New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-19
THE CITY'S SHAME.
DR. PARKHURST's STRONG WORDS on BOSS
RULE

Rule
HE DECLARES THAT THE WHOLE POLICE DE-
PARTMENT Is ROTTON TO THE CORE
AND THAT TAMMANY HALL IS
EQUALLY BAD.
The Rev. DR.. Charles H. Parkhursi addressed
I the Young Mems Society OF the Madison Square
PRESBYTERIAN Church in the church parlors last
1 night and in TIE course Of his remarks he took
, occasion to score roundly Tammany Hall, Rcn-
ard Croker Mayor Gilroy. the Police Commissions
ers the whole Police Department and incidentally
the people in New-York who are willing 10 De
ruled as he said. by one man. He charged that
! Mayor Gilroy had failed to do his duty wheh'
after complaints had recently been made 10 MIN
concerning the condition OF the Police Depart
mont he refused to make an investigation. and
then In a published interview yesterday SAID 'iat
II DR. Parkhurst would only bring the charges
to his notice he would make rigid investigation
The speaker said that the Police Commissioners
had treated his complaints in the same way ana
to emphasize the manner in which they had MADE
an Investigation into a complaint In August
against Police Captain Dovery he remarked
that when the complaint was brought to them
they told Captain Devery ana Superhte'u-
cnt Byrnes to consider whether or not they were
guilty. Captain Devery and the Supcrih'ehueh'
decided that they were not guilty ana told the
Commissioners so. The Commissioners replied
that IL was a Just verdict, and there the invest-
CATION stopped.
CONDITION OF THE CITY "ONENNMhNi'
Dr parl,hurst characterized the Police Depart
,nent as rotten from the top to tfe oo''o'"' anu
as being nothing but branch OF ia'"''.'"S
Hall Tammany also In the same ro''e"
condition He spoke in part as follows:
rho condition of things in this city is antagonlsuc
20 the American spirit. II makes me aShd"'e' 81"
=, American when ! remember that the muhcipai
administration Of this city is held IN 'ne "Al'is
| Of = single man To show you how he controis -
,he ,he lnst eeccs for Mayor Foryeish hours be
fore tne nomination was m"uI II II" all depended
%I%n wnT "aS one man-upon one mans judsment;; mt;
preference and decision canno' nn who hoP even ven
by the exercise OF nilultous means can 90 90 VIVA, a
the boss Of Tammany i'n ase tha q1 word aGmlraton
also have as much contempt for the people hsne VINO
"r opinion Of that boss and guess It Is aoog,
the same when New YORK gets reany 10 ''iy ist ns
brooklyn did and believe that Il Is preles'ine, ne
that the people shall 90 ays 80 aso i certain re-
spccts things were not so naa ~ r ,ne ~ control
Of Tammaiy bosses.
SACRIFICING TIE CITY.
Tho foundation Of municipal reconstruction must
| Ia laid in our primary schools whore children sha
he taught the American spirit. To MAINTAIN ihu
ricpal purity must divorce city ana N'u''""
elections We have not done this ana nav T - in IN
| the mean time Tammany Hall haS sot sai"1lne i,
control Of the city ihs Sta', nn'" claws sr even to
| V.a,rirg,on II We save the cities. We shaH save
~ c,,o.r,, We are apr ching another city ecc-
| " , a 90 must keep In view the fact that ma.
| nicliaI administration should be non ,pphtCh az.
hai The aunllncationa for city ofcia should nov
hath or
poIticnl parties but should be based on competency
the present posture Of the soes'y fof fbe sh't 't5ce
yenton o1 crime ,ensc.w amu interesting Tho story
has heen told frequently OF late, 80 WIZ no, w. ~
each Pi%rrg@r os f cent Of the w" most
works accomplished by The society sinor ns' sc.r1
M MAit'r ronDctc1 W., upon the so-caed evidence Of car
tain Dcyery and his fem,le irenI snd put il to
u,drL in The precincts where we Thought th'r" va
| ,her no a. one the Eleventh. our men WORKED there ere
Until JuFs Fer Tesn yessohs do not > care give aid
not make the complantr unti nutuSS and ,bc Police
% which hEFnTs TbeT ana ana
.ap,atnd ibo, thoy were not guilty. and the Police
Commissoners Informed them tha, they were
"'' . POINT AGAINST MAYOR GrLRoY
,,o- c,,~oy has been talking lately to the
enec, that n we would make complaint 10 MI"
| 10 ,rould make a rigid investigation. We have
| made a complaint to him. and he has taken no
| ,n,ic. or q We made one complaint TO him. which
| h az chairman OF the Commissioners OF Jurors
,as lcgalv bound 20 bring 10 the attention OF the
| c-,,d rury But he did not: possibly because II
| o.as against member OF that body. We sent
| c:0-rrlalnts 70 the Police Commissioners. and tney
| said that II any more were sent TO them 'hey
| would put them into the waste-basket. Poilce
Commissioner Sheehan reported o nave Sn, and
we must believe ne said II; because ne reporters
Who take the proceedings OF those meetings seldom
| make mistake. , 49,, ,,e,ta r,.r,,,o,, a,
| nrcsont ls for effect II Is mean subterfugc and
an effort 10 shift the wickedness Of the department
| from public notice. These raids on d:oraery
bouses always follow the transferring Of Captains
from one precinct TO another because IL Is hccea-
sary captain when ne comes sn n,o ro a new W
bis innor,ancc In the last raid the captains col
inCted their revenues from these houses. ana then
-, have had several letters to-day from
women saying that they had paid certain amounts
on lst Of December I9T ,ns hro, ib bame
nn superintendent Brynes and Superintendent
Rrvnes places IT upon the Police 'omminlssii1ne,r'
They are all frightened and are becPmins dlvlael
organIcally rotten. II Is branch OF Iamnany iihI'
which lives upon money- na & - ,,c or
,he nolice officers could fully appreciate that their
Gno houses their beautiful clothes. and all theii
other luxurcs came from tns MI m go ', h no. -, dnh, %
would blush with shame. win an we had 10 ngnt
against we have accomplished fnuch ana IN cNery
instance where we have been successful II We ha'i
failed II would have only been a heiay lor sooi
g. hoiind TO come from our efforts In the long rum
COMMISSIONERS IN CONSt'LTNTION.
THEY DECLARE THEY HAVE no THOUGHT OF
GETTING RID or SUPERINTENDENT BYRNES
AN INSTANCE OF BLACKMAlL.