The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-10-22
IRISH AMERICAN UNION
Mass Meeting Held Unde
Its Auspices Satur-
day Night.

The mass meeting held under the aus
pices of the Irish-American Union at the
Tabernacle Saturday evening was attend
ed by a big Democratic audience that
filed the spacious church and applauded
each speaker. There was lots of en-
thusiasm displayed. a large number of
Republicans were present. Mr.. Patrick
O'Mara presided.
The speakers were:-John f. Finnerty
of Chicago, James F. Mintgrn of Hoboken
and James a. Hamill. The chairman as
the first speaker of the evening intro
duced Mr.. Finnerty of Chicago. He was
given a hearty reception. He paid high
tribute to Mr.. William Jennings Bryan.
In. denouncing England's war against
the Beers the speaker referred to her flag
as .'the robber flag of Britain and he
characterized Queen Victoria as mem
Der of ''the Guelph family, the rottenest
royal house that ever ruled a kingdom -
He called the aristocraey of Great Britain
"a privileged class of robbers" He said:
by eternal kicking the Irish have
chance to buy the soil they ought to own
by right
The speaker 1ayed trusts. He declared
that every dollar made by them was
ground out of the blood and sweat of the
American people. He declared that Nc
Kinley and Hay were trucking to Eng
land" He averred that Mckinley and
Salisbury were bosom friends. He de-
clared that he felt ashamed that Mckinley
had 80 far forgotten his Irish ancestry
that he toadied to Queen Victoria. who
had hanged his grand uncle for fighting
for Ireland.
Teddy Roosevelt is mixture of Irish.
Dutch, German and French, and that
combination is a good one, but Teddy
afflicted by nature, is incapable of reflect
ing credit on the good blood of his ances-
tors. Mckinley is a spoiled Celt.
1.-The most atrocious act of McKinley's
administration was the seizing of the
Philippines. The government sneaked
into possession of the islands without re-
gard to common honesty. Aguinaldo and
his supporters were allies of the United
States and Mckinley betrayed them.
II feel the trembling of the earthquake
that will bury Mckinley and his gang
of looters on November 6. The McKin-
ley government is guilty of treason and
of treachery and we will drive from pow
er the villainous gang that rules this
country in England's interests. When
they ceded Alaskan territory to England
they hung up Alaska in England's pawn
shop and Mckinley lost the ticket
If the Filipinos become citizens of this
country there is no way of preventing
12000,000 of them from coming here to
compete with free American labor.
81 favor expansion when 1t is on the
American continent and the day will come
when sentiment win cause the raising of
an American army to conquer Canada if
she does not voluntarily come into the
United States.''
Mr. Finnerty referred to Bryan as a
prototype of Lincoln and Jefferson and
successor of Lincoln and Jefferson and
praised Col. Bryan for volunteering to de-
fend his country when she was in need in
the Spanish war. He dwelt upon the duty
of voters to cast their ballots for Bryan
and said
Don't be intimidated by employers
who threaten to close down If Bryan is
elected. Other and better men will take
their places and the business of the coun-
as you cheer. Bryan will be elected. Vote
the whole Democratic ticket
Seated on the platform were:-aIayor
Commissioner Anthony Hauck, Richard ].
a1cMullin, John English, j. Blewitt,
Michael B. Holmes, William j. Moran.
James F. Minturn, NJ. ]. Coyle and Henry
Barck. of Hoboken, James Baker, Pat
rick Gillheaney. James Larkins, Robert
Blewitt, Daniel o'Mara, David Barry,
John J. Mulvaney, David Barry, John Nc
Caffery, Philip Kelleher, John Donnelon,
Michael O'Donnell, Thos. ]. Miggins,
Joseph Jennings. Alex. Hamill, Frank Nc
Nally. Joseph P, Hall, John j. Heavey,
NJ. J. Kenny, Patrick Dempsey. James ].
Murphy, t. ]. Carroll. James f. Brennan,
James F. 0Adella. Humphrey Price,
Maurice Mara, Thos. f. Carey, p. H.
Kilroys John ]. Quinn, John English,
Andrew Brannigan. John F. UIadden,
J ohm p Phelan. Patrick German, Patrick