New-York tribune., 1921-11-03
Promises Within Hour of
Taking Office He Will
Be Rid of Police Head;
Millionaire Aids Next
To Clean House of
Hylan Appointees
Judge Cropsey, Henry W.
Taftand Jerome Address
Meeting in Town Hall

Within an hour after he is Mayor
every Hearst appointee and every in
competent Hylan official will be
bounced out OF Office, Henry H. Curran,
coalition candidate for Mayor, declared
last night in his speeches in Manhat-
tan. He said that his first official act
would be t. accept the resignation of
Police Commissioner Richard E. En-
right.
Immediately thereafter. he said, he
would accept TIE resignation of every
ore of the millionaire special deputy
police commissioners "who furnish
the fiourishes and ruffles so dear to
the Hylan heart" Mr.. Curran gave
his audiences brief sketch of the
various city departments as adminis-
tered by the commissioners appointed
by the Mayor, and charged that corrup-
tion and incompetency have been shown
IN most of them. He declared that
these "Hearst Hylap commissioner"
had done much to make the city gov
ernment disgrace and laughing stock
during the last four years. They would
all have to go Oh January /, 1922, he
said.
The coalition candidate said that a
new word had come into the vocabulary
OF the people during the last four
years-"Hylanism.
What Hylanism Signifies
"Hylanism signifies what has bean
going on not only in City Hail." said
Mr. Curran, "bUt in practically every
department under Hylan, the manikin
OF the California millionaire. It means
tn lack OF schools, the terrible hous-
ing, conditions, the quarrelinr and
bickering in the Board of Estimate.
gralt IN the Market and Dock depart
ments and the breakdown in morale Of
our splendid police force. We must
get rid Of Hylanism. On November 8
you, my friends, will take the first step
Dy oustlng Hearst's Man Friday. /
shall complete the work when I take
Office on New Years Day."
mr. Curran spoke at ten meetings
IN Manhattan yesterday. The. big
meetings last night were at the Town
Hall where William Travers Jerome
and Justice Cropsey, of Brooklyn, also
spoke; at Turn Hall, Lexington Ave
nue and Eighty seventh Street, and
S;- -. MichaePs Auditorium. in West
;SInety.ninth Street. In the afternoon
he addressed the League of Women
voters, at the Hotel Majestic; the
Arkwright Club, at 800 Broadway: the
women's meeting of the McKinlev Re-
publican Club, Brooklyn, and the meet
ing of the Women's National Repuhli-
can Club, 80 West Thirty-ninth Street.
Manhattan.
Cropsey and Taft Speak
Supreme Court Justice James c..
Iropsey, William Travers Jerome and
henry w. Taft, chairman of the coali
uon committee, fayed the Hylan ad
ministration in the meeting at the
Town Hall, in West Forty-third Street.
Justice Cropsey declaring that Hvlan
mad engendered hatred among factions
IN the city to point of civil strife
an and that it was a calamity to have a
hnow Nothing as head of the city
government.
1--WE want a Mayor" said Justice
Cropsey, "who will be the Mayor of
an the people, not one too narrow,
zoo olgoted to see good in all the
peopie-who is so much demogogue
other" ~ against az
iiaying on the letters in "Hvlan"
and "Curran," Justice Cropsey said
hylan was a liability on the CITY.
whereas Curran as Mayor would be an
as,et and guaranty for clean and
eInclent government. 1t was the first
speech of Justice Cropsey in Manhat-
tan.
Addresses Deaf Voters
When Mr.. Curran arrived at Public
School al, at Greenwich Avenue and
Charles Street, which is in the heart of
tne dis rict he represented for siy
years in the Board of Aldermen, he
was informed that more thar one-third
OF 1 the 500 present were members of the
Curran League of Deaf Voters. His
speech was translated into the sign
language by John X. Cloud, treasurer
eI the league, who stood on the plat
form beside the speaker. The address
as received from the hands of Mr..
Iloud was enthusiastically applauded
BY the deaf voters.
Ills speech last night follows:
In the four years that have passed
s1nce Hearst put his Man Friday
nylan, ct the head Of our city govern
m,ent, there has come into the vocabu-
.ary OF the people new word. It is
snort and ugly word. 1t carries a
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