New-York tribune., 1921-11-05
1ylan Shadow
Boxes sFuriouslv
u
At "Interests'' -
s'alls Everybody Opposing
Him Names, Starting In
With Jerome and Ending
With Traction Officials
Attacks Curran's Record
Jcnounces Him as a Dog i'm
the Manger and Says He
Seldom, Was at Meetings

Mayor Hylan, addressing audiences
n his tour of Brooklyn last night, at
ssicked Henry H. Curran, Republican,
coalition candidate for the mayoralty,
chsrging that Curran attended, only
Two meetings Of the Board of Estimate
cut of tyenty-ninc held between Sep
ternber 20 and October 81.
Mr.. Curran. the Mayor said, had be-
come famed as the absentee member Of
the board He denounced the attitude
of the opposing candidate as that of a
dog in the rnanger," adding that Cur
ran had opposed most Of the progress
sive measures brought up while he was
present in two of the meetings.
"CurraH." the Mayor said, chad the
hrasen assurance to tell an audience of
women and children yesterday that
school children were requested to tell
their parents in my behalf that there
was no part time in the schools. The
ahsurdity of the proposition possibly
did not appear to him.
"lf Curran had given the subject
thought he would have realized that If
any one knew the true conditions in the
public schools of New York City it was
,he parents. These same parents will
on Election Day reply to Curran's
canard.
Calls Jerome "Hireling'
"As chief spokesman in Curran's
campaign we have the dishonest and
discredited jerome, hireling OF the
traction ring, defaming the city to help
elect traction candidates. Jerome ad-
nlits he is a wicked man, but he asks
what that has to do with voting for
y 60 l<,1s y
that he sees nothing improper in his
cspcusal OF the traction cause at $4,000
Is night. Could any man display lower
political morality than that Of the re-
creant Jerome?
do you remember the ice trust that
was robb;ng the people of New York
City? Attorney General jackson OBJ
tanned an Indictment against this trust
over the head of Jerome in 1908. He
had submitted all the evidence to
Jerome and waited months for him to
act. At last he was compelled to ap-
peal to the Governor to make him
prosecutor of this heartless monopoly.
The report of the Attorney General on
this case shows what was thought of
jerome at that time and why.
such is Jerome, who now villifies
ne at the behest and in the pay of the
traction ring. Yet to-day this political
Judas is supporting the candidates of
the very ring in whose service he be-
trayed the people years ago. He has a
lit companion in the shifty Untermyer,
who was the legal adviser to Handy
Andy Freedman, the go-between for
trsction.
Attacks Hedges as Well
"Curran has other noteworthy sup
porters. One of them is Receiver Job
r. Hedges, of the New York Railways
Company, who gained fame by discon-
tiruing four car lines and uttering the
infamous slogan, Let the people walk
Another is James Il. Sheffield, receiver
OF the lnterborough Consolidated Com
pany, the watered holding concern of
the subway, elevated and surface lines.
Then there arc Lindley NJ. Garrison
and Ogden Mills, treasurer of the Cur
ran campaign committee, who is shak-
ing down for contributions the largest
hcneficiaries of the public utility cor
porations."
The Mayor also attacked the Rookie
feller education board, the Gary school
system and "the interests" generally.