Show mil MR POWDERLY AT HOME hi friedia think he will be rich some dy DAY rill political ambitions SCRANTON oct 6 many of general mister master workman pow derlys scranton acquaintances be do lieve that mr alir powderly is bound to get rich before long and they speak with pride of the fact that he is in much better financial shape than he lie was wa a few years ago up to the present time mr air powderly ha has drawn as salary from tho the knights of labor lie ile was firl brit elected in the lall fall of 1879 as general master workman and he lie has held the offie ever since from 1879 until 1886 his sala salary ry was 1500 a year but at the richmond contention convention last october he got it raised to a year that is not all the money A mr ir powderly powderly y has re received celled in salaries since he became general master workman of the order however he lie was mayor of scranton when he be was first chosen general master workman the workingmen of scranton Bc ranton having chosen him mayor in february 1878 he was re elected reelected in 1880 and again in 1882 he ile held the office of mayor from rom A april 1 1 1878 until april 1884 a and d t bis i s salary for the six years was 1600 a year or in all this added to what the knights of labor paid him makes mr powderly was not a candidate for the Alayo mayoralty ralty in 1884 but he was wa in 1880 A few weeks before the convention was to be held he be went around among the leaders in the democratic wards to see what the outlook was for delegates he fouad found that frank A beamish who wag was mayor at that time had bad been round around ahead of him and that the alleged leader leaders had pledged themselves to support beamish mr powderly than thin abandoned the hunt soon after the republicans nominated ezra ff ripple for mayor he waa was the most popular man in the republican ranks and although a faction in hia his party undertook to get a majority of the dele t e a for another man mr ripple ripples sates fri ends elected sixty one of the sixty two delegate delegates when this became known beamish reused refused to ran run the convention then called mr powderly in and offered ered the nomination to him he ile told the delegates that ho he had bad wanted the nomination a while before but that he be did not care for it then it is tho belief of many here that mr powderly means to run for congress against congressman ex joseph A scranton next year these two men bad had a little newspaper controversy contro verey not long ago over the immigration question in which mr powderly said lome thing that has led some ome of hie his ac quain to suppose that he le would like to be put up for con gresa about the time his term as general master workman will expire one year hence the recent apportionment made lackawanna county a congressional district by itself and mr powderly feels that bo he could carry it easily hp ifo has bas built himself a big house on a knoll on the f ga river I 1 a a 1 a x little bore than a mile fruin from the centre of there is no house bithia several rods of it and from the window approaching interviewers can be seen lor for quito quite a distance if ibe the anxious interviewer happens to be one that mr powderly does nit care to see it is 1 for the interviewer to tr try y to get a sight i of him mr po a arly has as a notion that he ho can interview himself a good deal better than anybody can interview him bira and ever since since the cleveland convention ven tion one year ago tsat at summer miner he be has not been ao so friendly lo 10 newspaper men as he seemed to be before that time powderly is a foxy fellow said a roan man who has known mr powder ly from his boyhood and ausit as soon as anything goes wrong in in the order he threatens to resign this is 13 all done for effect but the great body does not know it as well as I 1 do at richmond lat isa october his voice voice trembled as he told the hundreds of delegates that he lie would probably them again that was done for effect too and it worked tip lip top but he be ba never intended to resign lie ile will remaina remain at the head of the knights Kni tita until his present term is is out and when that time cornea comes I 1 don t b believe he will con conget split to run again lie ile likes power but be he wants to gel get into an other channel and he lie hopes h that the workingmen groen faill ill have a majority onty in in congress Cong reps before many ye hearp a rp and he would like to be at the head of euch a delegation in the halls balls of national legi legislation slat io n if that is is not what he hope hopes for I 1 a am rn much mis mistaken in in the man inan 11 |