The New York herald., 1921-11-03
HYLAN STUCK TOPAL
TO END,SAYS JEROME
Little Brown Envelope
From Mayors Office Tells
of Bribe Offer.
HENCHMAN SHIELDED
Hirshfield Made Inquiry
Into Attempt to Force
Garage Permit.
APPLAUSE FOR SPEAKER
Crowds Punctuate Telling
Points as Government in
City Is Shown Up.
FOR SPEAKER

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little brown envelope to his campaign
audience last night. From it he drew
what he called further specific evidence
of what stripe Of men Mayor John F.
| Hylan has drawn around him as his
personal comrades and public job
holders. The little brown envelope.
Mr.. Jerome said, was dug out" Of the
| files in the Mayors office and never
before had seen the light of day. Its
contents showed how the Mayor was
protecting his old pals"
The particular pal in this case was
q city official who was friend Of
liylan's in the old police court days in
Brooklyn. Mr.. Jeromes new revela-
ton was that in sworn testimony
taken before David Hirshfield, Com
missioner of Accounts. this man was
accused of trying to persuade a MEM
Der of the city's Board Of Standards
and Appeals to permit certain ga
rage to be built, on the ground that
some friend had gone to the official
and offered "some change" IL the OBJ
| lection to the garage was withdrawn
| This testimony was sent to the Mayor
marked private and stayed in
sealed brown envelope in Mr.. Hylans
office.
Mr.. Jerome said that the thing took
place when the official and man
named Beatty were members of the
Board of Standards and Appeals. 1t got
reported around town, Jerome said. that
certain Miller wanted to build a
garage, and it got rumored around that
If little change were slipped to Beatty,
who was opposing II. the application
would go through. But Beatty was an
honest man and he wrote to the Mayor
demanding an investigation.
These people have such sense OF
| humor," said Mr.. Jerome. Whom do
YOU suppose the Mayor referred this
| investigation to? Why, his old friend
of police court days, Dave Hirshfield."
Mr.. Jerome then quoted the testimony
| of Beatty before Hrshfield, In which
] Beatty told OF the rumors and of how
the city official i'm question had come to
I him and said that some change had
been offered to him to get Beatty to
| stay away or favor the application.
This testimony. Mr. Jerome went on,
was put in O brown envelope marked
Private for the Mayor Report inside.
| E. c.. NJ" The initials, Mr.. Jerome said,
stood for Edward G. Nelson Assistant
| Corporation Counsel
strictly private for the Mayor" Mr..
! Jerome exclaimed. And IL was sealed
envelope in the Mayors private office y
80 that we find" he summed up.
"Hirshfield. one of the Mayors old
chums, twice indicted for felonous as
sault on his own wife and convicted OF
| abandonment. We find Hettrick trying
TO defraud the city of 100000 in con-
nection with our public schools.
"Hylan is the man who represents our
! city, the man we sent as our represen-
! tative to meet the great Marshal OF
| France. And even there he could not
keep his mind straight and clean. For
when the procession is formed and the
motor cops come by and the band comes,
then comes an empty Packard Limousine
| with Hylan banners on II, and then the
Marshal of France. Ye gods. that with
! the eyes OF the nation on our great city
the great Marshal was received in a
parade the second member of which
after the band was a limousine with
autographs saying to the citizens of New
York. Vote for Hylan.'"
Mr.. Jerome was speaking TO a crowd
! of at least 1900 eager and applauding
voters in Public School lis, 177th street.
near st. Nicholas avenue. lie was in
| troduced as the man VINO has done most
! in this campaign TO expose Hylan,
| Hylanism. Hearst and Murphy"
"Once the people rejected Hearst
when ne ran for Governor and once
when he ran for Mayor" he said. And
doesn't every one now know that It may
| be the voice of Jacob but it is the hand
OF Esau-the avaricious and grasping
hands of John Hylan. but the voice OF
william Randolph Hearst all the time.
When YOU would not elect him Mayor.
where power could be coupled with re-
! sponslbillty, do you want him now to
eect his puppet who will have the re-
sponsibility but not the real power?'
He said only two statements he had
made had been challenged. One was
that Comptroller Craig. since January J.,
1918. had had law offices with ex-Sen-
ator James A. Foley. son-in-law of
| Charley Murphy: the other that there
I were many serious violations OF the fire
| laws in the schools. He offered affida-
Wits which he said proved that Craig
| was counsel In lawsuits in 1919. with the
same office address as that OF Foley,
and a telephone book OF May. 1920, In
dicating that they had the same tele-
phone number. As to the schools. he
| gave figures from what he said we're Of
| flclals records. showing in Queens there
are six schools with wooden stairs not
enclosed with fireproof partition. five
such schools In The Bronx. nineteen In
Richmond and fifteen IN Brooklyn.