Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1888 — Ex-Mayor Low Bolts. [ARTICLE]

Ex-Mayor Low Bolts.

Seth Low, late Republican Mayor of Brooklyn, repudiates the tariff plank in the Chicago platform and withdraws from the Republican organization. Mr. Low cemmends the ticket nominated at Chicago to all who believe in the principles of the Republican platform; but adds that he is utterly opposed to those principles. The tariff* issue, he says, is the chosen battle-ground of the two parties, and he prefers to stand on the Democratic side. He says: “I believe, as Garfield did, in a protection which leads us toward free trade. The declaration of the Chicago platform is for a protection which works away from free trade. The chief line of changes in the present tariff which the party commits itself is to increase duties where any articles made at home are still imported. This* it seems to me, is entirely new ground for the Republican party; but, whether it is or not, the policy outlined in -the platform is one in which I do not believe and on behalf of which I can make no fight. I do not desire to claim the privilege of party fellowship when I am unable to support the party on the leading issue of the moment.”