People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1894 — Dr. Parkhurst's Skill As An Organizer. [ARTICLE]

Dr. Parkhurst's Skill As An Organizer.

E. J, Edwards in McClure's Magazine for January. Perhaps the most difficult of the more recent work Dr. Park hurst had to do was to give proper direction to the public sentiment, and bring into effec tive union the various influences which had been aroused by the revelations which he and his associates were able to make. Prom the first Dr. Parkhurst had said, “We are aiming not so much at vice as at a system which tolerates and supports vice. We are bringing our guns to bear upon the citadels of those by whose authority, influence, and command vice flourishes, honest government is destroyed, and the government is made a spot of shame.” Therefore, when public sentiment was sufficiently aroused—after testimony had been heaped on testimony and the awful skeleton had been exposed—there was need of executive qualities of the highest order, the wisdom which distinguishes siateswanship; a capacity for handling groups of men who, while having a common object, incline to seek it by diverse ways and thereby jeopardize it; and beyond that even, the skill and strategy of the politician, who depends somewhat upon the expediency, and very greatiy upon organization, It was in the way he met these new demands on him that Dr. Parkhurst made the fullest revelation of his extraordinary in tellectual power. His purpose was moral. He aimed toovei-, throw, and to overthrow permanently, a political system which had made the administration of the city’s affairs a lefthanded partnership with vice and crime—an administration for spoils. In the arguments, the consultations, and the other work which the achievement of this aim involved, he showed a,h