Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1884 — Another of Blaine’s Ghosts. [ARTICLE]

Another of Blaine’s Ghosts.

[New York telegram.] Among the i assengers on the steamer Aurania, which arrived to-day, was Mr. Daniel McBweeney, the naturalized American citizen who for eighteen months was confined as a "suspecA” in a British prison, and whose vigorous appeals to Minister Lowell and to Mr. James G, Blaine, while Secretary of State, for American intervention were either entirely ign red or treated with contempt. He comes here unsolicited to tell his fellow-countrymen his experience in an English prison, and to let them know of the futile efforts which he and his friends made to kct Mr. Blaine to protest against the outrage of which he was the vict m. lie carries with him the warrant charsing

him with Inciting people to “riot and assault," upon which the arrest was made, and the originals of the letters which he received from Minister Lowell informing him 1 hat he did not belong to that class of American citizens in whose behalf he could consistently appeal to the "courtesy of the British Government.” Mr. McSweenev said: “The Republican party is anti-Irish and has always been so, and Ir.shmen have no reason to support it. I appea ed to Mr. Blaine to protect me as an American citizen. My wife appealed to him in my behalf. Our appeals were treated with cool indifference. He did not even condescend to reply. This was Mr. Blaine’s vigorous foreign policy when he was in a position to demand and procuie the release of the American suspects imprisoned in Ireland. Whoever votes for B aine votes for the jailer of Irishmen, who appeared during a great crisis more sol citous lest the hands of Buckshot Forster should be tied while administering his murderous coercion act."