New-York tribune., 1922-11-03
Miller Is Part
OF Big Machine,
Smith Charges
Former Governor Makes
Vigorous Verbal Assault
ON His Successor at
Staten Island Meeting
Gets Dictionary Out
Lower East Side Rival Finds
Meaning of Terms Used
by the Present Executive

Democratic candidate for Governor. in
vaded Richmond last night He talked
to the Staten Islanders about the tariff
moonshine and pabulum. He admitted
that the latter word was new one on
him, but having noted that Governor
Miller used it at Cooper Union the
night before he looked it up He de-
clared that the Governor was taking to
himself the credit for all the intel
llgence i'll the State of New York.
"The Governor is GOOD LAWYER y
said the former Governor, "but he must
not try to put into the minds of the
people the idea that he is super
being endowed with a knowledge that
belongs to superhuman creatures. The
real truth is that he followed along
with the machine. He sat by while
the clumsy, cumbers ONE, log-rolling,
patronage producing apparatus which
he thinks is running SO we'll carried
him down stream with the full weight
and the full tide Of the Republican
political influence that has directed it
IN this state for so many years"
The Democratic candidate mildly
surprised the people Of Stapleton when
he opened his speech by quoting Car
lyle and bringing in that word "pabu-
lum"-meaning, as Mr.. Smith neglected
to explain, sustenance in the sense of
food for thought.
Governor Miller, when he arrived at
Cooper Union last night" said the
speaker. Uniformed the audience that
1T was his opinion that they had re-
ceived enough Republican 'pabulum' for
one night. This was new one on me,
and l tried to remember where / had
heard it. 1t was Carlyle who said :
The new celestial manner-this thrice
refined pabulum of transcendental
moonshine.' Carlyle must have antici-
pated this campaign and the arguments
of the Governor, which are the moon
shine of some heretofore unheard- of
planet"
Says Miller Fears Anderson
Speaking of moonshine, the candi
date again referred to the wet and dry
plank in the Democratic state plat
form.
The Governor took occasion last
night to misrepresent the whole situa-
tlon with regard to the beer and wine
plank OF the Democratic state plat
FORM" said Mr.. Smith. Nothing has
weakened him as much as his paipable
insincerity with regard to this oues-
ton. He might have amused his audi
ehce, put we are not putting on a
vaudeville show in this state We are
conducting a serious campaign. He
could answer the question that put to
him if he did not have to fear the in
fluence of Anderson"
At another point in his speech. in
discussing the tariff, the former Gov
ernor remarked that Governor Miller
had dropped his "eXtra-legal laneuapen
and had started to talk "the parlance
of the boxing ring"
Let him invoke it long enough to
give his real opinion about the tariff"
continued the speaker. "The fact is
that it is cold blooded and deliberate
nold-up Of the whole American people
IN the lr rest of the few that were
only too n represented in, Washing
ton. On the theory that it will produce
revenue to the government, S4OO ,O0O.
600, 1T exacts from the pocketbooks Of
the people least able to bear it IN an
nual tax of $4,000,00O, ,0O0 The differ
ence between these figures represents
the profits of the special interests
that had their affairs cared for in the
writing of the schedules
Lying" About the Tariff
Referring to Governor Miller's
statement at Cooper Union that the
people had been "greatly lied to about
the tariff" the former Governor quoted
The Tribune, "The Herald" and other
papers editorially, and asked who did
the lying.
Who did the lying~ asked Mr..
Smith. "'The New York Herald sun
porting the Governor, owned bv Frank
Munsey, a leading Republican. said.
The owner Of "The New York Herald"
cannot stand for damn fool protection
ism, and "The New York Herald" will
not stand for it. That editorial COM
ment was directed against the tariff
Dill that the Governor claims the peo-
pie have been lied to about. The New
York Herald further said: THE tariff
makers of the present Congress cannot
go before the voters of the United
States on. the issue of the Senate's
monstrous wool schedule, the handi-
work of sheep raising, wool-growine
Senator's, without inviting political
revolution by an aroused nation Was
that lie, Governor, or was the news
paper, under the direction of Mr.. Mum
sey, stating the fact? This paper de-
clared: The Fordney- -McCumber tariff
is SO bad, so unworthy of anybody's
support, so incapable of meeting the
test of popular approval, that to take
it to the polls as the great national
issue of the election of 1922 might
blow any political party so doing off
the face of the earth
Quotes The Tribune
"The New York Tribune, news
paper advocating Republican principles
since the time of Lincoln, had the fol-
lowing to say: The McCumber bill is
horrible example of what may hap
pen when the rule of the fathers is
departed from. Politically and cconom-
ically it is more out of line with the
times than the Payne -Aldrich bill was
in 1909.
"In another editorial, The New York
Tribune referred to the tariff as a
monstrosity The New York Globe.
a republican newspaper said: 'The
truth is that hand plunged at random
into the Fordney- Nc Cumber grab-bag
is almost certain to bring up some
thing Incredibly naive or incredibly
dishonest. That is not protection; it
is proposal to collect by force from
the consumer in order to distribute
largess to a few favored friends of the
Administration
81 am afraid, Governor, that the
whole tariff law looks like surrender
to group government. It looks like
the handiwork of small groups through