Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1884 — The Irish Asserting Their Independence. [ARTICLE]

The Irish Asserting Their Independence.

(Hon. John F. Finerty. in Chicago Tribune.] I don’t know any obligation that my race is, under to any party in this country, that it should shrink from declaring its preference for the Presidential candidate it deems most worthy The Democratic party, represented by the machine tyrants, cannot give up its habit of claimpg human property. It has successfully bulldozed one class of voters in the South.but it can not play the same brutal game with another class at the North. The Irish-American element can not be intimidated by foul abuse. It is called upop to resent the insult offered it in the nomination of Mr. Cleveland, and it has never vet, when fully aroused as it is to-day, permitted an insult to go unavenged. Last year it taught Cleveland’s man, Maynard, that useful lesson in New York. This year it will chastise the master even worse than it did his lackey.