The sun., 1919-10-30
"a Breeder of Anarchy"

bEteNcE
Early in my remarks l said some
thing about misleading the poor. / can
not thiEE of a more contemplate man
my power OF Imagination fails me to
bring into my minds eye more des-
picable man than the man that exploits
the poor. Any man that leads you TO
believe that your lot in life is not all
right, any man that conjures up for
you a fancied grievance against your
Government or against the man at the
mead of 1t, Is breeding anarchy, because,
at least, the widest anarchist, the most
extreme Socialist, the widest radical
that you can think OF may at least be
sincere in his own heart. He may think
that is right when he breaches 1t
But the man that breaches to the
POOR of this or Of any other community
discomfort and dissl satisfaction. to help
himself and to make good his side of the
argument and to dectroy. as he said
himself he would, the Governor of the
State, is a man as low and as mean as
can picture him. Throughout this
whole campaign II was attempted TO
Ak in the minds of the people that there
existed some place in the statute Law
OF this State the power on the part OF
the Governor to fix the price of milk,
and in his desperation after the nomina-
ton Of the county ticket that statement
was put into his paper In SO many words,
and he knows that 1t is not so.
His lawyers know that 1t is not so
and / defy him-and he has the best
legal advice In this city. because he never
utters a word until IL Is well scrutinized
by an array of lawyers to keep him
away from libel sults--I defy him or his
lawyers to challenge that cold, stra ght-
forward statement of mine, that no
power exists in my hands or In the
hands OF any other agency OF this gov
ernment to fix the price at which any
body can sell anything In this State,
whether IT is milk or shoes or clothing
or houses or anything else"
After stating other cases where Mr.
Hearst had attacked him for not using
power that he did not have. such as re-
moving officials OF the Department OF
Agriculture. the Governor walked to the
front of the stage and with a whimsical
smile said:
81 will make a confession to YOU do
not want to be too hard on him. 1t is
not in my heart to hurt anybody. did
not want him to come on this platform
for any other reason except to show him
that he was a liar.
Now he flares out a headline that
Smith appointed representative OF the
milk trust 10 ONCE. Ihat is lie.
never appointed the man he mentioned"
And so the Governor went on brand
ing story after story as false, much
to the delight of the audience He ex-
planned in each case Just why the yarns
were false. In regard to a story that
the New York Central Railroad had re-
fused to accept milk from a shipper at
a station in Duchess county because
that man had defed the milk trust, the
Governor declared that District Attorney
Swami had reported to him that no milk
had been shipped to this city from that
station in thirteen years.
He declared that the District Attor-
ney Id told him there was no truth In
the statement that he had told reporter
for the American that ne was being in
terfered with by politicians in his prose
cutlon OF milk distributors.
''Is that the treatment to give to in
telligent people. make them think that
there are people in this City here. or
in this County, standing in the way of
the orderly processes OF Justice?'' asked
the Governor. What kind of a seed
does that breed inside OF your mind
What kind OF a thought does that put