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The Irish standard., 1900-11-10
THE cubERrAroR1AL CONTEST.

AS we go to press all Indications point
to the defeat Of John Lind by small
plurality. He made n gallant fight,
but the opposition in the presidential
campaign was too strong for him to
overcome. The corporations used all
their influence to down him, because
they could not swerve him from per-
forming his duty faithfully and i'm
partially for all the diverse interests
of the state. They wanted a man they
could control, and now they have him
in the person of Sam Van SAINT.
John Lind was rejected for man
who is infinitely his inferior, and now
the corporations are happy. But what
of the people? The majority of them
did not appreciate what John Lind had
accomplished during the past two
years. and through political prejudice
they voted him out of office They
will have ample cause to repent of
their folly.
One of the organs of the Rapid Tran
sit company in this city reioices over
the defeat of John Lind. In an edi-
torial it says: 1--WE must give John
Lind credit for being very keen and
shrewd politician, and that makes him
dangerous, because he has demonstrate
ed that he is so thoroughly unscrupu-
lous. Under Capt. Van SAINT the state
administration will come back to open,
honest and practical business meth
ods."
In view of the fact that the vice.
president of the corporation made an
attempt to bribe the members of the
state board of equalization and failed.
it is not surprising that its local or
gan falsely asserts that John Lind has
demonstrated that he is thoroughly
unscrrlpulous." Why does not the
aforesaid organ deny the charge
against the vice-president of the cor
poration whose mouthpiece ii is? BE-
caHse Governor Lind is ready to 30
into court to prouc-hs Indictment
This INSCRIPTIONS organ declares that
under Captain Van SAINT thc state adj
ministration will come back to open,
honest and practical business meth
oas." Yes. the same business meth
ods that prevailed in the past under
Republican rule. We have no desire
to say anything against Van SAINT, but
his Legislative record Affords no hope
for reform administration as the
people have had from John Lind.
I We believe John Lind lis not cast
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10
= MCKINLEY IS REELECTED.

The people have emphatically decid-
ed that William Mckinley shall he
president of this republic for four
years more. Accepting voX populi as
voN Del. the Irish Standard bows in
submission to the verdict rendered by
the voters. We confidently hoped they
would have decided otherwise, and con
seqnently we feel disappointed ut the
result. But we are not dismayed. The
republic is destined to live 10 matter
who is president. -~.
Seventy-siX millions of patriotic
Americans will see to it that no party
shall be permitted to destroy on this
continent "a government of the people,
by the people and for the people," We
still believe that the dominant party is
controlled by selfish and unscrupulous
men; but the people will not allow
them to go beyond a certain limit with
out producing Il revolution.
\ great deal depends on the admin
istration of William Mckinley during
his second term. If he continues to
govern F'ilipinos and Porto Ricans in
an imperial mannner hy denying them
the rights of citizens Nnder the conSti-
tuition. and allows Asatics TO compcte
With American lahorers in the interest
of trusts his party in 1904 will go
down in defeat. The men who in.
tiorsed his policy at the polls last Tues
day have ii in their power to pass an
rnfaNor,ble verdict and to relegate to
1hliS ian amy party that will betrny
the confidence reposed in it.
IL the leaders Of the Republican par
ty cmbroils the republic in foreign com
plications by an alliance With Europe
an powers, they will hear from the
people at the next presidential elec-
tion. -Four years is q. short period in
| the history of the nation. and public
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10
rHB nAYoRAlrY ELECTION.

DR.. A. A. Ames has been elected
mayor of Minneapolis for the fourth
time. He was thrice elected as a Dem
ocrat and now will go into office as a
Republican. James Gray, the present
incumbent, would have defeated Ames
had Dean, the Prohibitionist, remained
out of the race. Many Republicans
voted for Dean under the impression
that he was stronger man than Gray,
but the result shows otherwise. The
saloon element voted for Ames and "a
wide open policy" more through fear
Of Dean than through dissatisfaction
with Gray.
The election of Ames is mainly due
to Republicans. The Democrats stood
loyalty by Gray, as the returns show.
Some of them, however, We're personal
friends of Ames and added to his ma
jority. They knew the genial doctor
so well that any inconsistency on his
part in changing his politics wasllot
regarded seriously by Them. They
would vote for him under any circum-
stances on the theory that he is Dem
ocrat by nature and became Repub-
lican solely for the sake of the office
and the honors it confers.
For reasons given in last weeks is
sue the Irish Standard was opposed to
Doctor Ames' election. 1t would not
properly represent the Irish race did
it refrain from rebulling him. Now
that he is to be mayor for the next two
years the Irish Standard will judge
him i'll his public capacity and give
him every encourage to make a
good record.
While mayor for three terms, DIR.
Ames' official integrity was never i'm
pugned. The city grew and prospered
under him. Harshly criticised as he
was on the score of "wide-openness.' -
it is but justice to say that in that
respect there was practically no differ
ence between his administrations and
those. of the Republican executives.
History repeats itself. With the ex-
ception of Pratt no man has succeeded
himself in the mayoralty for twenty
years. DR.. Ames goes into office on
the first Monday of January, 1901, at
the opening of the twentieth century.
We trust he will not disappoint those
who have elected him.
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10
The Temple Of Fame.

