Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1884 — Blaine’s Love for Irishmen. [ARTICLE]

Blaine’s Love for Irishmen.

When in private Jife, Grover Cleveland defended, without a fee, the Fenian raiders of 1866, and when Mayor of Buffalo he presided at a meeting to remonstrate against the imprisonment of Irish-Amerioan citizens in England. He appointed more Irish - Americans to responsible offices than any of his predecessors. Blaine’s love for Ireland and Irishmen was attested by his Know* Nothingism in 1856, his distribution (if not actual authorship) of the Madigan circular in 1875, and his inactivity as Secretary of State while McSweeney was lingering in jail.