The New York herald., 1921-08-10
FUSION|STS Launch
ATTACK ON HYLAN
Curran Opens Campaign by
Pointing to Tammany's
Phone Booth Convention.
SLOGAN FROM MURPHY
No Team Work Possible
With Hylan, Craig and
Hubert, Says Candidate.
GILROY ALSO SPEAKS
Designee for Borough Prcsi-
dent Asks Democrats Not to
SLOGAN FROM MURPHY
GILROY ALSO SPEAKS

The fusion campaign got under way
last night. Henry H. Curran. Borough
President of Manhattan, spoke in be-
half of himself. as candidate for
Mayor, and the other men on the
fusion ticket at a meeting in Fire
mems Hall, Bayside. Queens. A second
fusion meeting was held by the Young
Republican Club in the Pennsylvania
Hotel, with Vincent Gilroy. candidate
for President Of the Board of Alder
mon, as the principal speaker. Both
Mr.. Curran and Mr.. Gilroy stressed
the significance OF the remark passed
Monday afternoon by Charles F. Mur-
phy as he stepped from a telephone
booth in Tammany Hall to meet a
few reporters.
1.-THE convention is just adjourned"
said Mr.. Murphy at that time.
"Hylan, Craig and Hubert were an
nounced as the Tammany Hall candi-
dates after Charles F. Murphy had
been in convention in a telephone
BOOTH" was the way Mr.. Curran called
attention to the incident.
"The present city government Is a
government from telephone BOOTH"
Mr.. Gilroy told the members of the
Young Republican Club.
No Team Work Now Possible.
The two fusion candidates picked
out the shortcomings OF the Hylan ad-
ministration and said that the Mayor
has no policies
At Bayside, Mr. Curran's audience,
which packed the hall, heard him COM
ment sarcastically on the statements
made yesterday by the Mayor when he
was called before the Meyer committee
to testify concerning his administration.
He said he didn't believe the Mayor
wrote the statement. 1t would have
been Impossible" for the Mayor to write
1t. the speaker said. MIR. Curran re-
ferred also to what he described as the
Friday morning vaudeville perfor-
mances at the City Hail."
He said in part:
1T Is worth while to note the differ
ent ways In which the candidates are
being put before the public. Hylan,
Craig and Hubert were announced as
the Tammany Hall candidates after
Charles S Murphy had been In conven-
tion In a phone booth. l don't believe In
naming a ticket In that way.
You will find that Hylan. Craig and
Hubert quarrel more than any other
city officials. Nothing could be said
about Hylan that Craig has not already
said. and that goes for the other, too.
Those three may have been put together
TO insure a continuation Of the regular
Friday morning vaudeville performance
that has been going on in the City Hail.
There has been no team work, no cohe-
sion. no administration.
1T can't be true that the statement
read by Mayor Hylan to-day to the
Meyer committee on the city's finances
was written by him. Hylan simply
couldn't have written It. I know that
il was impossible, and even so the state
ment didn't tell the whole truth about
the city debt. The statement failed to
men<.on the notes that are coming due,
and when the Mayor was asked what a
tax note Is he said he didn't know.
Points to City Debt.
THE city Is heavily In debt and its
condition is desperate. There has been
nc effort to grapple with the city's
financial problems and there has been
no teamwork in making up the budget.
The budget will be put together just as
ii was last year-with scissors and
paste. The city's financial condition is
not subject for an armchair discussion,
but 1t is a question of whether each dol
lar spent will be of some benefit to your
home and mine.
where are the schools that Mayor
Hylan promised in his campaign for cleo
tion? There have been only .wo new
ones built-one In Forest Hills and one
in The Brox. 1t Is plain to me that
Hylan's slogan of "A seat for every child
was the same sort of insincerity as when
he talks OF reducing the ci.y's debt"
Mr.. Gilroy. a Democrat, used the Tam
many Hall telephone booth incident as n
peg on which to hang the statement that
he is for fusion because Murphy is not
democratic and Tammany Ha, Is not
democratic"
THE Democrat who votes his ticket
thinking he Is serving his party needs
to Rave his political education reno
vated." Mr.. Gilroy said. ''He is not serv-
ing his party loyalty; he IS Charles +.
Murphy's dupe."
THE main problems that have come
before Mayor Hylan's administration,
he went on, 'are two problems that
touch verybody-transportat and the
schools. Well, we know how the trans
nortation question has been handled.
The people who use their cyes but not
their heads think John +. Hylan Is
great Mayor because they gee omni-
buses whisling about the streets and
imagine that the cent fare they pay Is
nll the fare they pay.
But that isn't solving transportation.
Fourteenth street doesn't want transpor-
tation solved. so that all the people get
are objects to fll the eye. The buses and
the commotion are nothing but commo-
tion. FOR they are nnt constructive, and
merely cloud the issue and gather what
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