Some grave and reverend college
presidents and others are engaged in.
the important duty of compiling list
of American worthless whose names are
to be inscribed in Hall of Fame'
in New York college. Fifty have
been already selected, and as many
more are to be added when the commit
tee shall have picked them out. But
when it is all done, what of it? Fame
does not choose her favorites in that
way, nor does she erect her temple in.
an obscure college, says the Boston
Pilot.
Mighty men have been forgotten
after temples had been erected to their
exclusive honor, cities called after
them, and their names enrolled by high,
priests among the gods. On the other
hand, obscure men have satisfied their
ambition for notoriety even when the
world conspired to bury their names.
in oblivion, "the ambitious youth who
fired the Ephesian dome," for exam
pie. Probably there were scores of
famous" men who died on the same.
day that witnessed the last leap of
Sam Patch, but his is the most con-.
spicuous because he jumped over the.
t1enesee Falls for fame's sake, in Or
der, as he expressed it, "to show that
some things kin be done, as we'll as
other things"
Where is now the glory of the i'm
mortals who ruled great Atlantis the
lost continent? What were the names:
of the gods or heroes whose majestic.
statues decorate the solitary plains of
easter Island, in the far South Seas?
Who We're the Illpstrious Four whose,
busts We're found the other day in the.
dusty crypt Of the Athenaeum at Bos-
ton, recognized by none today? Who,
struck Billy Patterson? Go to, with
your ridiculous pantheon of little and
big gods, gentlemen. Two divinities
will look after them all, one way or the.
other-Fame and Oblivion, with heavy
odds on the side of the latter.
Nobody can predict what the verdict
of posterity will be 200 years hence,
or even sooner. Most English-speak-
ing people are taught to believe that
General Gordon was the hero Of the I
Taeping War and the savior Of the.
Chinese empire; but 4OO,OOO,O0O China
men give the credit to Yankee fill
buster, Frederick Townsend Ward, and
they ought to be the best judges of
the truth. Who wrote Shakespeare's
plays and who Beautiful Snow? We.
do not know and probably never shall
know the real name of "Junius," or
the Man in the Iron Mask, the Wan
dering Jew, or the Gobban Sair, and
perhaps it is not worth while trying to
find out. None of them was a native
Of the United States and thereby eligi-
BILE to place on the enduring brick of
New York's Temple of Fame Limited.
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10
THE EVIL GENIUS OF 1R1sHmEN.

Under this heading our able con-
temporary, the Canadian Freeman, of
Kingston, Ont, truly and eloquently
says:
After Shiel had delivered one of his
most telling speeches before a mon
stermeeting of electors, his whole fab
ric of beautiful expressions was upset
by bare-headed, barefooted urchin,
leaning upon the platform and shout
ing: Il am thy evil genius, shiel, we'll
meet again in Philippi." And Shiel, at
each succeeding meeting, had more
dread of that persistent lad than of his
most eloquent opponents. The evil
genius that has haunted the history of
the Irish people has been the spirit
Of Toryism, and it was, and is, more
to be dreaded than the cannon of
Cromwell, or the axe of Elizabeth. If
we glance back over the century that
is now expiring, we will find that re-
nOwned Irish priest and patriot-Dr.
Cahill-in the middle of the century,
telling Lord John Russell what Tory
ism had done for England in the days
of the union. The Irish orator informs
the British statesman that "the spirit
Of Toryism has made England Il time
server at Paris, a burglar at Madrid, a
tyrant at Athens, traitor at Naples,
u fool at Berne, a cringer at st. Peters
burg, fugitive at Washington, an in
tidel at Rome, hypocrite at home,
and devil in Ireland"
That spirit, which gloats amongst
ruins and haunts effete institutions
not with the sentiments of the archae-
ologist, or antiquarian but with the
moping blindness of the owl-has sur
vived generations of progress, lus-
trums of advancement along the high
way of enlightened civilization, and
has constantly shadowed with it's
baneful wing every spot on earth
where the light of political freedom
CHANGED to fall, where the ever-increas-
ing spirit of democracy impaired in
spiration to the masses. Here in Can
ada, like the evil one perpetually
present and seeking whom he may
devour," that same spirit has created
field of activity for itself. Sheltered
in the lodges Of the Orange order and
of kindred. secret and anti Catholic, as
we'll as anti-Irish associations, it is
sent forth periodically to spread it's
unpatriotic and tyrannic influence over
the inhabitants of a free and young
country.
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10
The full dinner pail argument was
an etticacious one after ALL,
Heroes Of the Boer War.

