Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1891-10-31
HE DEFENDS HIMSELF. .
Allen Meets Warm
Welcome at Salem.
GOV. RUSSELL AT H0LYOKE.
Large and Enthusiastic Audiences
Applaud the Candidates.

NATIcK, Mass, Oct. 3l.-A rouslng Re-
publican rally was held In Concert hall
last evening. The drawing card was Col
onel Charles II. Allen. He denied the
statement that he was the author of the
remark that the Democratic party was
made up of the slums Of Europe. He spoke
as follows:
81 want TO talk to you in this busy man.
ufacturing town upon a few matters in
which am sure You feel an interest be-
cause have been asked to do so came
here expecting to mako a political speech
upon some of the issues OF the campaign,
but have no doubt that speech will do
well enough somewhere else, aud am
going to talk to you in frank man-to-
man fashion, as l am sure you want to
have me.
Wednesday night at Springfield gen
tleman handed me a note on which was
written these words: AT Democratic
rally In our town last night, the speaker
Of the evening said that the Democratic
party was made up OF tho meanest and
lowest slums Of Europe with a little fringe
Of respectability.' Such gross falsehood
as that shows to what extent some Demo
Gratis will allow their partisan feeling to
carry them. am sure need not say that
never in my life have even uttered such
q sentiment. While / may be called
partisan, yet know that there are as hon.
est, high-minded, upright men In the
Democratic party as can be found in any
body Of men.
81 have never thought that the Republi-
can party was made up entirely Of saints,
nor chat the Democratic party had all the
vice. All my life have lived in the man.
ufacturing city of Lowell, where was
born, and have no disposition to say any
thing or do anything to make their lot any
harder. have noticed at different places
the Democrats have industriously circu-
lated cards having what they call my
labor record" brought out in way to in
huence the vote Of working men. Perhaps
something should DE said on that ques-
-tion.
"A man who Is candidate for public
ONCE, learns many new things. Among
the numerous pieces of fresh information
that has como to my notice since ! was
nominated, is the charge that am an
enemy Of labor and laboring men. When
/ have been before the people for impor-
tant state and national positions, have
never heard this cry, but learn now from
reliable Democratic sources. that am an
oppressor Of the poor because of certain
votes cast in the legislature ten years or
more ago. Whatever those votes may
have been decade ago, I voted on the
issues presented, according to my best
judgment as a citizen and repre- sentative,
and now as a candidate, l have no apollo
kies to offer.
"On some Of the questions, as they
were then presented, as they were after.
ward developed and conditions changed,
IahA taI pnt
Of those who try to catch votes in that cheap
when at school or in the public service, I
have been business man and an employer
of labor. Go ask the men Ia my employ
II am their enemy. Inquire of those fam
lilies whore the are two generations in the
employ of our firm, II am the foe of the
wof4ingman aud the opprcssor Of the
poor
81 incline to the opinion that the work.
ing business man who takes the care and
responsibility Of a complicated business,
and so conducts IL as to meet its obliga-
tions promptly and pay his men good
wages, is about as much friend Of labor
as the doctrinaries who profess much love
and fondness for the laboring man during
election time, and forget all about him
the rest of the year.
During the long and business career of
my henored father, and durin gmy entire
business life, there has never been the
slightest difficulty between employer and
employe. All legislation affecting the work.
ing-man, whether applying to US as q
private firm or not, has been put into
effect. have no labor-avoiding schemes
TO advocate because am q candidate. An
honest days pay for an honest days work
Is the platform on which / shall stand Oh