Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-10-13
FOWUERLY-BARKY.
One Who Is Familiar with the Facts
Points Out Their Errors.

One Who Is Familiar with the Fact
Points Out Their Errors.
The entirely unnecessary and ur
called for vituperative tongue lashin
that has obtained between Thomas E
Barry and T. V. Powderly is neithe
manly nor dignifed, and at this junctur
is particularly disgraceful. Barry as
serts that in the Southwest strike he wa
offered 100000 by Wall street broke
for information as to when the strik
would end: that he refused the offer an,
laid the matter before the general board
that the board treated it with scorn
that twenty-four hours later Powderl,
was "A consultation with this SAM
broker, and a day later the strike wa
declared off-the obvious insinuatiol
being that T. V. accepted what T. B
rejected. Powderly. in answer to thi
bad break. says that Barry is an I'm
mitigated liar: that he was expelled
from the order for financial crookedness
and that his price is II drink of whisky.
Tom Barry. if what you say now il
true it was true in 1886. Then. on the
very instant. was the time for you tt
have denounced to the world man who
would be guilty of such despicable
piece of duplicity. You were Il member
of the board. put there, mark you, by
the votes of men who were not Pow
derlyites:" put there because they had
more confidence in you than they
had in some others; put there
as the watch dog yes. the bull
dog, if it please you, Of the integrity
of the order; and if what you now as.
sert is true by your failure to denounce
it then you brand yourself as false to
your own manhood. doubly false to your
friends and a traitor to the order The
opportunity and the cause was given
often enough for you to have made this
grave charge without waiting till the
accused was beaten down in a fight with
the common enemy and then sticking
your knife. like coward, into his back.
It doesn't sound like the Tom Barry of
old.
Powderly. word with you. You say
Barry was expelled from the order for
financial crookedness: that his price is
drink of whisky Per contra, one quo
tation out of your own mouth will suf-
flee. At the Minneapolis session of the
general assembly. after Barry had made
some startling charges against you in
particular and the board in general Zone
of the opportunities above referred toy
you attempted to gag him. You recol-
lect how Barry, with blanched face,
blazing eyes and clinched fists. walked
up to the capital and wrung recognition
from you; you remember his impassion-
ed. denunciatory speech, wherein every
word that left his lips seemed to perne-
ate the air with the odor of truth; you
recollect Tor if you don't every one else
who was there does) that when he fin
ished you. from the capital, proclaimed
this sentiment:
tom Barry is too quick tempered: no
one can say word against the honesty
or integrity of Honest Tom Barry but
he is hot headed; you can see that for
yourselves. Men don't become dishon-
est or take to the bottle in a day, Pow
derby. and if Barry was honest then he
was just as honest few months later
when your board found a pretext to get
rid of him, as it did of others to whom
it was opposed.
Shame upon both of you! And you
call yourselves leaders! Great encour-
agement you offer to the great morgan
lied mass to come under your banners.
But while you thus stab one another
and the confidence Of your organizations
at the same time. thank God there are
those who have gone out from the fold