The herald., 1897-01-20
The History of Otis Alliance
With DR.. Mclean
THE TIMES MANS MALICE
His Double Dealing Resulted In His Own
Discontinue
The Story Of Letter and Why Otis
Suddenly Changed Front Towards
the Parkhurst Movement

The malicious bounding Of DR.. Nc
Lean by the Times is now explained.
That it emanatedl from malice no one
doubted when The Herald exposed the
preposterous fake begotten by the Times
last Saturday in impudently declaring
that the pastor of Simpson tabernacle
had been deposed by his board of trus-
tees.
Why was the Morning Hoodoo SO ran
cerously bitter against the reverened
gentleman that it stopped TO deliberate
falsehood to bolster up its miserable mis-
chief? 1t is easily explained. DR.. Nc
Lean had refused to bow to the bonn
bastic tyranny of Harrison Gray Otis.
The colonel who commands the
fortress at First and Broadway is in the
habit of expecting subservience from
everyone. All who come in contact with
him must crawl and cringe, since sus-
picion of insubordination is an unpardon-
able sin, insomuch that even the miser-
able ass who strains his stomach to be
humorous must bray at his masters bid
ding.
DR.. Mclean and Harrison Gray Otis
had formed an alliance.
Before entering the Parkhurst crusade
at all DR.. Mclean declares he sought
the advice and aid of the editor of the
Times. Otis was unusually cordial. He
promised every assistance In his power
in fact he was to occupy the position to
the Parkhurst movement which has gen.
orally been attributed to Rev. j. A. B.
Wilson--he was to pull the strings.
I'm his own sanctum," says DR.. Nc
Lean, Col Otis told me to so into 1t.
He said get the evidence. Get evidence
such as can be sustained In court. Otis
declared that no matter who was in
criminated he would stand back of me
and 1 could be assured of his moral sup
pert and the influence OF his paper"
IT was fully satisfied" resumed the
doctor that we had Otis and the Times
to back US"
Sometime afterwards Col Otis again
summoned me to his sanctum and put
before me a communication that had
come from New York denouncing the
character of Rev. j. A. B. Wilson" (This
was one of certain letters received by
Chief Glass from New York; "Otis gave
me a copy of the letter and said l could
make Just such use of 1t as | saw fit.
I could even read it to the Ministerial
union. l thought the matter over for
sometime. The letter was from a New
York detective, vilifying the character
of DR.. Wilson. Finally I determined to
as I did not think 1t fair to him to make
any other use of the letter until he him
self had seen it.
Col Otis had gone east. On his re-
turn his whole attitude towards the
Parkhurst movement and myself was
changed Now comes the explanation.
DR. Wilson on reading the letter Otis
had given me at once wrote to Rooss-
Welt, police commissioner of New York,
and In consequence of his letter, news
reached this city that the detective who
had been the author of the charges and
insinuatiops against DR.. Wilson would
either be discharged or degraded"
Pressure from another source had in
the meanwhile evidently been brought
upon Otis and he had been blamed for
allowing the letter to get out of his
hands.
I'm my next conference with Otis"
continued DR.. Mclean "he upbraided
me for what 1 had done with the letter.
He talked of my 'unprincipled behavior
in Giving DR. Wilson the letter. having
expressly told me that could
make any use of it saw At. He then
declared. L don't propose to stand back
of you in anything now"
Since that interview Col. Otis has GER
tainly kept his word. His paper has
never missed an opportunity to attack
DR.. Mclean, and finally let fly the fake
that has been properly exposed and de-
nounced in plain terms by the board OF
trustees themselves.
The facts of the case are simply these:
Otis desired to have the inside track of
the Parkhurst movement. He made an
alliance with DR.. Mclean. He was pre-
very close to Chief Glass. He
betrayed a confidence that Chief Glass
had imposed in him. The result was the
wrath of Chief Glass. and the humilia
ton of Otis. Otis then promptly pro-
ceeded to vent his spleen upon DIR. Nc
Lean, the innocent instrument Of his
own short-signted folly ana double deal