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The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

Captain Van SAINT is captivating, -
says the Pioneer Press He may be,
but he has not captivated Mrs. Eliza
beth NJ. Rutherford very much. In a
recent speech in Duluth that cultured
lady spoke as follows: "Sam Van
SAINT and my husband, who is now
dead, were old friends for many years.
They were both old soldiers and after
the war a strong friendship grew up
between them. They were associated
together in business, as we'll as in So
cial and fraternal ways. Some years
ago Van SAINT and my husband Joined
an A. p. A. lodge in Iowa as charter
members. They were also brother
Masons. Then they were partners in
the steamboat business, and my hus-
band died during the existence of this
partnership With the shares and div
idends that rightly accrued to me
through or from his partnership 1
should have gotten $4,000. Did 1 get
it? Not cent of it, and 1 want to tell
you here tonight that it is due to that
man Sam Van SAINT that failed to get
it." The captivating captain got his
nephew to deny the allegations of Mrs.
Rutherford, but the people would like
to hear from his own lips denial OF
the charges made against him by the
widow of his late partner in the steam
boat business.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27
THE HANNA-M'K1NLEY DYNASTY.

The Republican papers have been
paying many compliments to Mark
Hanna during his recent itinerary in
behalf of William Mckinley. They
have eXtOlled him to the skies as a
successful business man and cam
paign manager, but in all their syco-
piiantic adulation none of them had
the audacity to say that Mark Hanna
is statesman. If any subsidized
scribbler in his subserviency called
Mark Hanna a statesman the whole
country would laugh at him.
The fact is that the dictator of the
Republican party, the president de fac.
to of the United States, never held
any elective office in his life until he
made Mckinley president in name only
to use him for selfish purposes. Were
United States senators elected by the
people instead of by corrupt state
legislatures, such political monstros-
ity as Mark Hanna would never be
sent to Washington to make laws for
the United States. All the evil legis-
lation of the past two years is due to
Mark Hanna and the corporate inter-
ests he represents. William McKin-
ley is merely an automaton to register
the will of his master. That accounts
for the wabbling and vacillating pol
icy of the nominal president who lfns
been on both, sides of every question
since Hanna took him in charge after
paying his debts as bankrupt.
In 1896 Mckinley favored interna-
tional bimetallism; now he is in favor
OF a permanent single gold standard.
In 1896 he promised to keep in circu-
lation all the silver and paper money
then afioat; since then he signed a bill
retiring the greenbacks for national
bank notes.
In 1896 he promised to enforce the
law against trusts and selected for
attorney general New Jersey law
yer for trusts who says it is impossi-
bic to do it. In 1897 he declared that
'forcible annexation is criminal ag-
gression," and in 1893 issued a procla-
nation demanding unconditional sur
render of the Filipinos, to be governed
I by him as he saw fit. When they re-
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

In Lincoln, Neb., Boss Hanna de-
livered n harangue in which he said:
II am here in Bryan's town to hurl
back in his teeth the ISLANDERS he has
uttered against me and to tell him
they are false as hell. am here to
tell his neighbors that man who cir
culates such ISLANDERS against another
man as he has circulated against me
shows no conception Of the dignity of
the Office to which he aspires. Such a
man, is not fit to be constable" 1t
speaks volumes for the abiding
citizens of Lincoln that they did not
mob the political corruptionist and
arch conspirator against human liber-
ty. who instead Of being an American
dictator and a United States Senator
ought to be wearing grey-striped ap-
parel in the Ohio penitentiary. The
good neighbors Of Mr.. Bryan simply
manifested their displeasure by Wig
orously kissing the president-maker.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

