The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-30
CHALLENGED BY PIGOTT.
IF HE MIsREPREsESTED aFrhIRs
 WILL QUIT THE TICKER.

and ih Addition to That He will Contribute rF- Hundred Dollars tl the Hospitai. He will Leave tho Oner Open Until Eric day Morning.
 Washington hall on Grand ayenue has this year been the scene of consid- erable political activity. A few days ago It was the theater Of the Hyeliest republican rally of the campaign and last evening the democrats filled on
 triea to Ill it In their enthusiasm for
 MT. Pisott and his associates. The
 nall was well filled, although by na
 means with as many people as were at the recent republican rally there. On the whole the meeting was an or. derly one.
 one American citizen. who had ap. parently been unduly influenced, be. came a little too boisterous and was summarily elected. A dvum corps
 marched through several streets in
 the Fifth and Sixth wards prior to ths meeting and gave an exhibition oa fancy drumming in the hall just before the speaking. It also made the arri- val of MT. Pigott evident by thres powerful and sonorous beats on tho
 bass drum. as the officers and speakers Of the meeting stepped on the plat4 form.
 Alderman Charles We'll was the pres siding officer of the meeting. A. F., Hunie was the first speakeu and made brief address, disclaimine that the hard times were due to the demoratic party.
 Attorney Charles H. Fowler was tha next speaker. He said the tariff ques- ton was practically settled for four years at least. While the present bill was not perfection, 1t was a step in the right direction. He spoke of tha gentleman who had been nominated in opposition to MT. Pigott as one who always ran away from anything that looked like a nomination in a coy, maiden-like manner, and quoted from letter MT. Sperry had written to the chamber of commerce at the time ha was elected its president, in which MT. Sperry said that if he had been at the meeting which elected him he cer- tainly should have declined. He spoka of MT. Sperry as one who had advo- cated the Maine law and the know nothing party, and compared him to a | bladder blown up and filled with shot, | which indeed made g. great rattling,
 but to which people would not think
 of giving their serious attention. l MT. Pigott then made hiss speech. He | said. .-. E, Whatever I have done, am not ashamed to stand here before you. But certain newspapers seem to be giv- ing great deal of attention to me. want to call your attention to an edi- torial which appeared this morning in the Journal and Courier" which stat ed that I voted for taxing your earn- ings deposited in the various savings banks Now, I want to say that [ never voted for such a bill. And want to say, by way of explanation. that the savings banks of New Eng land and of many eastern places, which were settled by New England people, are not run for profit. All the profit they aim to make Is to pay their offl- cers' salaries. In this respect these banks differ from those of the rest of the country. When the senator from Missouri introduced into the bill tha clause taxing all deposits over $1,O00 in savings banks all the representa- tives from Connecticut opposed it, and made it read so that only deposits od over $10.OOO in savings banks can be- taxed and there is only one such de- ly informed"
 At the close of his speech he read a written statement concerning the A. P. A. in which was the following:
 Two weeks ago tonight made cer. tain statements relating to the attitude of some of the republican leaders in this district and state towards the ot- ganization most generally known as the A. P. A., but whose inside name is called Amoreans.
 I now desire to say that if the repub- licans will produce the affidavits of every man who attended the meeting of the Amoreans at Veru hall on Sep- tember 15 last, at which time MT. Cor bin made the statement about MT. Cof- fin that I attributed to him, and at which meeting 1t was agreed to work for the nomination of MT. Coffin for governor and of MT. N. D. Sperry for congress, to the effect that I have mis- represented what did take place there. then I shall take my name off from the democratic ticket and shall contribute $500 to the hospital located on Cedar street in this city. s
 I am not alluding to the public meet- ing held in Veru hall for the alleged purpose of trying to induce MT. Sperry to accept the republican nomination, as this meeting was not held until the closing days of September.
 At the meeting held on September 15 there were about forty persons present. Connecticut is small and compact state, and these persons can be assem- bled by telegraph in few hours.
 I shall leave this offer open until Friday morning next, so that, if am obliged to retire from the ticket, ops portunity may be had to print and dis tribute the democratic tickets for the election to be held one week from to- morrow I am entirely willing to have the correctness of all statements made by me with reference to this organiza- tion, or with reference to the dealings of leading republicans with 1t, tested by the result of these affidavits. The last speech was made by John ~ \