Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-01-08
Paddy Diver his Text.

SUNDAY SERMON ON MAYOR GRANTS
LATEST APPOINTMENT.
| In his Sunday sermon in New York the
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr.. came down on
the new judge of Mayor Grants appoint
mcnt and incidentally paid his respects to
| Tammany Hall and the mayor As a
prelude to his sermon in Association Hall
DR. Dixon spoke on Crime IN the Judg-
ment Seat which he facetou>ly dubbed
A Defense of His lIouor,P Diver, Esq.
| He said
Mayor Grant mas appointed Paddy Diver,
saloon keeper, tough and crimnal-judge
of police court of the city of New York,
at a salary Of IS 600 a year. Well. what
Of il: Some unkind things have been
said about Mr., Diver Paddy Olivier, Esq
the Hon Patrick Diver. | respectfully
submit that it i not his fault lie is all
right There must be fitness in things.
even in politics. The appointment of Pat
| Diver as Judge. by Hugh J. Grant, is a
ANYTHING else: We certainly cannot blame
Mr.. Diver. He went into polite, for the
money there Is in it and for protection to
his various saloons.
! I'll" judges Of the city presumably are
| the tueuIir> Of his business. 1t is perfect
| ly natural that he should desire to capture
the Judiciary that the guns Of the enemy
should be sIcnced. To do this he entered
Iammany Hall. He Is one of the faithful
| ilr is one of Tammanv'> trusted chiefs
| lie bought that judges seat by his infu-
cnce his money and his energy. He paid
for it, Mr. Grant has sold it and lie has
simply delivered the goods His saloon
was at least doing thriving business on
Sunday, April l3. 1870, according to the
report of one of our great morning dailies.
! Ii will look little curious TO see him sit
ting IN the seat Of judgment, and yet no
more curious than Ia see Mr. Grant in he
mayors chair when We remember that his
honor the mayor confessed himself to be
"Criminal"
They are two Of Kind. and they say
that Paddy is an honorable man They say
that he Is honest. | am afraid that is
more than we can say Of Mr.. Grant, if we
believe his own statement in regard TO
his appropriation of $50 coo in Illegal fees
We know that Mr.. Diyver has been the
friend aud associate of criminals His
business has been to rescue them from the
clutches of the law after he had helped
manufacture them in gin mills
We can imagine some curious scenes in
faces of the drunks on Monday morning
to see # he can recognize familiar friends
To know where they got their LIQUOR.
whether it was at the right place or at
some other mans saloon. Ii the liquor
was obtained at the right place, We NAV
presume, at least, that the judgment will
not be severe. If the drank was unfortu-
nate enough to patronize rival the Judge
NAV frOwn.
These are not very pleasant scenes to
contemplate at the close of the nineteenth
century in the metropolis of the New
" orld, But who is responsible: Not
Mr.. Diver The voters of New York
who turned the city over to this gang
must be ready to recognize their own
work What sort Of men would YOU ex-
pect Grant to appoint: Would YOU expect
Tammany mayor to appoint angels to
office: Hardly Did he owe h election
To angels: The saloon keepers and thugs
led by such men as Pat Diver. gave him
the basis of his success. Why should he
not recognize their services: They made
him; lie /, one Of them. Whose business
Is 1t II he appoints one of his pals to fat
Office: What are You going to do about
it, anyway: They say there is honor
even among thieves, How can You object
~ sui II Il pei poem dS THIS Ill DGicllcdI
politics. 1t harmonizes with the eternal
fitness of all things.
The whole truth j., under the admins
tration of the city government by Tam
many Hall the offices are sold to the high
est bidder. The man who eau give the
most money and the most unqualified sup
port TO the deeds of Tammany will get
these rewards. Tammany Hall is practi
cally run by the saloon keepers of the city,
and run In the interests of their criminal
business. 1t Is their purpose to trample
the city beneath their feet. They defy 1t to-
day They have their pals in the board
OF excise, they have their pi / in the mayors
chair and they have determined to capture
the last stronghold of our civlizaton-the
judiciary. Well, it belongs to them. We
have turned the city over 10 Tammany
Hall. Tammauy cannot repudiate this ele-
ment without committing suicide-repud-
iating hel self.
The people who vote, and who do not
vote but have the right to vote, are solely
responsible for the deeds of the rresponSi-
bic gang known as Tammany Hall that
now controls this city Let us be fair
We cannot blame Mr.. Diver. He is full
filling his normal mission in life. And
they say that Paddy is an honorable man.