The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-01-01

4 of the disinclinatiou
ttoa So consult With
statement continues
SItiye committee fec
K Il "a the past thrce years
itly contest with Mr..
j lnown perfectly well that
On has been to secure th"
u law in this city, and yet he
Bur steps from first to last ana
"a no efforts to discr0dit us IN
giation of the community. If the
issSentive element Of the police depart
ment had been able to accomplish its pur
| pose it would have crushed the Society for
J the Prevention Of Crime there would have
been no LeXow committee, and Grant
would have been mayor today instead of
| Strong
"Mr Byrnes struck at our society in the
| arrest of our chief detective Gardner. | an
not raising any question here us to Mr.
Gardner's guilt or innocence, bus am only
saying that the police department. con
spred with phenomenal unanimi5y to rid
itself of the embarrassment which our de
tective OccasiDned thrm Byrnos hated us
and kept tab on us, and tried to make us
contemplate in public esteem by showing
that our agent was lcvying blackmail,
which, rs shown by the LexOw committee,
was precisely what his agents were doing,
and what we are obliged to presume he
know his agents were doing
within three days of the above attaci
he struck our society another blow by try
ing to discradit its president He pub
lished to the world a mass of bluckguarl-
ism touching the motives of my work and
the base impulses that inspired it, all Of
which was solid and contemplate falls
hood. / am writing this without am
mostly, but he lied all the same, and tic
object of the lie was to break tine power
that | was exercising against the vicious
ness of his department. He perpetrated a
{ vile, sneaking insinuution against III.
church by saying that he knew of a well
trOdden path that conducted from my
vestibule to IA disreputable resort. For
, low lived viciousncss that taunt is easil
entitled to the prize, for he has since con
ceded that that path was trodden by one
, individual and he in no proper sense q
member of my congregation
"Our agents, acting in the Legitimate
2 discharge of their duties as representatives
f | of a society chartered by the state were
+ mobbed by the tOughs and thugs that
( ! sprang to the relief of Byrnes and his de
a | partment when we pressed them uncom
2 | lOfJdDly dJ Gne ESSEX lhdfkeJ ponce court
r Mr.. Byrnes, on examination, was unable
t TO discover that any outrage had been com
t mitted necessitating action on his part
e "Now that is Byrnes. He is the mar
j. that we have had steady in our eye fol
b three years and he has had us just a:
J. steadily in his eye The community know!
Y our work has meant nothing but the over
G throw of misrule in this city. Byrnes ha
n known that as well rs the public and ye
e he has fought us. Now, why has not tn,
e senatorial committee, through it's counsel
+ made themselves familiar with these mat
d ters? l am nothing but minister, but i
e | had been II lawyer of Mr.. Goffs ability
S would have put Mr. Byrnes on that toast
r. ing iron and l would have guaranteed t.
r broil out of him all of his official reputa
o bility inside of one days session, provided
, of course, the committee would have al
n lowed me to do so.
d Il have no interest in this matter save
c profound and passionate desire to see worl
Y that is thorough. If Mr.. Byrnes, witt
n characteristic disposition to get his Owl
,e neck out of the yoke, says that he has bee
e SO handicapped as to be practically power
$ less, l want to say that all such excuse
1t eyasive and cowardly."