New-York tribune., 1921-11-05
Curran Calls
Hearst Rule
Chief Issue
teontInusd from pas, one,

| tContnued from pass creI
no longer run the City Hail when am
Mayor. Hearst can keep his KEY to
the private office of the Mayor Of New
York. | am going to change the lock.
Hearst is through from January /,
1922. That is my promise to you.
In demanding that you allow Hearst
to enjoy four years more in the City
Eall Hylan pretends to favor home
rule. The facts of the case are tAat,
under Hylan, New York has about as
much chance for home rule as Cuba
had before 1898. The city department
heads obey the commands from City
Hall. With Hylan there it is Boss
Hearst who rules from California.
That may be Hylan's idea of home rule,
but it is not mine. Is it yours?
Recalls Secret ? Cent Fare Dickcr
Let US take one instance. We have
all had lot OF traction troubles in
New York. They began a,mo t as soon
as Hearst put Hylan into office. Trans
feys were discontinued and people
were forced to pay 10 and IS cent fares
instead Of fve-cent fares. The com
panies were ciamoring, with charac-
ter site greed and selfishness, for an
increase in fare. Then Shonts, OF the
! Interborough, got into communication
with Hylan. He found the peoples
Mayor not only vii ing but eager to
| confer, but the newspapers were not
what happened?
When Shonts called at the City Hall
he found waiting for him not only Ey-
Ian but also Boss Hearst's traction
expert, MacFarIand, from Boston.
asked Hylan, more than a week ago,
who told him to call in MacFarland,
but his silence is more eloquent than
the story now. You have the facts.
mcfarland had already put over the
Hearst transit plan in Boston, which
had raised fares in that city from five
to seven cents. Later on they were
raised to eight cents, and then to 10
cents, which is what Boston folks pay
to-day. Hylan got Shonts interested
by telling the traction magnate that
MacF arand could get the carfares
raised here as easily as he had done
IN Boston. Those are facts based on
sworn testimony.
81 charge Hylan with his secret
d cker with Shonts to saddle US with q
seven-cent fare. I also charge that in
this. matter. touching SO nearly the
welfare of the people of this city, Hy-
Ian consulted MacFarland, the hirelinc
OF Hearst, and at his bidding was pre-
pared to sacrifice the interests of the
city he had sworn to protect
hen | am Mayor shall fight open
! ~ for fve-cent fare, and neither
Hearst nor anybody else will influence
NE into making any secret deal with
the traction companies.
Hearst Yields Coward's Weapons
sit is no easy task to drive Hearst
| from our city. He wields the towards
weapons of the Dark Ages in the poison
| propaganda OF his Gazette I am
going to deal with Hearst tonight, be-
cause, although he himsel is not
date for Mayor behind the dummy
Hylan. That is not a fight of Repub!i-
can and Democrat. The fight is re-
tween the Republicans, Democrats and
Independents of New York City to-
gether on one side, against William
Hearst, of California, on the other side.
That issue is plain. 1t cannot be poet
poned or evaded. Either the people
living in these five bcroughs are going
to govern themselves, or Hearst is
going to govern US for four more years.
Hearst is supporting Hylan to-day
Hearst calls him John Faithful'-yes,
John Faithful unto Hearst
This as what we are up against
This is what is behind Hylan in mis-
demand that you re-elect him. It is the
same malignant trail that runs twist
ing through the last quarter Of CEN
rury Of New York City politics Twice
Hearst himself came before the public
for election as Mayor of this city
Twice he was repudiated at the polls
But that which the people of New
York denied him for himself in 1905
and 1909 he finally got in 1917 in the
person OF his Man Friday. With Man
Friday Hylan in the City Hall the
Hearst trail is in the open again. We
are going TO end that Hearst domina-
tion right now We are going to Grad
icate this trail which winds like a snake
through every city department. On
Election Day the people of New York
are going to take back their city gov
ernment for themselves.
Then little later, on New Years
Day, we are going to have q parade
that will be more satisfactory than all
the poltca' pageants put trgether that
Hylan S>s pulled of in this campaign.
That parade will form at the City Hall
and the route will be downward and
outward, with no turning back Hearst
will lead the procession, closel fol-
lowed by Hylan, Enright, Allan Ryan,
Honey for Money O'Malley and all
the rest, even down to Hirshfield and
Solovei at the tail OF the column
Mr.. Curran made speeches last night
at the following meetings in the order
named: 10th Assembly District Re-
publican Club, s West Twenty eighth
Street; the Lyceuns, Eighty-sixth
Street and Third Avenue: prh'ir School
No. 179, 1o2d Street and Amsterdam
Avenue; Ebling's Casino, loom street
and St. AIMS Avenue, the Bronx, be-
fore the League of Women Voters and
at Public School No. II, l69th Street
and Ogden Avenue
The coalition candidate was given
rousing rece ption on his appearance at
the 10th Assembly District Club. in