Workmen's advocate., 1890-05-31

party. lie made the following state. ment. 'l have seen letter signed Matthew Barr, sec. pro tem., sent to Mir. Martin J. Brien, who was running last fall for assembly, in the goth district on the republican ticket The letter contained an invitation to Mir. O'Brien to call at the Clinton Place headquarters. It was the evening before election l saw him at about l2 o'clock the same night, and he told me that he had called and been given the endorsement of the C. l.. U. He also snid that he had put his hand into his pocket and given the committee some money"
 Martin J. O'Brien, the republican nominee of last fall. has newsstand at the Grand Central Depot; he was asked;
 'Do you remember getting the endorsement of the Central Labor Union last fall?"
 "I do."
 Did you not know that nobody was authorized to give you that endorse ment ?"
 "l did not know that"
 "Do you rcmember going to see the committee on Clinton PlaceY
 "l do. It was the night before election wPen l went there hy written request. ldont remember the name of the person who signed it. When l ar rived at 3j Clinton Place there were three or four middle aged men awaiting me, but l would not be able to recog. nize them. l showed the letter; they looked for a slip of paper which l had signed and which contained my endorse ment of certain measures that have es- capped my memory; then they said every thing was ready and gave me the pastors with the endorsement of the Central Labor Union. put my hand into my pocket and gave them some money. Then I left"
 Do you remember how much money you gave themT
 "1es. it was one dollar for round of drinks or a cigar"
 In speaking of the character of the men he saw OBrien said "l did not think the endorsement would do me any good. l had not much confidence in those men but l thought had to do it..
 Patrick Rock, of the Freedom Labor Club, secretary of the executive com. mittee of the 11th Assembly district of the U. l.. F., said:
 "We found that the l.. k. P. was norh- ing more nor less than a strike organiza- tion to assess candidates and the delegates of our 17th district organization to their executive body reported that there was no honesty in the party. We nominated for Assembly John keega but delegate Hotchkiss reported to us that it would not be judicious to ask for his indorse. ment in the c. L. 1T. Consequently we retired from the party and retook our old name of the U. l.. r. The letter which we sent to the C. l.. U. was pgeon- holed in some way so that it never came before the delegates of that body. There had been an unsuccessful pressure upon some of our members to draw on the funds of the U. L. P"
 Was there any double dealing on the part of Rogers and Warner in so far as they wanted to strike the candidates of other partiesT
 ''To judge from Information received from member whose name cannot disclose, l believethey were working the Citizens organization in favor of the candidate of the United Democracy"
 Robert Hamilton, white-haired old man, one of the most respected members of the U. L. P. organization of the 17th Assembly distaict, was a member of the executive committee of that district and a representative from the same in the Amalgam ated Committee. Much against his will, he acted as chairman at the convention. He denounced the acts of the C. l.. U. committee on political action in unmeasured terms. "Warner and Rogers lived in the 17th and did their best to further the interests of John kerrigan, the County Democratic nom- inee. Those men did nothing but call a convention and left it alone when they could not use us. They seemed to me to be a striking committee. When. in the chair at the convention, which was forced upon me against my will called on Barr and COnklin to have the meeting postponed for one week to get the trades unions represented, for if it had not been for the U. L. P. men nobody would have been at the convention. John Hotchkiss could not get the endorsement of the C. l.. U. for our candidate. John Keegan. 1 called iO snap game. The whole busi- ness of the political committee seemed to be in the hands of Barr, Conklin, Rogers and Warner; they were the active men of that committee. The Central Labor Union will never do anything until it gets rid of such men,"
 John J. Doyle of the Franklin As- sociation, stated that he had visited Clough in his office on Park Row in company with Wm, MacNair, the secre- tary of D. A. 40. "Clough, upon being asked where he and the other delegates of the c. l.. U, met and planned their political scheme, replied 1t was around 35th street on the east side, and that Conklin, Barr, Rogers and Warner were present. When pressed with more questions he became suspicious and said: Look here, Doyle, if you and went