The New York herald., 1922-10-21
MILLER SAYS smith
lSPLAYING BABY ACT
Ridicules Explanations of
Failure to Work Govern
mental Machinery.
CALLS HIM WASTER
Charges Good Fellowship
Was Sold to Some at EX-
pense of All.
CITES TAX INCREASE
Recalls S5l,OOO,OOO Advance
in Last Year Of Opponents
Administration.
CITES TAX INCREASE

Special Dispatch to I1fE NEW YORK HERALD
ROCHESTER,, Oct. 20.-"A spender and
a waster who sold good fellowship to
some of the people at the expense OF
all and who now pleads the baby act
to explain his failure to make workable
governmental machinery work."
This was Gov. Millers indictment to-
night of Alfred Il. Smiths style of ad-
ministration and his Characterization
of Smiths leading argument for sup
port in this campaign.
1t was the punch in the speech that
the Governor made in Convention Hall
before more than 1000 persons who
greeted him in this old time Repub-
lican stronghold.
Compares Two Records.
AS against Smiths record and Smith $
ignoring of the facts the Governor
placed his own deeds. the financial
statement signed by the Comptroller
and his own theory that the people can
reason out the difference between
promises and performance. between
government to please, the Smith kin6,
and government to serve, the Miller
brand Nowhere since the campaign
! began has Miller received welcome
as handsome as that given to him by
the people of Rochester and Monroe
county. Particularly. II seemed. was
his unsparnG condemnation Of the kind
of labor leaders tina. plot revolution
the breed now represented. as the Gov
ernor noted. among the boarders at
Sing Sing Along with this he said, III
refutation Of Smiths charge thatshc
had undertaken to discredit labor by
accusing 1t of lawlessness. that he had
defended labor and VAS real. not
fake, friend of labor. He said he had
no use for any sort of sinister leader
ship, capital or labor, that was trying
to get the best of it at the peoples ex-
pense, and that as tetweer the two,
though they all looked alike TO him. he
had less use for the representative OF
capital. who sought to exploit the pub
lie than he had for fhe representatives
of labor in such business. the latter
having more excuse.
Gov. Miller said that everybody now
knows that Smith has admitted that
Smiths administration was govern
ment to please not all of the people but
only part of the people. For two
years. he said, 'the Governor of this
State sold good Fellowship. not to all Of
the people but to some of the people.
But all of the people paid the price.
The price in the last year of his adj
ninistration was s5i.00o,001 in new
taxes.
Last night at Syracuse. referring to
this feet, which l have several times
treated in the campaign, Mr. Smith says
taat he is accused of having given away
S54, 00O.0 He says. If anybody can
produce the detail of that, that will stop
the campaign at once
"Of course, his anchor to windward
there Is In the use of the words, give
away l have not charged him with
giving away $4,000, 900. Extravaganza
may not necessarily involve donation.
Waste does not imply gift. What I
have asserted. and what up to date he
has not denied. is that under his ad-
minstration new taxes werr collected
from the people in his last year amount
ing to $54,000.000. That requires some
excuse. some explanation, some defense.
| have already given the detail of that:
but inasmuch as he wants further proof
and Is fond of referring to authority.
Will call, as l have already done once
be fore in the campaign, "A witness. the
report by the Comptroller OF the actual
hrancial transactions OF the State. a
copy OF which l am sure he has, an Of
iicial document. From il ! read that the
administration were $.9,s00, ,o00---we
win call It $4,000. 900 -or rornd figures
and tho taxes collected Che last year of
Gov. Smiths administration were sl47,-
100000. an increase OF $4,000, 900.
That is Si3,500,000 more than the fig
tire / used. To he entirely fair TO him
(, Is the fact that that much of the in
crease was due to the normal increase
in taxes already in force. and IL the in
crease In the cost of government had
merely kept pace with the normal in
crease In revenues perhaps no just criti-
cism could be made
Granted Every Request.
My point now Is that 1000. 900, at
least. In new tax burdens was put up
on the shoulders of all OF the people
OF this State to purchase goodfcllow-
ship extended only to a few. ] say. only
to a few. because confessedly II was
extended to those only who either took
the trouble to go or TO send emissaries
to the state Capitol to tell the Governor
what they wanted. And he boasts that
he granted every such request that was
preferred.
"The fact is that when he went out
OF office the StateNhad reached the poin.
where II was facing bankruptcy. On
mat SupgttN nc liOW pitduo tnc DdOy
act
Home rule? Did he ever ask. as he
says. that greater power be conferred
upon local authoritieSc" the Governor
asked. Ibid he ask, as his platform
declares, that local tribunal should be
given jurisdiction over public utility cor
porations wholly within the municipal
ity? Not suggestion or lisp OF that
kind. In the face Of the record of his
own performance he goes before the peo-
pie upon platform declaring for ex-
actly the opposite of what he did. Under
MIR. Smith tho traction group got fares
Increased In thirty-one upstate cities
Under this administration there were
fare increases In five or six cities, and
with one exception these were TO adjust
Inequalities resulting from reductions In
one city and slight increases III another.
Under Mr.. Smith fares went up and SER
vice came down. Under this admins-
tration service Is going up and fares
are coming down." -
The Governor VIII leave here to-mor-
row TO 60 TO Oswego to speak to-mor-
row night.