The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-01
HE GIVES BYRNES THE LIE.
DR PARKHURST STRLKES STR. ffGHT
 FROM THE SH0ULDER

the Close of the Investigation and SPtang to the Rescue of Superintendent Byr9es-
 They Stumbled at the Completion of T heir Work. New York, Dec, S1.-Dr. Parkhqfst spent the greater portion of to-day in preparing a. statement on the resplts of the Lexow investigation. This even- ing he went down town and had a chn- suItation concerning the statement with Lawyer Frank Moss and MT Kenne- son.
 In his statement Dr. Parkhurst Fays: In stating my position touching eel Ftain questions now lying before the public mind I cannot express myself tod ap- preciatively of the splendid work that has been done by the senate committee and it's talented counsel. There has been created through their instrulnen- tality an epoch in the history of our city, and there has been secured at the polls a municipal revolution that would have been impossible except through their. agency or agency of simiIAr kind. And it is but just that we Ao further than this and recognize the work of this committee and of it's couA- sel as being the influence which is conl- tributing very largely to similar mut nicipal upheavals throughout the counk try. ,Mr Lexow and his committee anN Mr. Golf and his associates do not staiid in need of recommendation, but 1t is pleasure as well as duty to accordl it. and it Is accorded with the most eatn- est cordiality.
 It must be promised that any strict ures that we may feel it necessary to pass are prompted by no spirit of ani- mostly towards any man or towards any association of men. The personal element does not enter into the matter There is a. particular line which our so- ciety has laid down for itself and par ticuIar ends which we have been for a considerable time prosecuting, and in all our efforts personalities are merely an incident. If the readers of this statement will put themselves to the pains of recalling what transpired last spring, they will remember that at that time the writer of this statement and a few associated with him were the only ones that believed in the honesty of purpose of the senate committee. The newspapers were almost unit in their conviction that to rely on MT. LeXov and his colleagues for our municipal deliverance was to lean on broken reed 1
 I remember very well saying to MI Lexow at Albany, in the presence of all his associates, that had just cont from New York, where the entire at mosphere was pervaded with utter dis1 trust of him and the members of his committee. I became convinced, how ever, by my association with MT. Sax ton, MT. Bradley and two or three oth- CTS, that the committee could be count ed on to do honest, faithful and thor ough work clear up to the end. l gave to them my entire confidence. I used my best efforts to break down the spirit of distrust which prevailed, and, in con junction with the other members of the executive committee of the Society fol the Prevention of Crime, put at the ser vice of the senators the entire resources of our office, and they have been avail ing of those resources up to Saturday night last We have watched the ac tions of the committee with keen inter est. They have bored into the rotter tissue of the police department with ut ter indifference as to the character, DO litical or otheriwse, of what they struck.
 Knowing that their report would have to be rendered the first of the new wear we did, to be sure, become a little
 11nt a sufficient time for examining the highel officials, but I supposed they kneV what they were about and that the5 would not do anything that would ever look like stopping their work withou finishing it. Matters had been for s' long a time conducted with such en tire thoroughness that we even forgo that we had been dtstfusted; but lat in November the indications were cleal that the investigation was not pushet to it's close in the same energetic anC unsparing manner that had been fol lowed up to that date. good many days went by in which cases were dis cussed which wearied the pubic, Wh1ci made no substantial addition to th' knowledge already gained, and whlcf were frtttering away the tune Una we knew ought TO pc expeHueu ou Vl' inspectors and the superintendent. W. knew that the character of the police force was reflection from the charac ter of it's chief executive and his i'm mediate subordinates and that how ever many captains might be besm1rch ed and however many sergeants mgh be cashiered the genius of the matter would not be reached till we had ar rived at the quality of the five mer who together constitute the executive headship. A
 In view of all this we are justified 1T saving that while the committee stood llp to the rack magnificently through all the early investigation fiinched al the crisis. As long as when MT. Moss attempted to adduce evidence against Bvrnes in the Marett matter the com rnittee sprang to Byrnes' defence. Now That is not a thing to be debated Their attitude was Instantly recog. nized by those in attendance and dis tinctly stated in the journals of the next morning. The pursuit of lines
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