The New York herald., 1921-10-26
JEROME DEMANDS
HYLAN SPEAK OUT
Insists He Shed Light on
Mysterious Angles of His
Business Career.
CROWDS CHEER JUDGE
His Arraignment of Dock
Profiteering With Mayors
Assent Makes Hit.

William Travers Jerome emphatf-
cally called the attention OF large
audience last night at meeting in
Niblo's Garden. 17sth street and Third
avenue, to the fact that Mayor John
+. Hylan had made no reply to tie
charges he has made against the
Mayor since he began campaigning m
favor Of Henry II. Curran, coalition
candidate for Mayor A crowd that
filed the hall greeted Mr.. Jerome with
tremendous applause when he made
his characteristic verbal thrusts at the
Mayor. particularly those which re-
ferred to the Mayors business career
and Mr. Hylan's refusal to shed much
light on various mysterious angles of
that career.
There has been no answer from
Hylan yet" said Mr.. Jerome, except
that Jerome is bad man. Well. sup
posa I am a bad man. may he q very
bad old man. but Is that any reason why
you should elect another bad man to be
Mayor OF this city agaln?"
Mr.. Jerome dealt with the dock prof
teering situation, driving home his
points IN his arraignment of the Mayors
handling OF this matter with vim and
pointedness. Tie declared, speaking Of
the twenty-four new municipal docks
that if the city had made someone an
outright present OF the docks it would
have got more money out OF them in
taxes, at the present rate. than it did
"But that would have been poor
finance" said Mr.. Jerome. "If that had
been done where would poor Tanmany
have come in? Well, here Is where Tam
many came in. For those twenty-four
docks the city got 81, ,4Sd. 600 in rentals
at the rate OF see day, and the lessees
leased them in turn for s240 @ day. q
profit of $50 per cent. Do you think
these lessees got away with that? Not
on your life. Not while Tammany was
on the job--and that Ia the reason why
this administration built more docks
than school houses.
Every time a new dock is built you
catch new sucker. but the more schools
that were built the more probity and
intelligence were built. And the more
docks that are built the more graft there
is
Mr. jerome told his audience that in
his opinion there had been enough yap-
ping and jawing about honest men and
poor young bOyS working their neadS OH
to get a start in life.
Lets get down TO facts" he demanded.
THE people of this city are about to
select n hired man to run their business
for them and the people ought to want
to select a hired man who Is capable of
running that business and. who Will run
II efficiently. If you were sick and you
had your choice between a horse doctor
and a surgeon you would not take the
horse doctor merely because he was a
poor man. would you?"
Mr. Jerome said he yearned with q
deep and an abiding yearning for an
answer from Mr.. Hylan regarding the
Mayors business career and particularly
that part of his business career during
which he had some sort of association
with Alfred Gosling and the Black Dia-
mond Automobile Company. He again
went into detail regarding these various
publication OF which once
caused the Mayor TO start and then drop
quickly libel suit against the World.
The former District Attorney. as he
has done in several speeches recently,
mentioned sundry checks hearing the
names OF the Mayor and Gosling, and
again called en- Mr.. Hylar to explain
how this happened e. as he has stated,
lie had nothing 20 do with this man.
"IIow about this Gosling, Nj. Mayor?'
Mr.. Jerome demanded.
Mr.. Jerome also went into detail again
bout the method in which Richard Z.
Enright conducts the business OF the Po-
lice Department.
Mr.. Jerome was to have spoken in
I.enox Assembly Room, 25s Second
street, but because of delays at his two
previous meetings was unable to get
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