The Irish standard., 1898-10-29
Tooley Street resolved that they were
the people Of England.

lAC VI CuSlduU.
Il do not intend to attack the abilities
or standing of the two gentlemen who
secured this action. I am told that Joe
Choate is one of these.
II read speech at the unveiling of
a monument to the great Rufus Choate,
and he said he was always ready with
his services in the cause Of the bar and
oppressed sea. What poor client has
Joe Choate? daughter and hisses.)
"We intend to know how the late war
with Spain was managed, or,rather, mis-
managed. We know that not one dollar
was honestly spent at Washington. We
know that millions were spent for rotten
ships, poor food, and that it was robbery
from beginning to end. We know that
our soldiers We're put in fever-stricken
camps to benefit the railroads and boom
the land of certain rich men. We know
that from those ships sent with fever
stricken men to our land, that many
were thrown overheard. These disgraces
of the Republican party can never be
wiped out. The commission now investi-
eating these things at Washington can
never whitewash them away. These at
fairs will never be properly Investigated
until the Democratic probe is put into
the wound by Democratic congress.
1.-The whole country is waiting to see
what the Democratic party is going to
do. A great big Democratic victory in
the state of New York will heal every
wound in the Democratic party in this
country"
Then came Thomas Il. Grady, and of
Grady was at his best, and from end to
end his irresistible talk was spiced with
those condiments which make it so
pleasant in the ears of the multitude.
From the moment that his name was
mentioned the cheering began. 1t fol-
lowed wave upon wave. Grady stood it
we'll, blushing like schoolboy and hang
ing his head in mock diffidence. Then
for half an hour he made the rafters
ring, while the audience laughed and
clapped and cheered and stamped and
hurled down remarks from the gallery.
Roosevelt was Grady's pet theme. He
showered the Rough Rider with showers
of wit, raillery, irony, biting sarcasm and
bitterest invective.
eve know him." cried Grady. "The
| reckless soldier who rode to honorable
glory on the hills of San Juan may be a
new figure in politics, but he is a very
familiar figure here. A Rough Rider in
Cuba, he was darned sight Rougher
| Rider in Mulberry street," The crowd
! went wild at this and laughed itself into
a pleurisy.
"Oh, yes," continued the speaker I'VE
know Teddy well. We knew him when
he used to go about disguised at night
trying to catch some poor policeman in
| dereliction of duty. But he could not
disguise himself He might put on false
| whiskers and we'd know him about these
! corners
Mr.. Grady said in part:
1--WE cry out, You have stolen our
money! and the Republican party says:
What of that?' You have squandered
the public funds and they reply: What
Of that?' You have multiplied offices to
make places for your political favorites?
What of that?' You have taxed the peo-
pie, and that means that you have i'm
posed extra hours and extra labor upon
every man who tolls and they say
What of that?' We say: You have
insulted the intelligence and the patriot
ism and the honesty of the city of New
York through your Force bill,' and they
! say: What of that?' We say: You fur
nished opportunities for dens of vice
under your odious Raines law, and they
say: What of that?' Then they exult-
| ingly turn round and say: Did you ever
hear about the Rough Riders and the
charge on the hill of San Juan?' Gap
| plause.)
Now, do you suppose that a people,
worthy of citizenship in the greatest
state in the Union, are going to be dis
tracted from the serious work in hand by
either parade or buncome?
Roosevelt says he is willing to talk
hope nobody ever disputed that. He
said he was willing to talk on national
issues, or state issues, or the war just
! closed, or the war before that, and if he
ran short Of material he was willing to
| discuss the Revolutionary war and the
| war of 1872.
eve know Mr.. Roosevelt, not only as
| the reckless soldier who earned a credit
| able glory in the war just closed, but
we know him as a narrow, bigoted, in
sincere, erratic official, who protesting
to believe in the equality of our citizen
ship, made it his business in the only
! position he ever held in New York city
to persecute the poor, and he never had
the courage to lay finger upon the
rich" (Applause.)
| 1t is surprising that Andrew Carnegie,
the steel king, is opposed to American