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Truth About Tammany

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Day
13
Month
July
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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Rev. Thomas Dixooi, Jr., of N. Y. City, now under bail pending trial 011 a charge of libeling Excise Commit siooier Koch frosm his pulpit, preached today fin Associatiom Hall for the last Üime during the summer inonthB. As la preliwle to bis sermón he made ai statement öf some of the facts and the official record of Commissionei. Kocb upoai which the Bo-called 1 beloois ente=nces in the Review o'f May 29 ,were based. Mr. Dixoai said h had nerer seen Koch umtil he took tha witmees chair. "I had a supreme comtempt tor ttois maai, who ie utterlj obscured ty the liopeless rascality oj t'he irecord he has made In office, il we are to believe the testimony cl uinoontradicted witnesses and the de etetoira of the judges of the Supreme Couirt." "Kot'ii'," said he, "is simply The eat paw of the quiet young man wli polls the kkig'g Einglteh wltb dlfl cnlty and is averee to publk-ity of an sort- Hughey Grant. Tammany j simiply tryltag to tJirottle the fre speech of the pulpit of New York." "Koch f'Oii'nd at last in hw pal, G-rady, a. judge whose opimion he was' willink iov the public to hear. Bui' he did mot venture toto Grady'e eouri imtii he ascertalned beforehand by private conifab -ivhat the decifiiou wou ld be. "Wlien the farce at the crmrt iv.ia' eaided, the camplatot was raüroade down t-o the District Attorney's o lice In u few li'ours. The indictmen was arad I was ushered hito the grao jury. Why tliiis extraordinary hastt Is BUCh liaste usual in New Yoi-k ? fotmd out why when I got into th granil jury. Not suspect int; a job , í'íoii.shiy asked the privilege to make a statement. Por public show tliey allowed me to enter. The ioreman liowever, drew a line at any evMenct in justiïication or excuse of the a: leg-ed libel. I leanned subsequentljt t'hat thi.s Ioreman was Frank Hij; giins, a Tajiiiiiany Hall 'Weelör.' Then Ü, therclore. no mystery in a ïair.maiiy coinplakit liefore a Tammanj judge being sbot like lightnlng ilirougi the diMt.rk-t attormey'e office into the Hchinig talons of a Tammany foreman cspecfally wlwn the imdictnipiit ivai based on an aesault on Taniinany. iii'us same grand jury diemissed eigtot iindictments sent in through Dr. Parkhiirsfs society, while it toot' tanem lonly thspee mtoutes to find as indietment against me foor wortls whicli occurred lm ])ul)]ic defenee ei Da-. I'arkhui-st and hiia work. Tam niany Hall is the mout powerful cote i (oí oriiauizcd ci-iiiiiuality fchat evei dominated the life of any civilizatior. It makes amd unmakes judgea and Jwrtee. Ii reeds and breeda on vice and criine. Wtth merciless iron lieci it oruBhee the weak, imtimidatea tlie' iialt-iiearti d. and defiies the stron It iw the tne of ow city's lite, (lanuiiiifí witto the hot breath of eorruption and dlfihonot rvriy ramMicatton of our body politir. Like a feeteriog it is literally ca tinte the beart out o-f the honor o oiir ainbitimus young manliood. "If it 1m? truc that the ]iïe of a minister oí die K(spel is not safe,who dare-s serioaisly attack Tammaiiji Hall, tlim in the name of the At miglity God, it is time the world' knew it. By birth, tradition and a sociation, a a Southern man, I ani a democrat, and I voted that na ttonal ticket last election. "But democracy, I learned in my, oíd native state, meant honesty, ta tegrity and deecney. A Southern" democrat cannot affiaiate vrlth Tam ma-ny Hall without iirst lowering the staowJard of his manhood and sellinji liis soul to the devil. "I take occasion t wam the na tiotnal öemocracy that Tammany Hal ils a load it camnot carry longer. BcJ fore the party comes bei'ore the matton, to win anothar victory it witf fiirst out of its back door and turn on tluff lióse pipe. After tryiuiig to destroy the state of New York they coma sneakiaig back from CMcago sayini? they will support the ticket. 'They lile. They coime back witla hoaiey on theiir lips, treachery in thei? hearts, aimd knives in their boots. They will do im November what theji bave done before, ajl spend anothe four years i.n. trying to lie out of it. The difference bet ween the present regime of Tammany Hall and thai of Lts fouinder, ViQlia.m M. Tweed, in the differente between the ethics oí & buinco eteerer and a taighway rob ber. "If taie öippery god-children of Wil liam II. Tweed beliieve tiliey can intim fílate this pulpit let them tak due notice - t'hey have made a mfc take."

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