The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-27
DIXON LASHES THE TIGER
TAMMANY CALLED A COTERIE OF
CRIMINALS.

Judge Grady Represented as Standing
In With Commissioner Koch-DIs- =
trict Attorney Nicoll Accused of
Railrosding the Charge Of Libel Into
the Hands of a Tammany Grand
Jury Foreman.
NEW York. June 26-Rev. Thomas
Dixon, Jr., now under bail pending trial
on a charge of libeling Excise Commissioner
Koch from his pulpit. preached to-day in
Association hall for the last time during the
summer months. As a prelude to his SER
mon he made statement of some Of the
facts in the official re lord of Commissioner
Koch upon which the so-called libelous
sentences in his review OF May 30 were
based. Rev. Dixon said he had never seen
Commissioner Koch until he took the wit
ness chair. 81 had supreme contempt
for this man, who is utterly
obscured by the hopeless rascality of
the record he has made in
office, If we are TO believe she sworn testi-
mony Of uncontradicted witnesses and the
decisions Of judges of the supreme court.
Koch," said he, lis simply the cats paw Of
quiet young man who spells the kings
English with difficulty andis averse to pub
licity OF any sort, Hughey Grant. Tam
many is simply trying to throttle the free
speech of the pulpit Of New York"
GRADY's ALLEGED coNNIvANCE.
koch found at last In his pal, Grady, a
Judge whose opinion he was willing for the
public to hear. But he did not venture into
Grady's court until he ascertained before
hand by private confab what the decisions
would be.
when the farce at court was ended the
complaint was railroaded down to the dis
trict attorneys Office in few hours. This
indictment was drawn in a few hours more
and hurried into the grand
jury. Why this extraordinary hastel
Is such haste usual[in New York9 I found
out when l got into the grand jury room.
Not suspecting job foolishly asked the
privilege to make statement For public
show they allowed me to enter. The fore
man, however, drew the line at any evil
dence in justification or excuse OF the al
legged libel. learned subsequently that this
foreman was Frank Higgins, Tammany
Hall heeler. There is, therefore, no
mystery In Tammany com
shot like lightning through the district at
torney's office into the itching palms of a
Tammany foreman especially when the In
dictment was based on an assault on Tam
many. The same jury dismissed eight in
dictments sent in through DR.. ParkhurSt's
society. while it took them only three min
utes to find an indictment against me for
words which occurred In public defense of
DR.. Parkhurst and his work.
CALLED CRIMINALS.
"Tammany Hall is the most powerful
coterie Of organized criminals that ever
dominated the life Of any civilization. It
makes and unmakes judges and juries. Ii
feeds and breeds on vice and crime. With
a merciless iron heel it crushes the weak
and intlmidates the half-hearted and defies
the strong 1t is the one wrishing. blasting
curse of our city's life, damning with the
hot breath Of corruption aud dishonor every
ramifcation OF our body polite. Like
fostering cancer it is literally eating the
heart out of the honor of our ambitious
young manhood. II il be true that the life
of minister Of the gospel is not safe, who
dares seriously to attack Tammany Hall,
then in the name Of Almighty God 1t is time
the world knewit.
DIXON A soUTHERNER.
' "By BIRTH tradition and association as q
southern men, l am democrat, and l
voted that national ticket last election. By
democracy l learned in my old native state
was meant honesty, integrity and decency.
A southern democrat cannot affiliate with
Tammany Hall without first lowering the
standard of his manhood and selling his
soul to the devil l take occasion TO warn
the national democracy Tammany Hall is
a load it cannot carry longer. Before the
party comes before the nation to
win another victory it will first have
to kick Tammany out of its
back door and turn on the hose pipe. After
trying to destroy the state of New York
they come sneakIng back from Chicago say
ing they will support the ticket. They lie.
They come back with honey on their lips,
treachery in their hearts and knives
in their boots. They will do
in November what they have done
before, and spend another four years In try
ing to lie out of it. The difference between
the present regime of Tammany Hall and
Of its founder, William NJ. Tweed, is the
difference between the ethics OF the bunco
steerer and the highway robber. If the
slippery godchildren of William M. Tweed
believe they can intimidate this pulpit let
them take due notice that they have made a
mistake"