New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-30
CHURCH GREETS JEROME.
He Speaks at Baptist Church of the
EWphany.

Addraes;po n meeting at the Baptist Church
of the Ephiphany. Madison-aVe. ana o4'h-s"'
Yesterday afternoon, District Attorney jerome
laid before his hearers the question: Shah INC
people through ignorance continue 10 e
themselves into slavery to corrupt bosses?'
AS a link in his chain of argument ne USED MS
own appeal to the people for reelection keep
;re b,mse1f entirely secondary to the principle
he was advocating.
Tho n,aetinp at which Mr. Jerome spoke, at
the reolest of the Rev DR.. Madison G. Peters
and the Rev Dr. Robert S. Macarthur was
about as little like political meeting as i 1
mass The church was filled to overfowing Inc
meeting opened with the Lords prayer. III was
ended also with prayer by Dr danc .i'i in
their efforts to release the city from pontlcai
thraIldom Nominallv mems meeting, 1t was
made up of almost as many women as men,
women who rose to their feet with their brothers
when Mr. Jerome appeared and joined IN the
salute which greeted him, despite the request
that there be no demonstration.
Another feature was free discussion by
members of the audience of MIR. Jeromes views,
with but dissenting voice, that of a social
ist who said that no matter how hard the Dis
trct Attorney tried he could not remedy exist
Ing evils because his office would not gave MN
power to strike at the root OF the troubles.
Dr. Peters, in opening the meeting. said that
there was a Scrptural passage better than any
campaign document q Samuel, xii 3, 4, 81:
Behold. here 1 am; witness against me before the
Lord and before his anointed whose OK have L
taken? whose ass have taken? or whom 9 faye
hand have received any bride to blind mine eyes
and tbey an a T T bss not % u.s.
oppressed us neither hast thou taken aught of
And said unto them The Lord ord. il witness
against you and his anonted Is witness IdS gay nd
they answered; He is witness.
Some people did not believe in mixing religion
and politics, said DR.. Peters. He believed if the
political ditch was dirty the clergymen should
lead in cleaning it.
In Introducing Mr. Jerome, DR.. Macarthur
said:
feel that in introducing Judge Jerome to this
audience on Sunday and in this consecrated place,
1 doing my duty religious teacher He is
all the duties Of his high office with commendable
devotion He is COURAGEOUS to the last i'd degree,
Torrance of his official duties, turning away with
thrown himself upon the patriotism or MS IelloW
citizens for reelection 1t IS MS Fellow ctlz i'
1 do not say that all who oppose him are pentcai
grafters and bosses but do say 6hat an pc,
to oppose his reelection.
The Church must be in politics when the cause
of civic Justice purity and righteousness is trial.
It would be thousand shames to the Ghureh II
she remained silent in such crisis as this in our
great city
A PROFOUND MORAL QUESTION.
Then Mr. Jerome spoke, calmly, but with much
earnestness. Said he:
pose that this is, there is toe much reverence IN
my nature to be here were it not that ef ects
every one of us, and this dear country of ours as
SeW-Yorf has become the focus Of our whole great
people They are watching to see whether mere IN
creeds. whether among them pTlncrle JUST
poor naked principle can take that hold the
hearts Of men that they VIII do on . November Iii;
Of this city t6s are h9P beT they this SACRED
D1a on
interests candidate. 1t matters little Wnat
he is but soldier but it does matter to you and
it matters to me as person whether those colodS
back 1t matters much in the heart that tToT W
nt and e w hed or no npe to be CRUSHED
down; after ii is made plain and clear, or Whethef
cause It is pfnce in the sacred Book
that the Greeks erected an altar to the unknown ys
days of subservience, that we in these later days
to erect an altar to Impractical man. the
who still has got some faith among US IN prlnelpie
suits; how think that We must see where we
are coming out; how we do not look and inquire
in business anywhere-but we are always look
It seems to me if we do the work that lies at
hand, if We put our faith and our hope and our
mental moraues of life, something that is sound
and true and right. we need not bother our heads
about calculating the results
ONE MORALITY FOR WHOLE WEEK.
And life is certainly whole, there IS
t R aV 6 6 Week anq 11r not one
morality for 364 days in year and another for
Election Day. 1t seems to me that we all the time
in our hopeiessness and our fear, overlook the
great fundamental moralities that come into our
public life. These teachings of Him whom we all
humbly try to follow these teachings OF the sages
Now / took an office-and pardon If I dwell
on my own case, because 1 know better than any
body else, and want 10 illustrate in my own per.
far l may the principle to the support OF
office the hands of the people in 1901. Condi-
tons had become such that there was moral stir
was fusion ticket so called, the were every
thing. far politics went. took that office at
when that Office was expiring, l looked about me
and said, They We're generous 10 me; they gave
me great trust that have not fulfilled as per
fectly perhaps others would but that nave Iui,
filled well as knew how. said, In THESE
circumstances. what can do? don't want TO go
into more vulgar scramble Tor an ONCE
want Go service -,
/ looked about me see what service 1 could
render l had read that the voice of the people
was the voice of God and believe to-day that the
voice OF the people is much nearer the VOICE or
Cod than many cyncs are willing concede. l
looked about and l from history and from
my own observation that the great bulk OF our
people were good and honest ana hravei ana " am
noted thai they were not free that Whlle theoretl
caly thev had their representatives in convention
tt} whiia theoretfcallv they went to the primaries
that while in theory the candidates VINO were TO
for public office We're their seiectonS-tnat: IN
that what you and l were given at our elections
was choice not between people VINO hi oe t
tween people who had been selected by ooss by
some enc who not responsible to the people
This sinister influence has come between the Tree
convention of the people and theft public servant
With what result? with the result. and the only
The pubIc servant all over the land no longer has
felt himself responsible 70 the people; ne mas come
is taken at the hands Of some one other than the
people. -, -. -, ,