New-York tribune., 1905-11-06
SERMONS RAP TAMMANY.
Unite in Urging Voters' RESPONSE
biity to Purify City.

In nearly all of the larger churches yesterday at
tention called to the coming election and its
significance the people and the city. Some pas
tors content with urging the people to vote
honestly and conscientiously, while others
earnest in Uphoding certain candidates.
In the Church of the Messiah DR.. Minot J. Savage
spoke on THE City's Battle for Liberty Although
not mentioning names, he made it quite clear that
the salvation the city lies in the election of Mr.
WINS. Having shown how nations and peoples live
under tyrannicaI rulers for long period of time.
then revolt and then again go back to despottc
rule, Dr. Savage got closer TO the city canvass by
lamenting that four hundred thousand persons had
neglected vote two years and declaring that
lin Philadelphia there is of the meanest, low
political machines in the country, and it is Re
publican. and here in New-l ork there is a good
match for it. and it is Democratc." He continued:
1t is not the fault of party or the other eX
the other ugly names 1t is matter OF honesty or
thing that rouses me. thrills me as | have not
been reused thrilled since the days Of the great
is the thought that at last possibly we may
break our chains One man has deiied tI the ma ma
houses houses ana and @ the people are rising to him in such
"a way as as gives US nope G,ine 1eF fo fne Is
Many of the congregation reference to the
Hearst boom in the following:
There is a movement going ON in New-York that
threatens seriously TIE foundations of society, ii
appealing to the loves. elements of the cityS do
moi mean poor peopIe when / say lowesl / mean
Vicious people, mean thieves. mean impure pee
pie | mean people who belong tr and give the
proper name to suns peopls who are animated
man tb me[eR b lT viii man because he oc
cupes better position il society Very hkeiE
position for themselves. What do you thii'H Of this
Vote then nexs TUESDAY. not because you are
Democrat or Republican. but because yon are q
Vote so you car be proud Of s the cty-so YOU can
help in the progress o. the world.
DR. Parkhurst preached a timely sermon. bur did
aloc III he foil inc
from his Invocation, his only ausion to it:
In these matters do Thou graciously deliver
the easy sin of doing and speaking and voting
neither personal attachments nor party attach
ing and seeing as to render obscure the duty which.
as Thy servants. we owe 70 fhee' me supreme
duty that will belong to us Seyeraly % on The. the coming
frenzy and no hysteria but in the temperate seri-
BUSINESS of men who are serving their city, their
country and their God.
In the Washington Square Methodist Episcopal
Church the Rev. DR.. Strohrfdge spoke in part
follows:
ii d @ is Gr 9 all @ The @ s gPsa5 bss sF
Ca cd 5ssoy M tbar ,niseovernad by noifical or
ganization named Tammany Hall-a band of rob
Croker and MuTphy@and in rapid succession these
have grown enormously rich, The other leaders,
are now rolling in wealth
Nothing is more remarkable in this campaign
Than the attitude Of TWO OF the supposedly rep,
utable newspapers of the citJ-n.fh Times" and
columns of loaded type. and then frantically urge
their readers vote for the candidate of Tammany
Hall. One TubS his eyes ana wonders whether this
is lunacy Phariseeism. It cannot be lunacy
for both of these papers pose the apostles of
wisdom one sits like q prophet in MS tall tower
the other GweIls like sage in his old house. No
this counsel is rank Phariseeisni-
our Personal Responsibility for the Social Moral.
Political anG Religious Condition Of New York"
was the subject discussed yesterday the Peoples
Meeting for the Discussion Of Public Questions at
the Baptist Church of the Epiphany. }. c. Phelps
Stokes the candidate FOR Borough President or
the Municipal Ownership ticket; the Rev. DR.. Rob
S Macarthur, Colonel William Henstreet and
Dr. Madison e Peters were the principal speakers
Ia his speech Mir. Stokes said:
We find on every hand farreachng evils-povertv
and sickness and vice and crime. these things
have usually been assumed to be due primarily %
the fault oI apathy Of the person who 5 in pov-
crty. OF the person Who Is vicious or criminal
The responsibility of others for the wrongdoinc
about them aud The vice about them is too often
overlooked. NrOngdong of every kind is but the
result IF misdrected desire personal gT4tiicsi-
;iGn- THE direction Of desire very largely deter
mined ny suggestive influences. If We would check
and prevent them must change prevailing condi-
Ions which produce them 10 do this must
supply the need of healthy recreation and clean
social relaxation.
Ihe Rev DR. huntington. rector 0f Grace Church.
Preached yeste-day morning 4 sermon on the per
soaaI responsibility OF the Christian citizen with
reference 10 The coming election lie made no di-