Shelby O'Tyan, secretary of the
United Irish Societies of Chicago, that
have been assisting the Irish-Ameri-
cans who fought for the Boer cause
in South Africa has received q cable
despatch, giving list of the dead,
wounded, imprisoned or surviving
members of the expedition. The, mes
sage came from Trieste, Austria,
where the survivors are stranded.
OF the little band of thirty-six that
enlisted in Chicago, two are dead, two
serving sentences in English PRISONS
and two missing. Three more We're
captured, but escaped, and the remain
der We're sent at the expense of the
Transvaal Government as far as Adeu,
on the Asiatic side of the Suez canal,
where $4,000, subscribed by Irish
Americans, was thought to be waiting
to bring them back to this country.
Through blunder the money was
sent to the American legation at Paris.
After enduring many hardships the
party reached Trieste Sunday night.
The story of the adventures of the
band since it landed in the Transvaal
territory reads like romance. 1t
formed separate company under COM
mand of Capt. Patrick O'Connor, and
from the middle of April did yeoman
service on the firing field.
In the battle at Dalmanthua, Mich
ael G. O'Hara, Of Chicago, and Ernest
Luther, of New York were killed.
At Tolucha, Edward H. Egan and
Dunno, a. recruit from Boston died.
The bodies We're buried OH the battle
fields.
Richard Cahill, and Dennis Foley, of
Chicago, are prisoners at the British
fort in Ceylon, and John Riley, of
Holyoke, Mass, is with General Cronje
at st. Helena.
Daniel McHugh was taken prisoner
when the English entered Pretoria,
and although he escaped, his where
abOuts are unknown.
a list of the survivors includes the
following from New England: Richard
J. Barry and John p. Dougherty, of
Boston: Thomas ]. Herlihy, of Law
renee; John ]. Griffin and Patrick Nc
Hugh, of Lynn; Thomas J. Tierney, Of
Brighton; Jeremiah Leary, and ohm w.
O'Brien, Of Lowell; Bernard McCullen
and Michael r. Hearn, of Westfield;
r. Macley, Daniel Kennedy and Frank
G. Berlin, Of Holyoke, and James e.
Anderson, of Providence.
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10
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Our Travelling Agent.

John Il. Pewters, travelling agent for
the Irish Standard, will visit all points
on. the Great Northern road between
Minneapolis and Graceville during the
next ten days. Among the cities and
towns to be canvassed are Watertown
Waverly, Litchtield, Willmar, Kandi-
yohi, Atwater, Murdoch, Benson, Clon.
tart, DE Graft, Morris, Barry and
Graceville. We hope that all our sub.
scribers will be prepared to settle theil
subscription accounts with Mr.. Pew
ters and that he will also secure many
new subscribers along the line.
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10
The Editorial nWe.n

y country editor has explained the
Specification of the editorial we
1t may have variety of meanings.
For example: When you read that
We expect our wife home today,
we refers to the editor: 1--WE are a
little late with our work includes
the Whole office force. even the devil
and the towel: in 'swe are having Il
boom" the town is meant; I'VE re-
ceived over 1000 emigrants this year.
embraces the nation; but I'VE have hog,
cholera in our midst means that the
man who takes the paper and does NOT
pay for it is very i'll.
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10

changing a tlabby nonentity for IL man
with a mind, a will and Il conscience
of his own. 1t has longed for a chief
sinister aggregations of capital instead
of being dominated by them. Mr..
Bryan's place in the hearts of the
Democratic millions is secure. He re-
mains in defeat, rs he would have been
in victory, a commanding figure, a fine,
conscientious spirit, admired and loved
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10
Phil. sheridan's Blunder.

