Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-03-27
CHANCES AT GOTHAM.
Why and Wherefore Of DR.. Park
bursts War on Tammany.
FERRETTING OUT POLITICAL crime.
sketch OF tho Preacher-Issiah Mont
gomery. the Negro Moses-Tribute to
Journsiist-De Rezke's Story.

sketch OF tho Preacher--Issiah Mont
gomery. the Negro Moses-Tribute to
JournaIist-De ReziSe's Story.
NEw York. March 26.-The esteemed DIR.
Parkhurst. of the Madison-Square Presby-
terrain church, takes fresh hold. Since
hurting his ministerial lance into the
"quivering vitais" of Tammsny some FIVE
weeks ago he has been laboring under the
charge Of having made slanderous allega-
tions against the city authorities without
having the evidence TO sustain the same.
The public was inclined to this view. but
more especially was the grand jury. When
invited to electrify that body with
his tale Of woe the tale fell quite
fat. This is not because the grand jury
is blhse az to such matters. but because the
enthusiastic clergyman did not have the
cold facts 20 present in solid chunks of
frigidity. The grand jury heard his story
and bowed him politely out of the door,
taking OCCASION to smte him later in q
special report. II was beautiful, there
fore, TO see the Doctor, with true Chris
y
but with his " dukes" elevated IN Sull-
vanesque manner. which said quite plainly
that he was on hand TO protect IL. The
grand Jury wanted evidence and tho Doc
tor set out to get il. In securing il he was
Obliged 20 plunge TO the lowest depth OF
society. but he claims to have found what be
went after. He also found that bis pre-
viOus assault had frightened the authori-
ties. and he apprised his congregation OF
Ha oh g.. al IN, nd
again during the past week "a | have. be-
tween the hours of II and 3 in the morn
inz, sat in the company OF women OF
class almost too disreputable to be men,
toned in this presence have j heard that
there is not much doing just now for the
reason that the authorities nre scared" the
Doctor evidently made this statement from
the pulpit simply to assure hrs congrega-
ton that be had not been neRlecting his
great work OF downing" Tammany, a
work to which he has consecrated himself,
as Mr. Cleveland would say in his unctuous
way. The public will now anIiously await
the unfolding of the evidence which this
earnest and eloquent preacher has found
in the gildcd purlieus of vice whittier his
wandering and midnight steps have been
carrying him. Artemus Ward escaped
from the Mormons with his virtue unim-
paired, aud 1t is understood that DIR.
Parkhurst returns from his hunt for EVIL
dence in q position to cast the first stone
and follow it up with many others
MUST BIZ STAMPED OUT.
The outcome Of this ministerial assault
upon the wIckedness of large town will
be awaited with more than common inter-
est. The contention of the preachers 10,
as it ALWAYS has been, tha6 vice cannot be
held in check or regulated but must be
stamped out absolutely. Like tho fair
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borough hat IN the Peoples Party Conven-
tod III St. Louis recently, they demand
that all persons shall cease drinking
LIQUOR the moment resOlutio n is adopted
to that effect, and that henceforth all
corn shall be fed TO the hogs prior to
and not after its conversion into the
liquid form. A great many persons think
the best way TO be at the liquor vice, as well
as some other troublesome vices, Is 10
regulate them by license. But this is only
side issue with Parkhurst. He has gone
into the business of ferreting out political
corruption in the city of New York, and,
like the man VINO started IN early in the
spring to make maple sugar, If he likes the
business he may work at 1t all summer.
II is not generally known that DR.. Park
hurst fen into this line of work by sue
ceeding TO the presidency Of the
Society for the Prevention of Crime
on the death of the former presi-
dent. the Rev. Howard Crosby. After
his election to this office. which he did not
seek, he began TO look about to see whore
he could prevent or suppress crime, and
found no end of opportunities. lie seems
to have found his society pOwerless TO ac-
compllsh much good unless he could
quicken the public conscience and alarm
the authorities, whose cOnsciences are
supposed 10 be beyond quickening.
Bv taking Calling gun into the pull
uit he has succeeded in doing both. DR..
Parkhurst is 50 years old, and, of course,
comes of Puritan stock. He was born IN
birmingham. Mass. He attended the
school in his native town, and when
Is years old entered q dry-goods
store, and for a coupleof years sold cot
fee, tea, tobacco, ribbons, and what-not.
His mind appears to have been In another
direction, however, and jumping out Of
the store window. as II were, he fled to
college and graduated from Amherst IN
1862. Since entering actively upon the af-
fairs of life he has been principal OF the
Amherst High School, professor Of Greek
at WilistOn Seminary, Last Hampton,
Mass. He afterward went to Europe and
made much more than q superficial study
of German, philosophy, and theology.
The young student also made quite hit
IN studying Sanscrit, and has since printed
q work entitled The Latin Verb Illus
trated bv the Sanscrit" This makes the
outlook quite bad for Tammany, because
man who has mastered Sanscrlt enough 10
write about il is equipped for almost any
kind OF struggle.
AN INTELLIGENT NEGRO.
had q call the other day from Isaiah L.
Montgomery, negro statesman of Mlssis-
sippi. Montgomery Is TO me an ethno-
logical study. He is a pure type of the
African, and, Judging from his cranial for
nation, is descended from the Congo
tribes. first heard Of hum couple of
wears ago. when he made remarkable
speech in the Mississippi Constitutional
Convention in favor of DISTINGUISHING the
illiterate blacks in his State, provided
the illiterate whites could also be DIS
franchlsed. His arguments in favor OF this
startling proposition were so logical and
unIaue that the attention of the country
was arrested and 1t did not seem possible
that an ex-slave could have evolved so
much political wisdom. Shortly after the
delivery of this speech Montgomery
came TO New York and had the pleasure OF
several conversations with him. lie was
an absolute revelation. Quaint aud old
fashioned in dress and appearance. he
nevertheless had control OF language
eoual to any educated white politician l
ever met and his wisdom ana clear appre-
citation of the race problemin this country
absolutely astonished me. Montgomery
Is now about 81 years of age. He was
born slave and continued In That relation
tor eighteen years He lives now in Boil
var county, Miss, wnere he has been
for some years a successful planter and
manager. lie is now actively engaged IN