The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-26
N1lpII ON CAMPAIGN ISSUES.
pIRKHt RST LINENS ELECTION
rO the GREAT TEMPTATION.

~. the same Issue. Gsd Against the Devil.
III ssy-Iloesa't Want . Town Made
Mast, by Nasty Men Ruling h-Whole
Posse Of Tammany. With Exceptions.
AnouId Be In the Rogucs' Gallery
=, Thinks Tsmmanyites Morally Pledged
10 Steal--Therefore, Keep 'Em out.
ne Rev. Or. Charles II. Parkhurst de-
Voted his sermon in Madison Square Presby-
,er,,n Church yesterday morning TO the
,ss,es in the coming election. He sid il ia
a strugg,e of Christ against the devil, as
distinCt in its e.ements and definite in it's
ma. ming as the temptation In the wilderness.
Her is his sermon in part.
The supreme impeachment 70 be brought
AGAINST the men who want to administer this
CIV and have not had a chance TO do so for
Two years is not that they are incompetent.
not that they are not able TO ket the streets
clean the taxes down. the criminals under
control II IL that they are bad. ethicaliy
diseased. morally rotten. S5 per cent; OF their
conscience turned into stomach and beastly
PASSION so morally foul that they beioul
sy.rything they touch. dinu an atmosphere
.nch that even men who are fairly decent
cannot respre II without being moculated
moral putrldlty planted directly in the heart
Of the town and that would ike 20 distribute
itseli through the veins and arteries OF adj
illustrative action till the whole municipality
"a le.vened with the unholy pest.
Vow. that is why l plead against having
any more OF the same. IL doesn't hinge
similar question. l pay more taxes here
This year than ever paid before. and l am
wiling to- but do not like to live in town
mat IS made nasty by the nasty men who
administer II. IL benumb's mans soul to
have TO look UP to powers that be. when you
know In your heart of hearts that the whole
posse OF them, with some accidental excep-
lions, would be in the ,rogues gallery. if they
we're where they elOnged-tneir faces in
q" gallery and the rest Of them in closer
-sCe still.
There is an ethical palsy that comes to
community by being dominated even officially
by impulses thus deadly and envenomed.
equitable, To have statutes given, US by
whiskey saturated and lechery rotted Alder
men and commissioners is near to convert
,ng drunkenness and adultery into polite
lion knocks out moral foundation at the same
line that the Gospel is trying TO build up
IN men u religious and Christian super
structure.
Regeneracy is something Of which Tam
many is constitutionally incapable. The
ovLparous vertebrates that we have had to
encounter in previous campaigns may be
swimming to-day in other waters. but there
IS an abundance" OF progeny, and the spawn
are true, to their scaly original. And as
'ant INCONSISTENCIES the community might
slide back again into the Shiny quagnre
from which il only two years age. extricated
hopeless and blacklist Of the entire brood
has consented temporarily to play the office
Of an angel of light, aud is daily holding NE
criminal gang and It's criminal, chief on, The
anxious seat. publicly laying his own dirty
Anger on the moral griminess of the gang.
and in The audience Of the people v Pei,
There is nothing Ike it for purposes Of
l'lumination We might almost Gall Il an y
would be if lnan who had spent a long term
If years in the realms Of despair were 10 rise
from below. come back into the upper ifs
and bring with him A pictorialy illustrated
down there. The service he is rendering
among the advocates OF the caus" that he Is
80 powerfully and yet so gratutously pro-
noting.
This is not a place where We. discuss tho
candidates that are on trial. The significant
feature Of the struggle that took place be-
tween David and Goliath vas not thsir rea-
tive sodliness or relative naganisnl: it vas
what the two hosts back Of them stood Tor:
1t WAS the animating impulse. by which re-
spectivey They We're actuated.
We are told that tn. Tammany candidate
FOR Mayor has good personal record; "e
are told that the position he has ma,nt3lned
In the Federal councils AZ WASHINGTON Is u
,reditabls We are reminded of his ancestry
~ was his ancestry that made him candidate,.
This with some Of us is a very tender element
and those Of us who knew the old General
owed him There is still pleasantly present
in my memory the earnest, kindly face he
used TO turn up, to this pulpit from kls pew
down there at the foot Yes. but what has
that got to, do with it. W. are no, trying h
Colonel. We do not care for Goliath; it is
the Philstines We are after
II accepted the Mnyora,ty candidacy o
Tammany Hall, | should sider nysel
myself, and TO select as heads OF departme, t
men nearly as expert as in the art Of munlot
nal foraging. Acceptance OF candidacy i
personal commitment. There IS a KIND o
honor that imposes its law even among thieves
and in that respect at lehst a .oIt ol et TITS
idea that more can be expected from
Mayor than from his constituency Is lam
philosophy. shamhins asn,lmehhtaldlIy an
reprobated at the polls two years ago unde
similar circumstances,
saints, and hope that our friends on -Four
,.enth street are not all sinners: but con
.idered as an institution. capitalizing itsei
nv theft terrifying itself by perjury, wallow
ng in unceanness maintaining a propagaan
dsm OF lust and growing fat on the debauche'
innocence Of women, say that as an insttl
ion that Fourteenth street coteriH Is n
mpphitic odors OF his sulphurous king ION;
That is the fact that every decent voter IA
got TO face No matter how much or a gentle
eushed the character OF hisfather before him
the candidate is simply paper baggageIta
that is pasted on this fetld mass OF corruptloin,
be elected will not be the tag, but the dirt!
carcass that the clean tag is tied to, and N
carcass will carry the tag and not the tag IN
carcass
One of the many long h"ired fre1k
sr,r ted to the neighborbocd OF Mndiso
Square by Dowies presence got int
Or Parkhursts church and from from
seat interrupted him occe sion7ily durln
the first PRAYER with .Peo 81 sre'k louder
Dr PPrkhrrst p'id no attention TO mn