Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-03-07


tire Irish race are in the United States
and that there are more Irish in Bos-
ton that in any other city in the
world, South Carolina has the larg-
lest Irish population of any state in
the Union. Nearly half of the Con-
| tinemal troops under Washington
were of Irish descent and many of the
most vallient officers of the revolu-
/ ton wore small green flags on their
coats TO mark their double allegiance.
| The connection Of the Irish with
America goes back to the earliest his
tory of the country. First there is the
legendary visit of st Brendan, devout
missionary and daring navigator,
whose supposed visit to our shores
antedated the landing of Columbus by
one thousand years. There were Irish
! pilgrims on the Mayflower, and 500 or
| 900 members of this race came over
In the stormy times of Cromwell. AS
early as 1915 500 Irish families went
to South Carolina. There were Irish
Quakers in the settlement Of William
Penn, and before the revolution near
| ly half the members of the Pennsyl-
vania legislature were Irish.
Leaders in Revolution.
| Nine of the signers of the Declara-
ton Of Independence were either
Irish or of direct Irish descent John
Barry was given the first captaincy
In the American navy. and the naval
honors he won for the Emerald Isle
were continued by Stephen Decatur,
of direct Irish extraction. Mad An
thony" Wayne was Irish to mis- finger
tips and was belligerently proud of it.
Captain Daniel Patrick, the noted In
dian fighter, of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony, was born in Ireland. This
undaunted people were the first to
make their way across the Alleghaney
mountains, under the leadership of
their countrymen. Daniel Boone and
David Crockett. General Sam Hous-
ton never failed to remark on his Irish
blood. Of which he was aggressively
proud Both Miles Standish and John
Alden were Irish.
Irish in Politics.
The popular conception that there
are more Irish in politics than any,
where else is not far from the truth.
There is an old saying that they have
ruled every other country on earth
but their own. Seven of the rs presi-
dents have been of Irish descent, and
two presidential candidates, James G.
Blaine and Horace Greeley, were of
that blood. John C. Calho,.
master statesman and orator, was the
son of Patrick Calhoun. born in Done
gal county, Ireland. The first mayor
of New York after the revolution was
Joseph Duane the son of a county
Galway Irishman. Massachusetts.
New Hampshire and Vermont were
once governed by theree brothers
iiehineu sullivan. one OF the most pic
turesque figures in the whole history
OF American politics was General
James Shields. hero of the Mexican
and civil wars, governor of Ore
gon, Chief justice of Illinois, and the ;
only man who ever served three terms
in the Uniter States senate, each time
for a different state. He was first
sent from Illinois, then from Mime
sofa, and finally from Missouri
Power in New York Politics.
The power of the Irish in New York
politics is proverbial The first grand .
sachem of Tammany was VIM Moon |
ey also the first to SIGN the constitu-
ton Honest John" Kelly and
Charles O'Connor were both leaders
of Tammany who fought against the
Tweed ring. Richard Crocker and his
lieutenant and successor, Charles F.
Murphy are both Irish. We also have
many Irish reformers, such as Pat
rick Moran, district attorney of Bos-
ton; Mayor Dunno of Chicago, and
Mayor Pagan of Jersey City. Patrick
]. Boyle has served eleven terms as
mayor of Newport, Rhode Island
Among the Irish in high political
places in all parts of the Union might
be named Tom Taggart, of Indiana;
Senator Patterson of Colorado. Sem
ator Carter, Of Montana; Representa-
tive Burke Cochran. of New York;
Burke. or South<Daho-
Ia; Bernard 8. Rodney, delegate from
New Mexico. and Justice Edward D.
White and Justice Joseph McKenna,
Of the United States supreme court.
Edward A. Mosely. secretary of the
Interstate commerce committee, VINO