New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-16
TalJuANT md THE PELPIT.

T1NMANF And THE PCLPII.
/. Is plain tha; Dr. Parkhurst has disturbed
re politicians composing Tammany Hans OF
ranjza.ion Is much As men OF their meh'al anu
moral constitution can be disturbed. 1t IS prob
able that they do not comprehend why this CITY
.3ould not be The vicious pace that they nave
made II. Their intellectual and moral Ieyc!
differs in no great degree from that OF the cllnl-
iYa,s whom they protect. encourage, i've upon
AVID cmnlov in all sorts Of vOtc-getting enter
pri>cs. Naturally, therefore, they look upon the
saloons, gambling denS houses oil pfo'u'u.'oh
ard every other kind Of vicious resort as 'heif
nroocr and natural friends, and the CONSCIENTIOUS
that move decent people to object To sucn places
do nor impress Tammany Hall politician. lie
,impy knows the fact that large body OF clu-
IONS exists in Ncw-l ok who do OBJECT ana ne
understands that something has got to be Sald
and done 10 silence, placate or deceive these IN
comprehensive people
From this class of politicians we VIII eXcep'
Mr.. Delaney Nicoll. And yet his offence Is II
ANYTHING. greater than theirs. lie Is young
man of distinguished ability, well capaole Ga
hoinc a leader in all those things that WORK lor
the GOOD of this community. lie Is man VI
education as we'll as talent, and he approaches
the consideration Of public questions from hlSh
and nro,er points of view. But Mr.. Nlco has
allowed his poIitical ambitions to carry him into
an alliance with what he knows and has often
lime, proclaimed to be a gang of desperate and
utterly disrepuable political brigandS. lie cannot
comDIain. therefore, if his failures to accomplish
what right thinking people are enutIcd 10 en-
meet OF him are attributed to the same unworthy
m ,tiyeS that led him into that alliance. We
dare say that its odiOls conditions constantly
disgust him, and that he would often get nd OF
Thorn if he could But he knows, as all men
know, that they are even more part OF inc
contract he has made than il they had been set
down in writing; that he cannot escape them
and whatever he may say about his want OF IA
ciliticS to try bail cases, much Of which Is ju''
and r;c still he knows that IL al the ccultS III
this city were at his exclusive disposal thC ic'uIO
would he about the same lie does not FulllNh
and suppress gamblers, blackleg', and the keep
els os di>rcpuiablc resorts FOR th' simple reason
that Tammany Hall will not allow him 70 do 80
and the reason Of that Is TIA; from these people
and places Tammany Hall derives an immense,
regularly levied and regularly collected revenue
Is Systematically imposed and gathered As a'e
the charge, Of tho Custom IIousc, and because
ais, thouands Of the vote, upon which Tam
many depends i,r is success, are obtained through
me influence Of these classes of criminals.
The same conditions that apply ID MI NlcoL
appl, equally, Of course. 10 the Ioico CominiS-
,i,ncs,, who's, attitudes toward their duty Is, how
ever. much less willing than his and whose obi
Cation 10 detect and suppress crime i Tar great
or. The Police Commissioners have At their
command he best trained and most efficient body
If municipal police in tho world. There Is no
duty Whatever which the NORA sentiment OF tins
community right by law mIo.c upon them mat
they aic no. perfectly capable OF performing
and if DR. ParkhuSt Or any other honorable ana
re,ou,c citizen WcIo in authority over them
there would not be a vicious resort openly doing
business in this city from the Battery to the cX-
trcmcst boundaries Of the Annexed District with
in twenty four hours from his assumption of
command and within a month every such place
would b. driven into secrct and dlngy retire
ment and all OF them would not number a hun
drcd. DR.. parl<hurtS picture Of the number
and character Of the disrcpuabc dcns in New
York is not At all oyfrdaWn, and it is one that
must I'LL every respectable citizen with profound
shame. But it is the necessary and in>epatable
l'-SilIl VI bih IL VIII l'''i
be permanently cifaccd until 1lmmany and its
syStom are completely oycrthrown. In Difference
20 occasional odt5ur>ts Of public sentiment thore
may be- occasional spurtS Of police activity, but
they will amount to nothing. When the honest
and decent clements of society in New ork shall
rescluey combine against the dishonest and i'll
decent elements, Tammany and all that Tam
many means will disappear. iut not till then.
DR.. i'arlihul>t i, doing a great deal 10 bring
about that fortunate conjunction. His position
as president Of the Society for the Prevention
of Crimo renders him the natural lc.1er Of the
clergy in the effort 10 arouse public sentiment.
But if his well-Grcctcd efforts are 10 accomplish
an cffcctnl cure he must be sustained, and we
hope that every clergyman in Newly orl will at
once bring himself 10 the most earnest C0nsidera-
ton Of his duty in thi4 matter. What he needs
and ought to have is the practical assistance Of
every clergyman, great or small, who has the
respect OF his own congregation and Of the pub
lie II this assistance is given and steadily
maintained it will be- possible to relieve New
York Of vice and of Tammany Hall, the mother
Of vice. These are not the suggestions of par
tisanShip. The destruction of Tammany can be
secured without affecting the relative numerical
standing Of the two political parties.
Hill is seeking the Presidential nomination with
brass band and by means Of studied and per