The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-19
SPERRY'S REPLY TO PIG0TT
HE WILLS0TMAKET THIS IsCAsfPAIGS
 4 RELIGIOUS WAkFARE.

4 RELIGIOUS WARFARE.
 PiRott Tries to shirh the Real Issues and
 Mako the csmbsiEn Religious Warfare
 "A Turbulent Meeting at Washington
 Hali-Jsmss Checking Interrupts Mir.
 sperry and is Invited on the Platform
 and Given an Opportunity to spcak-Mr. z sperry c vss 6 me Fscts About the Tarin
 and Income Tax-The First District Com
 Rrsssman Voted Against the Tariff Bill
 and Income Tax tho Second Districts
 Representative Voted for it-whsre Does
 the Democratic Party Stand?
 The republican rally which was held In Washington hall on Grand avenue last evening was by far the liveliest and most exciting political meeting which has been held in this section during the present campaign. There were as many democrats as there were repub- licans in the hall, and they tried to run affairs with a high hand.
 The meeting was preceded by street parade, which formed at the Young Mems Republican club rooms on Crown street and headed by the Second Regi- ment band marched to the hall. Chairman Macdonald announced Isaac UIlman as the presiding officer of the meeting and the Hon. N. D. Sperry was introduced as the first speaker. He spoke in the main as follows:
 Gentlemen and Fellow Citizens-I am glad to meet so many of my fellow townsmen here tonight. I see before me many who have in days gone by been in my employ. It has fallen to my lot to be an employer of men. Since 1S47 I have been in the business of building houses As 8 young man l came here to the city to learn my trade and settled here on East street. I remember Grand avenue when there was but one store this side of Olive street. As rode down here this even ing I thought over the vast improve ments that have been made in this part of the city since that time. I can hardly believe my senses-this Grand avenue lined with stores all the way down and beyond the river. thought it impossible that I was on the ground where I once lived and worked as an apprentice I passed the houses which I built myself and where and my wife lived and where one of my children was nurtured, and saw that it had been turned, into a. store with tene- ments in the rear say that the march of improvement has been mar vicious. I have not forgotten the scenes of the day I lived in this part of the city. As rode through the street and heard tha tlittle boys and girls say: There he goes. There is N. D. Sperry,' felt it was compliment to me.
 q have had the honor to serve this part of the city, as we'll as the other parts, as your postmaster and tried to give you good service. have had young boys come into my employ and grow up under me. The only ques- tions that were ever asked them were whether they were faithful and hon. est. Whenever I have employed men no questions have been asked them as to where they lived and where they were born. (Cheers.)
 "So, my friends, I was somewhat agrieved and taken back when I read in the papers an allusion made of me concerning my acts as citizen. We'll. we all have been foolish at times. It may be because I was ignorant of legislation But that's your fault, gentlemen, not mine. Now have no written speech, none to read. I come before you'to tell you my honest con- victions, and if my words commend themselves to you. if they seem to you to be true, at least give me the credit of trying to say what I believe to be true and which shall endeavor to make plain to you tonight.
 "But before proceed want to read something to you which have written out and which think I am justified in presenting to you in view of the fact that the opposite party is trying to shirk the main issues and make this a religious warfare.
 said in my speech in accepting the nomination for congress, that forty years ago was 8 member of the Amer ican party, but that had lived in New Haven some fifty years, during which time my record is known to all the people of New Haven, and upon that record l, would rest. If my dis tinguished friend who discoursed upon A. P. A-ism so fluently the other night, thinks that he is going to draw me into religious discussion or warfare, he is greatly mistaken. I have noth- ing whatever to do with a mans re- ligious opinions, nor has the party to which belong. I have not expressed any opinion concerning religious or race issues, to any committee of any or gaization. am not, and never have been, a member of the A. P. As so- called. nor have anything to do with a mans religious faith, nor has the republican party. That is a matter between the individual and his God. And my opponent in attempting to stir up religious prejudice fof the purpose of distracting the minds of the voters from the main issues involved in this contest, and for temporary political gair1 is entering a realm whose sacred precincts should not be disturbed with such political babble.
 Councilman James Glacking here interrupted < the speaker by asking: "Why don't the republican party de nouce 1t in It's platform?''
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