The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-13
TIE WAVE on TAmMANY.

Or. PRrEhurst Sends q Letter From Switz.
srIaud-somo vsry Vigorous Sentiments.
I mmany FALL a Crime Breeder.
NEw YoRK, August PA letter from
Rev Dr.. G. II. Parkhurst to tho mem.
bers Of the City Vigilance Leaguo leads
ths August number Of tho City FiTiLaHt.
IL W. written at vevoy, Switzerland,
and is dated June 25 The doctor BIO.
gins by abiding to the revolutions Of
bIackmail before tho Ioxow committee.
"uow hard" he writes. cit was tor
the community 10 believe these things
two yeaSs ago, and bow generally and
cordially they are believed to-day. Eyen
that ono remaining New York daily
.hut has perpetratod enough epitheIs
and invectiYos during the last twenty
four month"; to fill small dictionary
has az last struck its colors."
OF tho police trials DR.. Parkhurst
says: This proposition Of the commits.
sioDora 70 become tho auxliiaries Of tho
senators looks At this distance 70 DO the
most consummated check and elaborate
impudenca Why didn't they invGsti'
cato year ago. Material enough was
givon them 10 work upon-streots.
nunbcra and addresses all complete,
and thny arc reported 70 huvo said that
Il wo cent thom any more complaints
they would dug them in tho waste
basket
IT ~ RIDICULOUS
"For tho commissioners 30 Jump in
Of this staso Of tho proceedings and pro-
pose TO play the part OF prosecutors ls
almost too serious matter 70 bo treat
cd US comedy, aud altogether too comic
IL procedure to DO rockoned ne tragedy.
No; tho commissioners have had their
day. Tho opportunity had been afford.
cd them and that repeatedly. Against
almost every captain yet implicated We
have mado what was practically for
NAL complaint, Gndif thocommtssioners
had boen as much interested In doing
their dutyand caring for tho city as they
wero in caring for themselves and
pocketing tho proceeds, they would
huYe risen to the height Of thoir oppor-
tunity and dealt with tho complainants
as soarchingly as they wore searchtngly
made.
"Commissloners who will play bluff
| and 'wastObasket protests I'LL thoy get
frightened into semblance OF propriety
arc not tho sort OF people that the COM
mnaits cares to have initiate judicial
proceedings against lot OF police cap
tains and ward mon, who arc, 10 oil OPP
pcarances, simply rats OF tho like liz
nesting In an adjacent compartment OF
the same corn crib.
DR.. Parkhurst then crlticizes the idoa
on which tho commissioners arc work
ing, that tho present corrupt condition
can DO corrected by elimination. lie
SAYS tho police department is bad bo-
cause II 10 an integral part OF tho Tam
! many syatern, and Is therefore instinct
with tho corruption chat belongs to the
Tammany system as such. Il IS OF no
use, therefore, to discipline captain or
send ward man TO Sing Sing. Itwould
be ltko cutting out q cancor from body
that Is full OF the disease that goes TO
mako cancer. The tainted blood will
compose now cancer just ms fast US the
surgeon cGn cut out tho old one.
rAMaAHY AS A CRIME BREEDER.
"Tammany Hall Is distinctly q crimo
breeder; that is It's genius. Crime is Its
stock in trade; that hos boon our con.
tontion from tho start, and the eonato
Investigating committee has brought TO
! tho front concrete demonstration OF
that fact. Its impulses arc beastiy; lie
sins iutrinsically morcenaty, and its
ontire system patronage OF everything
made for tho dobasemeut OF integrity
and the exaltation and Qualification OF
what Is sordid, vicious and gross. Tam
many, therefore, cannot DO improved;
il has no capacity for Improvement; Il
ia absolutely barron Of improbable
quality. Tho only ecryico that can DO
rendered il Is to kill IL It's complete
extinction Is our only opportunity, and
November next Ia tho time to avail Of
that opportunity. Victory, 10 Ordor to
be gained, will require to DO gained by
tho concerted enthusiasm OF the mon
who have the power to settlo thinga at
the polls.
"1t thcro is any man In our city moro
dcspicablo than another II is he who
proposes TO mortgage tho present
aroused atato OF feeling 10 tho interest
Of his own pot candidate or party.
Thoroughly aa | hate Tnmmnny hate
with moro bitter hatred any man or
Clique OF men who are contemplating
tho seizure Of this opportunity to put
in nomination a candidate in tho intor-
eats OF q particular set Of political optn-
ions, Thoro ought to DO moral vigor
and personal sGlf.possession enough In
New York to stamp with reprobation
any such movement oven before tt has
timo to fully assert itself.
"Thero 10 righteous Indignation
enough to-day to wipe Tammany Hall
utterly out OF existence, and II II is not
done Il will be because few wool.dyod
partisans and political mGnipulators
chill tho popular onthusiasm by thrust:
ing forward candidates IN pursuance OF
other interosta than those Of our NUM-
cipal welfare"
Disaster Follows