The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-01


DR.. Parkhurst at this point of his
statement incorporates the interview
published last year with Superinten-
tendent SyrneS, in which the latter ex-
coriated DR.. Parkhurst and bacitly
charged that members of the doctors
church needed more watching than did
the police force. The statement pro-
ceeds:
Mobbed BY Toughs.
ssOur agents acting in the legitimate
discharge OF their duties Of representa-
tiyes OF a society chartered by the
state, were mobbed a year arC more
sprang to the relief of Byrnes and his
department when we pressed them un-
comfortably at the Essex Market po-
lice court. The papers next morning
were full Of the details of the outrage,
but Mr.. Byrnes on examination was
unable to discover that any outrage
had been committed necessitating ac-
tion on his part, and in that way the
claim was made that agents need not
look for official protection and were to
iDe considered as legitimate prey.
Now that is Byrnes. He is the man
we have had steadily in our eye for
three years. and ne has had US as Sc
curely in his eye. As the community
knows our work has meant nothing
but the overthrow of misrule in this
city, Byrnes has known that as well
as the public, and yet he had fought us.
Now why has not the sena torial COM
mittee, through its counsel, made them
selves familiar with these matters? We
have urged that Mr.. Byrnes should be
asked whether prior to the senatorial
investigation ne had known of the rot
tennesS of the police force Was he
responsible for that rottenness. He was
or he was not. If he was and still kept
his mouth shut, he was unspealzably
vile, and If he was not he was I'M
speakably imbecile. Now why did not
this committee insist that Mr.. Golf, in
his characteristic manner, should broil
Mr.. Byrnes on this bifurcats dilemma?
Would Broil Byrnes.
ri am nothing but a. minister but If
had been lawyer of Mr.. COTS abil-
ity would have put Mr. Byrnes on
that toasting iron and would have
guaranteed to broil cut OF him all his
official reputability inside of one days
session, provided, of course, the com
mittee would have allowed me to do So
Let me repeat in eonclusionpthat /
have no interest in this matter save a,
profound and passionate desire to see
work that is thorough. IF Mr.. Byrnes.
with characteristic disposition to get
his own neck out of the yoke. saws he
has been so handicapped as to be prac-
tfcally powerless, want TO say that all
such excuses are evaSiye and coWardly.
If he had wanted to turn the police de-
partment upside down and exhibit it
in the character he certainly knew be-
longed to it, he could have done it and
done it easily and the pubic would
have stood by him, and no body Of
men more heartily than the Society for
the Prevention of Crime If / NAV be
permitted to refer to myself, 1 have
been able to do something in that line
the past three years, notwithstanding
was outside the department. and moth
ing but minister, and 1 do declare if
ByrneS had wanted to do anything he
could nave done it, and ne could have
accomplished more in the shane of
earthquaking results than I have been
able to do in twelve times three months
Men with as much influence as Mr.
Byrnes, who has been in the midst of
iniquity Tor 80 years, can fight iniuuity
if they want, and if they are cIean theI
want 20.
Il am aware many who are our
friends will take exception to this
statement. Some will say it is inex
pedient. That is not q consideration
that weighs with us. We are NOT
proving for promotion nor burning for
popularity, but the Society for the Pre-
vention Of Crime was here before the
Senate committee came down and will
be here after the Senate committee has
gone back, and the uncompromisine
line we have followed in the past will
be followed in the future"