New-York tribune., 1910-10-22

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is full of Hughes direct nominations
men, and every time the candidate saiu
he was standing on the Hughes pla'-
fern and would carry out the Hughes
policies he got d round of applause.
1t was at Canandaigua that Mr.. sum
son replied to Judge Parker on the eA
travagance issue" He said he thousn'
it particularly appropriate TO speak OF II
there, in the home town of Conrohei
Clark Williams. and added:
am afraid Judge Parker hasn't been been
place where i have spoken | have tdh., n
/ up that issue, but before you can take uR
the general issue of extravaganza; ~ SUe
must find out what the charge is; peIVIS
you meet case in court, you are enuteII
/ TO know the complaint; and althouen I
| have been asking now for two weeks VIC. a.
| the specifications of this charge were, IoS
even Judge Parker himself has furnlsiiSu
me with any of them. They say that me
! budget of the state has increased. II uh-
/ doubtedly has. But the efficiency OF lnS
| state government has also increased, anu
| the efficiency costs money. And "neu
have asked my opponents which ones OF tne
different items of increase going over
them, they would choose to have US cut
| out. l have had no answer
Now, ! deem It to be a rather appropLlal,e
| thing in this town, this old home or CldL
Williams, our present Controller, TO take up
( that subject. because If there has heell or i
piece of constructive legislation Whlcn y
important TO the people of the state, II has
been the law enacted by our Republcdu
Legislature which has changed the chaouc
system which formerly existed IN sla'e
finances. on the suggestion of Mr. NllllaIlS'
to scientific and business basis OF arrans
ing our budget. Now. the first t1lng tllat
] have Just pointed out is that il is little
1 difficult TO reply to this general charge
until they specify what II is they thlhh
they should have cut out
Charitable institutions improved.
We have been improving our charities,
cur prisons and our asylums: The insane
of this state increase, according TO stStls,
tics. at the ratio of nearly one thousand
a year, which makes necessary the build
ing of a new asylum at least every three
years Our system of treatment OF the
criminal under the enlightened administra-
ton of Governor Hughes and the PRISON
achieved a standard which is much nearer
that of an enlightened republic than II
used 10 he. and all of those things coSt
money. Our labor laws have peen anenael me eaa
so as to require closer inspection OF rae
tories in the interest Of protecting WORK
mems limbs and lives. and that alone mas s
required S+5 600 additional expenditure; but
so far l have been unable TO hnd from
my opponents single one OF those Items
which they would, If they were IN oIHcSS,
cut out: so II has been left Tor me 10 Lahe
the aggressive. to penetrate through thelF
silence and try TO find out what they were
really driving at. , .,i
platform I can make a guess, IN spite OF
their silence, at what they are drlEins; 1l.
They have nominated for the two places
on the Democratic state ticket which nave
most TO do with the administration or state
fnances-the offices of Controller ana STATE
Engineer-two men from my CITY whose
only experience in public life hitherto mas
been as officeholders under an orgahIzatlo,I ~,
known as Tsmmany Hall; so l thlnk II Is
fact and when YOU consider also the fact
that Tanrnanv Hall controlled the no
chester convention, that theE propose 10
substitute for what they call the 'eXtrsNa-
gance' of Governor Hughes the economy
OF Tammany Hall. -, ,.
I have lived where Tammany Hall lives:
have studied IL at close range. ana
should like to give you just one or TWO
Illustrations which you sober minded voters
of this town can take home and think over;
as some of the issues Of this campaign, ana
which may enable you to reahze Whdt II
means to introduce Tamman! Han econ
orny into the state government in lhe iIfsl
niaCe. during the twelve years since New
Work City was consolidated, the budget OF
that city has increased ITO per cent, as
AGAINST an increase of about half that
amount in the state government during the
same time.
Difference in Financial Method.
In the first place, there is difference in
the Fundamental methods of the matter OF
the finances of the two admlnlSIaloIlS
which | want TO call your attention 10 anu
which | should like to have you thlnk over
Now in the state government unGer Gov
ernor Hughes, whenever the state mas pSeh
Obliged to construct what We would can
neYr1anent IMPROVEMENT. like a new nos
pital or a new agricultural college new
asylum or any other building IN me iatuIe
of pernlanent plant, except only the two
.sreaf improvements known as the cafdl
Improvement and the highway improve
ment which stand on separate DasIs-
whenever thes have constructed any per
maDent plant of any character WhaleNei
outside of those two, II has been ihe HneIL-
cd and the pra etice of the Republican state
,,ae-ra ian, IN
ments out Of current income 49,
In other words, they have paid as they
have gone alopg without issuing pohus
In the cas-. Of the canal and in the case OF
the highways. under direct authority OF
the DeoOle of the state. by referendum lhey
have been authorized to issue honds anu IL
necessary TO imuOse A direct tax, but even
there. while they have issued bonds they
have paid the interest ola those bohuS Will
out any direct tax far, although theE
had the authority of the vote OF the peo-
pie of the stats TO impose such oirect
tax. MOST
conservative system 1t is far more CON
servative than the approved system Wilci
IS in effect in our great corporations. our
railroads and other great industrial
corporations. Whenever rallroad pui-
chases a plant il considers II perIectIy
legitimate to issue bonds or issue stock loI
that purpose, ana 10 that extent increase
its capital or its bonded debt; but under
this eXtTaVa agant administration OF Gov
ernOT Hughes the State OF New YORK hds
paid for everything that il got as II went
along aid there is no debt left standing on
the people Everything is paid for as IL
goes.
system which IS in effect in New York city.
l had occasion 10 look that up last year
when we were III a municipal campaign
and this is the system that they nave en-
ployed there. Not only have they issued
city stOck-in the case of New York City
II is stock that they issue and not bonds,
as YOU NAV knOW-they not only have
issued city stock for all of these perma-
nent improvements which they have made,
hut they have issued city stock for their
current expenses in many cases 1hey
have issued. whenever they got into \ tight
Dlace and needed money for some current
expense. we found on looking into their
finances last year, that they had issued
stock for fl; and the committee OF one
hundred which collected and produced the
statistics on which the election last year
was won against Tammany Hall found That
the city of New York WAS still paying IN
tereSt on stock that had been issued for
ing of the Williamsburg Bridge, which had
been issued for music on the recreation
piers which had been issued for soap 10
clean the city offices, and for whips in the
Department Of Street Cleaning.
Think Of it, Under a TammanT admins
stock issued TO pay for music the notes of
"a hich died away five years a go (Applause).
And that is the kind of administration that
they are proposing to introduce in place of
the eXtraVaEance of Governor Hughes. Now
when they talk about extravaganza there I
want you TO think Of just that difference OF
methods: I want you to think of the diff
ference in the rate of increase Of the debt
and of the budget with the state and the
city admiristrati tons side by side When
mana business man-in TO take charge of
the state in place Of this lawyer. Governor