The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-13
MR. RAKILLY HEARD FROM.
Much of the Criticism He Character
ICES as SANDER.

| -1-NAOA VI tAAC OE1tIc1Sln he NnlraCteEe
| ICES as SANDER.
! To the Editor of the Globe:
In self-defense 1 am compelled to tres
pass on your generosity and ask small
| space in your widely circulated paper. I
am necessitated to have recourse to this
means to repell the beastIy attacks on me
| by the st. Paul Dispatch since the Gin
! clnnau convention. To cap the climax
OF It's dastardly meanness, in an editorial
| in its issue Of June 4, headed "Once More
the Inverted Commas" the editor has
surpassed himself. 1 will pass over the
| fancy epithet the Dispatch man applies
to my humble self. That there are many
gentlemen among the English race 1 sin
cerely believe, and many are my most ad-
| mired friends
The Dispatch man asserts that Mr.. Don
nelly prepared my speech at Cincinnati.
To this allegation I reply that 1t is an
outrageous slander-absoIutely false. 1
wrote and delivered the speech referred
to and stand by it. If I used one or more
paragraphs that had been used by some
body else twelve years ago I have no apol-
ogy to make. What has caused so much
ink to be spattered on this speech by
these 5000 newspapers in this country?
L endeavored to place Mr.. Donnelly part
ly in his greatness before the conventions;
when a certain jealous-minded member of
was published in the New York Sun, and,
it being the only one published, he rushed
around and claims he dug up three para
graphs out of the speech of the celebrated
Daniel Dougherty, used twelve years ago,
nominating Mr.. Cleveland, and fastened
to the New York Sun to disclose his dis
covery. Well, it is not such heinous
crime for humble farmer l must con-
fess 1 had a right to expect that the
papers of my own state would at least
show me fair play, and if they published
anything would publish my speech in
full; also Mr.. DOugherty's if they wished.
The Dispatch also states that Mr.. DON
nelly prepared that famous Irish-Ameri-
can circular for me which cut somewhat
of a figure in the campaign Of 1890. To
this repeat that it is also an outrageous
SANDER. Mr.. Donnelly had no more to
do with it than the child unborn. I have
submitted to the odium of this for the
past ten years in preference to divulg1ng
the names of the parties concerned, and
would do so to the end of time, for / con-
sidered it a political secret, although all
parties outside of myself were Republic
ans.
Now, Mr.. Dispatch, you have thrown
down the gauntlet; am prepared to pick
it up. [ make the following proposition
to you: You know all the parties con-
nected with that document; you get them
together. before a st. Paul audience; I
will meet you at my own expense Have
all the parties examined separately, un-
der oath, before the audience; all parties
must be preSent-nos one mans version;
no newspaper lying. Then. and only then,
the world will know who wrote and cir
culated said document 1t will know who
laid the trap for me by inviting me to
his residence to meet leading Republic
ans. L do not wish to be understood as
being anxious to expose anybody. 1 SIM
ply say l am not afraid of an investiga-
tion; by all means let us have it. 1t will
then be seen whether it is the Anglophile
element Of the Dispatch or Farmer Rahil-
" who is the guilty party. l will take no
notice of any remarks coming through
newspapers; let all parties be present
New, Mr.. Dispatch, what is the cause of
all these attacks on my humble self?
will venture an explanation.
l was born in the city of the violated
treaty under the troubled skies of un-
fortunate Ireland. a country so blessed
by God and nature, but cursed by the
perfidy of an alien government. There
fore it is not difficult to ascertain why [
am always ready to resent a faIsehood
or an insult coming from an Anglophile.
| am vain enough to believe 1 have suf-
fcient common sense to know my rights,
and I am quite~sure I possess manhood
positiveeI spring from a race that never
asked for quarter. The attitude of the
Briton, while somewhat ridiculous, is per-
fectly understandable; that of the Anglo
phfle can only be explained on the ground
of mental debility. 1t is difficult for the
Briton to realize that America is not a
British dependency; it amazes him that
possibility 0 the Democrats returning
he IS not implOred to assume powers of
government here, and his mental condition
approaches almost stupefaction when he
finds the Irishman whom he distrusted
and hated at home, treating him on
American soil with good-natured if con-
temptuous, tolerance. Men of the Irish
race in this Republic are Americans by
choice, because the traditions, laws and
practices of the United States are pecu-
liarly in sympathy with their ideals and
aspirations. An imaginative, idealistic,
religious race all the things they have
hungered for, and which the brutal stu
pidity of dull oppressor denied them in
their motherland, can be obtained here On
the soil of the new land of their adop-
ton. They believe devoutly in the re-
public; they have served her faithfully in
peace and war, and laid down their lives
freely for her whenever duty called for
the sacrifice. The attitude of the Ameri-
can of Irish blood is necessarily hateful
to the degenerate AngloHaniac; he repre-
sents fidelity to principles to which the
other is false; they are as antagonistic as
day and night. One represents health and
vigor in the body polite; the other dis
ease and decay 1t IS told of Mahomet
that he once said that he would at GER
time move a mountain. The time came
and his followers were assembled. The
prophet commanded the mountain to come
to him, but it did not come With a per
sistency common to mountains it stayed
where it was Then, after waiting suff1-
cient time to see that it had no intention
of complying with his request, he said:
Since the mountain will not come to
Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the
mountain" and he went. Since the Irish
man will not go to the Englishman the
only means of approximation is for the
Englishman to go to the Irishman, to i'm
itate the prophet. p. H. Rahilly.
Rahilly's Farm, Lake City, June u.