New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-06
SAGE WORDS FROM PARKER.
HE TELLS AN AUDIENCE OF MR. PLATTs
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SOME WE'LL
KNOWN THINGS ABOUT PRI-
MARES AND OTHER
TOPICS


Andrew D. Parker who Mayor Strong ana sew
eral others are sorry was ever appointed romeo
Commissioner OF the city Of New-fork, met sma"
audience last evening at the Marble 'o"eb'a'e
Church. the church which Senator Platt ATTENDS 10
deliver an address upon the epigramnatic theme
1.-THE Primary Organization Of Political Farues
and the Importance of Good Citizens Taking part
Therein" The talk delivered under tho au-
spices Of the Good Citizenship Committee OF the
Christian Endcavor Society. whose members might
have talked back to Mr. Parker upon the subject OF
1.-THE Discipline of the Police Force and the I'M
portance OF All Good Commissioners Ehoca'oi'"s
to Maintain It."
Neither Mr. Roosevelt nor Mr.. Conlin was pres
ent. but Mr.. Parker's private secretary took
stenographic report of the gems OF language 'hal
fell from the lips Of his employer. and II Is to be
presumed that Mr.. Parker will present cop! Oh
them to the chairman of the Police Board
1t was doubtless the weather that made MT.
Parker's audience so small. but those who were
there listened politely while Mr.. Parker told them
things that they knew before. The Commissioner
said In the first place that while 1t might not De
complimentary TO his audience 10 say So yet ne
had been asked TO spare no detail In his expiana-
ton OF just what the different pieces Of the ma
chinery Of party action were. and he acted on this
request. He didn't think that party was per-
nicious or unnatural thing at all. he said as ne
wiped his brow-as II under the impression that
he was having all the trouble there was IN the
lecture-room. party was merely an associauoI'
of individuals for the accomplishment of an op-
Ject. He thought all good citizens should animate
themselves with party. How are the good peo-
pie of this or any other city going TO do AWNING
II they simply stand off and let other people 90 II
he demanded -,
This was so tough a conundrum that everybody
gave ii up. - -,
But the most interesting things Mr. Parker SAID
were things that had nothing TO do win ms sup.
ject For example. he told the good people OF MS
audience that as rule he didn't believe In tracts.
He had in them some of the poorest pau
tudes (this word not TO be spelled WIFE "a capltai,
that he had in ALI his life. lie SAID OF
the disability of to vote that IN MS opinion
IL was a strange sort of distinction drawn pc
tween one-half of the human race and the other.
He not one Of those who believed that women
were entirely incapable of intelgently making UP
their minds upon political question: lie thousht
the right 10 10 so must be EXTENDED 10 thehi III
every civilized community. 49,,
Mr.. Parker also thought that the people OF TINS
country were better off than the serfs OF Russia;
He said so boldly and without fear Of successful
contradiction. He also said that when ne was
green Che failed give any more precise date ne
specuat ted once in Wall Street and came out even;
The audience much interested, and asked
questions of the Commissioner. Some OF
them wanted to know when the primaries were
held and how TO enroll themselves there. MI
Parker referred them 10 the newspapers.