The Irish standard., 1897-10-30

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queens son is amused at Ito free use
made Of his name in the New York con-
test, but what really interests him Is to
see how far the accusation of the friend
ship with Dick Croker will injure that
individuals nominee with the Irish vot-
ers. The princes secretary is author
ity for the statement that his royal nibs
has always shrewd eye for portents
of that kind, and that he knows we'll
how the American Irish formerly hated
all the English royal family"
AS matter of fact, the Irish have no
cause to love the royal family, but the
prince is quite popular with them at
home. and they expect he will be
a vast improvement on his mother
when he ascends the throne.
few words concerning Dick Croker,
the Tammany sachem, may be of in
terest to our readers at this time. He
is native of Limerick, who has
amassd great wealth in New York city,
whether honestly or not we do not
know for a certainty. Though Irish by
birth he has no nationalistic principles
as far as we are aware. His family
has lived in Ireland for several genera
lions within a short distance of the
CITY of the Violated Treaty." One of
his ancestors resided at Ballingar, a
townsland between Bruff and the city
of Limerick, of whom the following
story is related. He was noted
sportsman who led wild life and kept
horses on the turf. When dying a
parson of the Church of England at
tended him and was rendering him
spiritual consolation, when the old fell
low requested that he be assisted out
of bed to take last look at his beau-
tiful demesne from the window OF his
room. After gazing fondly with his dim
eyes on the picturesque grounds around
his residence, on which one of his
hunters was grazing, the dying man
passionately exclaimed: Farewell, Bal
lingar, and my lovely gray mare" you
are going to better place. my FRIEND"
said the minister. II be id but
doubt it," said Croker, and from that
time to the present every passenger on
a mail coach or jaunting car when pass.
ing the old residents by the roadside is
obliged to listen to the words uttered
by the ancestor of the Tammany leader:
II be id but doubt it, said Croker"
Whether Dick Croker Is in doubt
about the election of Van Wyck is not
a matter of newspaper record. The
"quadrilateral" contest will be decided
next Tuesday, and the result will be
watched with much interest by politl-
clans In all parts of the union as we'll
as by the Prince of Wales. The total
registration is about $4,000, and OF
these men, says the Chicago Tribune,
100000 hold the Roman Catholic faith;
about 100000 belong to the Protestant
sects; the remaining 100000 registered
voters are not active members If any
sect, and many of them may be de-.
scribed as nothingarians. agnostics and
indifferents." The Irish are the most
numerous and the Germans come next.
Then there are Italians, spaniards.
French Canadians, Russian and Polish
Jews, and several thousand native-born
Americans. the most Of whom will vote
for Van Wyck, who will likely be
elected. Henry Georges party is COM
posed Of the trades union men, the
free silverites, the single-taxers, and a
large number of the Irish voters who
are opposed to Tammany. Lows sup
porters are mixture of German Dem
ocrats Of gold standard proclivities led
by Ottendorfer and Carl Schurz, anti
Plat and anti-machine gold Republic
cans Of the 'mugwump.an type, and
there are not enough of them to elect
him. Gen. Tracy's support comes from
Tom Platt's gold Republicans and their
candidate is doomed to crushing de-
feat.
The inevitable result, as far as can
be conjectured at this writing, is that
the Tammany candidate selected by
Boss Croker will be triumphantly elect
ed first mayor Of Greater New York.
and then Dick Croker can return to the
English turf to hobnob with the Prince
of Wales and assure him that the Irish
Of New York consider him a fine fellow.
It is said that Dick Croker lost in
three years at the English races about
100000, and because of his ill-luck he
Is quite popular with the British sport
ing public. So long as he cheerfully dis
gorges some $25O,0OO year in the in
terest Of English racing, he is sure to
retain his popularity in the flight little
island" When Van Wyck is elected,
Croker can dictate the appointments of
heads Of departments whose salaries will
aggregate $4,000 annually. There are
seventy appointments in all to be made
by the mayor, and they fill some 100000
minor places. Croker will have much to
say in the distribution Of the plums,
and perhaps he will get "rake-off"
from the boys to enable him to crafty
his propensitics on the English race
tracks.
Ex-Presidcnt Cleveland, "the stuffed