealth of
1fHland that only forty years ago she shipped
over greater amount of produce across the
rhnnrei to England than the United States eX-
ported to all countries; greater than
the empire of Russia sent to the other
countries of Europe. And where is her own
to-day? She shares the fate OF all countries
purely agricultural She shares the fate that
would in larger degree, overtake and reduce
us to an agricultural people. [Applause.l
WELL FOUNDED FEAR.
And vet tonight the fear is that a majority
of the Irish voters in America, or Irish Ameri
can voters, will cast their ballots on the sixth
day of November as the present gov
70 cast it, [Cries Of no, no. wish that you
could make that no" large majority of the
Irish vote of the United States. For the last
four months the democrats, have been denying
and the republicans have been affirming that
the first and last and constant wish of England
was that President Cleveland's administration
Igroansl- that President Cleveland's admin
1 whoe force Sce''0 and effect Of English
public opinion. And just when they had begun
to make an expression and impression upon the
American people, that such might not be the
effect, We have the letter of the British minis
ter at Washington himself. lGroansl. l know
you do not like to hear about it. ICries of no,
mol.
READS AN EXTRACT.
We have the letter of the British minister
himself. and you can never interpret the letter
until You know the letter that called 1t forth.
To get the whole gist and meaning of the cor
you must have both sides of il, land
this letter from the British minister called
forth by letter from California, single ex-
tract from which will read. 1t is written by
native of England. and read this paragraph:
MANY English citizens have for years refrained
from being naturalized as they thought no good
would accrue from the act, but President Ceve-
lands administration has been so favorable and
so friendly toward England, SO kind in not en-
forcing tne retaliatory act passed by congress,
30 sound on the free trade question, and so
hostile TO the dynamite Irish, that by hundreds,
YES, by thousands, they have become natural
lied tor the express purpose of helping the man,
who above all other American politicians, they
consider their own and their country's best
friend"
ONLY A LITTLE By-PLAY.
Then this writer goes on to state to Sackville
West that his faith has been shaken by
President Cleveland's administration, aud
writes to the British minister to solve his doubt
and Mr. West says that this matter is only a
little by-play which does not mean anything
He need not be afraid, and all other
English voters can go ahead with perfect con
fidmce. Three ministers TO the United States
certainly two, have had their walking papers
for offenses less grave than that, and tonight
If an American minister of England shoul
write to an English voter advising him to sup
port either side as one favorable TO the United
States lie would he politely invited to sail
home by the next steamer, ana tIeQ what does
the Secretary of State do? Why, he says it was
no harm. 1t was only private
THIS is AMUSING.
Well suppose he sends private circular
Suppose he issues 10000 of them and marks
them private on the corner and there came a
discovery: suppose Sectary Bayard would say:
mot particle of harm, so long as you mark
them private, and so long as you mark private
they viii have SO much more beneficial effect
when they get into public print
And so this has done its perfect work. 1t was
written for President Cleveland. [Groansl 1t
was written in aid of him to bring the
whole of the naturalized English voters to
his support. and President Ceveland's
premier, the head of his cabinet, said it is all
right. We are to have the British minister at
Washington give his opinion as to what we
should do in this country in our political and
our domestic parties.
CORN STEPPED on
One remark he makes that ! wish to com
ment on particularly. for | call il an
insult TO tie republican party, and |
am good deal more sensitive to that than
am to any insult 10 the democratic PATTY
If Mr.. Cleveland and Secretary Bayard are con
tent to have the British mi1lster insult the dem.
ocratic party | Shall not weep over it; but pro-
test, in the name of the republican party
against Lord Ssckville Vests saying that the
rejection by the republican Senate of an
outrageous and miserable and dastardly fishery
treaty was mere political ruse for the cam
never been a Senate heretofore in the history of
this republic, democratic or whig, or republican
or federal that would for one moment have
entertained that fishery treaty-not one.
NO RIGHT TO SAY so.
And Lord Sackville has no right to say to the
American people that the sena tOrial representa-
tives of the people that have borne the flag of
the republic high, that have saved its life
against rebels in the south and against conspira.
tors; be has no right to say that the senatorial
representatives of that great party, i'm looking
after the national honor, are merely committing
political ruse He will find that political
ruse of that kind will last as long as the honor
of the American flag is to be preserved and
the rights of the hardy fishermen of America
are to be protected. Cheers
Mr.. Blaine then proceeded to make pro-
tective tariff argument, in the course of
which he said:
NEW YORK cIrYs INTEREST
If you will take the manufactures Of New
York-right in the city-we are in the habit of
thinking that manufactures are going on in
distant towns way in the country of New
York and in the mountains of Pennsylvania
They are going on in this city in a larger
degree than anywhere else-I was going TO say
in the world-and what is produced in this city
BY American laborers and American
manufacturers is double the amount that is
imported to New York from abroad, more than
double, so that the interests the laboring men
have at stake is not what comes through the
narrows up to New York from foreign countries
but what is made in the shops and mauufactor-
les within the city of New York. Cheers That
Is home rule-making your own manu- features on
your own soil And il Ireland would be allowed
TO do that she would not have 10 exile so many
of her children. That is the policy which the
United States are resolved, in my Judgment to
maintain. They have grown wealthy by main