The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-11-06

grassland the 'Woolly Wings met for
a convention and got together to nom-
mate State ticket. 1t was what we
would call now an of year, which
meant year in which there was not
a Governor nor a President elected.
But in those days the other elective
State officers with the exception Of
the Governor and Lieutenant Govern
or, were elected in years alternating
with the election Of the head of the
ticket. So the Barnburners and the
Wings Of the State came to Syracuse
and started in to nominate their ticket
to knock out the Know, Nothings.
"The ticket in its makeup was
about fifty-fifty. First a Woolly Wing
would be named for an Office, and next
a Barnburner Democrat. Elias w.
Leavenworth of Syracuse, was elect
ed for Secretary of State; James M.
Cook, of Ballston, State Comptroller;
Elbridge G. Spaulding, of Buffalo.
State Treasurer; Ogden Hoffman, OF
Buffalo, Attorney.Geper and John
T.. Clark, of Utica, State Engineer.
In the fall election that year, Myron
H. Clark, of Canandaigua, a Woolly
Wing, was elected governor, and Hen
ry J. Raymond, of New York, lieu.
tenant Governor.
"The Know Nothings in that year
had plurality and elected everything
they ran, which was not all the Offices.
But they had the canal board and the
power of making canal appointments.
When the Republicans, as the new
party which had succeeded the Wings
called itself, came into power, the
canal appointments were transferred
from the canal board to the contract
board. We!
Contest for Speaker.
I'm 1855 I was in Albany during the
organization of the Legislature. De.
witt G. Littlejohn, of Oswego county,
was candidate for Speaker of the
assembly and the contest was a hard
and bitter one. The two factions who
were trying to do the organizing were
known as "Hindoos" and "Choctaws."
l happened to be in the assembly
chamber when Littlejohn was finally
pronounced elected and I remember a
speech made by little Irishman from
New York City, who used to be known
by the nickname, Danny Burns from
Sligo" He had a wonderful brogue,
which could never hope to reproduce,
and this the story that he told:
In my native parish at home, in
Ireland he said, we had good parish
priest who wanted to own a fine OBJ
ject Of art with a religious meaning.
and he wanted to have it a little DIFF
ferent from the ordinary run. So he
went to. Dublin to a famous painter
and asked him to make. a picture of
the Children of Israel crossing the
Red Sea. The artist promised to do
his best. and after some little time
had elapsed he sent to the good Fa-
Their and told him that the painting
was ready for his inspection.
Painted Only the Sea.
$50 the priest hurried of to Dub
lin and to the studio of the artist who
took him to canvas hanging on the
wall. It was large and fine, but all
there was to be seen was the sea-a
very red sea indeed, but with never a
sign of anything else on it.
"'Where are the children of Israeli
demanded the priest.
"'Oh,' said the artist, they've gone
over
"'And where are Pharaoh's armies?'
the clergyman inquired. The painter
shook his head pityingly.
"I expected you to know that, your
Reverence he said. Sure, they've
gone UNDER
"'And that said Danny Burns, lis
the way it is here in the capitol to-
day. The Republicans have gone over
and the Know Nothings have gone
UNDER
"The Know Nothings made a cam
paign for President in 1856 with FILL
more and Donaldson as their candi-
dates for the Presidency and Vice.
Presidency, and the Silver Grays rum
ming Fremont and Granger. The Dem
ocrats nominated Buchanan and
Breckenridge and elected them"
This article is no reflection on Ell
ther the Democrats or Republicans of
the present day. All parties have now
abandoned the bigots to their secret
meetings, lock-boxes, ETC. But have
the bigots kept pace with the prog
ress that everyone else is making? Or
are they not 1.-THE Men Who Stood
Still"?
Rt. Rev. A. ]. Schiller, S. J., of Den
yer, Colo, was consecrated Bishop of
Ell Paso, Texas, on October 81.
The death of Rev. Charles M. Char.
oppin, S. j., an astronomer of note,
occurred at the rectory of St. Charles
Church, Mo-, on October IS.