The New York herald., 1921-10-22
Continued from First Page.


is as | said before an insult to your
intelligence. IL is n putting up OF the
straw men and knocking them down.
1t is the worst stuff that haa ever come
down the pike in my tins from their
lips. To-day they are not only corrupt
and asininc. should perhaps say moth
ing about the ass, the symbol of the
Democratic party. without pride Of am
cestny or hope of posterity. for | am
Democrat The thing Is too clear.
"Hylan stands as an Ajax firing his
thunder that he is your only protector
for the five cent fare.
"What rot You know and ] know
and every man. woman and child in this
city knows that this city was built on
a five cent fare. The city may come to
a less. fare but while the city endures
there will be a five cent fare. To make
political capital out of it or attempt
to make 1t Is bunk. Henry Curran was
in on the five cent game quite as early
as Hylan was and with more sincerity
and quite the same kind of backing.
You know that no political party
dare do otherwise because you know
that no political party has got any
courage or true principle, and even IL
1t was right that there should be a
higher fare you know no political party
know. and / know, too. that the only
thing. if we think a moment, that stands
in the way of having forever a cent
fare would be the possibility that the
Federal courts might say that 1t was
confiscatory. but IL you think mo-
ment, as l have thought, IL you had the
means of knowing the real values OF
those properties as j have had. you
would know that any unwatered concern
could run those roads on a cent fare
and pay an ample return on any real
money that was in them.
"That is the only question, how 1t
shall be done. If you and ! go down
and take a chance in stock speculation
there is no good angel coming around
il We lose our money. / am sorry for
the people who may have money in them
ANY innocent people-but they took a
chance and they will have to lose. If
they squeeze the water out there will be
enough left to run on a 5 cent fare.
You know it and 1 know it, Everybory
is clamoring for it; everybody has had
it; everybody is going to have it, un-
less they have lost. and neither Henry
Curran nor Mayor Hylan would have a
thing to do with that either. but the
people Of the city of New York, whose
city was built on that theory, won't
stand for anything else; so let us get
that little bit of the smoke screen out
Of the way"
Mayors "Sob stuff"
Now. the next thing-ft always
strikes ME as cheap stuff, what is called
sob stuff. that is put in these speeches.
this same adroit sob stuff I'm these
speeches that some one on the American
or the Journal wrote for him. He al
ways uses the poor boy VINO has come
to New York; am only plain man.
You know the man that started the
phrase plain people was Abraham Lin
coin. but l challenge you to find in any
political speech Of Abraham Lincoln's
where he sought to make capital out of
the misfortune of his boyhood-that he
wasn't able to get an education.
at is a cheap thing---the men who
play that plain people stuff. II you are
going to hire superintendent of fac
tory you might feel sorry ii he hadn't
the ability or hadn't had the opportu-
mites to become a first class mechanic
However sorry You feel for him, you
would not hire him because he was un-'
trained. You would hire man who was
trained, and our job at this election Is
to pick out the chief executive officer of
the biggest business corporation in the
world, and while we may have felt sorry
for Mayor Hylan. we may have our own
hearts rent by the pathos of his early
youth, that doesn't make him any better
fitted to rule the city of New York.
What has he got on Henry Curran
II Henry wanted to play this sob stuff
look what he has got to play. The son
of poor widow. He has no excuses
to make for his education. He IS q
university bred man. But how did he
l., .,e est iviY
one hand 1t to him on silver salver?
He won it; he worked for it. He got
it by waiting on table in college and
running an eating club
'.He got his law school training by
working on papers. or course, after
all, to get an education you have got
to have something more in your head
than bone. But you know the real friend
of the plain people was great. eminent
Democrat-Sulzer He did the plain peo-
pie stuff to finish and 1t seems to me
he ought to have ended it for the peo-
pie of the city of New York when he
sent word to the traction magnate: Mr..
Ryan, tell your father l am the same
old Bill 1t is the same old Hylan do
ing the same old friend of the people
stuff. Camouflage and smoke screen.
We are sorry he didn't have a better
chance in early life. We are sorry he
didn't have more opportunity to take
advantage of opportunities that he did
after. but don't know that that quail
fies him to handle the biggest business
corporation in the world.
Appeals to Women Voters.
Nov. It is impossible in the time that
you'll stay here and I'll stay here to go
down the line with all that has got to be
dealt with in this campaign. There is
one phase of IL, and that Is the phase of