The sun., 1900-09-03
Contractor Connolly
STRONGLY DENOUNCED
BY THE LADORLEACUE
A Funny Letter That He Wrote
the Bricklayers' Union
Made Public.
THANKS FOR BRASSY NERVE
Letter Shows That Connolly Was
Employed by His Opponent John
70. Healy to Make Repairs to
CrematOry While the Lat
ter Was Chairman of
Crematory Com
mittee.

As predicted in The Sun of Saturday.
the United Labor League, which con
Sists Of fifteen affiliated labor organi-
zatlons. met yesterday and took pro-
nounced action against Contractor Will
liam J. Connolly. il candidate iii the
| fifth representative district.
The Ford men, who are backing Con-
tractor John Il. Healy, had expected
TINS action for sometime, but now that
II has come are not very gleefui. as ii is
Said to he q sort of boomerang for Healy.
The League adopted resolutions III
which they stated that they desired to
notify the wage ealnerS OF the Fifth
representative district Of the character
and standing of Mr.. Connolly. EN-
bodied in the resolutions was the fol
lowing letter received from Connolly in
reply to letter sent by the Bricklayers'
Union to Mr.. Keller in 1898 when he was
having the hotel built ut the northwest
corner Fourth and Shipley streets. tell
ing him that non-union men were being
hired by Connolly who was the contrac-
tor. The letter waS as follows;
Wilmington. Del, Aug. 1S, 1898.
b. NJ. |. Y. of Delaware.
Wilmington. Del,
Gentelmen:-I am in receipt of a pine
story of the 9th instant from your ang-
llst body to Mr.. Keller in regard to me
and in reply must say that if you don't
quit your fooling Ill slap you on the
hand your an awful lot of good fellows
to interest yourself in my affairs and
| hope YOU won't charge me anything
for helping me but as | intended to
t,;f ~
Keller and tell him what an awful man
am but You are all right every one
of YOU. \ little hard luck, times are
hard and work is scarce and YOU had to
do something. There's nothing like
writing letter once in while. The
secretary would not earn his pay if he
didn't do something, but of course we
all know how that is. yes. yes, yes.
Now come t. the point gentlemen.
there's going to be good peach crop
this summer so be good and 80 home and
help to get the fruit to market. You
won't get much but the change will do
You good. | hope you will pardon me
for the suggestion hut | wish to inform
you that you want to 1T into direct
communication with Mckinley and IN
form him that Anthony Higgins anG
his gang are trying to land a IL n-llnion
postmaster as You all well know thai
Mr.. Addicks is president of the union
and his gangs are yours and youns are
working under the same adage in union
and unions there is strength and when
the cards are dealt out YOU will both
amount to about the same thing, a dirty
duece in a new deck and cheap deck
at that. Well ais well that ends well
says the poet and he that laughs last |
laughs best but / tell you without any
remuneration and to relieve you of the |
trouble of looking | will give you the |
correct list of my future booking. Or /
course you know now that | am Ell |
gagged ut Sixth and Broome for j. L. |
Carpenter, next job Keller Fourth and |
Shipley streets and Il few more viz: |
Mundy's Hotel, Front and French. |
alterations; six houses. Fourth and |
Clayton. owner. Mr.. j. Finon: three
houses Reed and jackson for Mr.. Joseph |
Dillon: one house on French above |
Eighth for Mr.. Hurbcrt Cassidy: six |
houses Front and Broome for Mr.. Writ |
repairing the city creamatory for the |
city: Wonderland Theatre. Seventh and |
Shipley streets; George Almont Eleven |
til and King; repairing house for Chas. |
Il. Lore and eight houses for Robert T. |
Cottingham Mt Oak and Franklin streets |
and If ii does not Slip my memjry | will |
keep Won Informed weekly Of my new
work and | hope yon will intcrt st your
self in my behalf as successfully with |
these gentlemen as YOU have with Mr.. |
Keller.
'As my pipe has gone out and / have
woke up ! want to thank YOU for your
trouble and for your amount OF bIassy
nerve. cheek. prejudice. jealously, bigo-
try ignorance and unadulterattd gall.
Il think you have tile largest cart load |
of cheek of any body that | know of
and my admiration for the same i
fully expressed in an unabridged Web.
sterian meaning and to take it all in all |
| must say in the words Of Climmir
Fadden your mp to me limit and you
make hip with me so hoping to hear
from you in the near future remain.
Yours woefully oStracSed.
WAf. NJ. C0NNELLY.
The League will see that its action is |
made known TO the voters of the Fifth /
Representative district and will have |
copies of the resolution and letter placed |
in every door in that part of the city. |
They may also he put un in poster shape |
and placed on the bill boards alongside |
of Connelly's famous anti trust platform |
member of the League stated last |
night that union men We're not much |
more favorable to Healy than they were
70 Conpel'v. When Healy was chair |
man of the creamatory committee cr