The evening times., 1898-11-07
A RIVAL OF DooLEY.
Lawrence O'shaushnessy, the Liver
pool Poet, Takes the stump.

pool Poet, Takes the stump.
Syracuse, Nov. - Anew orator has
sprung UP in Syracuse, He is Lawrence
poet and his political efforts for the last
few evenings have been arousing the ad-
miration of the north side of the canal
O Shaughnessy is out for Peck. Democrat,
for State senator: Maloney, Democrat.
for member of assembly In the First On
ondaga District, and Undertaken John
Mccarthy. who does not wear a hat in
the streets and is the Independent free
silver candidate for Congress on his own
platform which is coal $3.50 ton.
Mr. O'Shaughnessy recently held two
rousing meetings on the north side. AT
one Mr.. 'Shaughnessy, being introduced
by Chairman James O'Herin. addressed
his admirers as follows:
We'll. gintlemin, L m no silver tongued
orator. I.asht Thursday ] was out, and
you know, av coors, the coward always
has some excuse, so | will say | caught a
cold. | deiyer-red two spaches in Wolf
Sthreet lasht Friday and Saturday even
ins.
Nobody will shtop me. 1 don't care
who Ii is; Ii makes no diffurince to me. l
have bin r-ritin' fir fifty-four years f'r
tn binifit iv mankind; tr tn min who
cum FIRM all countries. firm tn low
lands iv Holland tn Vineyards iv BeiS m,
tn people on tn banks iv tn Tins in
Ingiand. firm Ireland and tn bank oy
me own native riv-ver, the Shannon. ir
respective iv parity or creed.
''Ye have bin huggln' tn politkai chain.
tn chains which have manak.ed yer fate
and hands sinse | landed in Moo York..
and that was in 1915.
IF | was in tn hands " a boss sinse
that tonne | cd build house like tn
Moo York. Post-Office, which cost four
millyun dollars"
AT this juncture a glass of beer was
brought to the speaker. After drinking
a little of it he placed 1t ON the table and
resumed operations. He had barely start
ed when the chairman grabbed the beer
| and finished il. while the crowd set up
! howl of remonStrance.
| Il nitrate ye 10 show yer indipindince.
| gintlemen. Show ye are as good as tn
min who are gittin' fifteen dollars and
| tWinty dollars a day and r-ridin' ruff-shoi
! over ye. Doant down tn Eye-talians be
| kase they was br-rought here by con-
| thractors. Away with such nonsinSe! tn
| Dutch. tn F,yetalians and tn Frinch and
| min ~ all nashuns shtand ON tn same
| platform. Tn man who founded this
! country, Christopher Columbus, tn
| gr-reat navigator. who came firm Geno.
and American Vespucho. who was an
| Eyetaiian. too, they eud not undher-
sthand this langwidge. but they clashped
| hands with us
! There is a giutlemin in this house who
l did not meet until wan mint ago, Mis-
| ther KOegel He r-run fr aldermIn, but
| was not iicted. bekase he was too indie
! pindint He was not ilicted bekase tn
| people who pr-romised 10 vote ,'r him did
not II was shame to bethray him.
| While / am here / will ask ye wan
questyon. Ye have large populashur in
! tn Umpire Shtate Ar tn min that ar
! ovVer yez betther scholars or betther
! looking than yez?" tCries of NO. no. }
''Will yez thro of their fetthers?
| Il s'ppose, in III ixcit-mInt " tn mo-
mint ] frgot to minshun two min who
ar r-runnin fr offs Wan is Duncan W
! Peck who is r-runnin' fr sinit'r. and
/ want to ask ye have | menshuned Mis-
! ther Maloney?''
| When informed in the negative he con-
tinued:
! Il know Misther Maloneys father an
| ! had biziniss with him mesilf He is a
! foine young man an he an Misther Peck
would max thimsiives known in tn walls
| iv tn parlymint house on tn banks IL tn
| Hudson.
There is another man, John McCar-
! thy, | have not rid his platfrm but
| know he says he will Civ ye coal fer 81 30
| a ton. an l think mesilf coal cud be
! br-rought inside tn walls iy Syracuse fer
| $50 a ton
"Theref'r. gintlemin " tn Second
| War-rd, | appeal to ye as Germans.
/ Dutchmin or Pershuns, to vote fer Peck,
Mccarthy an Maloney"