New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-22
Y n t er m y er
May Halt Probe
Until Election
Back From Europe, He Says
Lockwood Hearings Will
Be Delayed if Necessary
to Keep Politics Out
First Duty to Committee
Regrets Senator's Fusion
N mination and Will
Confer With Him To-day

In statement made immediately
after his arrival on the Olympic yester.
day Samuel Untermyer suggested il
was possible that the hearings of the
Lockwood committee might be post
poned until after the local municipal
election.
He said that the committee must be
kept out of politics and chat may or
may not involve delaying the resump-
ton of the hearings until after the
election" He said he regretted the
cepted the fusion nomination for
Comptroller, because his present work
Is - much more important"
Sfrhough there is no possibility that
Senator Lockwood will withdraw from
the campaign, it was learned that he
will confer to-day with Mr.. Untermyer
about some new developments that may
change the latter's present attitude
about postponing hearings.
Mr.. Untermyer declined to dis
cuss the syndicate of American finan-
ciers which he announced recently in
Paris was to take over Austrian prop
critics belonging to the Hapsburgs, un-
til he had conferred with ]. Leonard
Replogle, Charles H. Sabin and Frank
a. Munsey, who, with him, constitute
the syndicate. Discussing the Irish
situation, Mr.. Untermyer said it was
hopeful" but that IRELAND cannot ex-
pect to get any more than dominion
form of government"
First Duty to Committee
He said that until he had SURVEYED
the local political situation he could
not say what part he would take in
the campaign, and that his first duty
was to the Lockwood committee, which
IS about to reach the Crucial stage of
formulating legislation"
Mr.. Untermyer added that it might
be necessary for him to confine his ac-
tivities to statewide campaign to
offset the propaganda inaugurated by
the life and fire insurance interests.
"The insidious su6terranean infiu,
ences," he said, "of the all-powerful life
and fire insurance companies interests,
with all their experienced Hobbies, and
of the great industrial combinations
will be no easy task to overcome. AL
ready for months during my absence
they have had their publicity bureaus
working overtime, and their guns are
surance companies have spent hundreds
of thousand of dollars that should have
gone in reduction of rates in a pre-
liminary skirmish in the form of a
countrywide advertising campaign that
is unequaled in it's brazenness and
recklessness
sit may accordingly be necessary for
me to confne my activities this fall to
a statewide campaign to offset this
propaganda directed against those can
didates for the Legislature, irrespective
of party, who refuse to commit them
selves to our program of legislation.
Herculean Task Ahead
1--WE have destroyed and punished
the local, Matchmaking leaders, but we
have not yet quite broken up that nest
of conspirators in Thirty-third Street
that is still nesting under the pro-
tecting wing. of the Building Trades
Employers Association, nor have we
progressed as far as / would have liked
on the herculean task of falling the
combinations with which the entire
country is honeycombed in nearly
every line of industry. These are
tasks that may we'll defect one from
a very keen interest in q local cam
paign.
ut is a source of regret to me that
Senator Lockwood accepted the nom
ination for Comptroller. His present
work is so much more important. He
has been veritable tower of strength
and it is going to be difficult to get
along without him, especially when it
comes to putting through our legisla-
ton in the Senate. There is not any
too much progressiveness in that body
as now constituted. Senator Lockwood
has the courage to do the right thing
at ali costs. In this business I have
seen him go up against influences that
threatened his political destruction
without flinching. He is made of the
stuff of which there is 80 much need
and so little to be found in our public
life.n
Mr.. Untermyer and his wife spent
some time in Carlsbad and the former
returned greatly improved in health.
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