The New York herald., 1922-10-10
GOV. MILLER ASSAILS
Smith ASA SPENDER
Declares Democratic Waste
Made His Own Economy
Program Possible.
NO GROUP CONTROL NOW
Executive Disclaims He Is Die
tator or Reactionary, but Is
Mere Public Servant.
NO GROUP CONTROL NOW

Special Dispatch 10 THE NEw YORK HERALD.
Utica, Oct. 9-Old time politicians
would have been startled at the way
Gov. Miller opened his upstate cam
paign here tonight. Probably some
Of them were. His way of doing
things and his way OF saying
things would have surprised the
hokum experts of yore. In the dear
dead days before Volstead Gov. Miller
would have driven these hurrah boys
to drink.
With no time or inclination for emo
tional hullabaloo the Governor re-
sorted to the extraordinary procedure
of asking an audience to think and
to reason upon the basis of straight,
simple fact. There was no beating
of tom-toms, no rolling of eyes in fine
frenzy, no flowery insincerities to the
women in the boxes.
Did they want an efficient, eco
nomincal government truly seeking
the best interests of all the people or
did they want the incompetence and
extravaganza of the special group"
kind of government that Alfred e.
Smith gave them in his two years?
Appeal to Common Sense.
II was wonderfully undramatic, this
appeal made by Mr.. Miller as he en-
tered in the Colonial Theater, before
1,5O0 extremely attentive listeners, upon
an upstate tour of three weeks. And
yet 1t was curiously human" to em-
ploy an understandable phrase. and
one that has been thrown with reverse
English at the Governor by jugglers of
the little gilded balls or bunlum. oddly
human, because OF the utter lack OF
mock heroics and false sentiment and
because of the Governors persistent use
of plain man to man argument. 1t was
especially human. to use the word for
a third time. because 1t undeviatingly
compimented the common sense that
should function occasionally in the
voters brain.
There was very little Of the frothy
stuff known as cheering and applause" :"
the k nd of stuff that brother Bryan
used to get in this and other States.
Nobody saw any special reason to holler.
That isn't being done nearly so much
these days as II used to be, when
visit to the Dutchmans or Grogan' 8
place was an invariable preliminary TO
attendance at a politicl meeting on the
part of a large section Of the American
electorate.
No. there were no emotional outbreaks.
but there was thoughtful listening.
There were thoughts going on behind
the eyes OF the folks who sat notion
less through Gov. Miller's speech OF an
hour and quarter or so Tonight When
they left the theater they were not JUST
babbling. They were talking about de-
finite. concrete points of the address IL
had sunk home to where their thinking
machinery was turning.
About budgets and balance sheets anu
tax figures and the arithmetic ol
economy there Is very little lhat ls
romantic or moving; little to churn up
cheers. Yet Gov. Miller, cool. confidens'
sure of himself and sure OF his audience
too. managed to invest this arthinetlo
with interest. He made Uticans unoei
stand that IL was their arithmetic aioei
ali not his special concern; and rather
omusinrIv he subtly conveyed the notion
that waving a flag and leading the boys
In singing "The East Side of New YORK
ia not necessarily an evidence OF sood
governing capacity.
Reverted to Main Theme.
Time and time he reverted to his main
thenne economy and efficiency-did they
want II continued and improved or did
they not? It was up to them.
he straiehtaway began with refet-
ences TO Mr. Smiths accusations agaihst
him. that he was a dictator first OF all.
He smIled-not with theatrical sarcasm
4 Ia
and Gov. Miller's smile, relieving the
serIous and thoughtful cast OF mis-
co,intenance is an attractive one.
.r want to disavow at the very out
sot this dictatorship business he SAID.
''I am not and do not profess 10 be
dictator. and there Is no room IN thls
free country for any sort OF dictatorship
benevolent or otherwise.
"The people in this country rule, and
that means majority OF the people
and not less than that. and while the
people rule they have to rule throush
,onresentaiives Those representatives
are not exercising power Of Dictatorship
whom they understake. according to their
bes, Judgment. TO carry out what they
believe 10 be the will Of the people In
Tho interests OF not part Of the people
mt ALI the people. And the fact that
a public officer does not get stopped
over by holding his car to the ground In
order that he may decide what TO do
does not indicate that he rs a dictator
Renctionnry Issue Taken Up.
Having handed that one to Al. the
Governor next went about refuting the
charge that he was a reactionary, con-
trolled by special interests. and that ho
was devoid OF human feeling ana under
standing. the Governor did not rant or
rave or tear his hair In repuGiating this
suggestion. lie just went on talking
easily and calmly. attending TO his logi-
cal knitting.
''I say that man thus devoid Is not
suited to be a public officer. he went on.
"but that does not signify that he is
10 allow his feelings 60 interfere with
tho conscientious discharge of public
duty. Not satisfied with that. he said
I was controlled by the special interests,
the corporate special interests. And in
the same breath he admitted that his
administration had been controlled by
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