Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23

newal of the fight of 1873, brought
into line and thoroughly aroused all
the Germans, who compose one-quar-
ter Of our population, and who gave
so per cent. of their entire vote for
Mr. Hopkins. The attack on the
liberty Of birth, the fact that it was
attempted to make political capital
out Of the name of John Patrick,
most effectively arrayed in one solid
column all the Irish, who compose
one-sixth of our entire population.
"The idea of holding man up to
ridicule and scOrn in this the latter
end of the nineteenth century, in
this enlightened age, on account of
his religion. so thoroughly incensed
and angered and outraged all liberal
minded people that it not only called
into battle array the 600, 900 Cath
olics of this city, who have 10 per
cent. of the entire vote, but it also
made the agnostic and the free
thinker feel it incumbent upon him
self to resent such yillainOus and in
famous warfare. In word, the en-
tire 900, 600 inhabitants of foreign
birth of this city, with few excep-
tions with the exception of the old
guard of Republicanism and the
Scandinavians, comprising three
fifths of the entire population, but
not three-ffths of the entire vote,
were most earnestly and enthusiast
tically interested in the campaign
utilization and SANDER.
"If you will look at the returns
| from wards like the Seventh and
Eighth, Sixteenth and the Twenty
ninth, you will see the full force Of
! the facts that | have advanced. |
never, in all my experience, knew a
campaign so full of utilization and
SANDER, so utterly regardless of truth,
and so bitter and full of PERSONAL
ties, as the manner in which this
campaign was conducted by papers
| like the Chicago Inter Ocean and the
Chicago Evening Journal.
"Never were there stronger appeals
made to the baser passions of men,
and never were arguments used more
unworthy and more mendacious. But
the battle has been fought and won!
| hope, as in 1873, we have settled,
as we thought then, forever, but it
seems only for about fifteen years,
the question of personal liberty. So
| hope that this contest will show to
everybody, and especially to certain
political leaders, but more eSpe-
cially to certain secret organi-
cations, that Chicago is in
| its broadcast sense, cosmopolitan
and liberal, and that, whenever an
attack is made upon the customs and
rights of certain people, rights that
are of the United States, that then
defeat certainly stares them in the
! face.
1--WE are living here as one happy
family. Many have come here from
other climes, and many of us are
born of parents who sought liberty
in this free country, and out Of this
grand mixture will some day rise a
magnificent nation--one that will,
much more than it does now, call
forth the admiration of the older
countries of the world But such an
amalgamation can only take place if
personal and religious liberty are not
interfered with. And the success Of
the Democratic party will always
continue so long as it, at all times,
has the positive courage to declare
itself in favor of the defense of these
principles, and in opposition to
everything that is tainted with big
otry and intolerance, that unfOrtu-
nately prevail so extensively in this
country"