New-York tribune., 1896-12-09
CITY VIGILANCE LEAGUE DINNER.
DIR. PARKHURST PLEADS FoR SiN'i'r'
HEAD FOR THE POLICE AND St'-
GESTS CUOATE FOR SENATOR


HEAD FOR THE POLICE. AND srG-
GEsTs CHOATE FOR SENATOR
The fourth annual dinner o. the city Vigilance
League was held last night at the Hotel ~ peh'S
The Rev. Dr. Parkhurs, presided and with him at
tho head table were Recorder John W. con- VIII
lam Brookaeld Justice T. H. Ilinsdaie. Howard
Payson Wids Archdeacon Edmund d. cooper ).
Winthrop Gray. the Rev. Dr. ". ~. J. faHnc"'
John Crosby Brown Alderman benjamin J.. nan
Conrn!s sioner John i. Faurc. Horace - b'in'nS
and Theodore sutro The expectation that the
League would outline the stand IL VIII lax" III "'N'
years campaign was not realized.
In his opening address DR. Parkhurst at tho out
set dsavowed that tho society was animated hy
any political tendencies. The objects or IN"
League he said were devoted 20 the interests ~
humanity and municipal reform. and in these pur-
SUITS he believed they had tho confidence ana sym
nah. Of the people at large. he reminded his
hearers that thsy were now approaching another
year Of conquest. and urged them 10 MAINTAIN 'h'
policy and standard they had hitherto adhered 10
He pointed out that there was what h" called a
Tammany disposition in the Republican ~ well as
the Democratic party. and he told the l"agu" th''
II there was the slightest disposition on the part
OF the members to conc!liatc se' ton of any par
tcuIar party for the purpose OF obtaining opVor-
tunity or ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. he would b" co'npc''u
TO withdraw In emphatic Language Dr i"rk'u'S'
urged that the Police Department he controlled 10y
n single head. He conicndrd that the corruption
md nollution that existed four years ago among
tho pollc. had not been cxtcrminatcd, nor woud
they bo until things ordered that IL would b"
possibo to ftstcn the responsibility for any dere-
Nciion on the part Of the police upon an Individual
Or Parkhurst asked for the aFsistanc" In the
League OF the young men OF the city. ana ADDED
I'VE are interested I'm the matter Of United States
State Senate. ! am anxious that the man who l.
sent 70 Washington to Tcprcs,n: the Empr" state
should be- imperial In his disposition ana anhltion
You cannot send ~ strong, hig-h"Irt"d ahd large
minded man-like Joseph II. Choaie. for Instance
10 Washington withou. there coming back "A r'ac-
tonarN blessing all the young men VINO ar" c'l-
Zcns of the Empire state. We cannot anord to
send there men who machine politicians, we
cannot afford to send a man who wants To carry
New York State In his vest pocket. or man who X
animated by a desire to get as much AZ ne can OF
the crnoluments Of the state In his pocket; or who
has chapters In his Mes history that are foul and
| filthy"
The Rev DR. Faunca. IN an eloquent speech
dWclt upol the ssity of melting civic pride
and an enthusiasm in the minds Of the citizens Of
New York for honest municipal government
He WAS followed by Horace H. Deming who an
rounccd In unqualified terms thc system that gave
| rise TO boss" He advocated that the power Of
nomination shodld be taken by legislative action
from the contro, OF a machine and also urged that
civil Service conditions should be applied in the
| distribution of offices.
Justice Hinsdae. Charles Stewart Smith and
Recorder GoN also made addresses.