The sun., 1919-10-30

loyalty to the American nag shall be
the marks and test Of true citizenship
IN the Empire State. He does not 1.-Two
on Riverside Drive. He has no un-
scrupulous papers to back him, but he
has clean conscience and he Is clean
hghter. Here's the man who is your
Governor and here's your Governor that
is man"
Every one in the audience cheered for
moment. there were a few cries OF
You know he, Az and then the audi
ence settled into a deep silence as IL
waiting for some explosion to come.
Il feel that I am here tonight upon
mission as important not only to my
self but to this city, to this State and
to this country as I could possibly per-
rorm, the Governor stated "Of course
am alone. I don't know whether the
chairman or the committee expected that
L would be alone, but 1 knew that /
would. because 1 know the man to whom
l issued the challenge and 1 know that
ne has not got drop Of good. clean,
pure red blood in his whole body. !
also know the color Of his liver and II
Is whiter IL that could be, than the
| driven snow"
Inc Governor characterized the letter
oi Mr Hearst refusing to meet him in
debate as an "untruthful one." The edi-
tor, who he said spent ali winter at
Palm Beach and all summer in Cali
tornia. PROBABLY never read his message
on municipal ownership. II he had he
could not have said that the Governor
had been ilnfaithful to his promises
And right here came a typical Smith
phrase, which tickled the audience. Re-
ferring to the statement of Mr.. Hearst
that they need keep no tickets for the
meeting for his friends, the Governor
said: IF he kept tickets for friends OF
Hearst he could keep them In his ear
Holding up copy Of the New York
Amertcdn ard calling attention to a
cartoon which had a picture Of a labor
ing man with mother and her children
and picture of the Governor with the
heading: Answer these people, Gov
Smith," the Governor said :
"Need No Answer From Me-"
| II want to say to this audience that
] was anxious to bring him on this plat
form so that he could answer to these
people. They need no answer from me.
and any of them that are in doubt about
1t before I am finished I will make It
my business to see that they need no
answer from me They need IL from
him: they need 1t from the man that Is
exploiting them; they need it from the
man that Is sowing in their minds and
in their hearts the seeds of disorder
e~d discomfort. to suit his own dirty
selfish purposes.
This afternoon I said to myself.
when I get on the stage tonight will
try and imagine I am a lawyer and
| will try and imagine that have a case
to make out before the jury, and will
have in mind that every jury. in a case
of circumstantial evidence. Is keen to
know the motive
THAT esta blishes over SO per cent of the
case IL you can show the motive. In
order to show the motive of this attack
upon me I propose to take this audi
ence by the hand and walk them through
my administration since January 1 up
to tonight. and I will put in your
| minds az quickly as II can be done the
motive for this attack upon me-"
When he appointed former Justice j.
Augustus Kellogg as his counsel on
| January / the Hearst papers did not at
tack the appointment, although they
later turned their guns on Mr.. Kellogg
when he had been named as Pubic
| Service Commissioner. The Governor
continued TO explain his acts that later
| had been made the basis OF criticism bv
| the Hearst papers. He had appointed
| represent tatives of the milk distributors
and producers to settle the milk strike
because that was the accepted way OF
|
And that fact" the Governor added
has been distorted and turned around
| until II is n mass of lies,- not under
| standHb'e to ANYBODY, only tha man
i that concocts them, for he has we hid
den motive and the hidden purpose in
the hack oS his head
Everything went along all right un-
til the 25th of March, when we had
the parade OF the Twenty-seventh Di-
| ,tafA lnfD Al,,N
| through another party, made a request
of me that I denied. I denied It be-
cause I did not think. as Governor of
| this State, in honor / could do IT,
Through another party. Mr.. Hearst ASH
| ed me for an appointment for a friend
| of his. made up my mind that the ap-
pointee should be a woman, to a State
| Commission. and selected a woman
from the western part of the State.
| Hearst Disappointed.
"And that disappointed him. Ten days
| after that-watch the clrcumstantial
| case, and follow me along with II now,
while I put 1t all together to show you
| the motive-ten days after that, the first
editorial appears in the Neto York Amer
iodn. 1t does not chastise me. 1t is a
kindly editorial 1t Is one of those edi-
torisls OF warning. 1t says. The test
OF Ine 1ONeiHOr 10 uOW at manu-. VIII
] he failT
- The Governor continued:
AT the bottom OF 1t his editorial
writer wrote this: The people hate
a trimmer and a traitor, hacker and
| filler. a temporariser and a COM
promiser. f. No Democrat has ever yet
succeeded in that way
Now / hold that the man that wrote
that had Hearst himself in his mind.
, because he fills that bill to a IT. II
cannot be made to apply to me because
| l have succeeded.
THAT was like saying: Look out
now. you have not been all right up to
date. You know what we have got
| here: be careful of yourself The
warning was issued on the 25th of
| April. and It looked to me like the
warning was paving the way for some
| thing else that was going to happen /;
because around that time It was whis-
pered around that a Judge of the
| Supreme Court sitting In the Appellate
| Division was about TO resign. and the
little warning was intended to let the
Governor know that he must not slip
up on that one.
Then the Governor read letter signed
| by William F. Schneider. County Clerk,
written on April 80. suggesting that
James A. Donegan, mentioned as chair
man OF the Independence League party,
be considered for appointment to the Su-
preme Court bench to succeed Justice
| Clarence ]. Shearn. Justice Shearn had
| not resigned at the time.