The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-08-13
MORE KNow-NoTHlNelsM.

selection of Messrs. Taggart and Shee-
han as the managers of the Democratic
campaign that the haters of the
Irish nationality would break out in
troubled wrath. The first sign of the
smoldering fire comes from New York.
The New York Evening Post has the
following comment upon the ever re-
curing question of the Irish vote and
influence:
A troubled Republican "reader of
the Evening Post for many years"
writes us to say that Judge Parker is
admittedly a man of "fine character"
but to add:
'How would you and all native-born
Americans like to see in the cabinet
Macks and McCarrens, Briens and
O'Briens, Sullivans and O'Sullivans in
the place of Hay, Knox, and Root?
And how would you like to have the
country represented abroad by Muir
phys, Collinses, ETC., in place of
Choate and Porter? At that rate, we
might call ourselves Young Ireland"
What a calamitous thing is loss of
memory! Here is a Republican q
mature years who has totally forgot
ten the heroic Blaine Irishmen"; from
whose mind it has wholly slipped that
it was his own party which sent Pat
Egan as minister to Chile, which stood
in with Patrick Ford and with the
dynamiters of the Clan-na- Gael, which
abused Lowell for not getting every
1rishman out of English jails instanter,
and which asserted that it was the
only true friend and lover of the Irish
in the United States. Has "the Irish
vote" suddenly become so poor that
no Republican can be found to do it
reverence? TO us, at any rate, it
comes with a shock that Republicans
should begin pointing with alarm at
Irish-Americans, and turning to that
dark backward, the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of fifty years ago. That was the time
when the ''native-born American" re-
ally rose and asserted himself.
Our correspondent should also get
some kind friend to remind him that
the same dread which he now feels
lest Parker be dominated by the
''Macs"-as numerous as in '"rhe Fa-
BILE for Critics'-was expressed
about Cleveland in 1884 and again in
1892. His cabinet, too, was to he
stuffed with the Irishry Croker was
to be secretary of the treasury. John
G. Sheehan was to be minister to
France, and so on. Well. we can re-
call such Macless names as Bayard
and Fairchild and Manning and Olney
and Whitney and Lamar and Phelps
and Runyon among President Cleve-
lands secretaries and ministers, but
have never supposed that it could he
said of either Of his administrations,
as Saint Simon said of the battle of
Marsaille, "Nos Irlandois sly distin-
guerent." Our disturbed correspondent
will perhaps correct us on this point.
President Roosevelt must regard
this revival of Knownothingism in his
party with disgust He makes cos
mopalitanism his forte and mixed
bloods his foible Has that wonderful
mingling of aliens in my regiment"
so soon ceased to carry it's moral of Il
broad Americanism? Mr.. Roosevelt
has appointed to office all the faithful
Irish admirers he could possibly pro-
vide for. Addicks' tool, Byrncs, he has
twice made Il berth for specifically on
the ground that the man is an Irish
man and Catholic, and has been
useful to the president. The Know
nothing cry comes with singularly bad
grace from an enthusiastic supporter
Of Roosevelt. Which would be worse
to have Judge Parker appoint General
Patrick Collins, now mayor of Boston,
consul at Liverpool, or to have Prcsi-
dent Roosevelt name "my old comrade,
Henry HerskovitZ," as commissioner
of immigration?
In this revised dread of foreign
names in American politics. let us not
forget what the fine old native stock
can do. 1t is all very we'll to turn
with relief from the terrible Macs to
Root and Hay, but suppose we take
Plat and Quay and Addicks and Ell
kins and Penrose and Odell-does
their politics smell any sweeter for the
pure Americanism of their names
And as for being dominated" by the
men behind him. what is only an ap-
prehension in Parkers case is too
much a proved reality in Roosevelt's.
After president who flung himself
into the arms of Quay, took sweet
counsel with Plat, and struck his
colors to Addicks, we might not feel
like shuddering too SYSTEMATICALLY Mt
a president who showed some defer
ence to foreign-born citizens.