New-York tribune., 1920-10-26
CovernorTaIxes
Fight g
To East Siders
Smith Wildly Cheercd by
His Ncighbors and Later
Is Welcomed Noisily by
Two Audiences in Bronx
SAYS He Is Sure to Win
Makes Reply to Whitney
and Again Attacks Miller
for sDodging State Issues

Governor Alfred f.. Smith began the
last week of his campaign fer re
election in his home town last night.
His first speech was delivered from a
truck at Madison and Oliver streets,
illuminated with cascades of falling
bors and many other East Sidcrs who
knew A crowded the available space
in the vicinity of the Smith home. The
old 4th Warders, among whom he has
always maintained his city home, gave
him great scnd-o off for his metropoli-
tan whirl.
Because of the condition of his
voice the Governor was advised not to
speak in the open at the neighborhood
celebration, hut he could not resist
the urge to mount the truck where
Congressman Dan Riordan and others
lad been speaking. The band struck
up EAST Side, West Side, All Around
the Town." as the Governors car en-
with the band to make itself heard in
cheering.
There were tears in the Governors
eyes and his voice was husky as he
briefly addressed his old friends and
tcld them, as he did the two audiences
he addressed in the Bronx later in
the evening" that he had come down
from upstate after three weeks of
campaigning confident that he would
WIN.
Confident He Will Win
"Thcre is change for the better" i"
he said. % am confident am going to
win. III do better upstate than | did
two years ago"
That satisfied the neighbo,s and
there were cries from all sides Of "Wc
know you, AL" as the party left for
Hunts Point Casino in the Bronx,
where the Governor spoke to a. crowd
of four thousand. A crowd of about
asticaly at the Morris High School
The Governor directed an attack
upon Judge Nathan Miller, his Repub-
lican opponent, who he declared was
still lodging state issues and talking
"about the st. Lawrence River He
criticized Tho last Republican leg sla-
ture for its lack of accomplishments.
lic reviewed his social welfare ana We
construction program and blamed the
Republicans for not adopting it as con-
structivc legislation at the las. session
at Albany.
He took occasion to answer the
charges Travis H. Whitney, former
Public Service Commissioner, nade
against him in a speech before the
speakers bureau of the Republican
County Committees
81 gave Whitney the gate" said the
Governor, "separated him from the
best Job he ever had, and he is little
bit sore. | was never interested in a
subway contract or any other contract,
as he intimates. ] didn't veto an item
Of $50, 900 asked by the former Public
Service Commission to fight the pas
cases, but insisted that it should be
made a separate bill and returned to
the Attorney General, when | signed it,
II never tried to get Public Service
Commission inspectors transferred, as
Whitney charges, and in regard to ap-
propriations for $4,000 automobiles
merely accepted the recommendations
Of the Republican commission on all
items of expense in running the com
mission. That Will do for Whitney.
Makes Attack on MILLER
"When judge Miller was asked by
an enrolled Republican in an audiencc
at Lockport where he stood on the di-
rect primaries, he asked the man who
told him to ask that question. He said
there We're a great many things more
interesting than that to the people OF
the. state. He said there was Art Gle
K and the future of the St LaWrencc
River, but finally he told his Republic
can friend that if he was elected he
would do what he could to repeal the
direct primary law.
If have never maintained that the
present direct primary law as it is on
the statute books is perfect, bat never
tholess it is fact that the law recog-
nizes the principle of the right of the
enrolled members of a party to make
their own nominations. About that
there can be no question. That was a
reactionarA plank written in the Re
publican platform by the little reac-
tionary group who controlled the situa-
tion and believed they could win by a
million, and it didn't make much diff
ference who they nominated, either on
! the national or state ticket"
Governor Smith severely criticized