The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-06-30
DIXON VS.. TIGER.
Rev. Tom Dixon, of New York, Goes
for TammanY Hall.

for Tammany Hall.
NEW YORK, June 27.-Rev. Thos.
Dixon, Jr., now under bail pending
trial on the charge of libeling Excise
Commissioner Koch from his pulpit,
preached in Association hall for the
last time during the summer months.
AS prelude to his sermon he made
a statement of some of the facts in
the Official record of Commissioner
Koch, upon which the so called libel
Gus sentences of the Review of May
10th were based.
"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
decision would be. When the fight
at cours was ended, the complaint
was railroaded down to the district
attorneys Office in q few hours.
This indictment was drawn up in a
few hours more and hurried in to
the grand jury. Why this extraor-
binary haste9 Was such haste
| usual in New Yorkf found out
why when I got in to the grand jury
room. Not suspecting a job, I fool
ishly asked the privilege to make a
they allowed me to enter. The fore
man, however, drew a line at any
| evidence in justification or the ex.
cuse of the alleged libel.
| DENUNoIATIoN OF TAMHANY.
81 learned subsequently that this
| foreman was Frank Higgins, Tam
| many Hall heeler. There is there
fore no mystery in Tammany COM
plant before a Tammany Judge,
being shot like lightning,through the
| district attorneys Office into the
itching palms of a Tammany fore
| man, especially when the indictment
was based on an assault on Tamma-
ny. This same grand jury dismiss
ed eight indictments sent in through
the Parkhurst Society, while it took
them only three minutes to find the
Indictment against me for word s
| which occurred in public defense of
DE-. Parkhurst and his work. Tam
many Hall is the most powerful
coterie of organized criminals that
/
lizatiou. It makes and unmakes
judges and juries. 1t feeds and
breeds on vice and crime.
"Then in the name of Almighty
God. it is time to work now. In
birth, tradition and association as q
Southern man, am Democrat and
voted that national ticket last
election. By Democracy, l learned
in my old native State, meant hon
esty, integrity and decency. A
Southern Democrat cannot affiliate
with Tammany Hall without frs
lowering the standard of his man
hood and selling his soul to the
devil.
SAYS TAMMANY IS NOT SINCERE.
81 take occasion to warn the ma
tional Democracy that Tamman!
Hall is load it cannot carry longer
Before the party comes before tn,
nation to win another victory it will
first have to kick Tammany out o
it's back door and turn on the hos,
pipe. After trying to destroy tn
State of New York, they came sneak
ing back from Chicago saying tina
they will support the ticket. The.
lie. They come back with honey OF
their lips, treachery in their heart
and knives in their boots. They will
do in November what they have don
before and spend another four year
in trying to lie out of it. The diff
ference between the present regim
of Tammany Hall and of its founder
William M. Tweed, is the differenc
between the ethics of bunco steere
and highway robber. IT the slip
perry godchildren of William N
Tweed believe they can intimidat
this pulpit let them take due motto
they have made a mistake"