so-called political views before the
eye of an Indifferent public was to
seek the office of Senator Hanna's
subsidized newspaper.
Now, be this as it may, it is certain
that if Father Malone's article on the
blaine Irish" turns out to be merely
the cheap product of the diseased i'm.
agination Of an underpaid and over
worked press agent the good Father
is to be pitied and not blamed. But If
on the other hand Father Malone
really did write the article, and
stands ready to vouch for it, he will
find it a more than difficult task to
explain his position.
How about yourself, Father Ma.
lone? You are regularly ordained
priest of the Church. You are an
educated man; in fact man of many
talents. 1t is safe to assume that
you are familiar with all the laws
and regulations of the Church. Know.
ing these laws and regulations can
you explain why you are so deeply in.
terested in the outcome of this presi.
dental campaign. Why are you in
New York writing campaign litera.
ture instead of being at home in Den.
yer performing the functions of your
sacerdotal character? In q word,
while we admit that you are priest,
as you say in your letter to the Sun,
we would ask in all respect, are you
political priest" This is a grave
question. You know that the Church
never has and never will tolerate the
private schemes of priest who aims
to make the ministry mere stepping
stone to public office.
Ponder and reflect over all this,
Father Malone, and then give to the
world the truth about your sudden
change Of political heart. -Four years
ago you lived in Denver and posed as
a true follower of William Jennings
Bryan. You Travelled through the
states of Colorado, Utah and Wyo-
ming in the interests of the party
whose cause you so eloquently es-
poused. To-day you are in New York
advocating the election of William Nc
kinley and doing the bidding of Mark
Hanna. Why this change?
Last of all, if you care to answer
these plain questions the columns of
the Intermountain Catholic are open
to you.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

When VIM. J. Bryan was interrupt
ed by the students of Ann Arbor and
Cornell he did not get angry with them.
He answered their questions and final
ly won their applause. How different
it was. with Teddy Roosevelt the other
day at Nyack,. N. Y. When a man
asked, "What about the ice trust?''
Teddy showed his teeth and snarled:
"This election will be decided by the
patriots and men of sense in the coun-
try who outnumber the junket shout
ers Of your type" At Newburgh,
when asked question, Teddy an
swered: "You interrupt this meeting
because you are hoodlum and nothing
else. You represent the disorderly
class that is naturally against us. -
The Minneapolis Tribune mas repeat
eddy declared that Bryan does not give
responsive answers to questions.
What does it think of Teddy's answers?
Are they responsive? Does it think he
will make votes by insulting Ameri-
can citizens in cowboy fashion?
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

During his visit in Ireland the Arch
bishop of st. Paul delivered an address
on the Irish exile in America at Black
rock College in which he said that
young men of Irish blood in this coun-
try lacked perseverance and steadfast-
ness. ''They lacked that devotion to
work." he said, (which never allowed
itself to be discouraged by difficulties,
and they lacked thought for the FIJI
trre.' He thought Irishmen were too
poetical and wished for the sweetest
and best that life could afford. They
aspired to high regions, and thought
hard work rather degrading, but in
America they were very successful as
a rule.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

In recent speech at Faribault Gov.
John Lind said: "My friends, there
are many Protestants in this audience.
I was born and raised a Protestant.
The Filipinos were Catholics when my
ancestors and yours We're Catholics.
Every home you destroy is the home of
Il Christian; every corpse your Krag-
Jorgensons make is that of a Christian.
Is not this terrible? We destroy their
houses and kill the occupants because
they refuse to acknowledge allegiance
to us. I believe there is law Of ret
ribution, but trust the American peo-
pie will decide to do to the Filipinos
as we would wish to be done by.''
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

The candidacy of Judge Francis J..
Steidl for the office Of judge of the
sixteenth Judicial District of Mime
nesota commends itself to every voter
Of that district, irrespective of party.
Judge Steidl was appointed to the pc.
sition for which he is now a candidate
by Governor Lind, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Judge
Brown. His record on the bench of
his district is one of which any jurist
should feel proud, and his constituents
should reward him for his good work.
The Irish Standard heartily endorses
Judge Steidl and hopes to see him
elected on Nov. 9th.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

The Irish Standard takes pleasure in
recommending to- the voters of Mon
tana, for their suffrages on Nov. 9th,
Prof. P. A. Leamy, of Butte, who is
the Democratic nominee for state SUI
perintendent of public instruction of
that state. During a recent visit to
Montana we formed the acquaintance
of Mr.. Leamy and we believe that his
election to this important office will
prove beneficial from every point of
view. We hope our readers in Mon
tana will not forget MI. Leamy at the
coming election.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

John Sherman, of Ohio, who j Id
been in Congress for forty year and
twice a member of the executive cab
met, passed away last Monday in
Washington at the age of Is years.
The venerable statesman was opposed.
to McKinley's imperial policy and
stood soiidly on the Declaration of In
dependence, believing that all men are.
entitled to elf-government. The seat
which John Sherman adorned for,
many years in the United States SELL
ate is now occupied by that unspeaka-
bic monster of corruption, Marcus A.
Hanna, who has no qualifications of
an intellectual kind to succeed the
great man who has just ended his.
earthly career. Ohio is now repre-
sented in the upper house by unscrup-
ulous politicians, the other being Fora
ker. attorney for the Standard Oil
trust.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

