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The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

On page 157 of the Republican Cam,
paign Text Book for 1892 appears the
following pregnant sentence: "Nine-
tenths of the people are bimetallists.
They want both money metals used,
because they believe both are needed
to sustain the worlds commerce. The
Republican party honestly and intelli-
gently answers their wishes. The Re-
publican platform declares for bimet.
tallism, and in that respect faithfully
represents the course of the party"
In 1896 the Republican platform de-
clared for existing monometallism but
promised to promote International BIZ
metallism. In 1900 the Republican
party In congress adopted the gold
standard permanently before holding
the national convention in Philadel-
phia. If nine-tenths of the people were
for bimetallism in 1892, why are they
not for it now? They are for it, AMI
eventually they will have it in spite
Of the goldocracy. The question nas
never been submitted properly for
their decision.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

Referring to Mark Hanna-s cam
paign badge of degradation the New
York Daily News says: There are
some things better than full dinner
pail. So our forefathers thought when
they were starving at Valley Forge.
and could have had full stomachs at
any time by walking into the English
lines and swearing allegiance to King
George; and the experience of the fore
fathers has often been repeated by
their descendants. 1t would be an evil
day for the American people and for
humanity everywhere if a full dinner
pail should become the emblem of all
that is to be desired and esteemed in
life.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

II. G. Day, the wide-awakc editor
of the Albert Lea Standard, says: A
trust attorney is attorney general in
Mckinley's cabinet. Another is our
ambassador to London. Foraker,
Thurston and lot of other national
Hanna, the supreme boss and grand
high and majestic dictator Of tho i'm.
perialism party, is a trust baron. Nc
kinley is an abject slave of the trusts.
Verify, the trusts have been getting
their inning. 1t is time to call u halt.
Vote for Bryan and Lind and turn the
raScals out.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

vance in educational matters, but his
appeal for sound money was surpris-
ing even to those who know him and
his courage. 1t had a very powerful
effect in the campaign. Upon one oc-
casion the president said that he
thought the sound money cause owed
more to Archbishop Ireland than any
other man in the country. He said
that while he may not have done 50
much in a conspicuous manner as some
others, he did his part ut very oppor.
tune time and Very effectively. 1t
would. therefore, be quite natural to
expect something from him on the
Philippine question.
But there is another side to the mat.
ter so far as the archbishop is con
cerncd. Some of his friends have rea.
son to speculate as to whether the dis
tlnguished prelate will he wi ling to go
"ut of his way to favor the pveSid> mt
According to these friends, the presi-
dent let Ireland feel that he was about
to appoint him on the Paris peace
commission. After the archbishop had
received this intimation, he sailed
away for Europe. Upon arrival on the
other side he received further informa-
ton that he would he honored with n
place among the statesmen who were
to close up the business of tire Spanish
war. The news seemed so direct and
conclusive that he went so far as to
tell his friends in Rome and at other
places on the continent of the great
honor in store for him.
This created such a profound i'm
preston in ecclesiastical circles that it
was freely reported that the prefer
ment meant that Ireland would be
made Il cardinal when his work on the
commission was completed. 1t is al
most certain that the distinguished
archbishop received some such intima-
ton which was vastly more substan-
tial than gossip. He was not ap-
pointed. He was cllagrined and dis
appointed. 1t is impossible to know
whether the president ever made up
his mind to make the appointment. If
he had. it would be just as difficult to
know what made him change his mind
A distinguished Catholic in Philadel-
phia at one time ventured the sugges
ton to me that Archbishop Ireland
had made many enemies in this coun-
try and that il was quite possible that
influences which no one would suspect
were cXerted at the White House to
prevent the appointment of Ireland.
No matter much what the cause OF
the slir-up was, the northwestern
churcllnan was much offended. lie
did not try to conceal it. For a time
he refused to visit the White House.
The friends of the president. as well
as of Ireland, thought the friendship
had ended. Hitherto the two men had
been very fond of each other. But
somehow or other they made up. Ire
land resumed his visits to the White
House and the story is that he will, in
IL thoroughly proper way, have some
thing to say about the treatment OF
Catholic interests in the Philippines
later on. l.4;$;:.:: -,.,.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

