The evening world., 1917-09-01
HEARST TO BACK
HYLAN FOR MAYOR;
ATTACKS mitchell
Editor Declines to Run Him.
self, hut Demands Defeat
Of Fusion Candidate.

" H Hearst has followed up his
dtrIInHtlon Co b. tho Democratic
rauyr candidate for Mayor % New
Nufk ~ long statement prhisinE
judge John y iiylan and iambas,inr
Mayor Mitchell ilo says BE- thinks
I tlt recollection of the latter would
De an Endorsement - utter incom-
potency and unfaithfulness In public
iifc."
That part of Mr.. IIcnrsts state
ment which attacks the Mayor is as
follower
'The defeat OF Mayor Mitchell ~
absolutely essential Co the safeguard.
Ing 81 democratic principles and the
restoration of tho rights OF tho citl-
zens In their own government
Il have no personal hostility 20
Mayor Mitchell. lie In an Amiablo
young man. but without character or
principlcG lie has a silly ambition
for social recognition and a weak
willingness 20 place himself entirely
in the hands Of selfish and sinister
interests and allow himself and his
great public office to be used for the
J private advantage OF these selfish in
terests and against the public welfare.
II am opposed to Mayor Mitchell
politically because he has violated tho
pledges upon which he was elected
and has betrayed the people who
trusted him and voted for him; be.
cause he has given away vast values
OF the peoples wealth in public prop
erty TO personal friends and privilege
seeking interests, and because he has
tried TO give away still vaster values
in public rights and properties, and
| undoubtedly will surrender these val
ues, regardless of the claims and pro-
tests of the citizenship, IL he be re-
elected and IL his course in public
betrayal and private favoritism is In
dorsed.
81 am opposed TO Mayor Mitchell be :
cause he has plunged the city into dis
astrous debts through his dissipation
of the city's wealth to friends and ia
vored corporations. and because he has
sought to make the citizens and city
employees pay for his largesses to
privilege seeking individuals and in
terests.
"As an inevitable result OF his per-
sonal policy OF dissipating the city q
wealth and distributing the public
property to private interests, he has
| IN nc
conduct OF the Municipal Government
through borrowing. to the exhaustion
OF the city's credit through success
lively burdensome taxation and
through petty and parsimonious re-
ductions in the wages of ill-paid city
employees at a time when higher
wages are customary in all private and
public institutions, and are made nee.
essary TO the maintenance of decent
standards OF existence through the
continual increase in the cost or living
'I am opposed to Mayor Mitche
because ne has made the public
schools tho football of politics ant
the sport of faddists. He has put
our children on half rations of educa'
tion, when in republic the hope oi
the state Is the fully educated anc
enlightened intelligence of the coming
generation.
| Tho halT-tlmo system IN tn'
schools, which all denounced as tn,
most damning vice of Tammany
Mitchell has sought to make virtue
by putting 1t into general operation
and giving II the high sounding title
The Gary system
"I am opposed to Mayor Mitchell be
! cause there have been more sordiC
scandals in the Mitchell Administra.
tion than in all the Tammany Ad
ministrations which have preceded
him since the days OF Van Wyck.
, II think the reelection OF Mayo
= Mitchell would be an Endorsement o
utter incompetency and unfaithful
ness In public life, a complete sur
: render Of public rights to private in
terests and distinct danger not onl!
TO public rights and public propertie
but to the essential principles of pop
, ular government and the Fundamental
American idea of loyal execution o
the will OF the citizens by their elect
ed officials"
The elimination OF Mr.. Hears
leaves Judge Hylan L free field an,
makes unnecessary any pre- -primar,
campaign on the Democratic side, a
far as the city ticket is concerned
There will be primary fights 70
the Supreme Court place betwee'
Thomas Il. Rush and John v. Nc
+ Avoy, and a fight in Brooklyn 70
the nomination for Borough Presi
dent. In addition there are contest
for minor places.