Michael Davitt, the irrepressible
rebel against British authority in Ire.
land, has circulated for the signatures
of Irish Nationalists an address to
Paul Kruger, who is on his way to
Europe from South Africa, express
ing admiration and sympathy for hin,
in his exile. The address contains
the following passage: Seldom in
history has such a noble stand been
made for political liberty by small
hand of free men against an over
whelming horde Of mercenaries in the
pay Of those who coveted their land
and gold and hated their independ
2eDcc. The names of the mountains
and plains Of your republic will take
place in history beside Marathon
Sempach and Bunker Hill as incen.
tives in the strivings for human
liberty
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

This issue of the. Irish Standard
contains an address from the Ameri-
can Anti-Imperialistfc League, request
ing independent voters of the country
to support the candidacy Of William
J. Bryan. The address is signed by
fifty eight Americans of distinction who
did not vote for Bryan in 1896. They
are Republicans and Democrats who
believe the country is confronted with
"a greater danger than we have en-
countered since the Pilgrims landed
at Plymouth"
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

Cork city elected two O'Briens fol
parliamentary representatives. They
are James Francis Xavier O'Brien, OF
Fenian fame, and William O'Brien
founder Of the United Irish League
The former was sentenced to be
hanged, drawn and quartered some
thirty years ago, and the latter occr-
pied cells in Irish bastiles on several
occasions. They are the right kind OF
men to represent ''rebel Cork in the
British parliament.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

Patrick O'Farell, of Washington.
d. c., stumped the country for McINin-
ley four years ago. He is now talking
for Bryan. In speech at Cooper In
stitute he said: II remember when [
first saw the sacred soil of Virginia
during the great Civil war-yes, the
great war for liberty-I read sign.
on a large brick building in Alexandria
Price, Birch & Co., dealers in slaves
1 remained South long enough to.
shoot that slavery business to death.
Oh, 1 am awfully proud that 1 was all
abolitionist and a Republican in those
days! Those were the days of Lin
coin and liberty. Now, when walk.
up Pennsylvania avenue, look up at.
the White House and 1 am carried
back to the days of Price, Birch & Co.,
dealers in Slaves and read on the
White House in imaginary lines, Han
ma, Mckinley & Co., wholesale dealers.
in Filipino slaves"
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

State Weighmaster O'Brien's annual
report is published and will be found
elsewhere in these columns. 1t con-
clusively shows that what has been
said of his department by Republican
politicians is false and misleading.
While the work performed has been
larger than ever before the cost of the
service in 1900 has been s4,269 less
than in the preceding year. A large
deficit from the Republican administra-
ton has been wiped out and a surplus
remains on hand. This report is quite
interesting and contains a great deal
of information in a.condensed form.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

In his Minneapolis speech Webster
Davis characterized Teddy Roosevelt
as charlatan and called him the big
gest military fakir of the Nineteenth
century. Webster Davis was right
in so designating him. Teddy claims
to have led the charge of the Rough
Riders up San Juan hill, when he
and his cowboys did not participate
in the battle at all. 1t was the infant.
ry of Kent, led by Hawkins, that
routed the Spaniards from the crest
of that height. Teddy and his men
were on Kettle hill, one-third of a
mile away, at the time. And now
Teddy poses as the hero Of San Juan
hill!
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27
ExCoR1A11NG FATHER MALONE.