Father O'Leary,, the chaplain Of the
Royal Canadian regiment in South
Africa, is now in a London hospital,
having received three months leave
Of absence to recruit his shattered
health. Lord Landsdowne and Lord
Strathcona visited the sick priest and
complimented him on his bravery at
the battle of Paardeberg, where so
many Canadians were killed and dis
abled.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

tions of the Papists or of that un-
scrupulous reviler of good men, the
editor of Truth. Against the latter he
asserted that he had commenced an
action for libel-an impudent fiction,
which is sufficiently disproved by
these remarks, as, of course, l should,
be precluded from saying anything
about him were any such legal pro-
ceedings pending.
On this occasion Ruthven also as
serted that he had taken proceedings
against Messrs. Holder and Slough
ton as publishers of life of the Rev.
DR.. Patton, Il famous Presbyterian
South Sea missionary, in which most
interesting light is thrown Oh his past
career. This assertion proves to b.,
another shameless lie. Messrs. Hold.
der and Stoughton inform me that no
proceedings of any kind have been
brought against them by Ruthven, and
DR.. Paton's autobiography was pub
lished some two years ago. DR.. Pa
ton states that he discovered in the
United States that Protestant minis
ers of that country and in Canada had
been giving subscriptions to Ruthveu
(then known as Riordan) for DIR. Pa
toms New Hebrides Mission, upon
Ruthven's representation that he was:
his Dr. Paton's) alternate" DR..
poster, and he thus describes what
poster, and he thus describes what
followed:
"a committee was appointed to look
into the matter. The eloquent pleader'
turned out to be a Roman Catholic.
student, who had Joined the Victorian
Church, had been licensed and or
dained as minister, had broken
down in character and disappeared
from the colony. Now, under a false
name and forged credentials, repre-
senting himself as a minister in full
and honorable standing, and a mis-
sionary who had been thirteen years.
in the New Hebrides, he was raising
large sums of money ostensibly for our
mission, but applying it all to his own
uses.
CDR Rentoul, by appointment, off,
cially exposed and denounced this i'm
poster on the floor of the Council. But
in these vast countries a lie is hard to
overtake and to extinguish. Letters
continued to reach me from many
quarters and urgent appeals that I
should sanction his arrest. At one.
place he drank for week after a
series of mission meetings. The min
listers of Buffalo at length caused him
to be arrested, and the public attor--
ney, founding on his so-called creden-
tials as my assistant, summoned me
to appear before the grand jury on his.
trial.
Then follows the account of Ruth.
ven's Identification by DR.. Patton with,
the man whom he had known in Aus
tralia as Riordan, the admission of hfs
identity by the prisoner in an un-
guarded moment, and his ultimate,
trial, conviction and sentence to-.
twelve months imprisonment with
hard labor.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22
He Finds the Better way.

Eugene Kinkead, well-knowD
politician of Jersey City, who was
elected Alderman by the Democrats
of the Tenth ward of Jersey City,
has been spending the summer at
Sheepshead Bay. He surprised his
friends last week by sending them
word that he would not return to
Jersey City. but would go to Seton
Hall College, where he will study for
the priesthood. Mr.. Kinkead is 2G
years old. He was at one time an
acolyte at st. Joseph's II. c. Church.
and wished to become a priest then,
but was finally persuaded to take the
place of bookkeeper in his fathers
store on the Heights.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

In reply to our Benson correspondent
we desire to say that Matthew Mar
shall, the financial writer in the New
York Sun. is representative of the
Wall street bankers. All the money
bags in the country want Mckinley
reelected for obvious reasons. When
Marshall says that the Bryanites.. if
they come into power, twill rob us of
our property. destroy our business and
turn over to mob rule all our great
railroad. mining and manufacturing in
terests." he is simply talking through
his hat and no man of common sensn
believes what he says. Let not our es-
teemed friend be alarmed at anything
said by the paid agents and subsidized
organs of the plutocracy. 1t is vain
to argue with them.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22
A PRELArE IN POLITICS.

In last Sundays issue of the Mime
apolis Times. Il staff correspondent by
the name of Otto Carmichael gives
some information of sensational
character concerning the attitude to
he assumed by Archbishop Ireland in
the presidential campaign. We pub
fish it without note or comment, as Il
matter of news. and allow our readers
to form their own opinions and draw
their own conclusions as they please
The newspaper man says:
One of the important contributions
which will he made to the Republican
campaign literature very soon will be
II communication from Il prominent
Catholic parsonage, explaining the re-
lations of this government to the Cath
olics and Catholic property in the Phil
ippines. While there was good deal
said ut one time about the destruction
of church property by the American
soldiers, there has not been much hearl
about it recently. At the same time
1t is felt that there might be remain
ing an impression among devout
churchmen that the Americans had
been unnecessarily careless in the
treatment of the churches of the Phil
ippines. To make this entirely clear,
it is thought wise to make the state
ment.
1t is expected ut Republican head
quarters in Chicago that the commune
cation will come from Archbishop Ire
land upon his return from Europe
Four years ago the archbishop came
out in a statement that was almost
startling to the Catholics throughout
the country. He is an extremist, radical
In his Americanism, in the far adj
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22
FIRST PRIMARY ELECTION.

