The New York herald., 1921-10-31

COCHRAN EXTOLS
VIRTUES OF HYLAN
Mcclellan Also Pictures
Defeat of Mayor as a Ma
tional Calamity.
$500 ATTEND RALLY
They Hear That the City
Now Enjoys It's Best
Administration.
TIGERS CIVIC EFFORTS
Are Splendid, Enduring and
Useful, Asserts the Rep
resentative.
TIGERS CIVIC EFFORTS

The Hylan administration was ex-
tclled as the greatest this city ever
has had and the elimination Of years
OF local Democratic effort by Former
Mayor George B. Mcclellan and Rep
resentative w. Bourke Cochran at a
Democratic rally last night in the
Manhattan Opera House. 1t was the
first appearance in the lists for Mr..
Hylan Of both Mr.. Mcclellan and Mr..
Cochran and the meeting itself. while
there were only $500 persons present,
was the largest political gathering
held on Sunday night in many years.
Messrs. Mcclellan and Cochran Wed
with each other in the use Of adjec-
tives to describe the finer qualities Of
the present city government and to
explain why the defeat of Mr.. Hylan
would be little short Of national
calamity. Mr.. Mcclellan confined his
remarks to fifteen minutes, but it took
Mr.. Cochran more than an hour and
a half to give his reasons for the
reelection of the entire Democratic
ticket. Mr. Mcclellan recently re-
turned to the Tammany fold and Mr..
Cockran's political career has been
marked by a series Of ins and outs
in different political parties.
Mr.. Mcclellan acted as chairman Of
the meeting, which he called "an old
fashioned Democratic ratification meet
ing" He said the issues of the cam
paign were clear cut, despite the
hypocrisy Of those opposing the Demo-
cratic ticket" He outlined the main
issue as follows:
"Shall this great stronghold Of democ-
racy, the greatest stronghold Of popular
government in the world, be turned over,
bound hand and foot, to the party of
private graft and public plunder, the
party which has failed utterly in the
Government at Washington, whose only
achievement there has been the enact
ment Of a tariff that has utterly ruined
our foreign commerce."
Mr.. Mcclellan said the coalitionists
by the ticket they nominated conceded
that politics cannot be divorced from city
government any more than you can
divorce it from government in the State
or nation.
Raps Republican Hacks.
''They have nominated the sorriest
aggregation Of Republican party hacks"
he continued, (which the people of New
York have ever been asked to vote for,
plus one young hitherto unheard of rene
gade Democrat. They have nominated
him to act as the bitters of the cocktail.
to give 1t sort of vague Democratic
flavor"
He said New York, normally Demo-
cratic ciey. has no excuse for turning
out Democratic administration except
upon the ground OF malfeasance or mis-
feasance." Mr.. Mcclellan charged that
the Republican leaders and the press
conducted a. consistent campaign OF
vilification against Democratic officials
which has resulted in one of the vilest,
most unspeakable campaigns OF filth
that the city has ever known"
".The ysaid," he continued. there Is
malfeasance in office. We cannot prove
it. but we will send down to New York
an investigating committee that Will
prove it. They sent committee after
committee at total cost to the tax
payers OF $7S5.0oo. and have proved alb
solutely nothing"
Mr.. Mcclellan said he probably quail
Of his term In office. "I should like
in all sincerity" he added. ito congratu-
late the people OF New York on having
had four years of as good an admin
istration as the city has ever had un-
der the leadership of John F. Hylan."
Mr.. Cochran began by saying Hylan
has given the city the best government
on the face of the earth. This. he said
was no cxaggeration: IT was pure
svrl.
ministration," he added, was the final
fruits of long years of Democratic ad-
ministration."
Here is an administration that has
been subjected to scrutiny greater than
that OF any administration before it,"
he continued. Grand juries without
number and legislative committees with
out scruple or conscience have fallen
over each other in an effort to discover
doubtful transaction. and now. after
two years OF furious inquiry. not a city
official is even charged with a criminal
act''
Impatient with Police.
Mr.. Cochran said the Fire Department
and Police Department under Hylan
have been maintained at the highest
standard OF efficiency In their history"
impatient with the police, but II Is
merely lovers quarrel" The speaker
read from court records to show there
had been great decrease in the amount
Of commercialized vice. "Hylan's sue
cess In purifying the morals OF the CITY,"
he added. lis not greater than the
achievement in preserving its health"
Mr.. Cochran In discussing the Health
Department stressed part Of the speech
OF Dr. Royal s. Copeland. Health Com
missioner. who had preceded him, In
which the Commissioner said the death
rate for this year would be IL per thou
sand. the smallest In the history of the
city.
Mr.. Cochran was interrupted when
half way through his speech by a man
IN the gallery, who shouted: How
about Jerome?"
II never deal with the past" the Rep
resentative replied. especially when II
Is the remote past The past belongs to
history. Politics is the events OF the
dsy. And what can be said 10 the su-
prcmc Court Justice who throws aside
the ermine and goes onto the platform to
act as a clown--to make a pure play of
words?"
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