Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-22
SHADE OF JOHN BOYLE o'REILLY.
To What Uses the Paper He lale is Being Put-A Correspondent Who Vigorously Rakes Its
 Editor Fore and Aft.

The fip-flop of the Boston Pilot ~ir politics is indeed something of a won der, but the wonder will cease. Hith. erto staunch in its advocacy of demo. cratic candidates, 1t is a subject of al least mild surprise that it has seen new light and been converted. But why? The main topics that it dweIls upon are not new history. They have been before the public for years, and yet. stlaLee It. say, the Pilot has been iapor1ng in darkness all this time. Can IL De possible that there has been some nnanclal enlightening in the Pilots sanctum! We believe that 1t was good republican money that converted otner so-called Catholic papers ill Otner years to the championship of republican candidates. Those who for years have held the Pilot in respect would not like to believe it mercenarv or venal.
 That its political acrobatic feat has caused joy in the editorial sanctums Of republican papers can hardly be concealed, and 1t must find itself in some cases in very uncongenial atmos- phere. Advocating the republican party because of the fair mindedness of President Roosevelt Ca deserved tribute to our national leader), 1t nev- ertheless finds itself in company with editorial brethren who have been any thing but fair to the Catholics and the Irish, who slur the Irish whenever they can, who at times have not hesi- tated to insult the whole Catholic church by its venomous and uncalled for attacks upon the church policy in Dl1i aiINA sT1- sizing up of the Roman commission sent there with the now dead Arch bishop Guidi at its head.
 The Pilot seemingly deprecates the quadrennial angling for Irish votes. and yet it is heart and soul in trying to land that vote for the republican party. To the intelligent Irishman it IS a subject of modification that every four years a lot of self-constituted mentors must arise to tell him how he ought to vote It is an insult to his intelligence. as if he had not brains enough to think for himself That he was formerly allied to the democratic party is true, but that assertion Is made as if he were a mere lunlShead who had no reason for his action He had, however, When he was the i'm migrant he found in the days of Ad
 
 were opposed to his coming into the country; he found men like those who composed the Hartford convention of 1914, who voted to exclude foreigners entirely from oldce. And the Irishman was mainly the foreigner of those days He found in the whigs and the free soilers lineal descendants from the federalists. And here I might quote the Pilot of 1855: "No Catholic support was ever given. publicly or privately, to a free-soil measure. No Catholic ever voted for a free-soil can didate, knowing him to be such'' And in later years he found this same ele, ment strong in the republican party, which in this regard at least has pre-, served continuity with the afore-m men toned parties. And it is no secret that such men as Senator Lodge and Congressman Dalzell cherish no love to-day for the Irish. The Grishman Of former times found that the party of Jefferson and Jackson had repealed the alien and sedition laws. It is hard. ly to be wondered at. therefore, that he joined hands with the democratic party. If he had not there would he no angling for his vote to-day, for he would not have a vote to give. This is. of course all ancient history but ii is a piece of history that is generally omitted when 1t is suggested nat Irishmen went like pack of sheep to the democratic party. The condition of affairs has changed somewhat in recent years, and so has the political tendency of many Of the Irish. Poll, and not hold him up to the public gaze