Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1895-01-05
WAR ON THE POLICE
Lexow Committee Denounced
for Shielding Bynes.
fLlncHlD At THE CRISIS
Tom Plat Confidently fssilsvss the Rev
srsna oensieman Has an Attack
of swelIsd Head.

New York. Dec. 3i.--Dr. Parkhnrsi to-
night gave out the subjoined statement
after II had been read before the execu-
tive committee of the Society for the
Prevention of Crime. and endorsed by
that body:
I'm stating my position touching cor
tain questions now lying before the pub
lie mind. l cannot express myself too
apprectativeiy for the plendid work that
has been done by the senate COMMITTEES.
There has been created through their
fundamentally an epoch In the history
of our city, and there has been secured
at the polls q municipal revolution that
would have been impossible except
through their agency. or the agency OF
a similar kind. Lexow's committee.
Con and his associates do not stand
In need OF our commendation, but y is
a pleasure TO accord It. and II ~ accord
ed with earnest cordiality
I'VE are justified In saying that while
the committee stood up to the rack
magniicentiy through all the other por-
tions OF the investigation. they tiinchcd
at the crisis. As long ago az when
Moss undertook TO adduce evidence
against Byrnes In a direct manner. the
Byrnes' assistance. Now. is II not a
thing 10 be debated? Their attitude
was instantly recognized by those In at
tendance and distinctly stated In the
Journals of the next morning. The
pursuit of lines that might possibly
have conduced to discovery Of the real
lnwardness OF Byrnes' conduct and
character was discouraged--discoura
ed, as II has been discouraged I'm the
case of no other man. Now the pre-
sumption In OH the side OF the superin-
fendent being as criminal as any other
member or the force. so that hesitancy
40 handle him as williams was handled
could not proceed from any prior con-
yiction OF hts innocence. Wherever they
have stuck IN their fork they have
found rot. and whether Byrnes be rot
ten or not, he has been In the rot for
81 years. and has been the executive
head for the rot for the last two years
The presumption, therefore. was
against him. so the indisposition TO ham
die him thoroughly must have been
grounded on other considerations than
that OF his presumabie innocence"
Parkhurst mentions what he calls the
efforts OF Byrnesr to discredit his SO
clety by the arrest OF its private detec
tive for levying biackmaii.
Mr.. Parkhurst at this point of hii
statement Incorporates the interview
published last year with Superintendent
Ryrnee, In which the letter execrates
DIR, Parkhurst and faoitiy charged tina
members OF the doctors church needles
more watching than did the police force
The abatement proceeds; our agents
acting in the legitimate discharge o
their duties OF representatives OF tn
society chartered by the state. wer
mobbed year ago by the tonghs an
thugs that sprang to the relief o
Byrnes and his department. when "
pressed them uncomfortably at the Es
sex Market police court. III Byrnei
with a characteristic disposition TO gs
his own neck out of the yoke. says b
has been 30 handicapped as to be pras
tically poweriess. / want 10 say that a
such excuses are evasive and cowardi.
Men with ms much influence as Byrne
who has been In the midst OF lniquit
for 30 years. can fight iniquity IL the
want. and II they are clean. they wal