The New York herald., 1921-11-05
HYLAN ASSAILED
AS DUMMY MAYOR
Continued from First Page.


California. That may be Hylan's ides
of home rule, but it il not mine. Is II
yours?
Hearst In Traction Deal.
Let us take one instance. We have
ali had lot of traction troubles in New
Torl. They began almost as soon ss
Hearst put Hylan into office. Transfers
were discontinued and people were forced
to pay ten and fifteen cent fares
instead of five cent fare. The COM
panies were clamorins. with character
istic greed and selfishness. for an In
crease in fare. Then Shonts of the In
terborough got into communication with
liylan. He found the peoples Mayor
not only willing but eager 70 confer. but
the newspapers were not informed OF the
conference. Then what happened?
when Shonts called at the City Hall
he found waiting for him not only Hylan
but also Boss Hearsts traction expert.
mcfarland from Boston. asked Hy-
Ian, more than a week ago, who told
him to call in MacFsriand. hut his 81
lence is more eloquent than anything he
could say. You all know the story now.
You have the facts. MacFarland had al
ready put over the Hearst transit plan
In Boston, which had raised fares II
that city from five to seven cents. Later
on they were raised TO eight cents. and
then to ten cents, which Is what Boston
folks pay to-day. Hylan got Shonts in
terested by telling the traction rnagnate
that MacFarland could get the carfares
raised here as easily as he had done In
Boston. Those are facts based OH sworn
testimony.
II charge Hylan with his secret dicser
with Shonts to saddle us with a seven
cent fare. also charge that In this mat
ter. touching so nearly the welfare of
the people of this city, Hylan consulted
MacFarland, the hlreling of Hearst. and
at his bidding was prepared to sacrifice
the interests of the city he had sworn to
protect.
when am Mayor I shall fight OPEN
" for a five cent fare. and neither
Hearst nor anybody else will influence
me into making any secret deal with the
traction companies. - s.
The People VS.. Hearst.
.Tt is no easy task to drive Hearst
from our city. He wields the towards s
weapons of the dark ages in the poison
propaganda OF his Gazette. I am going
to deal with Hearst tonight, because
although he is himself not running for
office, he is the real candidate for Mayor
behind the dummy Hylfn. That Is not
a fight of Republican against Democrat
The fight is of the Republicans, Demo
Gratis and independents of New YORK
city on one side against William r.
Hearst Of California on the other side
That issue is plain. 1t cannot be post
poned or evaded. Either the people liv-
ing in these five boroughs are going to
govern themselves or Hearst Is going to
govern US for four more years.
"I am going to show you some OF the
ways in which Hearst conducts po-
litical fight when his personal interests
are at stake. His methods are not new
for he has employed them ever since he
began to scatter his mud through Amer
lean politics. more than twenty-five
years ago. He la the same Hearst to-
day: that same assassin of character
who vilified Mckinley and Roosevelt
two Republican Presidents who threw
his mud at Mayor Gaynor and at Gov
AL Smith-both Democrats.
"Only two years ago AL Smith wa.
Hearst's target because as Governor
of New York he refused to grovel a.
the feet of the California boss Wha
happened? AL Smith got his dose Of
Hearst's newspaper poison. The mos
contemplate cup of that poison was thu
cartoon that depicted Gov. Smith as be
ing responsible for the unclean mill
which Hearst's newspapers declared wa:
being sold to the mothers and children
of New York city. The Governor. lik'
any decent citizen. was angry and wrote
to Hearst's Man Friday Hylan scorch
ing letter. from which 7 quote:
"Tf unclean milk Is being sold In
the city your Commissioner of Health
ought to know that fact--this Is part
Of IIearst's dirty lying campaign to
destroy the Governor. For months
past, misrepresenting this whole sit
uation. he has cold blooddedly and
deliberately lied to the people of New
York city. He has published inter-
views that never took place. and I
am I'm possession of facts and letters
to prove that they were lies