The sun., 1918-11-03
WOMEN HEAR SMITH
ASSAIL HIS RIVAL
Democratic Candidate for Gov.
ernOr Says Whitman
DOdges Issues.
BRINGS UP FOOD INQUIRY
Large Crowd Attends Lyceum
Theatre Meeting-Miss Mar
bury Makes Speech. =

Alfred e. Smith. Democratic candidate
for Governor. yesterday addressed an
audience OF women that filled the Lyceum
Theatre, making one of the most COM
prehensive and emphatic speeches of his
campaign, IIe complained several times
In the course Of II that he had not been
able to get his opponent to discuss the
Issues OF the election or to answer his
questions about the acts Of the presen,
administration ut Albany.
Does Gov. whitman thing he answers
my questions when he says that I live on
Oliver street ?" he demanded.
Mrs. Mary X. Simkhovtch OF Green
witch House. presided. and behaved with
entire equanimity when the candidate,
perhaps blinded by the numbers of men
he had been talking to. addressed her
with how as Mr." subdued litter
| arose from the other women around. but
Mr.. Smith stuck to his guns.
Mr. Chairman" he said with grin.
land fellow citizensr' ...
He plunged at once into n detailed dis
, cussion OF the things. he deemed most
, necessary to the welfare of the state and
reiterated his charges that the barge
canal Is not finished, that the payroll OF
the State Food Commission was padded
and that GOV. Whitmans answer to
these things is that 100000 young men
| have gone from the Empire State to
France and that the State went over the
| top IT. the Liberty Loan"
Calls II One sided Campaign.
THE people had right to expect a
campaign OF instruction" he said. For
| the first time In some years the opposing
| candidates OF the two leading parties are
| both men OF long experience in officiai
life at Albany. We had reason to expect
I. Il lot
what should be done to make the State
better place for men. women and chill
| dren to live In. But II has been a one
sided campaign. The only constructive
| suggestions have come from myself"
Then Mr.. Smith proceeded to deal
with the barge canal. which the Repub-
| leans and Democrats are finishing and
diminishing with every one OF their cam
paign meetings. Mr.. Smith unfinished
, II, calling upon Secretary McAdoo's
recent letter to prove his assertion. He
urged the women to remember the coal
| crisis Of last winter as showing that
| the water power OF the State ought to
| be developed as q means of generating
| electricity, and declared thai former
| Governor Hughes's measure putting the
| water power Of the State under State
control had been so weakened by Whit
mans reorganization of the Cunserva-
ton Commission that private interests
had been able to get in "on the ground
| floor
With the food situation Mr.. Smith
dealt at length as one that would appeal
| particularly to women.
| why Is It," he demanded. that food
| for which the farmers get so little costs
| the consumer SO much?
The Farm Market Bureau.
! AT the beginning OF the war the
| word went forth. Save food. Food will
| win the war The State of New York
| made large appropriation to the De-
| partment of Agriculture. the State Food
| Commission and the Council OF Farms
| and Markets. At the end OF a year
| and a half is It out OF the way to ask
the Governor what this Farm and Mar
ket Bureau has accomplished?'
Mr. Smith lifted paper from the
table beside him. During the primary
campaign Attorney -General Lewis chal-
'enged the Governor to produce the pay
roll of the State Food Commission he
said. The Governor refused to do IT,
| Here II is" The candidate proceeded
% read the items. to the accompa niment
If groans from the women. who APP.
reared TO agree with the candidate that
too much OF the appropriation had beer
spent for salaries The groans rose &c
| CnOruS Wnen MI. smith asserted thai
not a name on that payroll came from
the civil service list. and again when he
| aid
| Furthermore. though Gov. Whitman
is lauded by Republicans as the FRIEND
OF women. salaries OF women on the
state Food Commission payroll ar,
smaller than those of men for the same
lind OF work"
Mr.. Smith ended by questioning Gov
Whitman's sincerity in backing the pro
Nibtion amendment.
! Miss Elisabeth Marbury made a shor'
speech praising Candidate Smith as 1ot
per cent patriot. I'm with Smith be
cause I'd rather he on a band wager
than n hearse," she said. THE reac
ltionaries are running the hearse. Mr.
l$Smth is driving the hand wagon" Mis-.
Marbury ended with flaming defenc,
Of President Wilson's appeal for 6
Democratic majority in Congress.
ut Is a shame and disgrace" sh,
cried, that at this time. when the con
ference Is meeting at Versailles, at thi,
critical and delicate period OF the war
any man should criticise the President
the man whose mastery guidance ha.
carried us triumphantly through tn,
war"