The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-01-27

| DeCL luCH1 HUH SGttokA IuoASSA@ Dos
such a statement as that coming from
The Advertiser y confess "riled" me.
am accustomed to denunciations OF the
vilest character from the New York Sun,
the hand-organ Of Tammany and the
organ of general ~cussedness, also from
The Mail and Express, the organ OF
snivelling Phariseeism, hypocrisy and
s~ectionalism; but the squib in The Ad-
v~ertiser is the first time a decent paper
In New York has treated me unfairly.
For that reason, in a brief note to COL
oNEL CoCKERILL, I called his attention
to this squib from bis Photographer. COL
oNEL CCCKERILL at once repudiated the
imputation of the paragraph in the edi-
torial of the 18th, which / enclose. |
| feel sure that he would thus do the fair
and manly thing. I trust If your paper
has given currency to such a paragraph
you will also give voice to this denial
from COLONEL COCKERILL. | take the
pains to thus write to you, because you
are a southern man, and I have suffered
too much as q southerner here to see my
self thus wounded in. the house Of my
friends without protest.
Truly yours,
THOMAS DIXON, JR."
After the Advertiser had printed its
opinion it afterwards changed it and said
this concerning him:
"In the most natural way the REV.
THOMAS DIXON, JR, objects to the fol-
lowing irreverent and somewhat fippant
paragraph which appeared in Mondays
issue of the Morning Advertiser:
"The REV. THOMAS DIXON is q fraud,
but he has endeared himself to the New
York public by his sermon yesterday on
the elevated railway system in this city.
Thanks, TON.
"The word FRAUD as applied to Mr..
DIXON, is unparliamentary, and in the
sense in which it is commonly used 10 a
shade unjust, We recognize Mr.. DIXON
as an able, alert force in our social sys-
TEN He is progressive in his ideas,
sound in his NOR Is and strong in his
hatred Of wrong. But We have fallen
into the habit OF regarding the clergy
man who delivers Sunday stump speeches
as we regard the newspaper editor who
resorts to pure .ensationalism in order to
sell a few more copies of his journal. In
this sense only does the word fraud ap-
ply to Mr.. DIXON.
1--WE have an old~fashioned prejudice
against c~lergymen who do not make a
business Of strictly e%xpounding the Cos
pei. We prefer the preacher to the pull
pit lecturer. The great master, however,
was only a great teacher. He talked
against the vices and the evils of his
time, arraigned the wrong, doors, over
turned the tables of the money changers
in the temple, and expounded his OWE
cede Of morals. I
at is as a teacher that we must accept |
Mr.. Dixon. His public deliverances are
in the main useful to this community.
His ideas are fresh and vigorous. He has
a rude way Of shaking up things which
newspaper approves Of. He may be
just a shade p%retentious, but then we are
all more or less afflicted in that way.
Upon the whole, we feel moved to with
the term fraud as applied to Mr..
DIXON, and to wish him we'll in his re-
formatory work. In his way he is q USE
full man."
The State still insists that REV. DIXON
is a fraud and says that no true minister
Of the gospel would resort to- the cheap
ssn.ationalism INDUCED in by the REV.
Tom.
All OF this may or may not be true.
But the folks who live in North Caro-
ina and who have heard him talk will
their last copper on TON DIxoN's
and on Tom DIXoN's religion.
COLONEL CAVE ON THE SITUATION.