The sun., 1919-10-23
GOVERNOR SAYS
HEARST ISLIAR
WITH FOUL PEN
Is "Indulging in q Dirty
Campaign to Destroy
Him as Executive"
HIS INTERVIEWS FAXED
Papers Breed Discomfort and
- Should Be Barred in
Decent Homes.
HIS INTERVIEWS FAXED
Special Despotch to The Sun.

ALBANY, Oct 22.-Gov. Alfred r.
guns on William Randolph Hearst to-
night. He spoke of foul, dirty pens
and asserted that he had facts to
prove that alleged interviews in the
Hearst papers were lies.
1t was made clear by the Governor
that he was in the fight to the finish
and that he would not abandon his
task until either he or the publisher
had retired from public life.
The second verbal assault on Mr..
Hearst followed the reopening of the
fight against the Governor in the
Hearst PAPERS yesterday. After his
opening barrage delivered at the
breakfast of the Women's Democratic
Club on Saturday the Governor had
held his fire. waiting for some reply.
1t did not come directly, but yesterday
there was a cartoon depicting the Gov
ernor In an unpleasant light in the
New York American. Last night in
the New York EpenIn0 Journal the
entire back page was devoted to an
editorial headed: "Gov. Smith is whin-
ing and whimpering. but babies in
New York are dying for lack of milk. II
and to a cartoon representing the Gov
ernor as having his hands tied by
Charles F. Murphy.
For months past" said the Governor
referring to the attacks made on him
by the Hearst newspapers on the ground
that the Governor was responsible for
the price of milk, ''he has coldbloodedly
and deliberately lied to the people OF
New York city. He has published al
legged interviews that never took place,
and 1 am in possession OF facts and let
ters to prove they were lies"
Asserting that the Hearst papers
breed dissatisfaction and discomfort by
lying about other men," the Governor
says:
Upon my return to Albany I find
that Hearst and his dirty papers are
again misrepresenting the facts to the
people of New York city with regard to
the milk situation.
"As an evidence of his unfairness you
will see by his own paper Of Tuesday
evening, October 81, that his own wife
Is (by virtue OF appointment from the
Mayor of the city, a member OF
and attended a meeting Of a fair price
milk committee, which committee was
brought into existence by my activity in
an effort to relieve the situation.
This is a part OF his dirty lying cam
paign to destroy the Governor. 1t is a
low calibre Of man that. to serve his
own purposes, breeds dissatisfaction and
discomfort by lying about other men
This Is nothing new, however. with
Hearst. He has been engaged IN It since
his name became known in New York
city
1T Is a particularly easy thing for an
inscriptions newspaper man to hide
behind the green shade OF a lamp and
put his foul. dirty pen into the slirsy
ink that would destroy the character and
standing Of other men. But 1t is a hard
thing for that type OF men to come
out into the open and that is the reason
why his filthy sheets are strangely quiet
about my challenge TO meet him."
Coincldent with his attack on Mr.
Hearst the Governor sent a letter to
Mayor Hylan saying that II was W
to the Mayor to see to II that the milk
supply OF New York city Is uncon
taminsted.
II unclean milk is being sold in New
York city," he wrote, "your Commits.
sioner of Health ought to know that
fact II. on the other hand, an unclean
newspaper is misrepresenting the facts
the public should know that fact"
He also despatched a messenger tc
Health Commissioner Copeland direct
Ing him to secure for the Fair Price
Milk Committee such experts as he
deemed necessary and guaranteeing that
their fees would be paid.
II the big anti-Hearst mass meeting
talked OF for Friday II held the Gov
ernor will make a special trip to speak
In any case he points out, Mr.. Hearst
will be the theme of his discourses for
some time to come.