The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-10-05
SIZING Up FOOL FANATICS.
The New York Sun Roasts the massa-
chusattss A. p. AS. to
Turn.
HuGeERnUaGER HEsslAKs CRAZY.
nare- Drained Rrit!sh-Americans Are
Trying to Defeat the Pres
ent Governor.

Trying to Defeat the Pres
ent Governor.
The A. p. IS of Massachusetts,, Wnonl
the New York Sun calls CA collection OF
cranks inspired by a hatred OF the Catu~
Ole church and Of members Thereon ram :,
er than of all persons of foreign Dlrth'
are strongly opposing F. T. Greenhalge'
the present governor of the state LOT re-
election. That gentleman is now serv-
ing his second term.
The Sun says:
"Mr. Greenhalge is by birth an Eng
lishman. He came to this country early,
made his way in it fairly, and is as gooo
an American as can be found. curious
ly enough, the leading spirits OF the
American Protective Association IN sss
sachusetts are said to be 'Brltlsn-Alheil-
cans persons of Scotch Engllsh Cana
dian or north of Ireland origin, VINO nave
reluctantly giyen UP their allegiance TO
Great Britain in the hope ana TOT the
purpose of making life unhappy 1or
members of the Catholic church, and par
ticularly for irish members Oh II, III
Massachusetts. Many notoriety- SEEKING,
or SlLCCICly DlSOLCL NISA 81 AAAN~AA >-~
men of longer residence in the United
States have joined their lungs to the
British American howl. School cleo
tions have been fought upon the ennoh-
ling issue whether a Catholic has or has
not the same civil rights as non-Catho-
lie Blood has been shed upon 1t IN the
streets of Boston. To all those VINO,
whether natives or strangers IN Massa-
chusetks have wished to regard her with
respect for her old services to liberty IN
the days before the Revolution, this
growth of a hideous and desplcable III
tolerance among her citizens has been
watched with and almost incredulous
amazement Among her own citizens,
who are proud Of her history and who
like to believe that her many excellent
institutions of learning have broadened
her shirt. this late intolerance has in
spired a righteous anger Senator Hoar,
IS good an American and as bad Brit
ish-American' as there is in the state,
was not allowed by these midnight con-
spirators to De elected a delegate from
his own ward to the state Republican
convention last year. Not tor that. but
as an American, he took just occasion
few weeks ago to denounce them IN
speech which warmed the hearts OF all
his many political enemies toward him,
penetrated even mugwumps with pat
riotism, and made the Huggermugger
Hessians of the A. P. A. crazier than
ever.
Governor Greenhalge has been firm
and an able executive. He has vetoed
bills without paying any perceptible at
tention to political consequences. He
squelched the hoboes who rioted the
T. inf va Tnynv V>owiOH Fl a Ia g
been much more than the respectable
cattle-show and commencement govern
or whom the Massachusetts Republicans
are wont to nominate. But he has not
knuckled to the A. P. A. He has APP
pointed Roman Catholics to Office; and
from their obscene catacombs the bigots,
the fanatics, the hypocrites and the idiots
of the Republican Iarty of the state
sneak out in the hope eat him. They
can't do it. There ;:tr not enough of
them. We dare say that, as matter OF
fact, their numbers are IS despicable; SIS
their purposes. Yet it seems that one
William Henry Halle, a. commonplace,
unmeritable man from Springfield, who
used to be lieutenant governor and has
never forgiven his party for not making
him governor, is meel1ly waiting on the
pleasure Of the A. P. A., declining to say
whether he is a candidate or not, and
hoping, is not intriguing, for the Replib-
lican nomination at the hands OF the
wise, thoughtful and liberal citizens who
compose the A. P. A. and are trying to
deconpose the state of Massachusetts,.
Then there is another powerful and toll
Grant thinker, the Hon. Elijah Adams
Morse, the representative in the national
house of representatives of the Shall-I-
Go-Naked district, a statesman with a
soul as lucent as his own stove polish.
Mr. Morse AYERS that he is not a member
of the A. P. A, but everybody in the
state who can read and write-we don t
include Mr.. Morse or his supporters
knows that the Canton Confccius would
rather be governor than make a speech
in favor of virtue Or give his views for
the three hundred and siXty-ninth day
and evening to the reporter OF the Boston
Journal, especially employed for that
purpose. Mr.. Morse may not be mem
Der of the A. P. A., but if ever there was
man cut out by the hand Of humorous
fate and moulded by his own to be the
worthy representative of the enlightened
tolerance and genial patriotism for which
the A. P. A. stands, OF sneaks, the Hon.
Elijah Adams Morse is that man.
~. we l)iGSuutG llitIt III SDiIt VI LilG pIO-
digous bluff of the A. p. A. idiots, Gov
ernor Greenhalge will be renominated,
and we shall be disappointed if Senator
l4oar or some other man of that stamp
doesn't put into the platform an up-and-
down denunciation of the putrid and at-
horrent principles and methods of the A.
F. a. But if the Republicans of Massa-
chusetts desire to elect Democratic gov
arrNr tnpv have tho riohf rThpv "a 1ro
only to put up man suspected of being
the candidate of the A. P. A. and they
will see their almost indecently big ma
jority ripped over in the twinkling of
an eye. Fools and bigots there are
everywhere but let the sane people get
at them and their numerical weakness
becomes as evident as their intellectual y
1Il n.