The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-09-28
APPEALS TO PREJUDICE.

APPEALS TO PREJUDICE.
There are some Republican blather-
sixties in Minneapolis and other places
who took advantage of the national
excitement created by the assassina-
tion of President Mckinley to cast re-
Elections upon their Democratic neigh
bors for crticising his foreign policy.
Some Of them went SO far as to charge
better citizens than themselves, who
differ from them i'm politics, with incit-
ing to the commission of the crime
that brought sorrow and humiliation
to eighty millions of American people.
The Chicago Inter Ocean malicious
ly accused leading citizens Of unques,
toned patriotism and American ances-
try with being instigators Of the awful
tragedy enacted at Buffalo, because
they had the temerity to oppose by
voice and pen, ON constitutional
grounds, the "forcible annexation" of
Spanish territory, which President
Mckinley himself, in his message to
Congress, had declared to be criminal
aggression"
The Republican f1ce-holders, poll
ticians and journalists who would
Islander honorable men through pref
udice and passion, at time of nation
al tribulation, to obtain notoriety for
self-advancement, are plague to the
community i'm which they live and I'M
worthy of the confidence of the Amer
lean people.
There is not a particle of evidence
that Czolgosz was influenced by the
utteances of the political opponents
of the Mckinley administration or by
anything he had read in Democratic
papers. The most incendiary language
was used by Republican speakers
and writers during McKinley's two
campaigns. In the city of Minneap-
oils ferocious fanatics threatened to
lynch their Democratic opponents to
lamp posts and melted to lawlessness,
and yet the Democrats have never &C.
cused them of inspiring Czolgosz to
become murderer. In this connec
ton we copy the following from the
Milwaukee News which voices our
sentiments on this subject:
The assassin has said that he bore
no animosity to his victim. 1t was
not at William Mckinley he struck
the blow, but at the president Of the
United States. Had William J. Bryan
been president, the assassin would
have made no distinction.
In spite of these well-known facts,
there has been manifest a disposition
on the part of a class of newspapers
and persons that have axes to grind,
to take advantage of the public ex.
element by striving to create the
impression that other agencies were
responsible for the crime Thus in
Pennsylvania, Mr.. Quay's organs have
held those newspapers that have ex-
posed and righteously attacked the
political corruption in that state as in
directly responsible for the act of the
assassin.
The cartoonist and yellow journ
ais" have been assailed as the indi-
rect cause of the crime. Mr.. Hearst,
publisher Of the New York Journal,
was hung in effigy by a mob melted
by his rivals, although there is not a
scintilla of evidence that Czolgosz ever
saw or read his newspaper; but those
who have felt it's lash and it's rivals
that have suffered in the strife Of
competition, saw opportunity to turn
to advantage a great national calam-
ity and did not hesitate to use such
reprehensible means.
There is hardly language sufficiently
severe to condemn such reprehensible
methods in time of great public excite
ment. To intimate that other agen,
cies than anarchy are responsible for
the assassination of President AIcI<in-
ley is to appeal to passions that make
a mockery of justice, where accusation
passes for convincing proof, and pas
sion and hatred supplant reason.