Show THE TARIFF Plain Answer to a Plain Letter New York I6Tbe Sun prints several eral communications to hi editors from orkiagmen and others The following ls sampe SirWhat prompts mo to write the letter to you is the faith I have in your attention to a democratic wurkingman On Monday eight I was standing near the Herald bulletin where it laro crowd was assembled looking at the returns The crowd consisted mostly of workingmen working-men Around were a number of men whom anyone would take to be demo rts Imagine my surprise when I heard these men say in reference to the defeat in Indians that the democracy would lose thi slate also that this was not a question vrhe her Hancock or Gai field should be tho next pr eident that it was whether they were to suffer their trade to go to foreign markets I toek six different positions in that crowd only to hear like oxpresions satisfying me that the tariff question was making a large number of convert Now sir what I would ask is that you urge ttife democratic leaders to take this question up in time and that you do it justice your editorial column Ii is true you had an article in the otter day but that was no explanation It read more like an apology Excuse mo if I am candid I am giving the facts as I took them I believe that fourfifths of the workingmen I working-men iOf this city want a change to democrats but if they can be made to believe the change would threaten heir livelihood would prefer leaving matters as they now are but if you can show them in a plain manner that what Mr Hewit rays is true and do it in time you will bring them back TOJ owe thi to them They all read your pper I Signed GEO OCoSHKLL The Sun say The answer to all this is that of late years the platforms of parties par-ties adopted by national conventions have come to have very little real significance Could anything be stronger than the civil service reform platform of the republican republi-can conventions of 182 and 1876 The mocrti have had a majority in the House of Representatives lor sir years and in both huues since 1877 and jet tboy have done nothing whatever towards to-wards tariff for revenue only Indeed they have not even attempted the revision and reform that are plainy necessary to cure the grois abaser Are we not then juit fi din sayijg bat the idea of adical change in our pUn customs taxation is prepqterous and can any intelligent workingman who is really democ ratio at heart allow himself to be to influenced by any feelingof alarmon thenbject at to yoto Against Hancoik t |