Show IRISH INTERVIEWED The Tariff and Not Silver the Leading Question CLEVELAND AND HARRISON IN 1892 A Powerful Arraignment of Elaine for His Cowardly Foreign Policy Toward Italy and Chili John P Irish is a prominent member of the California delegation to the Irrigation convention a recognized leader of the Democratic party on the coast and as brilliant liant a stump speaker as has recently been heard in a political campaign When asked how California stood in its preferences for Presidential candidates Colonel Irish with characteristic emphasis said Nothing but machine politics can send anything but a Cleveland delegation to the national convention The protectionists are trying to put silver forward as the leading issue but they will not succeed The greatest Democratic victories have been won on the tariff I is rank folly to put the party out of focus by diverting it trorn a discussion of the tariff to that of silver I Mr Cleveland and the Democratic party would crawl on their bellies to the silver champions it would not carry California Cleveland is right The country cannot carry free and unlimited coinage of silver Mr Cleve land his always declared in favor of bi motalism When silver was selling at the ratio of one ounce of gold for twenty ounces of silver for this country to offer one ounce of gold for sixteen ounces of silver meant that we were undertaking a burden that no country could carry It meant that we would soon have all tne silver of the world and other nations have all our gold and that in our international commerce which amounts to more than a billion dollars a year tbe difference of exchange between the values of tne two metals would fall upon us Therefore Mr Cleveland is rightThe The only hope of the Democrats to carry any state in the group west of the Missouri river is the tariff issue and silver would lose us New Jersey New York and Connecticut Con-necticut and reverse the advancing strength of our party in New England In this connection ht con-nection it must not be forgotten that Massachusetts on the tariff issue gives usa us-a Democratic governor and 0 majority of her congressional delegation for the first time since Banks Sumner and Barlingamo were members of the Massachusetts Democracy On the free unlimited and independent coinage of silver New England and the middle states would be solidly against us On the tariff question ques-tion as put by Mr Cleveland they gave usa us-a majority of the representatives in Congress Con-gress The colonel wound this part of the interview inter-view up by rising from his chair and uttering in an impressive way the injunction injunc-tion He that hath ears to hear let him hearWho Who will the Republicans nominate asked the reporter anxious to focus Mr Irishs analytical powers on Mr Blaine The Republicans will nominate Mr Harrison and he added with keen sarcasm sar-casm that cut like a stroke of lightning running down a dead tree This administration ad-ministration knows better than any that has preceded it how to use federal power and patronage in a national Congress and will enjoy the advantage of having a national na-tional convention with the largest appetite known in the history of politics AH that aside Elaines mistakes in the administration administra-tion of the state department when brought to public attention will make him the weakest candidate his party can nominate nomi-nate In the Italian question continued Mr Irish growing intense the only American Ameri-can spirit was shown in the letter of Governor Gov-ernor Nichols of Louisiana Mr Blaine betrayed his country by conceding the principle of federal indemnity which had been denied by every secretary of state from the time that Jefferson held that position in Washingtons cabinet Again in the Chi an question he permitted per-mitted the raw alien Pat Egan to turn us into a nation of Hessians by putting the entire moral power of this government at the service of Balmaceda the tyrant murderer mur-derer and usurper And a fitting finale to his policy was the assistance given by the I United States manofwar San Francisco Fran-cisco to the tyrant in successfully breaking jail and escaping the operation of justice j under the laws of the country he I had outraged It is surely a sad day for the great republic when its boasted new navy finds nothing better todo than to up hold the enemies of rights of man and I serve as passenger ships to carry the enemies ene-mies of the human race beyond the reach of the 1 justice they deserve This humiliation we owe to the splendid foreign policy of Mr Blaipe a policy promoting oppression and in denial of liberty |