People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-06-23
ABOUT TAMMANY.
Rev. ThOs. Dixon Pays His Respects
to the "Tiger.''

York, in his sermon on Sunday July
18th, pays his compliments to Tam
many as follows:
Tammany Hall is the NEST power
full coterie of organized criminals
that ever dominated the life of any
people. It makes and unmakes
Judges and juries, feeds and breeds
on vice and crime. With iron heel
it brushes the weak, intimidateS the
half hearted and defes the strong.
1t is a whitening curse to the city S
life, damning with hot breath of cor
ruption every ramifcation of the body
polite. Like a cancer, it literally
eats the heart out of the honor of the
young manhood of our day. And
though it is such an organization it
lives and tbrives and continues its
reign with supreme impotence. l
have said many emphatic things
about this gang in the past. | have
never had occasion to regret one ut
terance, to take back one sentence.
The more [ have studied them, the
longer I have lived among them, the
better | know them, the more utterly
impossible it becomes to find Ian
guage sufficiently emphatic to give
any adequate notion of the actual
facts.
Glance for a moment today at our
government and test its character.
We behold on the judges bench a
man who Is about to be arrested for
rascality and who had bee 1me a drum
ken loater, who now receives sala-
ry Of $4,000 year. We have the
great and only Paddy Diver on the
Judges bench with his noted compan-
ion. A biographical sketch of the
Hon. Patrick Diver, commonly call
ed Paddy" leader Of the Tammany
hosts in the Second assembly district,
relates that che is the keeper of a
sailors boarding house and is the
proprietor or has interests in several
liquor saloons. He is an ex-member
Of the board Of aldermen, race track
frequenter and the friend and conf
dant Of gamblers. He is on terms of
intimacy with Johnny Matthews and
Jake Shipsey, two members Of the
sporting and gambling fraternity,
whose particular methods Of gaining
livelihood are unknown to the fire.
quenters of Paddy DIVERS and other
rumshops on Park row, where they
are generally to be found"
We have also on the judges bench
the distinguished ex-chairman of the
board OF excise, man whom I de-
nounced from this pulpit in unmeas-
ured terms at the time of his reap
pointment on the board, and who
carries the brand of that arraignment
as originally uttered, though he in
voked all the machinery of the courts
under the influence of Tammany to
protect him from its force. This
man, during the tendency Of indict-
ments for penitentiary ofenses, was
elevated by the present mayor of the
city to the position of Judge. He
has shown since ais elevation to the
iudgeship that he is about as thor
oughly fitted for the position as would
be any criminal who would be taken
from the stockade at Sing Sing and
placed upon the bench. He pleads
for the fact that he was graduated
from Columbia law school, and yet
he laid aside his judicial duties few
days ago and appeared as the attor-
ney for saloon that desired to open
a rum hole within less than 200 feet
of a church.
AN INTERESTING BIOGRAPHY.
We have among the recent batch
of appointments by Mayor Gilroy,
elevated to a position of high respon-
sibility, man who is common con
Wet for theft, who was convited for
stealing as any other ordinary thief.
We have also among these appoint
ments the notorious John j. Scan
nell. Mr.. Scannell has been made
chairman of the board of fire COM
missioners at a salary of $4,000 a
year. The biography Of Mr.. Scan
nell has been recorded briefly as
follows:
''He is Tammany's leader in the
Eleventh district, was a saloon keep
er and professional gambler. For
many years he kept the Compton
House. the i'll repute of which extend
ed over the whole city. His reputa-
ton as professional gambler is that
of one of the best known men in the
profession. He began his political
life by committing a murder in a
gambling house at Twenty
eighth street and Broadway, where
pools were being sold on an election.
While Donohue, his victim, was pass
ing through Twenty third street, at
the corner of Third avenue, one
night he was approached by man
believed to be John Scannell. He
was tall, thin man, precisely like
Scannell in appearance, and was dis
gulsed in a wig and SLOUGH hat. AS
Donohue and his friends approached
the man he drew a revolver and
fired. The bullet struck Donohue In
the body, passing through a rib and
lodging in the back without doing