Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1889 — War Tariff and Murder. [ARTICLE]

War Tariff and Murder.

The affair of Dr. Cronin, with all its surprises, offers its most startling episode in the deliverance of the Governor of Nebraska, who declares with affected indignation that “American justice can be relied upon generally to be impartial, although Chicago’s Coroner and a Coroner's jury spent weeks in trying to fasten the murder of Dr. Cronin upon Alexander Sullivan, rather than in trying to ascertain who is guilty of the awful crime of his taking off." This is the first time since the civil war that an American executive has cast such an insult on a neighboring commonwealth. Why is it done? Why does the Governor of Nebraska proudly take his place as an apologist of the Clan-na-Gael and a servile instrument of its dark and bloody designs against the peace of Illinois? The answer is obvious. The truckling Governor, who thus hurls reproach on popular institutions, is a pander of the Jim*Blaine high tariff conspiracy. With the aid of the Irish vote in Nebraska, the farmers are held fast to the tax of sl7 on steel rails. With the aid of Patrick Egan, Thayer is Governor. With the aid of Thayer and Blaine, Patrick Egan is sent to some country as Minister—some country in which he may be safe from extradition to England, where he is held to be a criminal. The Ministry to Chili answers the purpose and offers the salary, which is what Patrick Egan must have. It is thus that high tariff is maintained, It is thus that the gyves are welded about the ankles of the American toiler. To criticise such manifest betrayals of public trust is to call all the dogs of protection out of their kennels. Affecting an indignation which he is certainly too hardened to feel, this oilroom politician of the Missouri, masquerading as a Governor, brands an association of British-Americans with his scorn, and to find a parallel for their criticism of Patrick Egan’s appointment pictures in spirited colors the Inquisition and other practices of the dark ages, neglecting only the mention of the high tariff which characterized those times. It only needed this’ gubernatorial demonstration to complete its indictment of Jim Blaine Republicanism. To fasten a spurious statesmanship on this nation, the agents of the war tariff have not hesitated to league themselves with an unpatriotic organization. To repay dema-

gogues for votes delivered, this scandalous appointment of Patrick Egan has been gazetted. And to fortify a name so closely beleagured with the suspicion of murder itself, an American Governor is now whipped into line to cast reproach on the procedure of justice in the State of Illinois. War tariff has long supported the character of rObbert-; murder is to become no more repugnant. How do the citizens of Chicago, the people of the State of Illinois, relish the gubernatorial reflections which a faithful defense of Patrick Egan and Jim Blaine now seem to require?— Chicago\Herald.