The New York herald., 1921-10-18
HYLAN FAILS SADLY,
SAYS CURRAN AS HE
Digs into CAMPAIGN
Mayors Bright Promises of
1917 Broken, Candidate
Asserts i'm Bronx.
RABBI WISE JOINS HIM
More Children Lack Seats in
Schools, Taxes Grow,
Are Charges.
HETTRICK CASE REVIVED
Honey for Money Plan Cited
to Show Persistent 'In-
vis;h1o Nnyorp
HETTRICK CASE REVIVED

Henry P. Curran, coalition candi-
date for Mayor, formally. opened his
campaign last night with three
speeches-one at the Twenty-second
Assembly District Club, Manhattan,
and the others in Hunts Point Palace
and the London Casino, The Bronx.
At each place Mr.. Curran was greeted
by large crowd and his appearance
evoked tremendous enthusiasm. Often
during the course of his speech he
was interrupted by applause, which
greeted every telling point which he
made in his indictment of the Hylan
administration.
He declared he intended to put the
case Of the coalition candidate and
the case Of the Hylan administration
before the people of New York as a
jury and let them decide the issue
Most Of his speech dealt with prom.
ises made by Candidate Hylan four
years ago and the failure of Mayor
Hylan to keep those promises.
Other speakers at the Bronx meet
ings were Vincent Gilroy, coalition
candidate for President Of the Board
of Aldermen, and Rabbi Stephen s..
Wise, who made special plea for
the election Of Joseph M. Levine as
Borough President Of The Bronx.
DIR. Wise said the campaign of Mr.
Curran and his associates is to re-
store New York to the roster of cities
that dwell under orderly and civil
lied government, and that four years
Of the Hylan experiment, the expert
ment of expecting effective admins
tration from man uniquely incom-
petent, are suffcient to convince the
citizens Of New York that the time
has come to end the reign OF Hylan-
ism with all its saddening incompe-
tencies, all its wretched laundering
and all Of its wasteful mismanage-
ment.
Cites HyIan Promises.
Mr.. Curran called attention to the
many promises made by Mr.. Hylan
when he was Candidate for Mayor.
using the exact words that were used
by the present Mayor. Then he took
up each promise in detail, especially
those relating to the schools and to
economic city government administra-
ton, and showed that none of these
promises had been fulfilled.
On the contrary, taxes have in
creased So per cent, there are more
school children on part time or on no
time a. all than ever. and Mr.. Curran
charged, the invisible government has
not been driven from City Hall. In
proof of this latter charge Mr.. Curran
cited the Hettrick case ard the admis-
sion of the Mayor that he had "signed
on the dotted line" letter prepared
for him by Hettrick. Mr.. Curran
said:
Mr.. Hylan must stand up and be
counted like everybody else on this
proposition Of promise and perform
ance. Flourishes and ruffies won't
help him. nor the political pageants
which are being staged daily at the
city's expense serve to gild the truth.
''Hns Broken Hts Word"
"A mans promise is a mans word,
and the office of Mayor of New York
is no place for a man who breaks his
word. Mr.. Hylan has broken his word
not once but again and again, and
OH the basis of his broken word he
demands that you give him four years
more as Mayor. say that this pre-
tension Is nothing short Of effrontery,
and I am going to prove il. We were
fooled once, and once is enough.
Let us turn now to some of the
promises which Candidate Hylan made
four years ago. and let us examine.
fairly and squarely. the record of
Mayor Hylan as to performance in
each case.
ION October 4. 1917. in a speech at
Prospect Hall. Brooklyn. Candidate Hy-
Ian announced what he called his
'fghting program fe said Ny fight
Is to Danish boss rule and invisible
government from the City Hall"
The man who made that statement
as candidate in 1917 II the same
man who as Mayor, on February s.
1919. sixteen months later. signed his
name to letter prepared for him by
John T. Hettrick. who In now In prison.
This letter urged on Frank p. VII
sey. then vice-presi6ent OF the Board
OF Education, the advantage OF lime
stone over terra-cotta In school build
ing construction.
when testimony before the Lock-
wood Committee brought out the ab-
solute falsity Of tho statement in this
Tfettrick-to-Hylan double play with the
peoples pocketbooks and showed that
Hcttrick was head OF the limestone ring
in this city, the Mayors excuse was
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