Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-14
Communicated
AN FRESHMAN SPEAKS.
HE CONDEMNS CANDIDATE BAILEY,
Saying No True Irishman Can Vote for the
Man who Said II Was Beneath His Dig
nifty to Attend n Land League Meeting.

The Irish American voters seem to be
unit against John 81. Bailey. Mr.. Corne-
illus Horgan, one of the most prominent
Irishmen in Pittsburg, when asked If he
was going to vote for Bailey, said: mo,
sir; am not"
"What are your reasons?"
"I have written them, and you can pub
lish this letter, written and signed by me.
The following is the letter:
''I am an Irishman ard a Democrat. L
have been citizen of this country for many
years, but I think 1 am no worse an Amer
lean because my heart is still warm toward
the Green Isle. The man who forgets the
land where the bones of his forefathers are
laid will not be true to any other. So am
proud to call myself an Irishman, and my
vote has always shown me to be Democrat.
81 voted for John n. Bailey for Judge.
Next Tuesday 1 am going to vote for ID. L.
Gourley for Mayor. Why? For reasons
which ought to be enough for any loyal
Irishman.
'In the spring of 1887, when ParnelI was
in the heat of his grand struggle for Irish
rights, his appeal for help went out to every
land were the name OF ireland was known,
and where have her sons not carried it hon.
orably? The response was as general as the
appeal. We did not stop to ask what church
L
Catholic Church spoke from the same plat
form with preachers of every Protestant
communion. They nobly forgot their differ
ences for the time, and locked arms around
the man who was the leader of all in a great
battle for humanity. A Republican Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania did not think it too
much to travel from Harrisburg to Phila-
delphla to preside at q Parnell meeting. A
Democratic Governor ct New York went
from Albany to New York City for the same
purpose. A Judge of the Supreme Court
OF the United States thought himself hon.
ored in being invited to preside over the
meeting in Washington.
"On the evening of April 20, 1887 we had a
great ParnelI meeting here in the Central
Rink. OF all those who were invited to
take part in its proceedings, one man in all
this community refused, and, 1 am in
formed, wrote letter saying that it was be-
meath the dignity of the place he filled to
figure as Vice President of a Parnell
meeting. The place that uplifted him so
high that the moan of suffering Ireland
could not reach his ears nor touch his heart
he got by the votes of the Irish Democrats
of Allegheny county. The one man in all
this country who was too exalted to help us
then was John II. Bailey, now running for
Mayor of this city. 1 helped exalt him to
his former place, and if my lie is spared
until next Tuesday will help bring him
down to a more sympathetic level. will,
at least, help to show him that he who has
no sympathy for Irish suffering can have no
hope of Irish support
81 can do so with heartier satisfaction, be-
cause the man who presided at that Psrnell
meeting which John h. Bailey disdained,
who, although called upon at the last mo-
ment, after another had failed, showed no
resentment, but took the chair and made a
speech of such sympathetic eloquence as
would have done credit to any Irishman
born, was b. 1. Gourley, the man whom the
Irishmen, who never forget friend, and
have not forgotten that night, will make the
next Mayor OF Pittsburg.
CORNELIUS HoRGAN,
Fifth ward, Pittsburg."