New-York tribune., 1921-11-03
Vote for Hylan
Is Hearst Vote.
jerome Warns
Refers to Voice of Jacob and
Hand of Esau in City Gov
ernment; Asserts That All
His Words Are Weighed
Denies Charges Are Wild
Recalls ''Squeal" Caused by
His Telling of Pier Lease
Sold by Young Cochran

William Travers Jerome was en-
Enthusiastically applauded last night in
addressing a Republican coalition mass
meeting at Turn Hall, Eighty-fifth
Street and Lexington Avenue, when he
shouted that vote for Hylan was a
vote Tor Hearst.
"The people of the State Of New
York rejected Hearst decisively when
he ran for Governor" proceeded Mr..
Jerome. eve don't want any Hearst
Mayor now"
Vincent Gilroy, coalition candidate
for President OF the Board of Alder
men, also spoke. Many other candi-
dates for city Office were present.
Weighs Words Carefully
"Years may dim mans ardor," Mr..
Jerome said. 'but they also bring a
certain desire not to be nailed as a
liar. In this campaign every word l
have uttered, although I have called
some prominent people crooks, as they
are, and the associates of crooks, has
seemingly violent is justified by sworn
evidence and written document
81 have tied this man up with a gang
of shyster lawyers, crooks and swim
dlers and have shown by the checks
with his name on them that he got the
money from them while he was running
for judge. There has not been denial
from him.
"Not single statement | have made
about Hylan and his crooked associ-
yates has been denied or controverted, !,
even by the only newspaper organ they
have in the City of New York, the
less Of our own Biblical stories and we
are approaching an election now when
it is really not so much Hylan we are
voting for as Hearst.
Don't you know, as | know and
every one else knows, that it may be the
voice Of Jacob, but it is the hand of
Esau; the avariclous, grasping hand of
John Hylan, but the voice Of William
Randolph Hearst all the time.
when you would not elect him
where power would be coupled with re-
sponsihility do you want now to elect
his puppet, who will have the respon
sibility but not the real power? That
is one Of the issues in the campaign,
but want to stick to my text.
IF | were out for what there may be
made against me might bother me.
Fellow citizens, you wanted me once,
you wanted me twice and there is
nothing you can give me again, but
there is something | can give you. I
can give you service. So when l tell
you that every statement l have made
has been carefully weighed and that
in this campaign only two statements
of facts have been controverted, you
will be surprised. I will show you to-
night that they were not cessfully
cortroverted.
Where to Get the Squeal
"a man does not squeal unless he is
hurt. When Hylan Or his man Craig
is hurt you may go to The American
and The Journal and in them you will
get the squeal. I said there We're two
men in this city, one a man named
Foley, now Surrogate Foley, the SON
in-law of Charlie Murphy. I said he
had law Office at sc Broadway, and
that there was another Tammany Hall
man named Craig, now Comptroller of
this city, officing with him. And
pointed out there was man named
Cochran having Offices with thenl-per-
haps as a law student. Murray HUI
bert, the Dock Commissioner had an
Office there, too, | told you, and his
name was on the door.
"Now let US see what the facts are
in this connection. The Brooks Steam
ship Company wanted a pier. So the
Brooks Steamship Company went to
this young boy, Cochran, in the Office
I have been telling about. Cochran is
twenty-five years old and not yet ad
mitted to the bar.
"The steamship people went TO
Cochran to lease pier for thirty
years. They said they would give him
$4,000 if he got the pier for them.
Cochran got that lease, not for thirty
years, but for ten. So they cut his
compensation down to S12, 1000 and paid