The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-01-05
LExow COMMITTEE SCORED.
Parklurst Condemns 1t Because of 1t.
LcnlcncY to RHrnes.

Parklurst Condemns 1t Because of Its
Leniency to Byrnes.
New York, Jan. 1.-Rev. DIR. Charles
II. Parlshurst has given on: n statement
utter it had been read before She oxecu.
tive committee of the Society for the
Prevention of Crime and officially in.
dorsed by that body. The statement,
says in part:
I'VE are justified in saying that Will.
the III stood up to the rack mag
nificently through all the earlier portions
OF the investigation, it tiinched Mt the
crisis; As long ago as when Moss under
took to produce evidence against Byrnes
in Il direct manner. the investigation com
mittee sprang to Byrnes' assistance. The
pursuit of lines that might possibly have
conducted to the real inwardness OF
Byrnes' conduct II character was dis
couraged as it had been discouraged ir
the case of no other man.
Now, there is n reason for that. The
committee was indispoSed to nave the
Marett case thoroughly ventilated in order
TO discover whether there was anything in
it discrcditable to the superintendent. 1t:
~thoroughness broke down at that point. II
stopped just at the completion Of its work.
The chairman of the committee will mol
dare deny that it is policyu have used that
word advisedly-hc will recognize what J
refer to) that controlled him in his han
ding of Byrncs.
put the committee under obligations to
himself and TO that degree destroyed its
independence. He put it under obliga.
lions by consenttng to help defeat Tam.
many hall, and it is TO be remembered that
this committee was first and foremost an
anti-Iammany committee and came down
here for anti-Tammany purposes. We are
not saying that it was stipulated that if
an honest election was secured it would be
remembered in his behalf, but in tho
very nature of the case favors
have been refrigerated. We are
good Offices in the election, only it is to
be remembered that he did not do more
than he ought to have done without being
asked to do and nothing more than he had
the same authority to do in previous cleo
tions il he had only had the official cour-
a to do so.
That second way in which the COM
mittee put itself under obligations was
by taking him into its confidence and
allowing him to become Il confederate
with it in breaking down the force. 10
the degree in which it obtained help from
byrnes it put itself practically. under OBJ:
known the language Byrncs used touch,
ing precisely this point, and when l heard
it ] knew everything was up so far as a
square investigation of him was -on-
cerned.
We arc not charging the committee o,
its counsel with dishonest intent. but II
blundered and blundered badly. We are
not saying that there was any under
standings or ut least II written stipu,
l%ations, that if he would tell what he knew
about other men in the departments that
were criminals he should not be called to
the witness stand, or if called should
be allowed to use the stand
as an opportunity for eliminating
his official associates and celebrating his
own personal and official innocence. But
whether there was any such stipulation OF
not, the acceptance of his assistance prac.
ticaliy involved such n deal, and the com
mittee that came down from Albany with
the express purpose of investigating deal.
ought to have been punctiliously careful,
to avoid even the appearance of. having {
susceptible side for the very sort Of offens,
that it was designated to detect and ad
iudge.n