The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-27
METROPOLITAN LIFE
DR.. Charles Parkhurst Against
Tammany.
a SKETCH OF HIS CAREER
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lCopsright. 1872. by Bachelor s Johnson. ]

Copyright. 1892, by Bachelor & Johnson
NEW York, March 16, 1892.-[Special
correspondence Of THE HERALD. The
esteemed DR.. Parkhurst of the Madison
Square Presbyterian church takes fresh
hold. Since hurliRg his ministerial lance
into the ''quivering vitals" of Tammany
some five weeks ago, he has been laboring
under the charge Of having made SANDER
GUS allegations 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 blase as to
such matters, but because the enthusiastic
clergyman did not have the cold facts to
present in solid chunks of frigidity. The
grand jury heard his story. and bowed him
politely out of the door, taking occasion to
smite him later in a special report. 1t was
beautiful, therefore, to see the doctor,
with true Christian humility, present the
other cheek, but with his dukes" elevated
in Sullivanesque manner which said quite
plainly that be was on hand to protect it.
The grand jury wanted evidence, and the
doctor set out TO get ii. La securing it he
was obliged to plunge to the lowest depth
OF society, but he claims to have found
what be went after. He also found that
his previous assault had frightened the
authorities, and he apprlsed his congrega-
tioR of the cheering fact in this way:
Thine and again during the past week as
/ have between the hours of IL and B
O'Clock in the morning, sat in the company
4 III
to be mentioned in this presence have l
heard that there is not much doing just now
Tor the reason that
THE AUTHORITIES ARE SCARED"
The doctor evidently made this statement
from the pulpit simply TO assure his congre-
cation that he had not been neglecting hi S
grea work of downing Tammany, a
work to which he has consecrated himself,
rs Mr.. Cleveland would say, in his unctu-
Gus way. The public will now Rnxiously
await the unfolding of the evidence which
this earnest and eloquent preacher has
found in the gilded purlieus OF vice whittier
his wandering and midnight steps have
been carrying him. ATtemus Ward escaped
from the Mormons with his virtue unim-
paired and it is understood that Dr. Park
hurst returns from his hunt for evidence
in a position to cast the first stone and fol-
low it up with many others. The outcome
ness Of large town will be awaited with
more than common interest. The couten-
ton of the preachers is. as it always has
been, that vice cannot be held IN check or
regulated, but must be stamped out abso-
lutely. Like the fair young female dele
gated under the Gainsborugh hat in the
Peoples party convention in St. Louis re-
Gently, they demanded that all persons
shall cease drinking liquor the moment q
resolution 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 per-
sons think the best way to heat the liquor
vice, as well as some other troublesome
vices, is to 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 who started in
early in the spring TO make maple sugar, if
lie likes the business he may work at it all
summer.
1t is not generally known that DR.. Park
hurst fell into this line of work by succeed
ing TO the presidency of the Society for the
Prevention of Crime on the death of the
former president, the Rev. Howard Cros-
by. After his election to this office, which
he did not seek, he began TO look about to
see where he could prevent or suppress
crime, and found no end of opportunities.
He seems to have found his society power
less to accomplish much good unless he
could quicken the public conscience and
alarm the authorities. whose consciences
are supposed to be beyond quickening By
taking Calling gun into the pulpit he has
succeeded In doing both. DR.. Parkhurst
is fifty years old, and, of course, comes of
Puritan stock. He was born in Farming
ton, Mass. He attended the school in HE
native town, and when sixteen wears old
entered dry goods store ana for a couple
OF years solo coffee, tea, tobacco, ribbons
and what-not. His mind appears to have
been in another direction. however. and
jumping out OF the store window, as it
were, he he0 to college and graduated from
Amherst in 1862. Since entering actively
upon the affairs of life, he has been princi-
pal OF the Amherst high school, professor
of Greek al Williston seminary, East
Hampton, Mass. He afterward went to
Europe and made much more than super
ticlal study of German, philosophy and
theology. The young student also made
quite hit in studying Sauscrit, and has
since printed work entitled, THE Latin
Verb Illustrated by the Sanscrit" This
makes the outlook quite bad for Tammauv.
because man who has mastered Sanscrit
enough to write about it is equipped for
almost any kind of struggle.
NEGRO MOSES.
l had call the other day from Isaiah t
Montgomery negro statesman OF Alissis
sippi. MIR. Montgomery is. to me. an eth
biological study. He is pure type of the
African, and, judging from his cranial
formation, is descended from the Congo
tribes. l first heard of him a couple of
years ago, when he made a remarkable
speech in the Mississippi constitutional
convention in favor of DISTINGUISHING the
illiterate blacks in his state provided the
illterate whites could also be disfranchised
His arguments in favor of this startling
prososition were so logical and unique that
the attention Of the country was arrested.
and it did not seem possible that an ex-sIeye
could have evolved so much political wis
dom. Shortly after the delivery of this
speech, Mr. Montgomery came to New
York and had the pleasure of several con-
versations with him. He was an absolute
revelation. Quaint and old fashioned in
dress and appearance, he, nevertheless had
control of language equal 10 any educated
white politician / ever met, and his wisdom
and clear appreciation of the race problem
in this country absolutely astonished me.
Mr.. Montgomery is now about fifUy-one
years of age. He was born slave and CON
tinued in that relation for eighteen wears.
de hVes now IN Bolivar county, Miss,
where be has been for some years a sue
cessful planter and manager. He is now
actively engaged in booming real estate in
his section of the country. He wears a
Masonic emblem of high degree upon his
watch chain, and his conversation shows
reading as well as cultivation. Of course
If there ever was
GA "sELF-MADE" MAN,
he belongs to that school. | think he nm.
derstands the race conflict now go ne on in
the south better than any man living He