The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-07
THE FINAL RALLY.
Knowlton Addresses
Republicans Of
Clinton.
TALKS ON NATIONAL ISSUES.
Bjgelow Makes Statement
About the Carpet Con-
solidation.
TALKS ON NATIONAL ISSUES.

DER the auspices of the Young Men S
Republican club in town hall this even
ing, at which the speaker of the even
ing was Hon. Hosea M Knowlton of
New Bedford, attorney general, was the
last vollay before the votes are counted
tomorrow.
Town hall held 100 persons when the
attorney general began to speak at s
o'clock
Jonathan Smith presided. The attor-
ney-general treated state and national
issues, without referring at all to local
issues.
Hon. A. H. Washburn of Boston, who
was once private secretary to Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, and who is now
assistant United States district attor-
ney, hurled republican doctrine in a
convincing way.
Hon. George w. Weymouth, congress
man from the fourth district, who was
expected to be present, was not on
hand. He was detained by other en-
gagements.
The gallery was reserved for ladies'
The Boston men arrived on the 7.30
train. They were entertained at the
Clinton house until just before o'clock,
when headed by the Turner brass band,
the speakers entered carriages and were
driven to the hall, followed by a body of
young republicans.
Among those on the stage were w.
F. Howard, L. B. ingalls,, Wellington
E. Parkhurst, C. F. Fairbanks and the
candidates. Bates of Sterling and Davis
of this town.
In the other towns of Worcester coun-
ty where the election excitement is not
intense, it must be difficult for people
: to realize the interest in the voting for
representative tomorrow, which is uni
versally felt in this district.
This evening a party of republicans
came over from Northboro to inVesti-
gate for themselves if the Davis men
have said that Elevated railroad money
was being used to defeat S. Ives Wal
lace. The names of the visiting gentle
men were not made public but they
were received by S. Ives Wallace and
William Rodger, and this afternoon Mr..
Wallace was rounding UP witnesses to
the information relative to the Boston
Elevated Railroad company, which was
said to have been impaired by c. f.
Fairbanks, Jr.
Today brought storm of communi-
cations. One was written by William
Rodger as chairman of the republican
town committee, and member of the
board of selectmen, and the other by
c. F. Fairbanks, Jr
The most striking part of Mr.. Rod
gers communication is where he says;
Never While 1 am at the head of this
town government will l allow any in
reference in our home politics by any
outside corporation whatever, without
an emphatic and vigorous protest. If
we have found a man in S. Ives Wal
lace strong enough to stand up for the
people, ana be independent enough to
arouse the wrath of this large cor
poration to such an extent that they
come into this district and use their
influence for his defeat, then I say s.
Ives Wallace is a good man to send
back"
Mr. Fairbanks in his communication
takes the view that Mr.. Wallace has
attempted to change the issue from the
Boston Elevated to attacks upon the
character of the former. Mr.. Fairbanks
treats the statement that stories have
been circulated derogatory to Mr.. Wal
lace's character, as follows:
The appeal scores backhiters, and so
do l. But when was a man ever nom
mated for an important public Office
who did not have to run the gauntlet of
campaign lies sure to be circulated
against him? Why should he hope to
escape the ordeal? The sting of the Sit
uation is simply his defeat"
The stories referred to are stories
that Mr.. Wallace did not pay his coal
bills was short in his accounts with a
church of which he is treasurer, was
bought inethe Legislature, and was short
in his accounts with the republican
town committee, all of which charges
were recited in campaign circular
sent out by the republican town com
nnittee, Saturday, and denied in the
same circular.
c. f. Fairbanks Jr., claims the cleo
ton of Thomas S. Davis, for whom he
claims something like 1900 votes in the
district. At democratic headquarters,
this evening, the election of David I.
Walsh is claimed by 1900 votes in the
town and 1850 in the district. 1t is prob
able that with the vote split among
seven candidates as it is, 400 votes
will elect the man who gets them.
1t is believed by the leaders of both
parties that $500 persons will vote to-
morrow in town as against about 1900
who voted last year There will be an
increase of the vote cast in the country
towns.
Walsh men are claiming a place, OF
close TO it, for him in West Boylston
and Northboro, and a vote in the other
towns for him that Will be three times
as great as the vote cost for Charles
H. Gentsch, the democratic candidate
nominated in Clinton year ago.
This same Gentsch is the bugaboo of
the Walsh forces today. If there is dis