The sun., 1919-11-02
SMITH SAYS HEARST
CUT'YLEFISH
Governor Asserts Editor Uses
Ink Screen to Obscure
His Misdeeds.
PEOPLES WORST ENEMY"
Refers to One of newspapers
"Mud Gutter Gazette
Speaks in Bronx.

the people" by Gov Alfred E, Smith yes
terday. Returning to the attack on the
editor for the third time in speaking
before the women of the Democratic
county executive committee of The
Bronx in Pythlan Hall 149th street and
Walton avenue, the Governor referred to
one of Mr.. Hearst's papers as the Mud
gutter Gazette and likened both publ
cations to cuttlefish, which seek to escape
by throwing out a dense screen OF black
flyid which confuses and obscures.
It had not been the Governors inten-
ton to return to Mr.. Hearst until after
election, but the charge that In his
speech at Carnegie Hall the Governor
had falsely denied vntoing a certain bill
in the interests of the packers led him
to enter the lists again thus early.
After speaking for some time on wei
fare bills the Governor got down to the
rough business.
Specifies "Grcatest Enemy"
81 want to pay my respects in a few
words" said the Governor. ito not only
what I consider the greatest enemy or
democracy. but the greatest living en-
envy to-day of the people themselves,
whose cause he pretends to espouse, and
that Is the owner and editor of the New
York American and journal. ! said the
other night, and I cannot help but re-
peat because feel that 1t sums up this
situation shorter and quicker than any
thing else can do It. that the man who
preys upon any of our people, and par
ticularly upon the poor, who misrepre-
sents conditions to them to win their
support, is the greatest enemy that they
can have while pretending to be their
friend.
"Of course l appreciate the difficulty
Of man heset upon on all sides, with
all the problems that I have to deal
with. trying to keep track of newspapers
Of this type; it comes as near being a
physical imposslbility as anything that
| can think of But here we have
period in the history of the State un-
like anything that we ever passed
through before. Unrest on all sides
naturally. After the awful strain Of
war that convulsed not only this coun-
try but the civilization of the world you
cannot expect everything to settle down
| in a minute.
There have got to be dsa greemcnts ;
| there have got to be Quarrels there has
| got to be dissatisfaction here and there
| What is the great duty-but the intelli-
gence, the common sense and the good
| judgment of the average American citi-
zen. that is the thing that will bring
I that II ever gets into.
ITO say the least, IL makes II difficult
| for your Government, for your Presi-
dent for your officials generally. to be
as effective in their public office in a
| time like this as they should be or could
| be when they have to be giving of their
time and giving Of their energy to en-
| planning away wilful, cold booded and
| premeditated assaults upon their char
7 ~.
knee to the greatest aristocrat and the
/ greatest autoorat that this country ever
contained.
! Made No Defence.
| This evenings paper tonight blazes
forth with the headline, GOV. Smiths
| Defence Proven False Why. I made
no defence. There is no defence neces-
sary. l proved my case beyond doubt.
! ! went before an audience and made a
speech that has travelled around this
| country and Is being read to-day as far
| West as the Rocky Mountains, in which
! / specifically charged him with certain
! grave and grieVCus offences not only
/ against me but against the State itself
And he has made no answer to it. He
| can make no answer. Nobody can ever
make lie right. A lie is u le And
If 1t is lie when it is spoken 1t never
can become the truth"
The Governor ridiculed Mr.. Hearst
| for not accepting the Governors Chal-
I lenge to debate with him at Carnegie
! Hall on the ground that he did not have
| 10 because he was not running for Of
: flee.
Taking up the charge in the Evening
Journal that Gov. Smith had been
! caught in falsely denying an act that
! he had performed the Governor con-
tinued:
You all know what cuttlehsh is.
! The cuttlefsh Is so constructed that ii
can emit black vapor from It's body
while floating through water or swim
ming through water for the purpose OF
: hiding itself from it's enemies. That is
] the definition OF Cuttlehsh There IS
( emitted here this black vapor of ink in
every edition of this paper for the pur-
pose OF hiding the proprietor and the
men responsible for this assault upon
me. The cuttlefsh, when he gets under
cover, studies the way of getting out
( again.
Il nailed a lie last Wednesday night
on the stage at Carnegie Hall I nailed
/ it az cold as one that ever was nailed
In this country The next day the New
/ York Globe exposed IL by giving a paral-
lei column Of what really happened and
what was testified to before the Battle
! commits sion. And the cuttlefish, to save
! himself comes forward to-day with an
! other and entirely different bill which
| ] vetoed. and socks to make 1t appear
, told the lie on Wednesday night
Gives REASON for Veto.