The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-19
the forty years time limit was up?' /

! You see, j have lived a pretty STelu-
Gus life and when ] was thirty-six, j
felt that I had skipped few years,
jand my conscience didn't hurt me. All
| my work in the pulpit was in sense
preparation for literary work. Be
sides, 1 have long had the idea of n
| trilogy Of Southern novels dealing with
| the race problem. THE Leopard s
Spots c!amored to be written. In
that book / tried to tell the story of
| the negro from his acknowledgements
| to his Acknowledgement while in The
Clansman' 7 have tried to reveal the
moaning of the ku Klux that over
t,irAsd reconstruction rule and pre-
served the integrity of the Anglo
Saxon race in the South. I really be
| lieve that the story Of the Khan forms
one of the most dramatic chapters in
the history of the Aryan race.
well, to return to the matter of
writing. l wrote The Leopard's Spots
| in q whirl, and sent it to Doubleday,
Page G, Co, who accepted it by wire
Since Mr., Dixon has devoted his
best literary tGlents to an interpreta-
ton of the negro problem, ] asked
him what he thought would be the so
luton.
His eyes flashed. and he stood up.
Again he was the orator, for he said.
dramatically: The solution. There
colonies the negro. The black pro
blem will be the eternal problem of
!; the South. If the negro is not sent
away, there will be n race war"
In The Clansman,' Mr.. Dixon
makes Lincoln say:
II have urged the colonization OF
the negroes, and | shall continue until
it is accomplished. My emancipation
proclamation was linked with this;
nj IlnJf a Nf hnt "a
in the North for. hundred years. and
not one is the pastor of a white
church, = judge. governor, 4 mayor,
or u college president. There is no
room for two distinct races of white
men in America. much less for two
distinct races of whites and blacks.
We can have no Inferior servile class
peon or peasant. We must aSsinilate
or eXpel. The American is citizen
king or nothing. | can conceive of
no greater calamity than the assini-
lation of the negro into our social anG
political life as our equal. a mulatto
citizenship would be too dear Il price
to pay for emancipation"
This reminds me of a story con-
tinued Mr.. Dixon. once, when I was
In Cleveland on q lecture tour. a we'll
lawyer OF that city asked me what 7
thought of The negro problem.
Colonization j replied.
But said the lawyer, what about
the good negroes like Bishop Turner
and MYSELF
you've got to go ana keep the
others good l replied"
1t is highly probable that Mr.,
DiXon's next novel, the last OF the
race trilogy, will be called "Thc Trai-
tor" 1t will deal with the race pro-
blem as it confronts the South today.
A Strenuous Life.
Mr.. Dxon's life has been crowded
With dramatic and exciting ~ 'fdentS.
but none was more sensational than
his encounter with Tannany when he
was pastor of the Peoples Church. In
New York City. Tn view OF Or. Park
hurst's recent charge that the lid"
was off. it is we'll worth recalling.
DIR. Parkhurst. after a personal in
vestigatinn. made Ills first and now
famous attack on Tammany graft and
corruption in municipal life. Che only
New York preacher who came to the
support of the doctor was DR.. Dixon.
In fiery sermon, delivered at Asso-
citation Hall, at Twcnty-third street
and Fourth avenue, where he con-
Quoted the Peoples Church, he bit
terly assailed Tammany and denounced
the officials that the organization had
forced on the city. His principal tar
get was the excise commissioner. whom
DR.. Dixon scathingly arraigned as
crook. AS n result ne was indicted by
the grand jury on the charge of GRIM
inai libel and arrested. The warrant
was served by four detectives. lie
was taken to the Jefferson Market
Jail. where he gave bond. That night,
with the aid of some newspaper
friends. he obtained the records of
the members of the grand jury. He
found out that twelve of them were
Tammany heelers, with bad records.
The jury had been packed.
He announced through the papers
that OH the following Sunday he
would denounce the jury. Two hours
before the doors of Association Hdll
Were opened the streets were crowded
with people. Mr.. Dixon preached to
an enormous audiences. and he rnerci-
leSsly arraignod the TammanyitcS in
the jury. He was Chee"ed. In a few
days he was visited by the district at
torney. who said the Indictment was
a mistake, and had been fled away.
Then somebody has licc, sail MIR.
Dixon. And the next Sunday he tlayed
the district attorney.
subsequently the New York clergy
rallied to DR.. Parlfhurst ANA there Wis
Il cleansing of the Tammany stables.
AT Homo in Old Virginia.
Although Mr.. Eixol retains his New
York citizenship and votes there, he
spends at least six months of the year
at his beautiful estate. Ellington
Manor. in Iii Sinke Here. in enc
old colonial mansion he lives the ,if"
of country gentleman ana dispenses
q generous hospitality. IT is one thing
TO see Mr.. Dixon in his New York
study: it is quite another TO know
him in the countl~ He was born on
q farm and the old love OF the soil
is still with him. He wears old colthes
and q SLOUGH hat, rides over MS place
of 500 acres or runs his launch on
Chesapeake Bay. The Big House" as
the servants call it. after the delight
full old Virginia fashion. with its state
" pillars, faces the east. You can
stand on the broad porch aud watch
the sunlight CLEAN on the ripping
blue waters OF the bay. Around the
house are noble gray Gins, and stretch
ing down to the waters edge is fine
lawn.
Elmington Manor comprises n
crown grant. II is Il his
toric country. Across it Bacon