The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-09-25

o count it correctly. Loud applause.
Now the democratic party is asking the
people of Montana, with such record
behind it, to join forces with it. don't !
believe the thinking men and women (,
Of this territory want to ally themselves t
with such party. It would be like
binding the body of fair young girl just
into womanhood to the body of {
= leper. The question before the people
of this territory today is the question that
is before the people Of the whole United
States and it is one simply of an indus
trial character, the tariff.
And the democratic party of this nation
today in this territory are appealing to
irishmen to cast their ballots with party
who are for free trade. / am the son of
an Irishman, and would just as soon give
my right arm as to vote for party with
such policy as that Of England which
has cast a blight and mill-dew over the
land that gave my father birth. The
Irishman in Montana who casts his vote
with the democratic party is simply doing
what he can to aid snd strengthen the
brawny arm that sends the lash down, his
sing through the air, upon the bleeding
shoulders of the mother that bore him.
If there are men of my fathers race here
tonight beg of them not to seek an alli-
ance with the democratic party.
| I beg of them not to cast their ballot
with the party which proposes first by
slow steps to bring about the same policy
upon the shoulders of this country, pol
cy that will result in precisely the degra-
dation, the blightning mill-dew and the
death that you fled from when you sought
these shores Of ours.
The speaker in concluding told pa
thetic story Of his meeting with an Irish
man in Killarney who was conducting
visitors over the lakes ut salary of two
shillings day, that the speaker had him
self paid the passage of this man to
America, and that at a subsequent period
lie had been rewarded by a visit from this
, son of Ireland, who called upon him In
New York. paid back the money that had
been givcn to him with which to come tc
America and brought the welcome news
to his benefactor that he had not only
succeeded himself on American soil fal
beyond any expectations that he evel
; could have realized in his native lane, but
}, ~ that he had saved sufficient money tc
bring. to America his father, mother ant
the woman he had since made his wife
He further said "thc people of Montan'
:. have simply to exercise the right OF vot
~ ing, speaking and acting for themselve
to carry the state into republican col
umns. You have Power to do it and n
- such Toole as the democratic Toole ca
!. chisel you out of it. Long and lou
- continued applause.
- Next Teesday you are going to vote.
- have not been in this section of the coul
try long, but there are some things haV
heard. hear democrats quietly chattin
:, by themselves who say, we have got then
=. there arc laboring men in the employ
~ our corporations and they must vote
10 70 their bosses say. All, they forget tn
~ these are thinking men who read and u
40 derstand. Look this question all Owe
from your own opinion as to what par
W YOU would affiliate with; tn
ne vote as you please If Montana's hont
re- integrity and prosperity demand it, vo
as with the republican party. | have l
vo doubt that one week from tonight Nc
w. taua will have put herself properly in Ii
MS and no such Toole as the democratic pal
vas put up can chissel you out Of it.
to The brilliant, poetic and eloquent wol
~, of Gen. Sheridan, when he depicted
M '' misery of Ireland under the free ira
W. policy of England, and contrasted it W
ted the prosperity Of protective Amerl
we should have been heard by every man
=. Irish descent in Montana.