New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-20
Judge Hylan Says
Goslin Charges
Are CamouAage
Asserts He Is Slandered to
Cover Up His Expose of
Mitchell Regime
By BRIGGS

Judge John +. Hylan, Tammany con-
didate for Mayor, continued yesterday
to attack Mayor Mitchell and to ignore
Morris Hillquit, who, Charles F. Muir
ply says, is his only real competitor.
He appeared in the evening before
good sized audience in the Amster-
dam Opera House. Forty-fourth Street
and Ninth Avenue. and, as usual. read
his speech, which dealt with a state
ment of the Mayor that the issue Of
the campaign was whether his admin
istration had been honest, non-par-
tisan, uncontrolled and businesslike."
Defends Private Record
Incidentally the Judge referred for
the first time in three days to the at
tacks upon his private record as a
lawyer. saying:
"By campaign of SANDER and at
tempted defamation he (the Mayor is
seeking to distract us from a discus
sion of his iniquitous record in office.
BY the use of records which were
forged he is falsely and maliciously
attempting to persuade the people of
this city that twelve years ago was
the attorney for Alfred K. Goslin. a
notorious swindler. Mr.. Mitchell
knows, and those who are aiding him
in his vicious conspiracy know, that
never was attorney for Goslin, that
never was attorney for any accomplish
or any tool Of Goslin, and that never
had the most remote connection with
any Of his crooked transactions"
In asking whether the Mitchell adj
ministratlon had been honest, Judge
Hylan referred 10 the Rockaway Park
purchase. On the subject of its nom
partisanship he had this to say:
at has known no party except the
party OF special privilege, the party
of the dollar. The dollar sign should
have been Mr.. Mitchel's party emblem
instead of the group Of rings he calls
the Bulls Eye
"The party of Parker, Hughes, Lit
Teton ard Root, What a noble aggre-
CATION of privilege pleaders. Parker,
the dollar Democrat. who tells US that
we must vote for Mitchell or be classed
a traitor city, Hughes. the paid de-
fender cf William II. Reynolds's at
tempt to mulct the state out OF over a
million dollars! Littleton, the loose
tongued protector of Rockefeller and
Perkins, Root, the defender OF Tweed,
the advocate of corporations that ex-
plot the people and the Trainer of a
reactionary constitution which the
people of this state rejected by vote
Of over 100000 majority. These are
samples Of Mr.. Mitchels non-partissn
administration. Yes, Mr.. Mitchel's ad-
ministraticn was so non-partisan that
he could not give his support to Wood
row Wilson in 1916"
Calls Charges CamouAage
The Mitchell administration, far from
being uncontrolled, the judge declared,
was the creature of Rockefeller. He
went on:
"Mr. Rockefeller and the Millionaire
band which is lighting 20 preserve the
license they now possess to plumber
and exploit the public, can well afford
TO indemnify the two newspapers for
the libel judgments they will surely be
forced TO pay.
They can we'll afford to reimburse
in any sum If by the publication of
these liDels Mr.. Mitchell is furnished
new camoufage and | can be diverted
from the exposure ] am making OF the
Observation-Disclosures administration