The New York herald., 1921-11-05
Asks Why Candidate Denied
Knowing Cronies Who
Were Convicted.
GAS AND LIGHT HIGHER
Lawyer Says Democrats Are
Claiming Credit for Lock-
wood Committee Work.

Saiuuel OnLernyer made TWO CAM
paign speeches in The Bronx last night
at the Morris High School and at
Public School 45. in which he flayed
John F. Hylan for his handling of the
muddled transit situation, for his as
sociation with the convicts Hettrick
and Goslin, and for his effrontery In
taking credit to himself for the work
done by the Lockwood committee
which investigated housing. He also
ridiculed the Mayor for plastering his
name on signs at the play streets,
which were established many years
before Hylan became Mayor, and at
the close OF his speech in the public
school he again demanded that Mr..
Hylan answer these two questions:
what criticism has the Mayor to
offer on the constructive plan put forth
by Mr.. Curran TO assure to the city and
pledge Mr.. Curran 70 the five cent fare
with universal transfers?
'What constructive plan OF his own
has the Mayor to offer that would ac>
complish any such result?
won't somebody" Mr.. Untermyer de-
manded. "stem tho flow Of immaterial
personal vilfication and abuse which
has seized the Mayor, or stop 1t long
enough to let him take breath and an
swer these questions?
Currnn's Plan Constructive.
''The Mayor has done nothing at all
with the transit problem. 1t Is growing
worse day by day The Mayor offers no
relief; his adversary presents you with
plan for relief and makes unequfvocal
pledges to protect the city against in
creasing the fare and to secure universal
free transfers"
In his speech at the Morris High
School Mr.. Untermyer asked How many
kinds of a faker is John Faker Hylan?"
and then declared that he could not an
swer tho question in q single evening
because there are too many epecifica-
tions. But he gave his audience brief
histories of the Hettrick case, the
Mayors part In the housing investiga-
ton. the Bugher case. the affair Of
Goslin and the Black Diamond Autorno-
bile Company. and the Mayor Hylan
the Mayor Hylan recreation
grounds, &C. "t
Then he dealt largely with traction
and gas and electricity and telephones.
showing that not only has the Mayor
done nothing to relieve the transit eitua-
ton. but he has done nothing TO relieve
the public of the high gas, electric and
telephone rates. On the contrary. the
rates Of all these necessities are much
higher than before the Mayor took office.
Mr.. Untermyer dwelt at considerable
length with the Hettrick case in both
of his speeches, reading extracts from
Mo I'm Y eL-
wood Committee to prove that the
Mayor said he did not know Hettrick
when he did know him and when he
was signing letters that had been writ
ten by Hettrick for him TO sign. These
letters urged the Board of Education
TO adopt limestone for new construc-
ton, and Hettrick was convicted later
and sent to prison because of his ac-
tivities as the brains of the limestone
ring.
The Mayors Friend HettricIs.
Mr.. Untermyer, with this testimony.
showed also that Hettrick had been a
neighbor OF the Mayor. that he had
been q clerk of the police court in
Brooklyn where the Mayor and David
Hirshfield practised. Yet on tho wit
ness stand the Mayor said that he did
not know Hettrick and could not re-
member ever having heard the man's 3
name. This. Mr. Untermyer pointed
out. was after Mr.. Hylan had sirned
the letter prepared for him by Hettrick.
Mr.. Cntermyer accused the Mayor
and Comptroller Craig of trying to
take for themselves credit for what had
been accomplished by the Lockwood
Committee in relieving the housing
situation. He told how the committee
had brought suits which had been car
ried through the courts to test the va
lidity of the rent laws, how the COM
mittee had sent many builders and
labor leaders to Jail for profiteering In
building materials, and declared that
Hylan is trying TO take credit for all
this.
'I observe" he said. that the
Mayor continues day by day TO chatter
about me and my personal affairs. and
how / adjusted my bill with the electric
light company ten years ago. and about
various other personal Incidents. one OF
which Is only thirty-one years old and
has been publicly exploited and cx-
plained about dozen times. rather
than talk about the issues Of the cam
paisn. Perhaps you wonder why he
continues so deeply interested In my
personality and history to the exclusion
OF the real issues such as schools and
the five cent fare or his plan for re-
storing IL about which he is so coy.
"Is II because deep down In the bot
tom of the place where his heart should
be he knows what an unmitigated fake
he is. and feels n trifle uncomfortable
lest I succeed in brinfing that knowl.
edge home TO the public? Is II because
he realizes that whether he is elected OF
defeated, his demagogic race is run?