The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-06-27
DAMNED FROM THE PULPIT
Tammany Called a Coterie of Criminals,
Feeding and Breeding on Vice.
Preacher Dixon Says They Came Back from
Chicago with Honey on Their Lips, Treachery
In Their Hearts and knivesin Their Boots.

New YORK, June 26.-Rev. Thomas Dix.
on, jr.. now under bail, pending trial, on o
charge of l~ibefing Excise Commissioners
Koch from his pulpit. preached to-day in
Association Hall for the last time during
the summer months. As q prelude to his
sermon he made q statement of some of the
facts and the official record of Commits
sloner Koch, upon which the so-called
libelous sentences in the review of May 20
were based. Mr.. Dixon said he had never
seen Koch until he tool the witness-chair.
Il had q 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 the testimony of
uncontradicted witnesses and the decisions
of the judges of the Supreme Court
Koch" said he. "is simply the cat's-paw
of the quiet young man who spells the
Kings English with difficulty and Is averse
to publicity of any sort-Hugh Grant.
Tammany is simply trying to throttle the
FREQ speech of the pulpit of New York.
Koch found at last in his pal, Grady, Q
judge whose opinion he was willing for the
public TO hear. But be did not venture
into Grady's court until he ascertained be-
forehand by private confab what the de-
cisiOn would be. When the farce at
the cOurt was ended, the complaint
was railroaded down TO the dis
trlct attorneys office In q few hours.
The Indictment was drawn in Q few hours
more and hurried into the grand jury.
Why this extraordinary hastef liz such
haste usual In New York; l found out why
when ] got in the grand jury room. Not
ilege to make a statement. For public
show they allowed me to enter. The fore
man, however, drew a line at any evidence
in justification or excuse OF the alleged
man was Frank Higgins. q Tammany Hall
heller There Is. therefore, no mystery
in q Tammany complaint before q Tam
many Judge, being shot like lightning
through the district attorneys office into
the itching talons of q Tammany foreman.
especially when the indictment was based
on an assault on Tammany.
This same grand jury dismissed eight
indictments sent in through Dr. Park
bursts society. while it took them only
three minutes to find en- indictment against
mo for words which occurred In public de-
Tense of DE-. Parkhurst and his work.
Tammany Hall Is the most powerful coterie
of organized criminals that ever dominated
the life of the civilized world. 1t makes
and unmakes judges and jury. 1t feeds
and breeds on vice and crime. With mer-
CHESS iron heel 1t brushes the weak, and
intimidstes tho half hearted. and defes
the strong. 1t is the one whitening, blast
Ing curse Of our city's life, d8mning with
the whole breath of corruption and dis
honor every ramification of our body
polite. Like q fostering cancer 1t Is liter
ally eating tho heart out of the honor of
our ambitious young manhood. IL 1t be
true that the life Of q minister OF the gos-
pei 10 not safe who dares seriously TO at
tack Tammany Hall, then, in the name of
the Almighty God, IL is time the world
knew IL.
"Bv birth. tradition and association, as q
Southern man. l am a Democrat, and l voted
that national ticket at the election. But the
Democracy l learned In my old native
State meant honesty, integrity and de-
cency. A Southern Democrat cannot affili-
ate with Tammany Hail without first low
erlng the standard of his manhood and
selling his soul to the devil.
Il take occasion to warn the national
Democracy that 1ammany Hall Is a load it
cannot carry longer. Before the party
comes before the Nation to win another
victory 1t will first have to kick Tammany
out of it at the back door and turn on the
hose-plpe. After trying to destroy the
back from Chicago saying they will sup
port 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 trying to lie out of it. The difference
between the present regime of Tammsny
Hall and that of its founder, William NJ.
Tweed, Ia the difference between the ethics
of a bunco. steerer and q highway-rObber.
If the slippery god-children of William Nj.
Tweed believe they can intimldate this
pulpit let them take due n~otice-they have
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