New-York tribune., 1921-11-01
Upholds Him Unqualified
ly and Assails Hylan as
'Bumptious Vulgarian'
Bringing Ruin to City
His Transit Plan
Means 5 Cent Fare
Declares Interests Seek
Reelection of Man Who
Has ReallyHelpedIhem

Samuel Untermyer came out last:
night squarely in support of Henry
H. Curran. coalition candidate. for
Mayor.
Mr.. Untermyer heretofore had been
confning his efforts to the further
ance of the campaign of Senator
Charles G. Lockwood, coalition nomi-
nee for comptroller. withholding an
nouncement of his stand on the head
of the ticket until Mr.. Curran had
made known his views on the Transit
Commissions report.
He entered the contest in behalf Of
Mr. Curran with singing arraign-
ment of Mayor Hylan and his admin
istration, delivered at meeting last
night held at Public School "a, Glen
more Avenue and Watkins Street,
Brooklyn.
Mr.. Untermyer dwelt ON the transit
problem. saying that MIR. Curran, in
coming out for permanent five-cent
fare, restoration of frees transfers.
with detailed, constructive plan. had
effectively silenced the Mayors thun-
der and "has now buried the issue be-
yond resurrection"
No SC Fare Under Hylan
HE said that nobody could now be
fooled into believing that 1--WE are as
likely to have a scent fare with free
transfers restored and maintained with
Hylan in the Mayors chair as with one
OF Curran type" and predicted that "if
Mayor Hylan is reelected you will
nave 1olsted upon you within two years
thereafter that sliding scale fare
scheme that will always slide upward
on you from year to year"
"This is your last chancen Mr.
untermyer warned, "to save yourself
from the predicament in which the
Mayors incompetency has landed YOU.
DO you consider it good business To
hire. the man who got you into this
trouble to get you out of it? The
Mayor has now had three years and
ten months to present plan. .He has
done nothing but ain1lessly abuse the
so-called interests"
Mr.. Untermyer then took up the
Mayors "rantings" against the "inter-
ests," referring to Mr.. Hylan's shout
lngs on this score as "obsessions, and
"camouflage." He pointed out that
during the present administration the
telephone, electric light and gas inter-
ests have all obtained what he regarded
as excessive increases in rates, adding
that there was "no reason why these
interests should want change of ad-
ministration under the circumstances
and don't believe they do. The Hylan
type of aimless and inefficient govern
ment is so much butter and Jam to
them"
Mr.. Untermyer went into the May
or's relations with John T. Hettrick.
the convicted head Of group of price
nxers, and refuted the Mayors claims
for credit for having checked the prof
iteering landlords through the rent
laws. He insisted that the sole credit
for this was due to Senator Lockwood
and the Lockwood housing committee.
He also nailed an insinuation Of
Comptroller Craig's, to the effect that
the Postal Life Insurance Company
escaped investigation by the committee
along with other companies because of
Senator Lockwood's connection with it..
Mr.. Untermyer denied that the Senator
was in any way associated with the
company, and said that he had nothing
to do with that phase of the commit
tees investigation.
City's Rule Worst in History
He concluded with the assertion that
never IN Its history was the city gov
erned so badly as to-day. "Our streets
are the dirties. and poorest paved: our
schools have changed from the best to
the most dangerous; they are over
crowded, inefficient and veritable fire.
traps" Mr.. Untermyer said, adding,
Politics in the Police Department has
shaken the morale at the fountain
head; our transit system has broken
down, our parks were never so shabby.
although there was never so much
money spent upon them; our law de-
partment is a colossal joke, and our
Continues on nsYt nsus,