New-York tribune., 1922-11-03

tasIg geo IN efder tS1af 100 per cent
pfefit could be turned. through those
aunana,es. into the pockets of I'am-
,in@ny Hall politicians, 50 long as they
we're good Democrats. The only con-
sfruetive suggestion made by the
Democratic candidate to solve the
transit problem is his promise TO turn
= over to be operated, as the bus lines
hase been operated, for good Demo-
Gratis, the Tammany stripe of good
Democrats
When asked to square that promise
win mis- performance IN Office, when
is recommended TO the Legislature that
Two state commissions be created to
ndndle the problem instead of one, Mr..
smith made the pitsable, abject confess
sion, continued Governor Miller, that
as Governor of this state he recon-
inended TO the Legislature not what he
Thought was right, but what he thought
that body would be willing to do-a
confession that, with all that it reveals
of the Democratic candidates concep-
tien of government, has been proved by
his own official record to have been
contrary to fact.
After explaining that the transit
problem is of interest to the people
OF Nassau County because suburban
service is an integral part of it and
that the Transit Commission is now
engaged IN studying that phase OF the
matter, the Governor called his hearers
attention to the fact that no one,
least OF all the Democratic party, had
ever given the subject thought until
the commission had taken it up.
Charges Favor to Trusts
HE has been going over the state
nightly asserting that / am the tool
of the corporations, but that he is a
ri sRf tho 81 L = -
have been busy whispering that same
appeal first to this group and then to
that group the Governor went on.
But when his attention has been
specifically called to the way corporate
interests were favored under his ad-
ministration he has invariably hidden
behind the skirts of some one else
First when his attention was called
TO the favors the public utility cor
ministration he hid behind the skirts
Of the Public Service Commission.
When his attention has been called to
the way that corporate lobbies under
him were able to defeat legislation in
Inc interest of the people, he has
hidden behind the skirts of the Legis-
lature. When his attention is called
to the inefficient way and wasteful
way that the government was admin
istered he hides behind the skirts of
the department heads whom, he says,
ne was not permitted to remove and
TO appoint on his induction into Office.
That sinister appeal to those who
nave prejudice against corporations
certainly ought not to be made by
cqe who is himself the head of the
United States Trucking Corpora ton.
subsidiary of the United States Dis
t1fbuting Corporation, with all of its
corporate affiliations. The man who
makes that sinister appeal is still the
head OF corporation.
State His First Client
II have been charged with being q
corporation lawyer. 1t is true that
among my clients were corporations as
we'll as poor men and women because
never yet refused to plead a Just
cause merely on account of the size of
the fee | might get. But, in passing,
let me say that my knowledge of cor
poration law and of corporate business
has been exceedingly useful in enabling
me for the last two years to protect
the public interest and to serve my
one client, the great corporation of the
State of New York, with its IL 100000
stockholders. Let them cali me cor
p9ration lawyer now. Yes, am a COR
peration lawyer, and | have the great
est corporation practice of any corpo-
NhtiOu lawyer III lIle DldGe Ol NEW IOTk,
for | have 100000 clients belonging
TO the State of New York, and those are
my only clients.
"Along with that sinister appeal has
gone another appeal to prejudice, the
statement that | am the foe of labor
and that he is the friend of labor"
said the Governor.
Il have asked them to specify one act
Of my administration unfriendly to
md hnir L.
been that the work of the Industrial
Commission has been hampered by re-
dnclng the amount of the appropri-
alton. The statement is made by the
Democratic candidate almost nightly,
although his attention has repeatedly
bsen called to its untruth, that the So
called vicious direct settlement has
neen reintroduced into the law. l shall
not take time to consider that.
Cleaned Up Commission
II met the charge of reducing the
appropriation of the Industrial Com
mission by proving that that depart
ment was honeycombed with ring of
Gfafters who were rot only feeding at
the puJlic crib but were engaged in
lie most Gespicable species Of graft
iHg, that of ievying tribute upon the
unfortunate victims of industrial acci-
dents. We did kick those grafters out
If the department, and we did thereby
reduce the expense of maintaining that
department. / proved that trom Official
records. | proved from the report of
MS own investigator, made to him, that
there were at least four different forms
Of petty, miserable, despicable grating,
ell leading up to one man whom |
Hamed, Thomas F. Curtis, man who
processes to be labor leader, who
poses as the friend of the workers, but
who BY my predecessors Investigator
wPs proved TO have been engaged in the
despicable business of grating upon
unfortunate victims of accidents.
The only answer to that proof from
the record was the statement by the
Democratic candidate the other night
that he had received letter written
during the campaign by somebody who
claims to have been lawyer employed
in the investigation and who gives
Curtis clean bill of health. Why
does he not quote from the official
/ record? The answer is obvious be-
! cause that record was on his desk for
s. Year and three months, and vet he
allowed the head of that ring of
grafters to remain in the department.
"This is characteristic of the argu-
inents during the whole campaign.
cannot get Mr.. Smith to meet me face
70. face on the facts of the record that