The New York herald., 1921-10-25
JEROME RIDICULES HYLAN'S
SOB STUFF PLEA FOR VOTES

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people who were poor, but we do not
think because they were poor they were
fitted to be the chief executive Of the city
OF New York or the chief executive oi
a big business corporation.
He says, Il am honest Well. he was
while he was working with his hands.
Now. l speak in all sincerity. l think
Mayor Hylan's record UP to the time
when he entered into business was very
creditable. A young man with the han
dicap he had that would work hard
enough to get admitted to the Bar. that
would bring himself to what is an hon.
ora BILE profession, or should be, that Is
creditable Let us play fair In this thing.
let us hit hard, but let us hit above
the belt Up to that point his career
is entirely creditable. But when he says
that because / was poor and l am honest
you should give me this job, that is ca
moufiage. that Is sob stuff. that is fool
ish. II your wife lay Ill and you needed
a surgeon; If your boy lay i'll and you
needed a surgeon, and you had the
choice between DIR. Brewer and vetert
nary, you would not take the horse doc
tor because he was a poor honest man
You would want the skilled man to
handle your affairs.
"And If you want sob stuff / can I'LL
your clubhouse with tears about Henry
Crrran, also poor boy. l never heard
him say he was honest, but ! never
heard anybody say he was not. lie
does not capitalize his honesty.
what is so unique in this city as thai
q man has been poor and that he was
honest? Now. Henry Curran was poor
boy and he was honest. and he got his
education by working for It, He went
through Yale College and he paid his
way through, and he had widowed
mother at the same time. The sob stuff
is just as good for one as it IS for the
other and. my gracious, how l could
deal UP a lot OF this sob stuff about
Henry Curran when he was nagis-
trate here and he had a wife and was
living In five room fiat when the war
broke out, and Henry Curran didn't
claim any exemption.
Now, if am right, the issue is this !:
we are asked to choose for ourselves for
the next four years man to be the chief
executive of the biggest business corpo-
ration in the world. 1t is germane TO
that inquiry to ask what his ability Isl;
what his business record is; what his
business record was bcfore he came to
that office and what his business record
has been since. And. as say, up to the
time that he laid down manual labor
believe he was not only perfectly
straight but ! also believe that his
record was fine and was highly cred
liable to him. There isn't thing. in
my opinion, to be ashamed of until he
got into the clutches of the people, and
that was the time that he weakened.
I'm other words he didn't weaken
until the pressure came. Up to that
time he was good crackerjack young
man and had highly creditable record
up to the time he was admitted to the
bar and got in this game right here in
Brooklyn. But he couldn't go as Henry
Curran did, along the straight and hard
way. He couldn't continue to make his
living in the way that Curran had
to do and most any OF us have had to
do who have not been born with silver
spoon in our mouths in this world,
where they don't give you anything for
nothing and where you have to work
for anything to get IT,"
Mr.. jerome next repeatr1 the story
told in his speech last wetl. Of Hylan
and the Black Diamond Automobile
Company and of the alleged connection
of Alfred Goslin.
shades of old Tim" exclaimed Mr.
Jerome. "How he must have turned in
his grave when he saw Honest John
getting away with thousands of votes
for $4,000 when he always had to pay
at least $3.50 for those he got in his
own district. You see this bunk game
is contagious. Why did he lie? Why
did Hylan say he did not know this man
Goslin? Most questions put to candl-
dates are simply cheap trick questions.
They ask questions such as Untermyer
is asking Curran. He is trying to put
across the same sort Of cheap trick. He
is trying to ask questions about rapid
transit that cannot be answered and then
say that he cannot support Curran."
After exhibiting the checks alleged to