The new primary election law to
nominate candidates for county and
city offices and also for congress,
state legislature and district bench
took place in Hennepin county and
the city of Minneapolis last Tuesday.
There were only two tickets-Demo-
cratic and Republican-and the elect
ors were expected to vote the ticket
of the party to which they belonged.
That they did not do so goes without
saving. Personal friendship often
goes before political utilization, and
the result of Tuesdays election
demonstrates the fact.
The Republicans nominated DR..
!Ames for mayor in spite of the oppo-
sition of the Republican press, while
the Democrats renominated Mayor
Gray. The nomination of Ames is Il
surprise to every one. He was thrice
elected mayor by the Democrats and
went over to the Republicans when
played out i'll his own party. 1t is
now said by the Republicans that the
Democrats are responsible for his
nomination on their ticket. Some of
them are now dissatisfied with a law
of their own making that enables
Democrats to dictate what candidates
they shall have on their ticket, and
they say the law must be amended
or repealed at the coming session Of
the legislature.
The large vote cast on Tuesday is
II convincing evidence of the popular
ity of the new law. The majority of
the people favor it's retention. The
simplest way to make voters stick to
their party tickets would be to hand
out to them mt the polls only one
tickct--eithcr Republican or Demo
cratic as they desire.
Let Republicans be given the Re
publican tickets, and Democrats the
Democratic ticket, and then strict
party vote will be cast. IL that
amendment is not adopted for direct
nominations by the voters let the
Australian system be substituted for
the new primary law. According to
that system let the names Of all can
didates for the various offices be
placed on one ticket, with r. or D.
after them to designate the party to
which they belong, and let the voters
mark as they please, irrespective of
the politics of candidates, as they do
on election day.
For II Republican measure we think
the law is a good one and should be
retained. 1t does away with the eau
Gus and gives every man fair chance
| for any office in the gift Of the peo-
pie. The law is right In principle,
and any defect in it can be remedied
by legislation The voters exercised
good Judgment on Tuesday in defeat
ing some candidates for aldermen
who were tainted with boodleism.
The contest between Elliott and
Steele for the district bench develop,
ed a controversy which is not credit
able to the former. The Times news.
paper, which claims to be independ
ent. did everything in its power for
Elliott and against Steele. 1t falsely
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

The most rabid organ of Anglo
Saxon Imperialism in the Northwest
is the st. Paul Pioneer Press, which
is edited by Il Canadian. Commenting
on Rryan's letter of acceptance il
starts out thus: "It gives evidence of
the sort of intellectual paresis or pros
tration which results from an over.
strain of the cerebral faculties" Tia!
kind of criticism is beneath contemp,
and could emanate from no one but a
British lick-spittle in the employ of
the trusts.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22
William ]. BRYAN.

The Springfield Republican says
that if Bryan is elected he will be
the youngest man who has occupied
the presidential chair. Next to him
would stand Grant, who was 46 when
first elected, and beyond him Grover
Cleveland, who was Al. Franklin
Pierce was 4S years old when elected
and Garfield was 40. Mr. Bryan, as
is we'll known, comes from Cod
fearing family of the best American
character. 1t was originally from
Virginia. Bryan's father was Silas
L. Bryan of Salem, ILL.,, lawyer Of
standing, circuit judge and member Of
the Illinois state senate. Bryan was
40 years old on March 10, 1900.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

Cardinal Gibbons in an article in the
New York Journal severely arraigns
the trusts and quotes Scripture against
them as follows: Go to, now, We rich
raen; weep and howl for your miseries
which shall come upon you. You have
stored up to yourselves wrath against
laborers, which by fraud hath been
kept back by you, crieth, and the cry
Of them hath entered into the ears of
the God of Sabbaoth."
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

The Duluth Herald sensibly re
marks: The Mckinley administra-
ton retains in full force and effect in
the Philippines the old Spanish law
taxing incomes. If the income tax
law is a good thing for the Filipinos,
why is it a bad thing for Americans:
And if it is bad thing to have in
the United States, how can it be a
good thing for our colonial sub
jects?" If Mckinley finds time to
write another letter of acceptance he
should devote a portion of it to an eX-
PLANTATION of this little matter.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

William ]. Bryan was invited to
speak in Canton, Ohio, but declined on
the ground that it is the home of the
president. He declined to speak ut the
Grand Army encampment in Chicago
because Mckinley could not attend.
In all his speeches he has referred to
Mckinley in the kindliest manner, and
yet the Mckinley organs cannot show
linn ordinary courtesy. Bryan is max
ing a diyniied campaign and discusses
measures, not men. Teddy Roosevelt
could profit by his example.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

Says the Catholic Columbian: Our
flag now waves over slavery and po-
lygnmy in--the Sulu Islands of the
Philippine archipelago, and those twin
relics of barbarism are subsidized by
the Mckinley administration. Yet the
Methodist preachers are dumb and the
party OF Lincoln is asked to vote for
the man who out Of the national treas
ury supports the slaves and the harem
aof the Sultan Of sulu.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

