The Worcester spy., 1898-10-11

oA pduN Luz illIle years. Al Luc lllllC 4
was made director, | bought my stock
for $l05 per share. They had just gone
through with that unpleasant time with
Col. Richardson, that you win renlem-
Der.
LOOKED LIKE REVENGE.
Now, for nine years, never missed
a meeting of the board Of directors Of
that bank when I was in the city.
think the first five years we did not lose
a dollar. A semi annual examination
never went by that l did not person
ally examine every discount and every
piece Of paper in the bank and usually
took very minute copies and sent
them afterwards typewriter to all the
five directors, because | just had the
time to do it and was disposed to do
It, and did do it.
| When the annual meeting came
around after the defeat Of Mr.. Rice,
several directors In that bank voted the
| regular ticket for all the old directors
except one. The ticket was prepared
by the cashier, Nathaniel Paine, with
out the remotest idea that there was
to be any change. There was not one
Of those directors that ever admitted
or limited, at any time, anywhere, that
he had the slightest objection to Mr.
| Bates election.
But, friends went out to the savings
banks Of this city that you own, the
savings bank books Of which are yours,
and gathered UP the stock held by
this savings bank, and the old Worces-
| ter County Institution for Savings, the
State Mutual Life Insurance Co., the
Mechanics Savings Bank, and in an
adroit, sneaking, sly, foxy manner, one
or two gentlemen got the shares of
the City National Bank owned by this
| institution, and came INTO the annual
meeting with a ticket made uD, which
| was elected by the combined holdings
I of your stock, as that stock was not
| theirs, and they were the trustees.
They We're the guardians OF your
| rights, and they came into the annual
meeting and elected a ticket with my
name left off and Henry Witter of the
State Mutual Life Assurance Co. sub
! stituted.
And yet the Telegram tells you that
! Mr.. Bates was Kicked off the board of
directors" And that is only one Of the
one thousand lies they have told, or
tried to tell about Mr.. Bates. The re-
suit of that was that In one of the ma
| tional banks, as soon as possible to be
done, the other members Of the board
of investment got together and passed
vote that no one -lnan should take
the stock of the Worcester Institution
for Savings and use it for any political
or personal ends. 1 have stood under
that lie for twelve years. and I don't
proposed to any longer. Voice: That's
| right" (Applause.)
Truth crushed to earth shall rise
again.
The eternal years of God are hers;
But error, wounded writhes in pain
And dies among her worshipers."
CHARGED WITH SELFIsHNEss
Now, 1 have been charged as a very
mean mana very selfish mana man
who got his money and hung onto it,
One of my good neighbors came to my
house Saturday afternoon, and said:
Mr.. Bates, there is one thing l wish
you would do, when you speak Monday
night. l don't know just how you can
get at it, but there is an impression
in this town that you are very selfish
mean man-that you don't pay your
debts, because you rather let them run
along, an6 let the fellow whom you
owe get your money and keep yourself
the interest" Now, If there is a man
in the city of Worcester that / owe
dollar, 1 would like to
HAVE HIM STAND UP.
If there is a man in the city of Wor-
cester that ever saw my note, I would
like to have him stand up. And if there
Is any man who thinks am mean, and
wants to continue that, 1 will have to
| be excused for doing something that my
friend, Joseph H. Walker, sometimes
does. l don't know as he ever does It
| in Worcester but in Washington, in
| the house Of representatives, where it
Is reported in the Congressional Record,
to 10000, 600 people, he sometimes is
little boastful, and tells them how much
1at tde F1.- !, =
cause, and recently told them there that
he had given more money for the ad-
yancement Of education than all the
members of congress south of the Ma
son and Dixon line all combined. have
no doubt that is true, and 1 won't de-
tract one iota-
l THINK IT is SPLENDID.
And, gentlemen, how many of you
think Mr.. Walker gave $4,000 to the
Natural History Society just before the
caucus, eight years ago for it's effect?
don't think anything of the kind.
great many men think he has CIV
en- SO much money to the institution on
the hill. i think it is splendid on his
part Mr.. Walker has got lots of good,
strong points which l admire and like
and have got no personal difference
with Mr.. Walker, and 1 viii speak of
his political feeling pretty soon, but
that is entirely different from his per-
sonal and as he has set me an exam
pie Of being boastful, and am accused
of being such a harsh, grinding fellow,
/ may be justified a. little bit in throw
ing a bouquet to myself (Applause)
You know, fellow citizens, it is more
than IL years since you and l have met
and had a day off And the Telegram
has had it in hot for me all the time,
and I haven't had a chance to tell you
about it, and it was not their intention
should.
ready to enter Harvard College, and
strange as it may seem to you, I had a
very strong desire to go into THAT
very strange desire to go into
THAT WICKED PROFESSION
of the law.
My sister, younger by three years,
was in Mount Holyoke Seminary. she
had been there one year, and she had
got to leave the seminary or 1 had to
go to work and furnish the money for
her education, and I concluded that it
was much better that she should have
the higher education than for me, and
I left my college work and went to
teaching, and went and earned money
enough to pay her expenses, and she
went through Mount Holyoke Semin-
ary and graduated.
tried very hard to raise the money
to complete my education. / went to
two men, either one of whom were
abundantly able, and was informed by
them it was not convenient. I was very
much discouraged and heart broken.
So l had an experience, and some
times some of us can learn in no other
school, and I said to myself, "If 1t is
in my power, l will never allow any
one to come to me and ask for that as
sstance that has been denied me-" and
now, to round it up gentlemen, those