Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-25
Letter From Francis Conlon

Editor Tribune.
VIII you kindly allow me space to tell your
readers and Mr.. Carroll that the latter hap.
pens Just now to be barking up the wrong
tree rs To my writing the letter published In
the Evening Times one day last week above
the signature of Edward Smith. I am not
the author or writer of IL, nev, rsaw the copy
and knew nothing about II before reading II
In print I'm the newspaper.
Mr. Is there an n ology In this. | would
be proud OF the ability to have written such
"A statemel { of facts; indeed, Iall who know
me and pretend to know my sty e, cannot
but he aware thai never could have had the
patience G. hunt up statistics or figures IA
the writer OF the Times letter must have
done.
MI. Carroll seems TO know oil about the
Aldrich letters To which he alludes as having x
been written by nIe or Mr.. Smith. II l. -
well Known fact o ever man In Pawtuckct
th9t Mr. Ca roll went very iar out of his
way. of, tally and ot lerwise To annoy Mr..
Smith In his business, more than once as.
serting that he would drive him out Of Paw.
tuckct before he had got through. Self pre-.
seryaLion being the first law uf nature, f. IL
20 be wondered nj that 40 shrewd and capa-
BILE business man az Mr.. Smith would re-
fuse To stand idly by and allow such threats
To be carried ont? Not at all. After Mr.. Car
rolls second installation INTO the executive
office and his re-appointment OF an obnox.
iou- License commissioner, IL was seen II
once there was trouble ahead, and that so
long ~ The one man pow"r was allowed to
exist there would be no peace Tor Smith or
any one else who had the temerity to stand
up FOR the rights which belong to all alike.
Smith had triends-lots of them, both In
this city and IN this State. Tney decided,
and he decided, that the one mnn power
should go, ana IL has gone for good, let Us
nope, but not "a so"n as II should have gone.
ii l. my desire to have The world know,
ana Avn proud To boast Of II, that did write
10 Mr.. Allricn urging that gen leman TO use
MS lnnuence to have the act giving the power
OF appointment OF License Com III iss toners TO
the Mayors OF the various cite. of the State
"A a "a A fnt Ant hort Etf.arV Vlaax
election by the City Council. That letter was
WRIT n for MIR Smith and a. his request
Then there wns no copy of 10 md regret II,
for Its publication today would cause no rnan
To- blush. Ia the meantime, n compromise
had been reached between Messrs. CarruI
and Smith. Is none OF my business Ivy
what means ~ was brought about. A icen- @
was ~ auted Mr. Smith ani all his friend that
wanted one. Everything seemed lovely and
the parties Interested said they had been
fully satisfied at the turn of affairs. That |
had taken no stock in thes- seemingly amica.
Bile arrangemt nts goes without saying.
was mad as Marcn hare that Smith had al.
lowed himself To he so duped. I insisted
that having settled matters with Mayor Car.
roll, his friends In Providence should know
The fact. | wrote thai there WIS no need Of
further effort to have the law changed IA
Carroll had come down, ordered his commits.
sion To do all that was desired, etc, which
they did, and that he (Smith) was satisfied
Let me state before closing, that never IN
my lite have written line or "A wort pub
licly or privately that would be ashamed
or afraid the whole world To know, and
think the editor Of the TRIBUNE will believe
me when make this assertion II has been
my privilege To have written IA good deal, OF
and on. for the newspapers here and else
where. have never attempted to stab n
man IN the back under a nom de ulume; in.
deed, do not remember To have attacked
anybody; am man of peace and no one re.
grets the unfortunate state OF III feeling that
exist In Pawtucket today more than
Yours truly,
y CoSLos