A Forcible Rejoinder

EDiTORREGiSTER:-Throughyourkindness, I was permitted, two weeks ago, to give to the public the reasons why, as a republican, I could not support Mr. Allen for congress for a third term. In that spirit of kindness which, under its present management, The Register has uniformily extended to all parties, you gave Mr. Allen and his friends an invitation to answer the objections urged against his reelection. They have accepted your invitation and have given to the public their answer tbrough The Register. Impotent as it, it took a council of flve to usher it into the world, and it must be accepted as the very best answer the facts will admit of. And aside from its illustrious parentage, its chief merit will be found in what it does not say. They have wisely attempted no refutation of any charge I made. They were truths so seH-evident that they could not be denied and so damaging that they dare not be admitted. I charged that Allen was seeking a third term without having shown any ability to discharge the duties of the office. If this charge were not true, the public had a right to be pointed to a congressional record that would refute it. But his defenders have prudentl remained silent respecting a four years' career ia congress that can only pass without censure, when it passes without observation. Tney attempt to justify his ie-nomination, not because by valuable service he has earued it, but because a southern politician said the south took care of her intere&ts by eending back their old members. We have no rebel interest to protect and need no rebel methods or practices to protect them. Our interests are not confined to any section, but affect the family of nations, and we need men of mental grasp as broad as the interests at stake, and when we find them, as with Webster, Clay, Chandler, Blaine, Garfield, Edmunds, Cutcheon, Burrows, and the like, we keep them at the helm of state during life. All others have the good sense to retire at the end of a first or secondterm,or the people retire them. I charged that in adminietering the affaire of this district he had weakened the party, by engendering bad feeling among our leaders and dividing our rank and file into warring factions. If any man doubts the truth of this charee. let him look over the four counties composing this district and teil us where are the men who have heretofore been found in the thickest of the conflict and whose wiee coun6els and sage advke have so often led us on to victory. One, only one, of all the host has armed for the figut. On every hand we find the rank and file broken into faetions and cabala. While Allen does not deny these facts, he denies tbat he is responsible for it. Then why are not the other districts in the same condition? Of all the districts that went republican two years ago, this is the only one that the republican state central committee admit to be doubtful now. Who has made it so? I charge that Mr. Allen's administiation of the affairs of the district has made it so. And a few instances (and the nearer home the better) will serve to Ilústrate the whole. J. E. Sumner, an old soldier bearing honorable scars, presented to Mr. Allen the endorsement of over 600 live, active republicans, asking his appointment as postmaster of the city. Junius E. Beal and Col. Dean presented the petition for the appointment of E. E. Beal. Allen ignored the 600 and said the o!d soldiers couldn't have everything and appointed Beal, just as he intended tofrom thefirst. And in justification of this conduct, he said to Seth Randall : "There is more manhood in "Juny" Beal's little finger, than there is in all those fellows." Is it strange that the 600 have gone to thinking. If, in Allen's opinión, they all combined do notamount to "Juny 's" little finger, they will let the puissant little finger do the voting for Allen this fall. It is rumored that that little finger proposes to send $10,000 to elect Allen. Well, it will probably take that or none. There is quite a shortage in the erop of Allen votes this fall. And if the boys hold the market steady, it may require opening even anotber barrel. At Chelsee, Mr. Judson and Capt. Negus were candidatos for the post office. Judson was first in the field and had a petition some time before Negus commenced. A large number of Judson's supporters swung off for Negus, and his endorsement largely out-numbered Judson's. He was endorsed by leading republicana and Grand Army men all over the state. Instead of appointing his man as he had intended from the first, Allen suffered the struggle to go on and grow more and more bitter. At length, a large number of steady-going republicans, who had taken no part in the contest, in order to stop the conflict and save disruption of the party, without saying anything to either gentleman, petttioned Allen, for the good of the party, to appoint Negus and stop the quarrel. Allen wrote back that, inasmuch as they had not notified Judson that they were going to get up such a petition, he should not receive it, and appointed Judson. Is it difficult to se why these old line republicans have concluded, if they must ask the consent of such curb stone politicians before they can petition their congressman for a redress of grievances, it is time there was a change? John Van Duyn,of Manctietter, a long repubhcan and a party leader, every way competent for the position, secured a large petition