Show Jlmlml he ON POM IKS I In It ol I Slloulil ICilpOulslili ol Ilirl lius ImLimuiHA Dec iiGreaoid Masler Workman Powdorly hns addressed a letloi to n committee of tho United Labor pal ty in this city in reply to nn invitation to address a convention of that party this evening < Hot thanks Ho-t them for the honor tendered him but says there urn a great many good reasons why ho should decline and adds When Ilin laboiing people of Now York nominate Hour George for Mayor they aoti dindipendent of hearty and without 10 dlI tho man they had placed at thin irs i of tho ticket My name was used by par hrtl rs k tisins in Now York to stem tho tide Itwns urged that I wrote 1 lotttei against Homy GIUILC and that I opposed tho movement cnarnllv I know of no helter way of giving thin Ho to all those aloe statements and at thu samo llmo doing my part toward to-ward the establishing of sculnnents I that would eventual secure for hbor somo of tho benefits for which ho worked than t to go in person and refute tho charges I did i all thoro my duty ended Ingoing to Now ork on that occasion I inndo n tlepirturo from Iho rule I havoob served for somo lime and which 1 do not intend to bioak I again vie not to speak at politic mcetinus again while i lta 1 llio first I officer of the Knihts of Labor WhIle i might be entirely piopcr for mo to speak nt such 1 me i ting yet i creates llio impicssion Hint tin Order of Knighls of Libor is being drawn into n contest and it is my duty to do all thnt lies in my pnvoi to keep tho Order over which I havo been chosen to pro side out of tho tide of pirlis in politics At New York I spoke as nn individual voicing tho scutum nt of nitcd Labor all not as Ooneial Master Workman of tho Ie of L While I nm General Master Workman 1 will notor occupy n pi IC ico cilhoi I as spenl cr IN ri or ollleei on u political platform |