New-York tribune., 1922-10-07
Miller Assails
sSrnitll as Ally
:Of Group Rule
Governor. i'm Sharp Reply
at Poughkeepsie, Charges
Opponent Is Appealing to
Foes of Law and Order
Assails Labor Agisaaors
declares Former Executive
J Always Listened to ANY,
body Who Had Any Votes
Fro,a a stag corresreadeas

= tPOUGHKEEPSIE, Oct. 6.---The is
sues in the gubernatorial campaign are
1kose between representative govern
msnt or dominance by special groups
and between law and order as agains.
lawlessness, Governor Miller asserted
here tonight in speech filled with
sharp attacks on the sentiments ex-
pressed by Ex-Governor Alfred e.
Smith yesterday.
Commenting on the list Of organiza-
lions that Mr., Smith enumerated ns
having received favors at his hands
Governor Miller said;
9 taking credit for the fact that he
invariably yielded to the behests of
these groups who came to him with q
certificate as to the number of votes
they controlled, he has raised an is
sue in this campaign that is para
mount to any question of economical
administration of government. 1t is
she issue between group government
and representative government. He,
by, his own confession, stands for
sentative government in the interest of
all the people, and there is sharply
defined, clearcut issue. Those who
have axes to grind, those who have
specific favors to ask, want his kind
of government. Those who only want
20 have the government administered
honestly and efficiently in the inter-
asts Of all of the people want the other
kind of government. Who are in the
majority? Let's find out"
= Governor Miller's challenge to Smith
to state whether he stands on the side
of law and order came as a comment
on Smiths remark last night that when
ae was Governor industrial disputes
were settled by the agency of state
arbitration bodies, while Miller handled
Such matters by calling out the police.
~ challenge Mr. Smith to say
whether, if he had been Governor Of
sthis state" acclaimed the Governor,
referring to the dispatching of the
sonstabulary to Buffalo, "he would have
sent the state troopers into a COM
snunity to prevent mob violence and
Fiotipg. He says that | called on the
g,olice. What would he have done? Why
does he make that covert suggestion !?
] say that that appeal for votes raises
another issue in this state that is
Also paramount to economy in govern
a'ent. stand for law and order. If
i stand for that, where does Mr.. Smith
stand? And | think it is a good time
20 count noses on that issue, too. That
snsidious appeal puts Mr.. Smith on the
other side, and l challenge him now
20 take definite and clear position" ;"
In the same connection Governor
Miller took the opportunity to pay his
respects IN no uncertain terms to the
aeaders of organized labor in this state
and throughout the country. Naming
Samuel Gompers, president of the
american Federation of Labor; James
Holland, head of the State Federation
Of Labor, and Peter J. Brady, publisher
1f "The City Record" and an official
Of the photographers union, he declared
that they were men who were trying
20 exploit both those whom they profess
TO serve, as we'll as the public, assert
sng that they could control and deliver
she labor vote. He further character
Med them as men who are living upon
the labor of others, who are in soft
2olitical jobs on the pay roll of Tam
many Hall, and who do not represent
labor in its true sense, and who cer-
family do not represent enlightened d
american public opinion.
e The cause of the labor leaders draw
ing the Governors fire was the resolu-
ZION passed at the State Labor Conven.
non asking that the state police be
3isbanded.
/. "What do the State Constabulary
ao?" asked Mr.. Miller. "Do they in
serfere with anybody's liberty? No
% they interfere in these industrial
disputes? No. Nobody pretends that
hey do. They maintain law and or.
Ter, and the people VINO asked that
shey be disbanded do not want law
and order maintained, and that is the
anly conceivable reason that they car
xave for preferring such request"
9 In all of the labor disputes in the
sfate the good Offices of the State
board of Mediation and Cancellation
sad been rendered. Governor Miller
Nded, and it was only where lawless-
,tess took place which got beyond the
centrol of the local police that the