The New York herald., 1921-11-04
HYLAN LAUDS CRAIG,
DESPITE OLD FEUDS|
Mayor Forgets Clashes in Esti-
mate Board in Urging Re
election Of Comptroller.
CREDIT FOR HIS COURAGE
Curran Is Let Off Easily, but
Untermyer and Jerome Are
Roasted Hard.

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tions with Comptroller Charles L. Craig
have been thrilling features of some
meetings of the Board of Estimate, de-
voted almost all Of his campaign speech
last night TO Iauding Mr.. Craig and
going into detail about his unexcelled
/ fitness for the office. He urged the
point that in doing his duty during the
last four years Mr.. Craig has often
risked his personal safety and has dis
ca rtied his personal comfort and con-
yenience. but he explained that these
risks were taken in his dealings with
traction corporations. Federal courts
! and Wall street and not with his COLI
leagues on the Board of Estimate.
"Craig is a lawyer OF marked ability
and cannot be bluffed by other lawyers
in the pay of the big interests" said
Mr.. Hylan Some of the most trenend-
Gus financial and governmental prob
lens will arise during the next four
years, and Craig's official courage and
legal skill are needed in the Board Of
Estimate. Craig is fighter. He knows
no defeat when it comes to the city, $
step in his conduct as Comptroller DUR
ing the last four years"
Mr. Hylan attacked Senator Charles
c. Lockwood. coalition candidate FOR
Comptroller, declaring that the Senator
was responsible for an increase OF
thirty points in the tax rate because
of mandatory legislation fathered by
him in the Legislature at Albany. He
declared that the Senator two years
T. a0tc cInty n
bill. which. had 1t passed, would have
cost the city many millions OF dollars
in settlement Of claims Of contractors.
The same bill in q broader form was
introduced last year by Senator Lusk,
the Mayor said. and was enacted into
law. Lockwood, the Mayor added. had
a great deal to do with the passage
of the bill
So far rs Henry II. Curran, Mr.. Hy-
lan's opponent Tor Mayor, was con-
| cerned. only one page of the Mayors
typewritten speech was devoted to him
.Traction Candidate Curran," said
Mr.. Hylan, ''has been lost sight of in
this campaign. He has been overshad-
owed by the noisy Untermyer and the
noisome Jerome. Curran, however, is
still the candidate, and 1t is necessary
therefore to mention him. 1t Is true
that If Curran and Lockwood were
elected, Untermyer, the traction tool
De Lancey Nicoil the traction hired man.
and Silver Chest Lusk. who has been
congenially engaged In Albany during
the last legislative session, would run
the Offices of Mayor and Comptroller or
the city Of New York"
NY Hylan spoke during the afternoon
Yesterday before an audience Of women
members OF the Beavers I'm the Sixty
third Street Music Hall. In the evening
he spoke at the Stuyvesant Casino in
Second avenue, before the Federation of
Citizen Pedlers of New York, in q pub
lie school In East Forty-second street,
at tho Delaware Club. in East Seventy
second street; the Cherokee Club, in
East Seventy ninth street at the York
vile Casino at st. Lucy's Church. at the
public school in 111th street and Lex
ington avenue, Ia. Liberty Hall.
Comptroller Craig and Murray Hull
bert, candidate for President of the
Board of Aldermen. accompanied Mr..
Hylan on his tour last night. and both
made addresses. Mr.. Craig devoted his
speech to an attack upon Senator Lock-
wood. declaring that the Senator had
"dodged every attempt to get him to
make an explanation of some of the ex-
tortionate real estate deals about which
I have questioned him. in which he fig
ured as counsel for the Postal Life In
surance Company"
Mr.. Craig gave a number OF instances
In which he declared that the Postal
company. through Mr.. Lockwood. had
compelled prospective borrowers to yield
to exorbitant demands before loans
would be granted. He also demanded
that the Senator explain why these deals
were not exposed by the Lockwood COM
mittee. which investigated the housing
situation.