The sun., 1919-10-19
SMITH DIRECTS
HIS BATTERIES
ON W. R. HEARST
Governor Challenges Him to
Compare Public and Pri-
vate Acts in Debate.
HIS LOYALTY RIDICULED
Executive Voices Resentment
at Newspaper Attacks on
Party Candidates.

Smarting under the continued and
savage criticisms of the papers owned
by William Randolph Hearst Gov.
Alfred e. Smith broke out yesterday
in a bitter attack upon the editor.
Throwing aside all conventions and
after due deliberation the Governor In
public told an audience Of 1000 Dem
ocrats just what he thought Of Mr..
Hearst and the character of the meth
nds that had been used in the attempts
of his newspapers to discredit the
Governor.
The Governor said that ii was just
about year ago that the Hearst
newspapers were being burned in pub
lie squares because the people did not
think Hearst was loyal. HE has been
loyal to nobody. not even his own,
the speaker added, shaking with emo
ton. He was afraid in this period of
unrest, the Governor declared. to have
1t said that the editor could influence
an election in New York city.
And after he had ended his speech the
Governor got up again to impress fur
ther on the public his defiance of Mr.
Hearst. He declared that he would meet
the editor on the platform at any time
before or after election. He can ask
me any questions about my public or
private life," said the Governor with a
tone of challenge in his voice that could
rot be mistaken, eff ne will let me do
the same"
Attack Stunning Surprise.
cred carefully his course with his
closest friends, his attack on Mr.. Hearst
came as a stunning surprise to the moro
than 1000 persons who were attending
the reception and breakfast, which was
described by Mrs. John Sherwin Crosby
who presided, as "a reception and break
fast to Mrs, and Mr.. Irwin UntermyeI
and Judge Robert L. Luce in honor OF
all the Democratic candidates by the
Womans Democratic League of the
State of New York" The affair was
held in the big ballroom of the Hote
The candidates were the only mer
present. James A. Foley, son-in-Iaw OF
Charles F. Murphy. who is running for
Surrogate. sat near the Governor, and
the candidates for the City Court bench
were sandwiched in between women
members of the organization. Edward
f. Boyle. the Tammany candidate fol
President of the Borough of Manhattan
had spoken and gone before Gov Smith
was called upon.
There is good reason to believe tha
the bold attack OF the Governor wa,
made on his own initiative, that many
OF the leaders in Tammany Hail. who
dread the influence of Mr.. Hearst, have
been trying to hold him back for somt
| time, They feared the effect on the
ticket but the Governor finally decided
that he could stand the bitter criticism,
of the Hearst papers no longer ant
threw aside the advice of those who
were working to prevent any open break
Now that the die has been cast Tam
many Hall must stand behind its Gov
ernor. 1t cannot afford to do otherwise
Those familiar with the history of Mr.
! Hearst and his papers know that he will
bend every energy to retaltate upon tn,
| Governor. He undoubtedly will brinl
the greatest pressure upon Mayor HylaI
/ to break squareiy with the Governor anC
! Tammany Hall.
| Such a separation would result in tn,
bitterest and most stubbornly contested
! fight in the history of local politics, II
| the opinion OF those who have watched
| the Developments Neither Charles F
Murphy nor Mayor Hylan has wished
severing of diplomatic relations befor
election. The Mayor las consistently
done what he could to placate the Hal
by yielding to its desires in the way o
! appointments to minor judicial Office II
his power.
II Mr.. Hearst should insist that Mayo
Hylan go the limit in making Tamman,
smart for the indignities placed upol
him by the Governor many Tamman,
leaders and dozens OF lieutenants woul,
face the loss Of their jobs In the cit.
administration.
Should the break come and shoul
Comptroller craig stand with Mayo
| Hylan' as he has done to date. Tam
many Hall would lose control of tn
/ Board of Estimate with the election o
the Republican candidate for Presi
dent Of the Borough of Manhattan. Wit
the election OF the Republican candidat
for Presidenl of the Board Of Alderme
as well control of the board would b
lost TO Tammany regardless OF the at
ttude that the Comptroller might take
| Blamed for MIX Cost.
The attacks on Gov. Smith in tn
Hearst papers first began when he ap
pointed former Justice j. Augustus Kel
iogg TO the upstate Public Service Com
mission. For many months the Evenin
journal has endeavored 10 place upo
the Governor 'the responsibility for tn
high cost of milk.
And for some time now the Hears
papers have attacked the Governor be
cause he appointed and has stood be
hind Public Service Commissioner Levi
Nixon. who has been trying TO work ou
co~st~'.sd OF Eleventh pa0s.