The New York herald., 1922-10-18
S'NlT!! DOESN'T HEED
MILLER'S CHALLENGE.
Declines to Discuss st. Law
renee Canal Project at
Ogdensburg.
SAYS IT'S NOT ISSUE
Candidate Chides Governor
for Not Answering YOn-
kerS Speech.
ATTACKS HIS FIGURING
Nominee Swings to Federal
Questions and Points TO
Treasury Deficit.
ATTACKS HIS FIGURING

Special Dispatch to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
OGDENsBURG, Oct 17.-Gov. Miller's
challenge to Alfred f.. Smith to give
his views on the proposed st. Law
renee ship canal when he came to this
Republican stronghold-St. Lawrence
county-was not accepted by the
Democratic candidate, who spoke at
the Opera House here tonight.
The citizens here are strong for the
project. not because of the freight
way from the West to the Atlantic
Ocean. but because they think the
scheme will give them power to de-
velop a manufacturing center. Gov.
Miller frankly told them why he was
unalterably opposed to the plan.
Democrats here were expecting Mr..
Smith to combat the Miner views but
the candidate who expects to get the
larger part of his vote from New York,
city, (which does not want the canal,r
kept away from the subject of canali-
Zation
II do not believe ii is a State issue.
There is nothing the Governor can, do
about it," was what he told those who
discussed the matter with him before
the meeting.
Instead, he repeated his views on the
de, elopment of water power under State
ownership and control, enunciated fer
the first time at Troy last night.
Swings Into National issues.
Although the candidate declared he
had intended to stick to State issues In
this campaign, he took the fact that
Gov Miller in Binghamton last night
had discussed the Fedora: budget as cue
10 swing into national issues.
He asked the Governor what he
thought about the Daugherty injunction
and what was his attitude upon the new
tariff law.
What does he think about Senator
Smoot's letter to the President OF the
Cuban Republic?" he exclaimed. That
letter threatening him with the power OF
the United States If he didn't cut down
the sugar crop in order to keep up the
price of sugar in the United States?"
Mr.. Smith blamed what he said had
been called the Black Lake toll bridge
scandal" upon the present system Of
State finance. Valued at about $4,000
in 1909, he asserted that there was in
the appropriations for this year an item
property In St Lawrence county.
The former Governor said he gave the
people the kind of government they
wanted, while Gov Miller tells them he
will give them the kind of government
he thinks they ought to have.
Mr.. Smith again chided Gov Miller
for not answering his Yonkers speech
accusing the friends of the present adj
mnistration with twisting figures to
show false economies.
Gov. Miller" he declared. arrives at
his figures by some peculiar method of
subtraction he manufactured himself"
Mr.. Smith declared that two years
ago he could not get Gov. Miller TO dis
cuss anything except national issues,
whereas in this campaign the Repub-
lican candidate had been si;an. on them
until. at Binghamton. he referred to the
Federal budget
state Budget system.
In reply to Gov. Miller's State budget
remarks last night the Democratic can
didate said: THE Governor. in state
ments made during his campaign. said
we have established a budget system
without waiting for a constitutional
amendment.
THE Governor knows as well as any
body in this State that 1t Is impossible
to set up any executive budget system
without constitutional amendment
And he further knows that the budget
las been prepared during his admin
istration i'm exactly the same manner
that il has been for the iast quarter
of a century. In order to justify his