New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-01-27
. CHANCE FOR REDEMPTION.
p.RKHuRsT ON THE COMMITTEE OF
FIVE HUNDRED.

,,co,-RAGEMENr FOR THE MOVEMENT TO PURGE
~ur LOCAL REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION
AZ ANALYSIS OF SOME OF THE
FIGURES RECENTLY DISCLOSED.
-.snorsa to a request for his opinion OF
T.orL and aims Of the Committee OF Five
Wv s,od which has set out to give the Repub-
~ ~ New-York an honest. representative
'.,zot;on. the Rev DR.. Charles H. Parkhurst
made the following statement for publica-
ton: 49,. Aoo.,o -. ~
,,,or interest in local Republican politics
~ uch any more than l have IN local Demo-
1t, noIitics as such, but because fraud OF the
.,ort,tv and quality Of that recently perpetrated
" .,e course of Republican enrolment IN this
-. cannot exist without tainting everything
49,, u comes near TO. nor be tolerated without
trneing dishonor upon all who fail TO lit up
mir voice in indignant protest.
rt e encouraging to know that there Is enough
.,.I dignity and honor remaining in the party
:. this city to rise up in mutiny against the
.,nrdent Invasion upon political rights which
.,e Platt-LauterbaCl combination has practised
:. .os heen looking for some weeks a good deal
- enough the decent anti-Platt Republicans had
-, the courage. the eve Of Presidential
lection 10 defy the Republican Judases who had
20, irving to sell out the honor OF the party
-, the hirty-pbeces-of-slver sort Of reward. II
.hs Republican party were so morally near
aaath's door that protest against inquity and
an organized effort to stamp out iniquity would
.snd TO hasten its own decease, the more that
s.cesse was FASTENED the better, and the quicker
49, decaving corpse was hurried under ground
~. healthier it would be for the city. the State
and the Nation
.1- any people Of honest pretensions still cling
o. the aforementioned faction on the ground or
40 being the regular organization, and In that
nav practically condone and indorse the system
ot,c buIldozing of which this desreputeble Clique
has made itself guilty such ones. II they nau
lived in 1875. would have borrowed British guns
W kill American revolutionists because revolu-
,,on,sts were rebels against what was regular
and traditional and II they had lived in the time
a, our Lord would have prided themselves on
a-vng crucifXion nails because his life ana
aoc,rine were subvers!ve Of tradition and uni
,orn, procedure II passes comprehension the
hind tenacity with which men OF naturally good
rarts will cling to what is transparency raise
and odious If only it carries in Its pocket the
credentials of regularity.
"The Republican party OF this city mas no"
hefore it the opportunity to redeem tsen ana
n open for itself a new ana better chapter
IN its local history. The character of its Commit
tee Of Five Hundred is. in almost the entirety OF
,ts membership. a guarantee of the sohdlty ana
Integrity Of it's purposes. but II there can De
found towards enough 10 combine with the fiatt-
Iauterbach traitors to defeat the commit'eee
Intention it will not be the first time that tiiu
righteousness has confederated Itself with the
devil to the thwartng or the purposes VI iio'''
esty and progress
broze inSOlenCe
dare-devitry about these enrolment frauds that
&c thrilling had thought that Tammany was
had but the look Of the thing is that Tammany
cou,d 90 TO school a good while to Mr.. Lauter-
bach without coming to the end OF what eltheI
he or his senior associate could teach them IN
the way of 'cOloniZing. Dallot-stulhhs' vi po"''-
cal dirty work generally.
"In looking over the Summary OF Enroiment
as produced by the committee or lnVesusatoh
having that matter in charge, my eye Is ar
rested by the statistics furnished OF the NANtn
Assembly District. in which my church happens
to be situated. 1t reports that there We're i,oo1
4 more Republicans enrolled in that district tnah
there are Republicans living In the district
which may be good Plattism. but Is dread1uiy
poor morality. OF those fraudentiy enroneo
the same statement informs that t"enty-ohe
are in the next world already-no further de-
tails specified. A movement must be ALREADY
morbund that is driven to the straits or re-
cruting from the graveyard. or 49| we are
toId that there is no trace which leaves us TO
infer that they creatures purely OF the Platt-
Iauterbach frenZied Imagination; or, II put IN
the terms Of ethics rather than Of poetry. that
the versatile gentleman. who. In recent issue
of Counters Magazine discourses gnbly and
prettiy about honesty and efficiency in political
reform lied that number of fictitious Repub-
licans into his padded rolls. for the purpose OF
stealing victory that he had not the forces to
win There is also memorandum of a con-
adorable number of Tammany men who appear
10 have cheerfuy consented to serve as political
stuffing-a circumstance which is interesting not
only as throwing rudy light on the meaning
of the Address on Partisanship' which Mr..
Lauterbach recently delivered before the Nine
teenth Century Club, but also as showing the
willingness Of the Tammany mind to work in
as ally when the enterprise is understood to be
in the interests of Mr.. Lauterbach's candid and
public spirited superior. 1t only illustrates in
small way how easy 1t is for the Croker and the
Platt spirits respectively to clasp in relations CT
fraternity when there is any mischief brewing
or any Machiavellan purpose to be subserved.
81 do most sincerely trust that the move
ment of the Committee Of Five Hundred
will receive all the encouragement which
cause of my interest in the local Re-
publican party, as because i believe in decency
and love to see political tricksters Of any and
every party cast forth into the outer darkness
OF public reprobation.