The New York herald., 1921-10-31
CURRAN PROCLAIMS
FIGHT TO Finish FOR
TRANSIT HOME rule
If Elected He Will Test Law
in Court and Seek Its
Amendment. -
FOR CITY BELT LINES
Ignores Untermyer's Plan
in Strong Programme for
Subway Progress.
WOULD SQUEEZE STOCKS
Nails Lie by Mayor Hearst
and 'Manikin Hylan,' Whose
Defeat He Predicts.
WOULD SQUEEZE STOCKS


Henry II. Curran, Republican, ,ali-
ton candidate for Mayor. started the
intensive last week. of his campaign
yesterday with the first Of series ,of
smashes at Hylan inefficiency and a
clear enu,iciation of the Curran plat
form. He made a plea for an end to
Hearst government of New York city
and to the Hylan "do nothing policy
regarding traction.
In lieu Of the inaction Of the last
four years and the Tammany de-
structive criticism Of the Transit Com
missions plan. Mr.. Curran set forth
his own policy toward transit prob
lens by which he proposes to guide
his administration showing that he
refuses to accept the commissions
plan without notifications to safe
guard home rule and five-cent fare.
Mr. Curran's statement ignores the
demand made last week by Samuel
Untermyer that Mr.. Curran accept
the Untermyer substitute for the
Transit Commissions plan.
Curran's Platform Is Brief.
The Republican-coalition candidates
position is briefly this:
That he proposes to test the constitu-
tionality of the act under which the
Transit Commission was created and to
fight for an amendment thereto which
would restore to the city complete home
rule and control over its transit con-
tracts. 4sAN
That he is unalterably opposed TO the
Transit Commissions proposal for a
barometer fund" or sliding scale fare.
and that he will not countenance any
plan which does not render It impossible
ever to have more than cent fare.
That the present dual subway system
should be completed and that the hub
and spokes of wheel 1t forms, with
Manhattan as the hub. should be trimmed
with an outer belt line and an inner belt
line, so that "all the people of all the
boroughs' can share alike in the SER
vice.
That further suggestions upon and
criticism of the Transit Commission's 3
preliminary outline Is needed so that
the final plan shall represent nothing
but the will and mind of all the people
OF the city. Every drop of water must
be squeezed out of transit valuations.
Mr.. Curran's statement follows:
This statement nails the latest lie
from Mayor Hearst and his Man FRI
day Hylan. They say that they alone.
of all the people in New York. are
cent fare officials. Do they think
we are SO simple as to be fooled by
that? Tney will find out on election
day.
'They will find out another thing. and
that Ia that we are sick and tired OF
having Hearst govern New York, with
a pull Of his purse string from Cali
fornia, while his Hylan manikin dances
in our City Hall. / say that we are
done with that This campaign Is a
fight to- finish to find out whether
Hearst rules New York or whether we,
the people of New York. still enjoy self
government. We are going to win thct
fight.
No Patent on Cent Fares.
Nov let us get back to the cent
fare. Nobody has a patent on IL. and
nobody is against t. How to get better
transit for 5 cent fare Is orc of the
most vital problems our city faces to-
day. The next administration must
study this problem. and do It's part to
work out solution. We must have
relief from the present intolerable
crowdlng OF our transit cars. and the
imposition upon our people of 10 and
IS cent fares in place OF cent fares
through the loss Of transfers 1t will
be no easy task, but viii require al the
devotion TO duty your new Board OF
Estimate can possibly give 20 the work.
"Hylan has given us no help. He has
no plan. no thought. His only construc-
tive effort was the secret dicker with
Shonts Of the Interborough. which. ac-
cording TO sworn testimony. included
the cent fare. He has talked cents
TO camoufiage cents. as well as other
blunders of his administration, and
while he has been talking our people.
men. women and children. have been
jammed and crowded into the suffocat-
Ing cars of our transit lines, there TO
read the Subwuy Sun or the Elevated
Express. pleading for an increase fare.
Hylans impotence has been just as bad
as lnterborough's impudence. Hylans
politics have gone hand In hand with
Hedley's Interborough greed.
IL outline now for your earnest con-
sideration the transit programme that
pledge myself TO follow when I am
Mayor. To carry II out. I must have
your wholehearted support. Tho tran
sit problem in New York city to-day has
come TO assume three distinct aspects (:
all OF them different and yet each one
of them interlocked with the others.
They are. first, the question of home
rule; second. the retention of the cent
fare. and. third. improved and extended
service.
THE first side OF this question Is home
rule. On this I took my stand ten
years ago, and have never changed my
position. have repeated over and over
again my firm conviction that this city
Conftuucd on Pare Two.