Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-12

Nominate General MorW1n ana Cno chances
of success are bright. Luzon B. Morris,
although man of clean record and pos
sessed of small barrel of money, cannot
poll big democratic vote in New Haven
with Lieutenant Governor Merwin on the
opposite ticket. With General Merwin in
the field against him Mr.. Morris will get
far less vote than he did when he ran be-
fore. General Merwin's strength is strik-
ingly illustrated by the fact that in the
election of 1888 he polled a larger vote
than any candidate on either ticket. And
it is believed that he is stronger now than
he was then.
THE IRISH PATRIOT O,REILLY.
His Literary Reputation and Per-
sOnal Observation-Disclosures Haven
Friends of the Deceased.
Much sorrow is felt among leading Irish
Americans in town and throughout the
country over the death of John Boyle
O'Reilly, whose brilliant career as poet,
editor and author was so suddenly cut off
by the cruel reaper, as was announced in
our dispatches yesterday. His presence
was an inspiration to good fellowship. He
was quick at repartee, ready with tongue
as well as pen, prompt to respond with
sympathy and purse to the call of the
needy and the suffering, and no one will
question the single heartedness of his
patriotic feelings and efforts with regard
to the land of his birth. He was person
ally known to many of our citizens, who
recall with great pleasure hours spent in
his society in this city, and who sincerely
mourn his death. Concerning his literary
work and standing the Springfield Repub-
ican says:
,Mr; O'Reilly's literary reputation has
More than kept pace with his career as
| journalist. His quick sympathies, his
observant eyes, his retentive memory,
| were not idle while he worked with the
| convict gang in Australia, and soon after
his arrival in Boston he published very
noteworthy volume of verse embodying
legends, pictures and songs of that strange
continent, and '.Songs of the Southern
Seas" published by Roberts Brothers in
"The King of the Vase" .'The
Dukite Snake" ''The Amber Whale"
freshness of theme and originality of treat
ment gave him immediate vogue. This
volume he dedicated to the whaling cap
tain who rescued him; his second, "Songs,
Legends and Ballads" issued in 1878, he
dedicated to his wife, Then followed the
novel "Moondyne,' whose theater was still
Australia but after that, in 1881, came
Statues in the Block and Other Poems, :"
and in 1886 ''In Bohemia" dealing with
the life of to-day and it's great problems of
humanity and labor The character of his
writing has greatly changed in
these years; the influence Of Walt
Whitman affected him perhaps more
than it has any other of the younger
poets, and he has been 80 filed with his
mission of prophet as partly to lose the
true character of the poet Mr.. o Reilly's last
| poem, delivered at the Plymouth celebra-
ton last year--when with that singular
and happy variation from the usual plan the
Irish poet was coupled with the southern
| orator, Colonel breckenridge, to celebrate
| the virtues of tho Pilgrims-will DO re-
| membered ~ one Of the finest and noblest
tributes ever paid those pioneers of lib
erty.
Mr.. o'Reilly's prose 10 as vigorous as his
| poetry, aud marked by u powerful grasp
on the principles on which government
! OF the people, by the people and for the
people should BIO based, For example, In
| y Decoration day address no said; Had
secession been principle, II would have
| for fair consideration. II was not prin-
eiple, II was only resource and excuse.
Secession to escape from the justice of
God and the rights of man never was a
state right, There would have been no Be-
oession and no war had there been no
slavery. The system of caste in the south
was harder and more detestable than the
blue laws of the Puritans. The one was
based on pride and possession and the
| other, gloomy as it was, on sincerity and
faith. However fiercely the Puritan barred
made those free and equal who belonged to
his own community. The town meeting
was the common source for all law and
order and representation, a primary
| convention where every man met
on exactly equal conditions" He
has written good many occasional adj
| dresses, and has published volume of
| Stories and Sketches" and ''The Ethics
| of Boxing and Manly Sport" With his in
l tensely virile nature Mr.. O'Reilly placed
l great value upon physical development and
bestowed on John L. Sullivan and other
| expositors Of mere muscle an enthusiasm
with which we can hardly sympathize; it
| is pleasanter to read his charming papers
on canoeing, which are included in the vol
ume above mentioned, for Mr.. O'Reilly was
I an ardent oanoeist and had traversed many
| a river, from the Connecticut to tho Sus-
| quehanna, in his graceful craft.
| Mr.. O'Reilly was much priced in Boston
in literary and journalistic circles, and he
was one Of the founders and for some
time president of the Papyrus club, COM
posed of the principal members of these
callings. He was through his life still un-
der the ban of the British government,
although he has had nothing to do with
any force party since his original connec-
ton with Feniasm, of which, however, he
never repented. Some years ago Mr.
OReilly and the American minister in Eng
land both inquired of the English govern
| ment if he would be permitted to visit Can
ada and Ireland, but the answer was re-
turned that in view "of the circumstance
ofsyour case" such permission would not
begiven.
| Mr.. O'Reilly was notable in personal ap-
pearanee; of strongly knit frame, average
| height, massive head, crowned with
| abundant black heir, growing gray of late
years; a ruddy complexion, darks eyes,
quick and intense il expression, and q
heavy dark moustache, he resembled in no
small degree Spanish don. Warmth,
eagerness, enthusiasm and truth were
traits that betrayed themselves in his
greeting. He leaves wife and four
DAUGHTERS to mourn his early death