New-York tribune., 1921-11-03
Curran Will
Dust Enright
As First Act
,cMt'nucd ssem PAGE one,

sl1lS.eF siEniHcahcc 10 every man.
woman and child who has lived In
this city since Hearst and Hylun took
office. We are going to analyzc that
word to-night. you and i. We are
! going to understand what it means to
our city. and soc what can be done to
eradicate it from the language. The
word is Hylanism. We must get rid
of IIylanism at tho City Hall and in
al the city departments.
Enright To BE Oustcd First
My first official act after become
Mayor Oh the 1st Of January, 1922 will
be to accept the resignation of Police
Commissioner Richard T.. Enright. That
will be accomplished within an hour
after my induction into office.
"lmmediate'y thereafter shall ac-
ecept the designations of every one OF
tho millionaire special deputy COM
missioncrs that llylan has placed at
Police Headquarters. My next official
act will he to accept the rosigna-
tion Of Hirshfield. Commissioner OF
Accounts; O'Mnlley. the Honey for
Public Welfare Commissioner aud
friend of the Fly-Screen Architects,'
as we'll as the rest of the innumcrable
hordes of incompetent Hearst-Hylan
commissioners who have done so much
20 make our city government a dis
grace and laughing stock during tho
last four years.
ut viii be my duty and my pleasure
70 supplant these Hylan satellites with
men of high calibcr. qualified by ex-
pcriencc and ability TO give New York
a conscientious, broad gauged. cffec-
tive government. something she has
lacked sadly since Hcar3t's Man Fri
day got into office
"ln addition to appointing trained
and able commissioners, I shall re-
verse the Hylan methods of dcAling
with the Civil Service employees.
There are more than $4,000 men and
force, who call Father Knickerbocker
boss They arc entitled to courteous,
fair and just treatment. They have
not had 1T from Hylan nor his com
missioners. am going to see that they
get it.
ITO be Mayor of New York is great
honor. 1t is one of the very harde st
Jobs that man can hold 1t carres
with it a responsibility for he health,
happiness and general welfare of every
man, woman and child in this wonder
1nl city of ours. Every one Of the
10000 900 people suffers when n Mayor
fails in this high Office ] say to YOU
tonight that lIylan has faile1. He has
failed primarily because he has neither
the will nor the ability to be the Mayor
Of New York. Hearst is the real
Mayor He put Hylan in office, and
since January J. 1918, Hylan has
danced to whatever t.ne Hearst
whistled. Hylan feels his responsible
ity only to Hearst. not to the people.
Gwen with Hylan, a dummy Mayor,
our situation might not have been so
bad to-day had Hearst allowed him to
: surround himself with incere and ca
pable subordinates. But that coudn t
be, and the record of four years of
I. tence and graft, and fake, extending
into almost every city department. In
! looking over this record tonight we
are not going to dodge facts. We are
! going TO call spade spade.
''The most important department un-
der the Mayor is the Police Depart
ment. 1t is the hardest to administer,
) and the way IN which it is administered
is the vital concern, not only of every
child in the city. A Commissioner can
make or break the morale Of that
department Under Enright, Hylan's
appointee. the morale has been broken.
Enright has pounded and punished and
played politics with the splendid rank
and file of the department until they
have lost heart.
: when Uylan took office an attempt
} was actually made to appoint a good
Police Commissioner. He named
Frederick Bugher for the job. Bugher
. lasted just twenty-three days. He re-
signed because Hylan insisted that HIS
. Police Commissioner should be only
an office boy, obeying, without protest
any orders from the real Mayor in Cal
, itornia or his Man Friday in City Hall
When Bueher quit, Hylan looked
y1, ,,;f ~
) followed the standards that uylan set
for him.
! "Enright's greatest plishment
} during his four years in Office has
! been to deposit in bank 100000 on an
i annual salary of 1900. To be sure
! one of his millionaire special deputies
gave him limousine and another of
, those. special deputies took care OF
him in a stock transaction whereby
: the Police Commissioner, without put
ting up nickel, made $4,000 in Wall
! Street. This is Enright, the Police
5 Commissioner that Hylan. self-styled
; friend of the people, put at the head OF
a great department.
"This is Enrignt, in whose eyes q
patrolman's refusal to play favorite
with q millionaire Special Deputy
, than the clubbing Of an innocent old
woman by a drunken detective. This
is Enright, who prosecuted his Deputy
Commi missioner, Mrs. Ellen O'Grady
I because in her efforts to drive vice
, from this town she dared to interfere
with his favortes. This is Police
Commissioner Enright, who is going to
get out, just as soon as l become
Mayor.
: ''To help Enright, Hylan the friend
, of the poor appointed his millionaire
favorites as Special Deputy Police
| Commissioners, among them T. Cole
man du Pont, a resident of Delaware
Edmond Guggsnheim, of Pennsylvania;
, Rodman Wanamaker, Of Philadelphia;
: Harriss, the traffic czar who breaks
| his own traffic rules when he likes
and Allan Ryan, of West Virginia, al
- Of whom are under no responsibility
, to the people who elected Hylan, but
, who furnish the flourish and ruffles 50
! dear TO Hylans heart. Never MIND
t them, however, because they will all be
through on January /. The man | will
make Police Commissioner will appoint
as his deputies men who are on to theil
jobs, and men for whom l can be glac
to assume responsibility
Under Hylan the steamship com
panies have paid more to guard theil
piers than the annual budget Of the
r entire Police Department. of the city
This pier policing has become the per
quisite of Enright's pets, and, RENE M
Der, the cost has been passed right
: along to you as consumers in the high