I hope the first part comes to pass, though I'm not holding my breath. And I frankly think Tiny Tom's too smart to be tarred.
After the Siamese-Twin campaign he and Johnson ran...he's going to be tarred. It's kinda like being a Klansman at a lynching: most people won't believe you if you say "I didn't string him up, I was just holdin' this here rope when the poor nigra sorta suffocated."