Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1919 — THEY ARE GETTING IN A HOLE [ARTICLE]

THEY ARE GETTING IN A HOLE

In Sudden Interest In Irish Freedom Claims. Republican politicians of the Lodge, Watson, New and Goodrich type, being tickled almost to death over what they considered to be a great opportunity to steal the Irish vote bodily from the wicked Democrats, literally fell on the neck of “President tie Valera of “the Irish Republic” and wept salty tearsThey received him “officially’’ as the real President of a real Irish Republic introducing him and addressing him as “Mr. President.” The sincerity of the Republican leaders toward the Irish voter will, within a few days, undergo a real, though to them wholly unexpected, test, when it comes to a Republican congress going on record by their votes on a bill introduced last week in the house of representatives by Congressman “Billy” Mason, of Illinois. This bill proposes an appropriation by congress of funds to pay an Ambassador from this country to the “Irish Republic.” Already these same Republican leaders are squirming like worms fearing they will- be called upon to vote on this bill, when, of course, they would vote “no” and thereby show the insincerity of their pretended great friendship for the Irish voter, whom all of them all their political lives have given the go-by on all occasions. * Take my word for it—these same Republican leaders will never permit this bill to come out of the committee, where it now is, to the floor df the house where it would have to be voted upon openly. All this recent display of fondness for the Irish race on the part of the Republicans is simply rot, pure bosh atod the course of* this bill through the Republican congress will prove it.

Judge Cdhalan of New York, a real (not a professional) Irishman, Is dead next to the Republican leaders in trying to alienate the Irfkb vote from the Democratic party and he and Bourke Cochran, former member of Congress, are appearing before Congress in behalf of the bill in an attempt to make these same Republican leaders “fish or cut bait" with the Irish question. The Republican party is simply gasping over the tremendously deep hole they have gotten into and after they have effectually smothered the bill in committee the lame excuses they will offer will make every Irish voter laugh in derision. Judge Cohalan and Burke Cochran are not fools and by pressing this matter to a show down before a Republican Congress they will simply be unmasking a cheap bunch of hypocrites. Let the good work go on! —Tippecanoe County Democrat.