Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-22

as sort of leap year dog that has got to be muzzled and licensed and brass collared for a few months only to be kicked when he has served campaign purposes. The Irishman that can find anything to be proud of in being thus publicly insulted, no matter by what party, is unworthy the traditions of his native land. The average Irish man of intelligence will much prefer the non-interfering policy of the Cath olic Transcript.
 In a pamphlet sent out for campaign purposes there is much of the same sentiment as advocated by the Pilot 1t opens with poem by John Boyle OReilly, the very tenor of which would set the seal of condemnation on the Irish vote gathering policy of the Pilot. Its very first stanza breathesl the contempt of O'Reilly for this vote angling crusade so insulting to the Irish. Its words are as follows: T hold myself as much man as any
 in the land,
 know have a heart to feel a brain
 to understand;
 And so I ask you gentlemen, as Irish
 men of note,
 What means this phrase the papers
 raise,
 What is the Irish vote?n
 And then he goes on to explain what it means, calling it a force that can be shifted right and left. that can be bought or sold. And he asks indignant ly Is this the Irish voter" Again he asks: Are we but cargo slowed aboard some politicians boat to be conveyed, all charges paid? Is this the Irish voteY' And ia the conclud- ing stanza he lays down the true poll. cy, not only for Irishmen, but for every voter:
 Each for himself and God for all So let the Irish vote"
 Could the spirit of John Boyle OReilly return to earth 1t is safe to assert it would say to the Pilot: Hands off the Irish vote! I toiled and labored and suffered and wrote and spoke that the Irish should vote as their conscience dictate. And now my own beloved paper would shackle that vote, would make Irishmen slaves to party"
 The pamphlet before mentioned gives an extract Of Roosevelt at Judge Daly's dinner in which he (Roosevelt) remarked to Bourke Cochran in refer ence to speech laudatory of the An glo-Saxon race, where the Dutch and Irish came in. That's just it. They don't come in except when presiden- tial campaigns are being waged. And they are soon forgotten after the shout ing is over
 And, by the way, the publishing of this remark is not good campaign lit erature. It might prove boomerang. If the staunch advocates of Anglo ,Saxonism who think that this country owes nothing except to men of Anglo Saxon blood (although the pure Anglo Saxon is a ra4ssa bird) hear of Roose- yelt's predilection for the Irish, there will be war in the camp. If there is fool-killer in the republican nation, al committee he ought to get out his club and use it on the man or men who are spreading abroad all the laudatory things President Roosevelt has said of9the Irish. If this cam paign document falls into the hands of certain class we'll soon hear the welkin ring with protests against the so-called lover of the Irish. 1t may be that Roosevelt, like Blaine, will find a Burchard to make all the we'll laid plans gang aft glee"
 Roosevelt appreciates the Irish. He knows the history of his country and consequently knows their value and when he says kind things of them he but gives them their just measure of praise. Why this should make him the Irishman's candidate is not clear. un. less on the supposition that Parker would not do likewise. That cannot be proven.
 LET THE IRISH ALONE. \