The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-18
PARKHURST ON
.TAMMANY HALL

NEW YORK, Jan. 8.-Discussing the
and the attitude of Tam
many in connection with a system of
protection for gamblers and other
forms of vice in this city, DR.. Park
hurst said last night:
eff these charges are true and can
be presented by the District Attorney
as absolute evidence resulting in the
conviction Of guilty men it will be
great thing for justice and the city.
We all have known that these crimes
|of Tammany existed but the names of
the men in it were what we wanted to
know particularly as to how the sys-
tenn worked and what portion OF it
reached Tammany hall as an organiza-
ton. If the District Attorney can go
before the grand jury substantiating
these. charges with names and dates,
connecting the men who paid the men
| with the criminals who received 1t, it
will mean Sing Sing for lot of them.
There is nothing SO important for
reform in New York as to cut the
strings of Tammany's treasury.
1.-THE leaders never cared for any
thing but money. All their apparent
interest in organizing so-called reform
movements has been q mere pretense.
With the proof there is no reason why
Mr.. Philbin should not make quick
work Of 1t and remove the necessity
for Mr.. Cookers return to New York.
| eff we could get about 100 of the
gang into Sing Sing the city would
have some chance for it's municipal
life. To convict Tammany as an insti-
tuition is one thing; to convict guilty
members as individuals is quite an
other I have always believed in the
ultimate triumph of virtue and the peo-
pie 1t looks hopeful to hear that
gamblers have quarreled with the sys-
ITEM blackmailing them.
| compliant has been made of the
mayors inactivity. But Mr.. Van WycR
has been unable to do anything ever
lif he wanted to. The Tammany system
is in control.
From the present disclosures L
looks as If Tammany hall might be de
stroyed entirely. I hope they will b'
Sustained by evidence and the black
lmailers sent to Sing Sing
FRANK MOSS TALKS.
NEW YORK, Jan. S.-Frank Moss, eS
president of the Board of Police Com
m;ssioners, speaking last night at tn
Universal Thought Salon at Winterbur
Hall on the topic, Things in General.
blamed the men who buy special priv
ileges for municipal misrule IN New Yori
He said among other things:
This unanimous pointing to poor Sci
Iator Sullivan, Martin Engel, Percy Nag
land Devery is suspicious. 1t is susp
cious that all the newspapers agree
, attacking vice. 1t is suspicious tns
tTammany itself points to the particuis
Vices of gambling and disorderly house
T am inclined to look behind and So
what greater evil is shielded. The me
who might start an organization to owe
throw Tammany are themselves gull
lof doing practically the same thing. IT
, men who have been building up tn
lsystem of corruption know that the ms
who are in control in New York life a
buying privileges and were fattenlI
upon the fruits of special purchase PR
lileges.
"Devery Is bad enough, but he is
mere creature, mere product The col
imissioners are as guilty as Devery, y
they talk of taking one of them to
1.-THE single head of the department. /
lis the very man who broke his faith WI
Ia chief with whom he had no fault
lind. to put Mr.. Devery where he is
the behest of politicians and gambler
There has been all this discussion abo
! vice, but he has done nothing. The
has not been single trial, but he is n
the ultimate criminal. He is the creatu
of a system.
Croker is certainly an object agar
(which we have to turn our batteries b
I don't know that he IS the worst OF
There are men In New York who e
great financial powers and who ha
been furnishing the brains for Tamma
Hall for years and profiting by it a
they have been using the rough m
who is the nominal head to control