The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-21
DIR. PARKHURsIYs pLArFoRM.

Na"h hOEuh N-HA4iOftH 10 AiNNpHN
the Germans From Going over To the
Enemy.
New York, Sept, 2o.-Dr Parkhurst
told what he thought on local questions
yesterday; to-day he told what he
meant to do, He means to get in com
munication with the representatives of
religious organizations and institutions
for the purpose of urging them to hold
fast to the platform of reform on which
the last political success was achieved;
to forego for a season the agitation of
subsidiary questions the settlement Of
which is dependent upon the attain
ment of the main end He will go him
self into the country, and will ask Presi-
dent Roosevelt and others to go with
him, on campaign for mutual conces-
sions and fair understanding between
the cities, towns, and districts of the
state and the city of New York And
he will see and consult with the lead
ers Of all the reform organizations
which cooperated last year, to secure
harmonious collaboration this year.
The clergyman began work at once.
AT $3.50 o'clock he received a gentleman
who represents that division of the Ger
! man-American Reform union which is
reported to have begun negotiations
with Tammany hall.
The program DR.. Parkhuret sketched
Professionally is in brief as follows:
a. The second defeat and utter an
Inhalation of Tammany, that being an
| essential step to the complete overthrow
| of bossism, which is the ultimate aim.
| (2) The demand for police reorgani-
cation BILL that being necessary for the
| thorough reformation of the police de-
partment. CD Local option in ex-
else matters, and the postponement of
| the Sunday-closing issue for local set
| Element when the groundwork of hon
est municipal, township, and village
| government is established. a. The
honest, even, and regular enforcement
of laws, and the approval by the com
munity of honesty in office in the per-
sons of the police commissioners
| 1.-THE matter of proper excise law"
said DR. Parkhurst, sis not an unimpor-
| tant one. 1t is, on the contrary, a
question of great Importance to US.
But until we can be assured that the
laws we make will be thoroughly en-
| forced, the laws themselves are of sec
ondary concern. 1 admire as much as
/ any one the earnestness and 'pertinos-
ity,' as the Scotch say, of the prohibit
| tionists, but they are going to wreck
US, and themselves too. if they thrust
| that issue upon us before the essential
one-honest igovernment-Tis settled.
Sometimes good people seem to be
such consummate fools that l am in
clined to reckon intelligence as of more
worth than virtue-that is certain
kinds of virtue. / think, however, it
will be possible to get a postponement
of the struggle for any particular Sun
day laws till the preliminary questions
are out of the way. Mr.. Plat is right
in his appreciation of the powers of the
churches and the synagogues, but I be-
| lieve they, the root of the reform force,
will prove reasonable.
/ 1--WE have first of all to defeat Tam
many again. A second defeat is neces-
sary to overthrow the Tammany kind
of bossism. When that is done, we can
attend to the other sorts which we
know.
Now, the police department is not yet
reformed. We must have reorganiza-
ton powers for the board of police f
that is to be accomplished The senate
and the assembly failed dgnominiously
to give the board those powers, and one
excuse was that the powers were ex-
4 tremely potent for good or evil. That is
true. / met an Englishman in my trav-
els who expressed establishment at the
powers of removal given the mayor
But they were necessary and have prov
ed beneficial to the city.
with the police board more funda-
mental principle is at stake. What are
we going to do to help honest officials
when we get them? The powers asked
for them are dangerous, truly. But the
lquestion is, are we going to trust good
men when we get them? The police
commissioners have stood before the
people long enough to be known by eve
rybody l say let us trust them to the
full. Let us take this method of en-
couraging and extending the usefulness
Iof honest officials, by giving them con-
fidently all the powers they need to ac-
lcomplish their work. In this way and
in this case we shall have for an issue
in the coming campaign the approval
of four officials, who have shown Us
Eclearly as any men can an honesty, in
dustry and intelligence which deserve
public commentator and confidence.
would pledge every candidate fol-
1.-THE legislature to a police reorganization
law. / would ask every candidate ex-
plicitly what he will do on that matter
and I would ask the people up the state
to consider our needs and grant our re-
quest as they would have us consider
their wishes and concede their de
mands."
LODGE IND SOCIETY.