The New York herald., 1921-06-21
Citizens Gil !lE!!!A |! Union OUT
FOR HYLANSDEFEAT
Platform Calls On Voters to
Put an End to Misrule
by Mayor.
FAULTS ENUMERATED
Willing to Cooperate With
Any Party to Break Up
MaladministratiOn.
SEEKS MAN WHO is FIT
Demands Lower Taxes, Better
Transit, More Schools and
General Betterments.
SEEKS MAN WHO is FIT

The Citizens Union, announcing yes
terday it's platform for the coming
Mayoralty campaign, declared:
IF New Workers are again to be
proud of their city government it is
time for them to wake up. 1t is time
tor them to appreciate that the real
Issue is Hylan misrule.
Because Mayor Hylan has proved
one of the greatest NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
New York has ever had the Citizens
Onion believes he should be defeated
for reelection, and it will exert every
effort to that end.
I'VE are willing to cooperate with
any political group or party which
seeks to bring about such a result
We believe such a result can be ac-
complished only by a union Of all ele-
ments opposed to Hylan. to Tammany
Hall, which is chiefly responsible for
hun, and to Hearst his publicity men
tor and platform creator.
I'VE believe that with due recogni-
ton Of political elements the nomina-
tions should be made on the basis Of
fitness and capacity"
From now until election day, the
statement continues. the Citizens Union
will devote all its energies to bring about
1auch a union of forces "for the rehabili-
tAtion of the city's self respect and the
feesta blishment of a sane. efficient and
responsible city government
81 To Prepare Campaign Plans.
The executive committee of the union
has authorized Chairman William Jay
Schieffelin, according to a statement yes
terday by Walter T. Arndt. secretary of
the organization. to appoint conference
committee to consult on all nominations
for city offices and to prepare plans for
the campaign.
Taking up seriatim the various
branches of the Hylan administration
with which fault is found the Citizens
Union proposes to base its campaign on
q demand for:
A reduced budget and lower taxes.
? - Better transit for cent fare and
home rule in transit matters.
More schools with sitting for
every child of school age
A new court house without build
ing or polithical graft in its construc-
ton.
A police administration divorced
from politics. that will curb crime
instead of denying its existence"
A practical and economical system
of public markets. railroad terminals
and food distribution.
A prompt solution OF the garbage
disposal problem through modern
methods OF scientific reduction.
An administration that will tell the
truth "about itself and others"
1T is pointed out that the present
city budget is the largest In the city's
history. S107, 100000 more than Mayor
Mitchers last budget an increase OF
forty-ivc per cent. And still the budget
Is short by $4,000, 900 of the amount
needed to keep the schools running until
the end Of the year.
Tax Rate Has Risen.
! The tax rate has risen under Hylan,
the Citizens Union statement says ap-
proximately eighty points between 1917
7 and 1921, "in spite of tremendous in
crease in assessed valuations"
AS to transit. the statement reads !:
mayor Hylan claims he wants better
f, transit also for a five cent fare. But
what we have is thousands OF people
\ paying two or three times Ave cents for
their daily rides. discontinued car lines.
bus lines stopped because they have been
Illegally established and threatened re-
s.ceiverships for those transit lines that
are not yet in the hands Of receivers"
The Hylan administration has played
politics with the schools. the new schools
promised by Mayor Hylan have not been
built and many of the existing schools
are condemned as Are traps. the state
ment charges.
''Hylan has not solved a big problem
to the city's advantage" the statement
reads. Under him the city admins
tration has detcriorated. the morale OF
the civil service has been undermined.
executive responsibility has been weak
ened and waste and duplication. coupled
with political and personal favoritism.
have piled up a load that has mode effic-
fency Joke and economy an impossible