The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-20

The Irish American Independents who
supported Blaine in 1884 have come
out squarely for Cleveland and reform
Edward j Rowe, its president of 1884
Frank Byrne, formerly secretary of the
Irish National League In Great Britain
John j, Moroney, and other Irish Ameri-
cans of New York City, have organized
the Irish American Independent Associa-
ton as democratic body, which already
has more than 1000 members Mr., Rowe
has been chosen President, and headquar-
tiers have been leased at so Union Square
At a meeting of the club ON Monday il
was voted to hold mass meeting in few
days, and the following resolutions were
adopted:
We the Irish American Independents Of
the city and county OF New York, having
in view of the promotion Of the interests Of
our adopted country, fully approaching the
magnitude of the issues involved in the
pending campaign, and the influence for
good or evil that the decision thereon Is 10
have upon those interests, do hereby res
solve:
First-That as prOteCtionists believing
that the full measure of protection TO
workingmen and the greatest good to all
the people can be best secured under a
lower and more equal system of custom
house taxation dOmOst heartily endorse the
plan of tariff reform contained IN the Mills
bill.
Second-Tbat trusts and mOnOpOlies fOs-
tered and encouraged by unjust state and
national laws imposing unequal tariff
taxes and levying tribute on the consum-
ers OF the products controlled by them,
have our most emphatic Condemnation,
and we demand that such laws shall ne SO
remedied as to make such ubiquitous COM
bination impossible.
Third-That the retaliation message of
President Cleveland to congress proved
him statesman of the highest order, an
American capable of sustaining his couh
try's honor In any emergency. and deser-
wing the respect and support of every pat
riotic citizen of the republic. This need
of justice we ali the more cheerfully &C.
cord the president because of our steadfast
opposition to his election in 1884, in the
belief that his opponent in that campaign
would more earnestly sustain the national
honor that has now been so splendidly
INDICATED and maintained by the Presi-
dent himself.
Fourth-That Allen G. Thurman, the
OoulOCIdllC IOI
who, after lifetime devoted to the unset
fish service of his state and country, STANDS
today without blame and reproach, the
peer Of the purest and greatest, is well
worthy of any honor that a patriotic peo'
pie can confer on him.
Fifth--That believing these things in
dorsing the platform adopted by the dem
ocratic convention at St Louis, and with
full faith in the ability, integrity and pa
trioti sm of the democratic candidates for
president and vice-president, we, as indie
pendent citizens, free from partisan preju-
dice, pledge to those candidates our most
ardent support in this campaign.
Sixth-That the republican party and
its presidential candidates cannot In the
short period of one political campaign,
and for partisan effect alone, atone for the
the repeated utterances of Benjamin Har
rison hostile 10 and belittling American
workingmen of Irish birth, which utter
ances are the results of hereditary and the
legitimate manifestations OF his descent
from an ancestry of Cromwellian fellow