Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-15
TURNED ON TAMMANY.
One Of the Tigers Head Keepers Be-
comes a Good Republican.
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM TOO MUCH
For Even Commercial Lawyer Who Was
Always democrat.
HE WILL VOTE FOR TARIFF, THIS TINE

NEW YORK, Oct 14-The fact that this
is a campaign of education receives new
confirmation each day. Many Democrats
who have been honest in their beliefs, and
who have studied the conditions of the
country thoughtfully and sensibly, are
coming into the Republican party. The
position that the Democratic party has
taken on the tariff and currency has alien
ated many men who had an honest faith in
Democracy.
One of the most important of these ac-
cessions to the Republican ranks is Otto
Irving Wise, one of the best known COM
mercial lawyers in New York. For num-
Der of years he has been member of the
Tammany Hall General Committee of the
Twenty-frst district, but ne does not take
politics lightly. He thinks the duty of
every good citizen is to cast his vote for the
party that does the best for the country.
He has gone through Mr.. Cleveland with a
lighted candle, and has left him and his
party. He now has certain honest things
to say of them both.
A Lawyers Mode of Reasoning.
"a lawyer" he said this morning, "can
have very little motive in his advocacy of
the claims of any party. If he is honest
with himself he will study the professions
of each party as made plain in the plat
forms, and will take into account the faith
fulness with which the parties live up to
their platforms. I studied with great
deal Of care the Chicago platform.
''Mr. Clevelands letter of acceptance is
inconsistent with the platform. Mr.. Hill
is inconsistent with both. If want to vote
according to conviction, I can find no place
in the Democratic party. The platform ad-
vocates wildcat currency; both Cleveland
and Hill ignore that Cleveland, in his
tariff views, as expressed in his letter, is as
far away from the Democratic platform as
President Harrison is, and if you ask him
why 'he is a Democrat, he howls, No force
bill
'I learned the foolishness of Democratic
pretensions on all these contradictory points
in a trip I have just made in Maryland,
Delaware, Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Everywhere I found sound satisfaction with
the prosperity of the country. The wage
workers are better off than they have ever
been before, and, without exception, they
attribute this to Republican principles, as
crystallizing in the Mckinley bill.
The Force Bill Bugaboo No Good.
'In Maryland and Virginia the force
bill bugaboo does not frighten anyone.
The honest Democrats would like to see a
m easure passed that would insure pure
and honest count, and take the polls out of
the hands of the bulldozing class of low
whites who now defeat every measure of
reform. No Democratic speaker in Mary
land, I was told by the Chairman of the
Democratic Committee in Wilmington,
dares to try and whip up Democratic en-
thusiasm by attacking the federal election
law known as the Lodge bill. The Demo-
cratic party seems to have job lot of
ready-made platforms which it serves out
to suit the taste of each section, but their
tariff straddle and the Doodle scheme Of es-
tablishing State banks with wildcat cur
rency will defeat the ticket"
Mr.. Wise added that the report of Demo-
cratic Commissioner Peck proved that pro-
lection and Republicanism were for the best
interests of the people. "Republicanism,"
he said, epigrammatically, sis synonymous
with the prosperity of the country. An
honest man who has studied the history of
both parties cannot vote the Democratic
ticket" Here is Mr.. Wise's letter to
Tammany:
Mr.. Wise's Letter to Tammany.
NEW YORK, Oct. s, 1892
oaHes Idmfndny Hall
trict:
DEAR SIR-I beg herewith to withdraw nv
name as member of the General Commit
tee of Tammany Hall for the TwenGy-first
Assembly District. l feel that cannot con-
scientiously remain member of your COM
mittee because the principles embodied in
the Democratic platform adopted at Chicago
last June and since expOunded by the lead-
ers of the party, are contrary to my belief
as to what would best adduce to the welfare
of the country. A areul study of the Re-
publican platform, upon which Mr.. Harri-
son stands for reelection, convinces me that
/ cannot serve the interests of the commu-
nifty at large any better than by voting for
the candidates of the Republican party.
OTTO IRVING WISE,