Every year bright boys try for adj
mission to West Point. 1t is necessary
to be appointed by congressman or
by the President of the United States.
The course of study is hard, the drill
is severe, the discipline is stern, and
at least half of those who enter fail
to graduate. A man who completes
his course, however, is a second lieu
tenant in the regular army, and, if he
lives and behaves himself, may rise
to be commanding. general.
>All have heard of General Sheridan,
Grants favorite soldier, who died
about eleven years ago at the head of
the army. Sheridan was poor boy
from a little town in Ohio and when
he first entered West Point he feared
that he could not keep up with his
class. The lessons in mathematics
We're very difficult, and Sheridan had
never gone to first-class school. His
roommate, Slocum, the General Slo-
cum, who afterwards marched to the
sea. helped him through some of the
intricate problems, and Phil Sheridan
began to breath more easily.
Sheridan was a bright lad, but he
had a savage temper. One day his
company was being drilled by a cadet
officer named Terrill Terrill gave a
command which provoked Sheridan
and Sheridan sprang from the ranks
bayOnet in hand. In n moment lie
saw what a terrible blunder he had
made, lowered his bayonet and fell
back into his place. Still he had dis
obeyed orders and threatened an Of
ficer, two serious faults in the army
Terrill reported him for his miscon-
duct. Sheridan grew even more angry,
and attacked Terrill with his fists.
OF course Terrill defended himself
and during the fight superior officer
passed. AS boys say, Phil was in a
bad scrape. The West Point rules are
very strict, and require that the young
est cadet officer, while on duty, must
be treated With as much respect as il
he We're the commander-in-chie Sher-
idan bad defied the discipline, and an
example had to be made.
Many a boy, after fight has been
detained in the schoolroom or been
obliged to write out few pages of a
Textbook. West Point discipline is a
more serious matter Phil. Sheridan
was suspended for Il year. He had to
so back home, to run errands, to work
III Il little country ctore. and, worse
than all, to be laughed at by his
neighhors. 1t was Il heavy price to
pay for q burst OF bad temper, and ut
the time Phil. thought himself abused.
Boys fancy themselves martyrs on
slight occasion. Phil. Sheridan looked
on himself as aesbadly treated cadet
and on the West Point authorities as
tyrants. As he grew older he SAW
that the penalty was really Il mild one
The authorities might have expelled
him, and then ali his hopes of military
fame might have been blasted.
-Mter a years suspension Sheridan
returned to West Point. and graduated
a. year later than his class. In 1861,
after the war had broken out, lie met
Terri!l and they shook hands. A few
months later Terrill was killed in bat-
tie and Sheridan was glad that all the
old malice and bitterness had been put
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10

'"The ubiquitous De Wet" as Lord
Roberts calls him, appears to be fol-
lowing the same tactics by which Mar
ion, "the Swamp Fox" worried the
British and gained fame in our Revo-
lutionary war. In one dispatch Lord
Roberts reports that Barton attacked
De Wet and scattered his forces in all
directions and in another sent about
the same time. tells how in fierce
little battle between the same comman-
ders the Boer leader inflicted serious
losses on the British. De Wet fights
and runs away, but returns to fight
another day, and his forces are never
so far scattered that he cannot get
them together again in short time.
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10

away. 1t is said that in General Sher--
idan's declining years his temper grew
more gentle. He may have thought Of
a great man, perhaps the greatest man.
that ever lived, who was shut out of
the promised land because of his furi-
Gus temper. At all events he saw
what terrible blunder he had made,
and how nearly he had wrecked the
hopes of his young life.
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10
CREED OF CONAN DOYLE.

