St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-02
She Rennhlican canse IS doomed.

The Republican cause is doomed.
A hlundering circular Issued in the
closing hours of the campaign will react
upon the Merriam cause with such force
that from this time that party is out of
the race.
1t is the crowning villainy Of a cam
paign that will go on record as the last
dying gasp of defeated and demoral-
lied and desperate party.
In its despair and alright. the Repub-
lican state central committee, as It's
final effort, has sent out circular
which, besides being a direct, deliber-
ate and cowardly falsehood from end to
end. is contemplate and reprehen-
sible method of campaigning that will
react with terrible effect upon the heads
of It's perpetrators.
Burchard has come again.
Just as the mask was torn from the
Blaine campaign in 1884 by Rev. Bur
chard, SO has it been pulled from the
distorted and affrighted countenances
hours of the campaign. Ii the Repub-
licans had deliberately stabbed their
ticket in the dark they could not have
more effectually killed it than they have
through this circular, which seeks to
draw into politics religious prejudices
and array the Irish atholic vote against
the Democratic candidate for governor.
The act is so contemplate that even
the Republican committee was itself
ashamed of the bastard deed. and did it
In the dark. The circulars were printed
IN st. Paul newspaper Office, and the
expense was charged to William r.
Merriam. An effort has been made to
lay the blame elsewhere, but this is the
fact. The circulars were secretly carried
to Republican headquarters in the dead
of night, and here, behind barred doors,
placed in sealed envelopes. The clerks
who addressed them did not know their
contents. They were sent out to Irish
men all over the state, care having been
taken to send them where it would not
be learned until too late to show up the
infamy in its true light. The trick was
discovered. The circular was obtained.
and with it evidence that proved that it
was scheme hatched up in the Repub-
Hcan headquarters and approved by the
party managers. Now that 1t is discov-
cred they will endeavor to flee from the
wrath to come, and will vigorously deny
the parentage, but the proofs are incon-
trOvertible,
The circular issent out with the vain
hope of driving Irish votes from Judge
Wilson, and the cunning document
urges them to cast their vote for Owen
Or Merriam, or else leave it blank,
Let every Irishman and every other
fair-minded voter of the state read this
Burchard circular. which is as follows:
TO the Irish-American Voters of Minnesota
We do not believe that the citizens of this
great commonwealth should be divided upon
the lines of race, BIRTH place or religion. We
are all American citizens. and all appeals to
prejudice should be frowned down. But the
Catholics of this country, and especially the
Irish Catholics, find themselves to-day in q
strange position. They are opposed by a
great secret society, having branches in all
the great cities Of the United States, and
numbering its members by tens of thou-
sands, whose avowed purpose is to keep all
members Of the Catholic church. and es-
peclally the lrlsh from being nominated or
elected to any Office of honor or profit II
they can succeed in their crusade. Catho-
lies and Irishmen will be reduced
to the condition Of the Catho-
lie people Of Ireland before O'Conuell
effected their liberation; all the honors of
life will be denied them and they will sink to
the position of an outlawed peasantry, to be
spit upon and despised by the more favored
classes. This association could not have
arisen naturally from the American people:
they are generous ana noble race. Neither
would the Protestants Of this country. If left
to themselves. join in anv such persecution.
The excuse for the movement is that the
Catholics prefer to send their children to the
parochial school lustead Of to the public
schools. But the shallowness of this pre-.
tense is shown in the fact that no such cru
Sade is made against the Episcopalians or
the German Lutherans, and yet they are as
devoted to the idea Of separate religious
training for their children as are the Cath.
olics. The whole warfare against our people
can be traced to the intolerant bigotry of
English haters of our race, and more still
TO the Irish Orangemen. These men are not
satisfied with having impoverished the Irish
men in Ireland: they propose to follow him
across the Atlantic and degrade and ruin
him in his new home
What are the Catholic Irish to do? Shall