St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-19
BARRY FULL Of TALK.
The Expelled knight Makes a
Lengthy STA emenI CT lis
Case.
He Says Clerks in the General
Offices anipuIate the
Records.
Powderly, He ASS 9rts, Is
Afraid to Allow HIM 10 60
Before the Assembly.
Despite Barry's Threats the
Delegates Think the order
will Prosper.

them were actiVely ana closely engaged
in committee work. This evening a
lecture for the benefit of the poor OF this
city was given by General Master
Workman Powderly III Masonic hall.
One of the delegates was selling tickets
TO the Knights and Mr.. Powderly asked
no questions, but invested and found he
had bought a ticket to his own lecture.
This lecture was in charge of local
Catholic church, and the proceeds will
be disbursed by it. The subject was
temperance. being appropriate to the
day and occasion. L. b. Barry. the eX-
PEELED member of the general executive
board, was hard at WORK all day III his
room. and this afternoon gave to tile
press a long article explaining his posi-
ton, and repeating Ills former State
ments against the PoWderly adminlstra-
ton. He says:
THE genera assembly of the Knights
of Labor is not a fair repreSt NATIVE
gathering of the industrial classes of
the order. The most INSCRIPTIONS
methods have been resOrted to In order
to prevent men who were known to be
any way opposed to the administration
from being elected as repreSe. tatlveS 10
this convention.
RECORDS WE'RE MANIPULATED
and changed in the general office. and
membership credited TO administration
districts. and representatives seated in
the convention who had no LEGAL right
to seats therein, and representatives
who were lawfully elected denied a
seat in the convention. Clerks in the
general offices were engaged in manip-
uIating records and selecting local as
semblieS that were known t. be opposed
TO the administration i'll ORDER that
steps might be taken 10 prevent them
from having representation at this con
Vention."
In proof of his assertions he cites the
case of ID. A. "a, OF East Saginaw, which
he claims was dr. ven out of the order
by the administrator. and not by him,
as has heen claimed. He claims ID. A. /,
of Phil ldelphia, is represented here by
men chosen by a packed convention.
lie continues:
''This convention is no more free
from lobbying than the Minneapolis
convention. All those who depended
upon the present gang who control the
order from poverty palace were here
looking after their masters interests.
1t is more like a political gathering than
q convention of labor refUrmers."
He then takes up foWderly's general
debate of his charges ami reiterates his
ability to prove all he has said. claiming
that POwderly knows this and fears to
let him address the gene raj assembly,
and further remarking, IF my
ACCUSATIONS WERE FALSE
0hey had an opportunity to prove them
50 before the bar Of the ORDER. then
mete out to me the cenSure which would
make me ubpoXious i'll the eyes of all
honest men. appreciate my position,
and would not exchange it tor Powder
ly's." Mi. Barry then gives copy OF
the envelopes addressed to him as haV
ing been expelled by e. E. b." and
rays it is 1.-THE only official notice | have
received of my expulsion" He recltes
the law of the order to prove that he
had not been e ven fair trial, and says
he proved his charges at the Minneapo-
lis convention, but was ruled out by
|'the caucus and ring rule prac-
ticed by them and their followers"
He says of his trial by the
general executive board. whom he had
accused OF Wrungdoing, that 1.-The con
StitutiOn diSQualitieS interested parties.
and, with all the brazen etfronterv that
they are endowed with, they surely will
not claim that they We're not interested,
incompetent and unfit to sit on judg-
ment when they themselves were the
accused villains" He mentions another
ease, and continues: ''PoWderly him
self admitted that there was but one
way in which a person could be tX-
PEELED, and that was through the court
of his own local assembly" MIR. Barry
next gives Il review of all article pub
lshed in the Journal of United Labor
of October. 1888, in which he is opposed
by Michael Dayern, secretary Of ID. A.
JIG. of Augusta, Ga. He explains the
attack by saying he prevented Davern
from
MAKING MONEY
out of the order. He next denied that
he had advocated strikes before u. A.
125, of Toronto. as WAS claimed against
him in a letter from that assembly. He
asserts that itemized quarterly reports
from the treasurer were not being given,
and continues: IF is against the law to
feIl Knights of Labor the truth. then |
am guilty. But that [ made any state
ments that were not true is false" lie
considers charge that his claims
against the administration were false.
made by one John Nj. Decker. was the
work of the administration against him
self. He refers to Decker as mental
warded for his pertidy with
position as general lecturer,
notwitt standing his incompetency
and his ignorance of economies" AAd
adds concerning him: "ln the state as
sembly he did not reply to my state
ment made there, but. like a skulking
coward, shielded himself through his
wife" He says that same state assem-
bly, censured the administration and
wanted to run Barryas Il candidate for
general master workman. lie quotes
the boards report of his expulsion and
refers to it us ''in keeping with the
other malicious falsehoods published by
the general executive board.o He de-
MES ever having anything to do with the
PROVISIONAL. COMMITTEE
and repeats that he was expelled for
telling the TRUTH" Being charged with
''piundering.' he says, 81 invite ali in
veStigati0n of their actions and mine.
and court of law would be Il good
place for them prove their charge OF
plumber against me-" lie closes with a
denial of the charge that he had not
been a member of the order since last
spring, havirg been a member of a
lapsed local. and that he had frequently
obtained me II y from the general treas
ury. Although Barry'S future actions
are not yet clearly known, the dele
gates and close friends of Powderly pro-
fess to have no fear of anything he may
attempt to do. If he undertakes to start
new order it can not be predicted how
strong it Will be. lie believes
he will have big personal fol-
lowing and says the one thing
that will be required in such an order
will be strict honesty. Gossip has been
freely INDUCED in among the delegates
to-day, but in substance it differs little
from what has already been stated in
these dispatches. Powderly is very
strong in the general assembly and will
be asked to continue in office. If al
lowed to select his own advisers. he will
undoubt, dly accept. The FEELING that
the order will have its heaithieot growth