Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-28
CRUSADE AGAINST VICE
Business Men Of New York Hold
Conference to Consider the.
Situation.
Committee Appointed and Persons
Responsible For Present Condi.
tions to be Prosecuted.
McKinley's Popular Plurality at the
Late Election Will Be Over
100000.

New York, Nov. 2s.-A gathering of
business men resulted from the call for
a conference at the chamber of com-
merce Tuesday. The features of the
meeting We're the practical retirement
of Bishop Potter from the front rank of
the movement; an address by Abram S.
Hewitt, in which he said that the re-
sponssbility for the present condition of
the mayor, and the unanimous adoption
of the following resolutions:
Resolved, That a committee Of fif-
teen be appointed for the purpose of at
tempting TO bring to account those re-
sponsible for the present condition Of at.
fairs"
Bishop Potter, in letter explaining
his absence from the meeting. wrote as
follows.
Il shall not be able owing to trustee
meeting to attend the meeting OF the
chamber Of commerce. today, nor.
think l ought to add, should do so II
We're free. The aim of such a meeting
should be- primarily, to unity the forces
on the side of law, decency and the pro-
lection OF the veal of this community.
But In such an effort an ecclesas:ic ia
not the best Instrument. His particular
affiliations make him distinctly non per-
soma grata to priests and ministers (and
sometimes people) of other communions
with whom the odium theologicum is
still a very active sentiment. The cler-
sy may fifty exercise the prophetic Of
flee of rousing. warning, entreating, but
in social and political movements their
best servisa will be in the ranks, where,
as in times of stress and Siege,@they may
patrol, mount guard, keep watch, but
leave to others the task OF generalship.
AS TO this in the present emergency, 4
am quite clear New York wants strong
committee of three or five trusted lay
men to cooperate and coordinate fore
IS. sentiment. purposes and then, if we
can maintain the present aroused sense
cf danger, the rest viii almost accom-
plisl ITSELF
Abram S. Hewitt. in the course of an
address. frequently interrupted by APP
plauss said:
Bishop Potter was called upon TO ad q
dress the mayor in terms unparalleled
in this city The bishops clarion call
init IS-cdy les puIlSS>.is SNsllells tIlS
head of Tammany spoke ii was the first
confession from the governing power
of the city that anything was wrong
Two years ago reform was sent to hell
by a leading citizen OF this city and
there it seems to have remained ever.
slnce. If it be recalled now, 1t is be-.
cause Tammany Hall thinks it has suf-
lfered purgatorial punishment long
enough. Tweed, when complaints We're
made, asked: What are you going TO
do about it? That was lesson to Tam
many. The limit of public abuse has
been reached. Some of the men on the
Tammany committee are entitled 10 our
sympathy, but more u our commisera-
ton. II they do their duty they strike a
fatal blow at Tammany. and If they do
not they lose their standing in the COM
| munity. If there had been any sincerity
i on Mr.. Cookers part the committee
would never have been appointed The
responsibility for the conditions here to-
day belongs primarily to the police. In
the last analysis. if things go wrong,
the responsibility rests with the may
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