The New York herald., 1921-11-03
CR0PSEY SAYS YOU
DON'T WANT HYLAN'
Purely a Question Of Fitness of
Men and Curran Is the
Man.

Justice James c. Cropsey of the Su-
preme Court spoke from a. platform in
Manhattan last night for the first time
since he Joined the we'll known men
who have taken the stump for Henry II.
Curran and the other candidates on the
coalition ticket Appearing in the Town
Hall in company with Mr.. Curran and
Vincent Gilroy. candidate for President
of the Board of Aldermen, John Kirk
land Clark, candidate for District At
torney. and William Travers Jerome. he
told an audience which filled the big
auditorium that the whole question OF
fitness between the two candidates for
Mayor resolved itself into a question OF
which was the better man-strictly as
a man. regardless OF parties and plat
forms.
Like every campaign" he declared,
this appears to be campaign of is
sues. but the real issue is: Do you want
this man Hylan or not? IT Is Hylan
against Curran and nothing else that
looms up as the question to be voted on
next Tuesday, and now while you still
have the chance ask yourselves again.
and ask 1t carefully: Do you want this
man. John f. Hylan?
"A man know went TO a moving pic
ture show the other night and saw a
play in which a mayor was a character
The action of the piece was laid in a
city Of the imagination and not New
York, and somewhere In the plot it be-
came necessary to decide on a candidate
for the imaginary city's chief magis-
tracy. Several candidates were dis
cussed, and then one Of the characters
said:
oh. any old candidate will do. A
man doesn't have to know anything 10
be n Mayor And the whole audience
burst into laughter.
Il ask you as onewho sees in the pres
ent campaign matter for anything but
laughter. What Mayor we're tho people
in the movie house thinking of when they
burst into laughter because the word
Mayor was thrown upon the screen!
That is how the administration OF this
municipality looms before the voters
They have gotten SO they laugh at It.
Think that over. because we are all part
Of the voters. For my part ] proclaim
here and now that II is a calamity, a
pitiable calamity for a great city tc
have for its Mayor a man who knows
nothing of the business of being one"
Justice Cropsey insisted that II ther,
was any Issue outside OF the Issue OF per.
sonality before the people the schools
made the Issue. and that the children
and especially their mothers. we're the
ones to whom promises had been mad,
and brazenly broken, and that II wal
time the mothers of families insisted al
the polls that the existing order o
things must stop.
The rest OF his speech was taken NJ
with review or the career OF Mr. Hylai
before he became Mayor and review
OF the things he has accomplished anc
has failed completely to accomplish sine
he took the office.
The promise Of Mr.. Cur'an, that II
elected HIS first official act after taking
his oath would be to receive the reslg.
nation of Police Commissioner Enright
oil his specel deputies and most OF tbc
heads OF other departments OF the city
drew cheers and prolonged handicap.
ping. At the Town Hall the flavor OF II
40 pleased the audience they made hin
repeat &.
Mr.. Jerome elso evoked hearty en-
thusasm with his surgical review" a,
no called IL. OF the transactions bJ
which city officials and those working
IN their interest and by their order,
have proflted during the present ad
mlnstration. Mr. Clark said tho bis
issue of the mpaign between him ant
Joab II. Banton. his Democratic oppo
nent was that Mr.. Banton had beer
virtually at the head OF the District
Attorneys office for eight months and
that there were stu 900 indictments
awaiting prosecution.