Some of our ablest Catholic cOntem-
poraries, including the Philadelphia
Standard and Times, the Boston Re-
public and the San Francisco Moni-
tor, devote editorials to the reply of
Rev. II. II. Malone to the article in
the North American Review by Bish.
op McFaui on the ACCESSIBILITY of a
closer union between Catholic sOcic,
ties in this country. They treat FIR.
Malone as priest in politics and con,
denim his religio-political uttcrances
ut this time.
1t was only last week that the rev.
erend gentleman arrived from Europe
in company with Archbishop Ireland
and one of his first acts was to write
u letter to the New York Sun, which
now shines only for Republicans, in
which he referred somewhat slight
ingly to the "Blaine Irish," who have
deserted Mckinley because of his i'm
perialistic policy, saying that some OF
them have been disappointed Mt not
receiving Office, and that that fact is
an impelling and actuating motive
with them in the present campaign.
The paper which administers the
severest castigation to FIR. Malone is
the Intermountain Catholic, Of Salt
Lake City, which he claims to have
edited for fifteen years. Mr.. Frank
]. Mcclure, present editor and pub
Usher, says he Is mistaken about that
and never acted in that capacity. He
then goes on and roasts his reverence
to Il brown turn as follows:
1t is passing strange that Father
Malone should select Senator Mark
Hanna's official organ Ohe New York
Sum as the proper newspaper in
which to voice his views Of the
Blaine Jrish.''
Father Malone in his letter to the
Sun says that he writes as Catholic
priest. If this be true it naturally fol
lows that he expected his letter to be
read by Catholics. Why then did he
not offer the aforesaid letter to any
one or better still. to all the Catholic
newspapers in his country instead of
giving this more or less valuable (?)
contribution to the Sun.
When priest of the Church desires
to speak to his people through the
medium of the public prints he gen.
orally uses the columns of his local
Catholic newspaper. This has been
the accepted custom for years, but
Father Malone, for reasons best
known to himself, has seen fit to
break away from all these old tradi
lions and publish his political posi-
ton" in partisan newspaper; a sec
ular newspaper controlled by Senator
ark Hanna and the members of the
Republican committee.
Why did Father Malone do this?
1t is not difficult to find an answer
to this question. 1t may be that Flu
ther, Malone has on his present staff
of political henchmen young and
over Jealous press agent, who in q
misguided moment so far forgot him
self as to tack the good Fathers
name to the bottom of this remarka
bic screed, and turn the same over te
the editor Of the Sun. Then again II
is barely possible that Father Malone
himself was passing wise. Knowing
that the Catholic press of America
treats the political priest" with con
tempt and scorn, he then and there
decided that the only way to get his
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

Referring to the political attitude of
Archbishop Ireland, Judge Cough, of
the Catholic Sentinel, of Chippewa
Falls, truly says: Men, who If left to
themselves would vote for Mckinley,
will undoubtedly vote for Bryan, if
for no other reason than to show his
grace that they dislike to see him
soil his dignity and good name by
entering the dirty field of politics, and
lining up with Mark Hanna and the
trusts, and against the people in their
struggle for justice and liberty.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

Timothy NJ. Healy had narrow es-
cape from defeat in North Louth. He
may thank Cardinal I4ogue and the
clergy for his election. After the
votes We're counted he made speech
in which he promised to give his cor
dial support to Redmond in maintain
ing unity and discipline within the
party. Healy's two brothers, Maurice
and Thomas, and his father-in-law, t..
D. Sullivan, We're defeated for re-elec-
ton. We believe Mr.. .Healy is valu-
able man to Ireland at Westminster.
and that is why the Irish Standard ia
vored his candidacy in spite of the an
tagonism of Dillon, Davitt and O'Bri-
EN- who We're Disguised with his tao
tics of dissension in recent years.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

Prof. A. II. Tolman, of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, says that McKinley's
proclamation of Dec. 81, 1893, de-
handing that the Filipinos submit to
his authority, was dated more than
six weeks before the ratification of
the Spanish-American treaty, and
was consequently lawless and uncon-
stitutional and Il plain violation of the
peace protocol signed on Aug. -, 1898,
which provided chat the United
States will occupy and hold the city,
bay and harbor of Manila pending
the conclusion of a treaty of peace
which shall determine the CONTROL
disposition and government of the
Philippines" The act of the presi-
dent was n usurpation of power
which merited an impeachment at the
hands of Congress. Prof. Tolman
mustsbe Il traitor for uttering such
sentiments.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

