The New York herald., 1921-11-04
Wants to Know Why He
Has Not. Answered Serious
Charges Made.
HAS FUN WITH COCHRAN
Calls Tammany Orator the
'Demosthenes of the Multi
gan Guards

The duty Of retiring the Hylan ad-
ministration and all it's personnel TO
private life was put squarely UP to
the women voters by William Travers
Jerome in two speeches last night. the
first at the Lenox Assembly Rooms in
Second street and the second at Cooper
Union. The former District Attorney
confessed that he had not the faith in
the male vote that he once had; that
he had undergone a complete conver-
sion in his attitude toward the ques-
tion of suffrage for women and that
his hope for the eradication Of Hylan-
ism from the city government lay in
the women's vote. .God show that
that hope is well placed" he con-
cluded. You women have got to do
the trick"
At both Of Mr.. Jerome's meetings
he reviewed his previous charges
against the Hylan administration,
adding little oral tabasco here and
there and demanding between times
to know why there has come no denial
to any Of the charges of nlaladminis-
tration or worse he has fired at Mayor
Hylan and his associates during the
last two weeks.
In his Cooper Union speech Mr..
Jerome drew vivid picture Of the
old days in the Adams Street Police
Court, Brooklyn, when Mayor HyIan
was magistrate. John T. HettriclS,
now serving a sentence on Blackwell's
Island. was stenoerapher. and Com
missioner of Accounts David Hirsh-
field and Joseph A. Solovei were spe-
cial cronies Of the magistrate.
You have Hettriclx in Jail, you have
Solovei under indictment, you have
Hirshfield convicted of abandoning his
wife, after having been indicted twice
for felonious assault upon her. Who
neSt2..is
A Laugh at Bourie Cochran.
Here 5r. Jerome launched into a
sarcastic criticism of the police admin
| istratiou. with special reference to the
I case of Tfghe, the former detective SER
geant- convicted OF clubbing inoffensive
women.
''Now," continued Jerome, 1--WE hear
the latest talk of that old Mulligan
! Guard Demosthenes-old Bourke Cock
ran, who plays up this wonderful admin
istration, and this is even too much for
the old Tammany Hall crowd. because
even the Anlreicdr. in reporting the
speech said that the audience burst out
laughing.
when he got to the Police Depart
raent Cochran said that tenderness
marked the Police Department at all
times
Did tenderness mark the New York
Police Department when this clubber
Tighc was found three blocks off post in
Brooklyn ia uniform drunk at the foot
OF the subway stairs, and was tried and
sentence was imposed, and the sentence
approved by Richard Enright. the Police
Commissioner? Tenderness did mark the
condition Of the Police Department then
because the sentence imposed was a rep
rimand But tenderness did not nark
the finding OF Ezekial Keller $40
twenty days pay-because he wouldn't
let one OF these millionaire special badge
flashing Deputies cross Fifth avenue on
the Liberty Loan parade when the man
was not on police duty.
Mr. Jerome challenged Mayor Hylan
and his associates 10 deny any of the
charges he has hurled at them. IL have
not seen any denial OF the facts" he
said. II have seen nothing but some
personal abuse of myself. which seems
to me to be wholly outside of the issue. 50
Mr. Jerome asked the audience IL they
knew OF a certain former Deputy Police
Commissioner who is general agent
for an insurance company. The speaker
intimated that merchants who wished
to sell something to the Police Depart
ment Jared better IL they first were in
sured in this mans company. He told
OF an aged merchant who, Mr.. Jerome
said. could not pass the examination. and
10 make the sale he sent his son around
10 be insured.
Mr.. Jerome repeated his story OF the
refusal of former Police Commissioned
Bugher to appoint Solovei and of Mr..
Bugher's assertion that the prospective
appointee once had been an attorney FOR
piclSpockets. The speaker quoted from
what he said was the Mayors letter OF
reply in which the Mayor was made 10
say
"Oh. he has represented a few pick
pockets. but ] have known him for a
long time ~
Mr. Jerome said the Mayor succeeded
later in having SolOvel appointed an
Assistant Corporation Counsel in charge
OF street openings. "ope of the greatest
opportunities for grating known, and he
lasted in tho street Opening Department
until the United states Grand Jury In
dlctcd him"