LII lts pdAluy udyS LOuuOu uucu
employed as a caricaturist a gifted
irish Catholic named Doyle. His pro-
ductions in that comic paper made him
famous. AS Il cartoonist he had no
equal in the United Kingdom. One
day he was instructed to lampoon the
Pope. as anti Christ. He refused, and
the result was that he severed his con-
nection with the paper before he would
hold up the head of the Catholic
church to the ridicule and contempt
of Protestant England.
Conan Doyle, the novelist. is son
of the great artist. He was born a
Catholic, but he does not affiliate with
the church of his fathers. Who is
responsible for his detection we do
not know. In recent letter to the
Scotsman he says:
Il am not, and never have been
since my schooldays, Roman Catho-
lie. For more than twenty years my
strongest convictions have been in
favor of complete liberty of conscience,
and l regard hard-and-fast~ dogma of
every kind as an unjustitiable and es-
sentially irreligious thing. putting as
sertion in the place of reason, and CIV
ing rise to more contention, bitterness,
and want Of charity, than any other
influence in human affairs. I have
hardly ever written a book in which
1 have not indicated this view, and in
one work, "The Stark Munroe Let
ters," it is the main thesis Of the book.
Speaking of the church he has for
saken he continues:
"My early association with the Cath
olic Church leaves me no bitterness
towards that venerable institution,
which contains many of the most
sanity men and women whom have
ever known. My own recent expert
ence is enough to show me the vile
slander to which they are subjected.
But q mans soul and reason are his
own, and he must go whittier they
beckon. The path has in my case
been an open and straight one since I
emerged from boyhood."
1t was during the late election that
Conan Doyle wrote the letter from
which the foregoing paragraphs are
extracted. Being charged by his po-
litical enemies of being "a Jesuit in
disguise" he made the explanation in
an Edinburgh paper. He is a Tory in
politics and participated in the Anglo
Boer war in medical capacity.
Whether the Scotch rejected him be-
cause Of his religion or of his politics
we know not, but he was defeated by
an overwhelming majority.
Conan Doyle is not the only man
of talent who has fallen away from
the church in which he was baptized.
He may not be to blame for the back
sliding. We certainly have no cen
sure for him. The best thing for
Catholics to do is to pray for the con-
version of such men as Conan Doyle.
When attacked as Catholic he had
the courage to say that the church
contains many of the most sanity
men and women whom 1 have ever
known" That acknowledgment COW
ers a multitude of sins in his case.
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10

The London News is jubilant over
McKinley's victory and says: ".Bryan's
attempt to arouse jealousy of England
to champion the Boer cause and his
pandering to Fenians have availed him
nothing. His defeat involves Croker,
and it really looks as if Americans
were tired of the gang of corrupt Irish
Americans who have degraded Amcri-
can politics so long"
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10

Referring to the report that Mr..
Choate, the American Ambassador in
London, has been instructed to ask
for the transfer of the Irish-American
prisoners in Ceylon to a more salubri-
GUS place, the "Times of Ceylon" Of
ficially announces that the officers and
six men among the prisoners who are
described as Irish-Americans are well
and have been so since their arrival
from South Africa.
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10

An Irishman from Ulster, named
Capt. John Clayton. recently died in
Italy and left behind him an estate
valued at $700,000. In his. will he be-
queaths to his his two daughters the
largest part of the estate on condition
that they will not marry either Jew
or a Yankee. Why he entertained an
animus against Hebrews and Amer
leans is not known to his family
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10

Bishop Fowler, of the Methodist
church, was strongly opposed to Bry-
ans election. A few days ago he said
Shall We have Bryan elected? No, Il
thousand times no! I'd rather go to
sea with a boat of stone. With sails
of lead, with oars of iron. with the
wrath of God as a gale and hell for a
port.
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10

Mark Hanna is already mentioned
as Republican candidate for president
in 1904. Before Il year has elapsed
Mark will be the most unpopular man
in the United States.
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10

The Irish Standard has no apology
to make for anything said of Repub-
lican candidates. national, state or
municipal. during the campaign just
closed. The result has not changed it's
opinions one iota.
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10

The Pioneer Press will have a libel
suit on it's hands unless it makes re-
traction for statements made regard
ing Gen. Il. NJ. Pope, public examiner,
in connection with the Savings Bank
Of st. Paul.
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10

The people of the United States use
more flesh meat than the people OF
any other nation. England ranks sec.
ond. That the AnglO-Saxons are such
carllivorous bipeds may account for
their iingoistic propensities.
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10

Within IL year the laborers of the
country will have cause to regret their
action ON the 9th of November. The
trusts will trample upon them unmer-
cifully, as they deserve.
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10

Imperialism and militarism did not
change the German vote very much.
The Teutons evidently believe that
there is no imminent danger from Nc
Kinley's foreign policy.
The Irish standard., 1900-11-10

Canada haS done better than either
Great Britain or the United States.
1t defeated The Tories on Wednesday
and elected the Liberals by an over
whcllning majority.