The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-11-12
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save him had he been anything else thl
q Scandinavian. Natl onality and re-.I
ligious prejudice carried the North Star
state In 1894, the state will 60 Repub-
lican by nominating Lawler again ~
spite of race aud religious prejudice
The Scandinavian cannot be depended
upon all the time They have the: Aus
tralian system Of voting and are grad
ually becoming Americanized and divests
ing themselves Of secthrian intolerance
Their preachers must stick to their phi
pits and preach religion separate from
politics The Scandinavian Democrats
did remarkably we'll considering the pres
sure brought to bear upon them by willy
politicians and bigoted fanatics.
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If James G.. Blaine lives till 1896 he
WILL be the Republican candidate for
president. He is the only great states
man left to the Republican party. He
was the choice of the majority of that
party for the nomination at Minneapolis,
and had he received it such disaster
would not have fallen upon the party,
though we believe Cleveland would de-
feat him by good majority. Blaine
knew that his party was destined to be-
annihilated with Harrison and the Nc
Kinley bill, and knew that def at for
himself was inevitable il he stood on the
Republican platform as pro .nulgated as
the Minneapolis convention. 4
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The Irish World, Chicago Citizen, New
York Tablet and other ultra Republican
sheets are in the bouillon. They fran
tlcly appealed to the prejudioes of their
readers instead Of discussing the political
issue on it's merits. The Irish World.
particularly, distinguished itself in its
craftsmanship and appealed to the basest
passions to prop up the party Of monop-
oily. The Irish Americans who voted
for Blaine would not vote for Harrison
and McKinleyism, and ali appeals 10.
their race and religious prejudices were
in vain. Only the men who sought the
loaves and fishes OF Office stuck by the
g. O. p. In future elections there will be
less said about the "Irish vote" by the.
self seeking ''patriots" who pretend to
control it. Men of Irish blood are too
intelligent and Independent to be led by
the nose by any coterie of Office seeking;
and office holding Irish Americans Of any
political party. In the future as in the
past they will vote as Americans and nc
as Irishmen. IL VI. u s tsl
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No man has died in Ireland for many:
years whose death is more deeply de-
plored than that of Father Charles
Davis, the parish priest of Baltimore,
County Cork. He was the friend OF the
fishermen on the southern coast and
through his influence he borrowed $780,
600 on his own personal security from
Lady Burdett Coutts to buy fishing
tackle and boats for his people. The
fishermen paid back the money and
large sums were advanced from time to
time by the philanthropic English lady
until feet of some one hundred
OF the finest fishing crafts in the
United Kingdom was to be seen in
the harbor of Baltimore. Father Davis
founded piscatorial industrial school
whore 200 boys were receiving techni-
cal education to prepare them for a Sea-
faring life. The good "sogarth" vas the
brother Of Eugene Davis, the poet and
litterateur.
The chief attractions at q recent Prot
estant congress in England were ex-
priests and ex-nuns Among the latter
were the notorious Edith o. German, and
the haH-demented Miss Cusack, for
merly known as the Nun of Kenmare-
Poor Miss Cusack is upward of 60 Year,
of age and wrote several booke of some
value before she relapsed into Protest
antism. Edith O'Gorman is also in the
sere and yellow leaf and is not such .
drawing card as formerly. When in this
city twenty years ago she and her thus
band'' were expelled from the Nioollet
House for misconduct. ..
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Mr.. Nathaniel Colgan, in the IRISH Ma
turalist, gives an interesting account Of
an attempt he made to determine what
species of trefoil is most commonly known
as the shamrock. The plan adopted was
to collect specimens, in OF about March
II, Of what the people in various parts Of
Ireland called shamrock, plant them and
keep them till they bloomed. The result
of the inquiry was that of fourteen speci-
mems forwarded from Derry, Antrim,
Armagh, Mayo, Glare, Cork, Wexford,
Wicklow, Carlow, Queens County. Ros-
common and Galway, nine proved to BE-
the smaller dwarf yellow clover CTrifo
lium minus OF Smith, and the remain
der were white Dutch clover, (Trifoliun,i
repens Of Linnaus). Hence Mr.. Oolgan