for bis appointment.signed by the substautial business men of the villüge. To get Van Duyn out of the way, Allen said to A. J. liobison, "I would like to do something for you, not only because of the respect I bear you, but out of the respect I bear to Uutle Andrew, your father; bo was always my friend. If you will go to work and get up a petition for the Manchester post office, and get it well signed and send it to me, I will see what I can do for you." With this encouragement, Robison went to work and got up a good showing of names and sent it. to Allen. When Allen got both petitions, he proclaimed that Kobison's petition had destroyed Van Duyn's and Van Diyn's had destroyed Robison'f, and thea appointed the present incumbent, who had no petition at all, and had Imasted from the flrst that he would be tlie aext postmaster. Van Duyn, Robison and their friends have become aware of Allen's duplicity and have coneluded to let the new postmaster elect Allen if he can. These are only .specimens, wbich might be multiplietl indefinitely, but space will not permit. It is enongh to show that the present disorganized, fractional condition of the party is due directly to Allen's management. I charged that he retained deuiocrats in office, not because of any civil service principies, but simply in order to secure to himself democratie votes at the expense of the baUnceof the ticket. If any man doubts thic, let him inspect our own post office. Except one, or possibly two, the entire forcé is democratie. Ir' this were d me througb. a proper motive, it would be an diitirely different matter, bnt it is done to make Alien votes, and this is the only reason why they are kept ihere. In it any greater political sm for rae to v te o Cut a democrat in office, because tlieret y the party will be bensflted, ihau ii is for our congressman to retain demócrata in office simply bi'duse l li-y -ll vote for him ? I know it is promised that thy bhall be voted and then lurned out, i.ui that does not mend the matter. It is bad enough to have offices used to iufluence votes. It is infinitely worse to have them used to boom one man to the hurt of the balance of the ticket. I charged that Allen had attempted to perpetúate himself in office by packing caucusesand conventions and based his hopes of re-election upon the ability of his appointees to whip into line the honest, intelligent voters. Istliis trae? It is an open secret, that in the Hrds of this city, as soon as tlwcaucu.i. were called to order, some Alien man f pped to the front with a paper in his iiand, and made all noininations froiu n .mes on his paper, prepared in ulvance. After the caucuses, the Allen imu from arious parts of the county beid a secret meeting ata certain office 111 the city and decided who should be chairman and committeemen of the couuty onvention, and who should t'e sent as delegates to the congrossion o rjnvention. When the county oODveution was called to order, the cbairman aas selected without a vote, and ihanking the convention for the uiu-sptcted honor, he drew from his pock i paper and read therefrom the ui the gentlemen oomprising the Vctrtoitn uommittees, and from caucas to tv on, no name was presented that wa nol an Allen man. Will calling people lian, cnivliala, and disappointed office setk Uisprove these facts? And yet, Mi.ii all the answer that is made. Nu. hing I have said can do Mr. Allen fw much hann as his answer, for it puts the truth of the charges beyond dispute. The Courier did not publish my letter, bui lest some of its readers might have read it, he fires ibis shot. " Perhaps, (says the Courier) the most amusing thing about this fondness for anonymous assault is the apparent unconsciousnes8 of the writer that they come simply ohjects of pitying mirth to the persons thus addressed," &c. And jet no discerning man can read "Me tooV' defence of Allen, who does not fiad his mental eye directed at once to the tripod of the Courier. It is true I did not sign my name to the letter. If ihe charges I made are false, no name can give them potency ; if true, they need no other endorsement. Would theanswersigned "One of the Rank and File " have been made either gnod English or respectable billingsgate, il' ii had been dignified by the oii name of lts presumed wnter? 'nuld the vindictive assault of "Kicker" have been made to show bet er sense or more gentle breeding, il' sime military chieftain bad signed hi.s own name with his full title ? And last and least, would the shriek of "Me Too" have been any more dignified or forcible in its defence of the great congressman, had the profound statesman of yourcontemporary honored it with his unreaduble sign manual ? No, it was the truth of tny charges that angers these gentlemen and makes them descend to surh nonsense. Conscious that almost without exceplions Allen's defenderá are Allen's oñk-eholders, in person or by proxy, or expect to be, they run to the other extreme and conclude that every republican who puts party above Allen is a disappointed office 'seeker, sorehead, kieker, and Har. One, only one, of all these eminent defenderá of Mr. Allen have the least respect for Captain Allen, the rest kiss the hand of the congressman, and when men in power reward euch disgraceful exhibitions in their defence as Allen defenderá have shown in thia matter, may not the public juntly conclude that the cause that needs uch a d fence is a bad one?