New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

| cation at the exercises, but was not in.
vited to the speakers platform.
Prompted by Mr.. Hearst, Mayor n.y.
Ian made vicious attack on the Port
Authorities Commission.
"This new Port Authority" said
/ Hylan, will have very littla to do.
! am at loss to see the necessity for it's
creation. In fact, its policies have
! nothing to do with Jamaica Bay or the
! development Of the New York water
! front, but are concerned more with the
| development of New Jersey, The pur-
pose of it is to mortgage New York to
develop the flats in New Jersey,
wonder why the people of Brooklyn
and the other horoughs have not walked
up 80 this fact. just as soon as Com
missioner Hubert began the active de-
velopment of the port this new COM
mission was created. ! understand
they are in sympathy with the rail-
roads. We are not interested in the
development of the New Jersey mead
ow by ertain powerful interests that
want them developed"
Another speaker attacked an unnamed
trucking business as factor in the
conspiracy to mortgage New York to
develop the flats in New Jersey" this
oeing a veiled attack on Mr.. Smiths
United States Trucking Corporation.
When former Governor Smiths at
tention was called to the attack on him
self and his corporation by a Tribune
reporter all he would say in reply was,
81 am too much engrossed in business
to answer such attacks. The same gen
tleman has said the same thing before" ="
This recent history rs only one Of
the phases of the maneuvering of M
Hearst TO "put Smith in bad" with the
voters and make him unavailable as
candidate for Mayor.
AS for Tammany and it's chief, Mr.
Murphy, they have succumbod to pres
sure from the job-holding and contract
ing elements in the organization, al
Hylan and Hylanis boss. William r.
Hearst. Any attempt now to make
Smith the candidate of the organization
would be regarded as treason in the
organization, as Mr.. Murphy, with full
knowledge of the implications, has de-
clared for Hylan for Mayor.
The Hearst influence is growing
bolder in the belief that former Gov
ernor Smith is "outside the breast
works" Hylan having set the pace,
any attempt on the part of the former
Governors friends to upset the Hearst
Hylan Murphy program would be met
with cannonading from the Hearst
papers against Smith, charged by
Milk Trust, with double crossing"
the people by violating platform
pledges by the appointment of Lewis
Nixon as Public Service Commissioner
and by numerous acts construed by the
Hearst papers as rank treason to the
suffering public.
Tammany was q unit behind Alfred
&. Smith on the night of October 20,
1919, when the Governor tiguratively
flayed alive William r. Hearst. Smith
had challenged Hearst to an open de-
bate so that he might handle the
charges the Hearst papers had for a
year been making against him. Gov
ernor Smith on that occasion read
set of resolutions, which were adopted
without a dissenting voice by the
densely packed hall, some of which
were:
THAT William Randolph Hearst has
pursued a career of yellow journalism
in which willful Misrepresentation of
policies, perversion of facts, distortion
of the truth to suit his hate and self
will have been his conspicuous char
acteristics.
"That William Randolph Hearst has
been tried by public opinion and has
American in one of our nations most
critical hours.
That his vituperations, ISLANDERS and
falsehoods directed against some of our
ablest and most devoted public serv-
ants, living and dead, among whom
may be mentioned President Woodrow
Wilson, ex-President Cleveland ex-
President Mckinley, William j. Gay
nor, Theodore Roosevelt. John Purroy
Mitchell and Alfred E. Smith. have vio-
lated every principle of justice and fair
dealing, and tended to discourage dis
interested public service
Referring to the fact that Mr.. Hearst
had refused to accept his challenge to
appear in joint debate and prove some
of his charges, Governor Smith said
he knew that Hearst would not meet
him in the open, and then with dra-'
matte fervor he said:
Il don't know whether the chairman
of the committee knew that | would
be alone here tonight, but | knew
that | would, because l know the man
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