fused, he sent 65, 900 troops to shoot
them down and 10000 have been slain.
Last December he sent message to
Congress in which he said it was tour
plain duty" to give free trade to the
Porto Ricans and n little while after
he begged Congress to vote against
giving them free trade. Two sena-
tors and two congressman from Min
nesota, Mt the command of the honest
Republicans of this state, voted
against the tariff bill introduced by
Hanna's colleague, J. B. Foraker of
Ohio, but the sugar and tobacco trusts
defeated their efforts, and amazing to
say, these Minnesota legislators are
now in line with Mark Hanna and fol-
low him like submissive slaves. The
Porto Ricans are now cursing their
fate for being linked with the United
States.
The attitude of the administration
toward the Beers is also due to Mark
Hanna. On his return from Europe
the Republican boss had the effrontery
to say that the British government is
as good as ours, and perhaps it is at
the present time. Because of the war
in the Philippines this administration,
dominated by Hanna and his gang,
sympathized with England in the At
rican conflict, and like Anglican lick
spittles took sides with an empire
against two small republics.
Every genuine American, irrespect-
i've of party, is tired of Mark Hanna
and his India rubber puppet, who
cannot open his mouth until his Gre
ator orders him to speak. Mark Han
ma is the evil genius of the republic.
He is the man behind the throne, the
real president of the United States.
Do the people want four years more
of Hanna, or will they vote for Will
liam j. Bryan? The answer will be
given emphatically on the 9th of No
vember, and Hanna will be rejected.
In the words of a distinguished writ
err in the Irish World:
We, in this republic, call ourselves
Americans. We are not Anglo Saxon,
German, Irish Dutch or Scandinavian
We are Americans with big A. We
do not care to initiate other peoples Or
to assimilate ourselves to foreign mod
els. We wish to be unique, distinctive,
self-contained. And we hence put on
our statute book laws intended to in
sure our executive in being an Ameri-
can, representative of our best tradi-
lions, and racy of the soil. We glorify
Washington, Jefferson, jackson, Lin
coin, Grant as typical Americans. But
of William Mckinley we feel ashamed
because he is un-American in his poll
cies and principles, un-American in his
adulation of England, and un-Ameri-
can in his inhumanity in the Orient,
his hypocrisy and his disregard for
the Constitution.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

Kickham Scanlan's speech on the
first page of this issue deserves Ia care
full perusal. a Republican all his life,
he leaves the party on principle and
gives his reasons for so doing. He
believes Mark Hanna is menace to
the United States and should be stamp.
ed out Of political power forever. AT
present he considers him the de facto
president, with Mckinley as plastic
tool in his hands.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

The colored voters in Ohio, Indiana,
sorting the Republican party this year.
They cannot support a party which
has floated the Stars and Stripes over
slavery in the Sulu islands and is pay
ing $3.50 q month to the sultan and
his datOS.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

Asks the Chicago Record: The full
dinner pail is not much of an issue
in Il farming community, but will
Mark Hanna guarantee to the voter
Of South Dakota that warm meal
will be on the table when he turns in
from blowing ut noon?
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27
Mark Twain, the American humor--

Mark Twain, the American humor-
list, believes in the old fashioned doc
trine of "a government Of the people,
by the people and for the people," not
only in the United States but in the
Philippines. In an interview in Lon
don, prior to his departure for home,
he said: "To substitute our rule for,
that of the Spanish is, as far as the
Philippines are concerned, putting one
tyranny in place Of another. I have
never been able to understand how we
came to be fighting with the natives,
and I wish we were out of the mess
we have made. We should stand by
while the Filipinos set up a govern
ment of their own to secure that they
We're not interfered with while work
ms it. 1t should not be Il govern
ment according to our ideas, but their
own" 1t is unnecessary to say that
Mark Hanna does not endorse the
sentiments of Mark Twain, for they ex-
aar;y agree with Bryan's policy of pac-
flying the Filipinos and getting out
of the "mess" Mckinley has made i'll.
the interest of the plutocracy.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27
Says the National Waterman:

says the National Watchman: MFR
Bryan is the most wonderful man liv-
ing to-day, and history records none
that equal him. The physical endur-
ance of Bryan is astonishing the doe
tors Of the world, and is the chief
topic of conversation among the a.ll-
letes of all nations. The newspapers
and periodicals of the world in alr
tongues are filled with comments upon
him. No other man ever attracted
such universal attention. He is the
equal of Demosthenes as an orator the
superior of Gladstone in his grasp of
the affairs of state, and above all
things else he is the legitimate success
or of Jefferson as the guiding genius,
of Democracy.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-27

The number of deaths in the Amerl-
can army in the Philippines since the
beginning of the war is upward Of
5000, and the cost in subjugating the
Filipinos is ten times more than was
paid to Spain for the islands. And
the end is not yet.