On March 20, 1896, he was given the Prohibition nomination for Mayor of Albion, Michigan and won with a plurality of thirteen votes.

[5] On December 31, 1899, he resigned from the chairmanship of the party so that he and John G. Woolley could purchase and worked together on the New Voice, a prohibition journal, and did so until 1901.

[6] In 1898, Daniel Striker, the chairman and treasurer of the Albion College Endowment Fund committee, died and was replaced by Dickie.

In 1901, he was elected to succeed John P. Ashley as president of Albion College and would serve in that position until his retirement in 1921.

[2][6] In 1921, he became a naturalized United States citizen after his passport was rejected while planning to give a European speaking tour.