The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
Lewis Nixon's Reputation Of
Tammany's Piratical Crew
Establishes Him as a True
g Democrat - &c &c -

/ watched Nixon closely; some changed
their minds and returned. Others were
ready to return. The secession was
checked.
-Four months of Seth Lows adminstra-
| ton, for reasons unnecessary to relate,
| have very generally given the impression
| that the days OF fusion pass away with
| the present Mayors term of office, and
tho signs indicative of the direction OF the
| wind point to the return of Tammany to
| power And these who read the signs
| this way are the Johns" and the
| Mikes" and the "Percys," and the
Tins who believe the sltys are clear
! ing and the time has come to bob UP Sc
renely from below. or In a word, like
Rabelais' devil, Tammany is well, and
1.-The devil a monk is he But in tho path
of their schemlng to control THE ma
chino" and to run 1t in the old way hot
as hounds on the scent in the pursuit of
booty, stood Lewis Nixon. Clean. unbrib-
able unapproachable. he stood a forbid
ding figure against corruption. The van
dais began to Intrigue. To give support
to his plans In his presence and to cir
cumvent them In secret. They stated he
was but The representative of Croker,
and yet appealed to Croker against him.
Combinations were formed fitting with
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larger. Those In whom he placed conf
dence emulated the example of Judas
and went out and betrayed him.
At length one combination that has
grown rich in its connection with Tam
many, the one that is entitled to all the
odium, to all the humiliation of the or
ganzation, reeking with the effluvia of
ice trust, poolroom and gambling house,
of dives and cadets. decided the time had
come to cast aside the monks garb. 1t
| worked intrigues to the point, that Lewis
| Nixon could say with Cato-s
when vice prevails ard impious men
bear sway,
The post of honor is private station"
Then, forming his resolution, he sum-
moned the piratical crew to quarters and
disdainfully tossed back the leadership
| he had taken Up In the moment of their
supreme humiliation. He rejected any
| suggestion OF vote of confidence; he
| stopped for no words of explanation. he
fled as Joseph from The harlot.
1t matters little what statements the
enriched and gifted Carol may give out,
or what prattle the talented and silver
torgued Johns may pass around the
charmed circle CT Tammauy place holders
ard place seekers. The fact remains an
honest &C pablo man, cheerfully and zeal
otsly working Tor the good of his party.
found the 1usty and husky gang of swash
bucklers incapable of moral or political
regeneration. By his resignation he has
TUNED on them the flashllght of public
ity; ard revealed them hard at work. an
unrepenant band OF sinners, seeking to
control the democratic party of Manhat
tan and the Bronx. for their own pur-
poses. And by his resignation, sudden.
effective and dramatic. he has caused a
revulsion of feeling among honest dem
ocI ats, who were following him back TO
Tammany. The cold. sphinx faced Car
roll, and the icy Van Wyck may vet learn
they sprung their mine too soon.
But Lewis Nixon has advanced In the
estimation of all right thinking men. BY
Reputation he has proven that his prin-
ciples are deep rooted in honor, and that
his manhood cannot be bent to a group
of politicians. VIII the democratic party
in these days. pass a leader of his splen-
did type? Just such a man was a certain
Sheriff. in Buffalo, That municipality
yielded him to the state for Governor;
ara the state IN turn yielded him to the
nation az President. As Cleveland was.
so Is Nixon. Will 1t come to pass that the
stone the Tammany builders rejected will
become the corner stone of the democrat
| &c party In the gubernatorial campaign?
If strnws point the way Of the wind, the
winds way is, that Nixon will be elected
Governor of New York in 1902. AID pres,-
Dental candidate In 1904