Show PREACHERS IN POLITICS many of them take sides in new york campaign new york nov 6 in nearly all the larger churches yesterday attention was called to the coining election and its significance to the people and the city some pastors were content with urging the people to vote honestly and conscientiously while others were earnest in upholding certain candidates di dates in the church of the messiah dr minot J spoke on the cites battle for liberty dr savage lamented that four hundred thousand persons had neglected to vote two years ago and declared that in philadelphia there Is one of the meanest lowest political machines in the country and it is republican and here in new york thera is a good match tor it and it is democratic he continued on e man defied the machines and has said A plague on both bour houses and the people are rising to him in such a way as gives us hope for the republic it is a liberty that we are fighting for in the washington square methodist episcopal church rev dr declared tammany hall Is after all the one great critical ahsue for years this fair city has been governed or rather misgoverned governed mis by a political organization named tammany hall a band of robbers rev dr huntington rector of grace church preached on the person al responsibility of the christian citti zen he sal the voice of the church hag been speaking down through the ends of time for the punishment ot evil and the suppression of vice in our book of prayer we pray god to direct our rulers to suppress evil and to administer the laws in the spirit of christianity it Is the duty of the church and of the christian man to work tor a city of god at the bettany presbyterian church rev 8 B dunn associate pastor said let every voter recognize bis individual responsibility men must not be driven like sheep the voters should be independent and this and civic righteousness ire the twin issues of this campaign rev dr D J burrell at the marble collegiate reformed church asked what have ever magistrates done in the way of closing the vile raines law hotels in this city which are known to be no more than dens of vice they have done nothing they are practically the keepers of these dives what is the meaning of all this unspeakable graft rev A D mclaurin at the sixteenth street baptist church called support of jerome saying in russia tea days ago there was no hope tor the common people in that time freedom has come to them the situation Is ns bad in the city of new york today wo hope that by next tuesday night the great metropolis will be redeemed by the election of william travers jerome rev john P peters at st michaels episcopal church the mayor is the issue now it 13 practically an anti graft campaign |