Said Mark Hanna in a speech at
Youngstown, Ohio: "You may talk
about expansion, antitrust, govern
ment by injunction, the constitution
following the flag and all tile rest of
it, but, fellow citizens, want to tell
you that this whole issue boiled down
is the dinner pail" The political cor
ruptionist does not understand the
American workingman if he thinks
such an argument will make voters
for the plutocracy.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

Friends Of Edward Ekman of st.
Paul are urging him to enter the race
for the position Of County Auditor OF
for Treasurer of Ramsey county. If
Mr. Ekman should be nominated for
one of these positions on the Demo
cratic ticket he would prove very
popular candidate. His capabilities
for the position are of the highest
order.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

A. J. Wilson in special dispatch
from London to the Chicago Tribune
says that the war in South Africa is
far from being over, and that Roberts
is guilty of hiding truth in his official
reports. He says further that every
soldier available continues to be
shipped to South Africa. English and
Dutch settlers in Cape Colony are at
swords points. 4,: g,.@, .,.,.,....
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22
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The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

In the midst of Mckinley prosper
ity and full dinner pals the coal min
ers of Pennsylvania to the number OF
100000 are on strike for living
wages. AS one of the labor leaders
expressed it. ut is just as well to
starve when idle as to starvc when
working"
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

board our warships in Chinese and
other waters are deprived Of the ser.
vices of clergyman of their own
faith. A vigorous protest has been en-,
tered against the continuance of this
unjust treatment of the religious
rights of our dauntless Catholic jack
les? Will Mckinley heed it?
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

a dispatch from London to the New
York Tribune says 1t is rumored in
johannesburg that General Christian
De Wet was slain on the 7th Of this
month. The next thing we hear is
likely to be the capture of a few hum
dred Tommy Atkinses by the brave
BOer commander.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

In his speech Mt Cumberland. Md,
Senator Wellington, n lifelong Itepub-
lican. but now opposed to Mckinley
ism. voiced the sentiments of every
true American when he said:
believe the hour has come when no
man should he for party. hut all stand
for the state.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

'"fhe downfall of the republic will
date from the administration of Will
liam Mckinley" said Senator Honr of
Massachusetts. And yet he is going
to take the stump for the imperialists.
He would rather do wrong than lose
his seat in the United States senate
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

The British losses in the South AT
rican war are officially stated at
1861 men, exclusive of sick and
wounded in South African hospitals.
Nearly 10000 invalids have been sent
home to England.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

At a recent meeting of the national
board of directors Of the A. O. II. in
Philadelphia, the Most Rev. r. A. Fee
han, archbishop of Chicago, was elect
ed national chaplain of the order.
The venerable prelate has signitied his
intention of accepting the office.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

DR.. Denis bowling Mulcahy, whose
connection with Fenianism caused his
Imprisonment in 1867, died on Sept. II
at Newark, N. j., Mt the age Of 50
years. He was a native of Tipperary,
the premier county of Ireland.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

There Is one Irish-American news
paper in the country that is booming
Mckinley for revenue only. 1t is pub
lished in New York and edited by a
Hibernian Hessian who attaches Ill.
d. and Phi. D. to his Norman cogno-
men. The fellow ought to have re-
NAMED in Ireland to back up the Brit
ish government for cash.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

Brypn's speech on trusts in st. Louis
last Saturday evening was listened to
by an audience of $4,000 people. 1t
was the ablest address on trusts delv.
cred by any speaker during the cam
paign. and it was. of such n nature
that he read it from manuscript.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

John G. Woolley. prohibition candi-
date for the presidency, says that
the Mckinley administration has
given this republic 50 government!
without the people, in spite of the
people, and for the syndicates.''
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

"The Catholic Indian Mission
Schools" is the title of an article CON
tributed to the Chicago New World by
Mr.. L. B. Thiele the high secretary of
the Catholic Order of Foresters.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

The Michigan Catholic says: The
navy department, presumably with
President McKinley's sanction, has as
signed two of the three Catholic chap.
lains in our navy to duty at the Cavite
arsenal in the Philippines, a most un-
healthy and unimportant station.
whilst hundreds of Catholic sailors on
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22
Says the National Watcllman: The
Hannaite campaign argument is S$SS:SS$S.

Grover Cleveland, the fat man of
Gray Gables, has not yet come out for
Bryan, as Secretary Olncy did The
platitndinous humbug is too close L,
Wall street.
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

Sir Robert Hart, director of the
Chinese imperial customs. predicts n
big war in China soon between the
Boxers and the allied powers. -
The Irish standard., 1900-09-22

Archbishop Ryan, Of Philadelphia.
may act as coal strike arbitrator.
Both himself and Father Phillips have
the confidence of the operators and
laborers