New-York tribune., 1922-11-03

more than $4,000 majority.
House was possessed of enough eau
tion not to take chance. This is the
tariff that Governor Miller referred to
as the lowest Republican tariff that
we have had When all Of the great
newspapers throughout the country
forcefully expressed the opinions that
| have set forth, according to Governor
Miller, they were lieing.
Two Kinds of Paternalism
II am afraid the Governor has got
into deep water. His advocacy of the
national tariff bill puts him in the po-
sltion of reconciling his heart and his
mind to paternalism that promotes
the welfare of the rich and the power
full, while to his own people in his own
state he has declared that legislation
looking to the promotion OF the well
fare, the health and the comfort of
men, women and children, weak and
helpless, is paternalism that must be
! seoffed at to the very extent of de-
! claring that a large group of persons
seeking it constituted in themselves $
and their organization a menace to the
! state.
"There is an old-fashioned saying
that murder will out. Senator Smoot
let the cat out of the bag when he
wrote to the President of the Cuban
republic threatening him with the
power of the United States if he did
not cut down the sugar crop. To please
Senator Smoot and his sugar-growing
friends Of Utah the American people
are going to pay out Of their pockets a
| S200,O00,000 tax on sugar every year to
protect the growers of 10 per cent of
the amount consumed. The New York
tribune said of the Senator that, while
! he could not be accused of corruption,
his motive was to advance the finan-
cial interests of the beet sugar pro-
ducers of his own state, and it may
truthtully be said that he showed little
| consideration for the welfare or the
deslres OF the country as whole"
Says Hughes Was With Him
The former Governor declared that it
must have been very embarrassing"
TO former Governor Hughes to hear
| Governor Miller from the platform at
Cooper Union ridicule the proposal for
the reorganization of the state gov.
ernment. AS matter of fact, Mr..
Smith said former Governor Hughes.
as the representative of the CITY Club.
was one of the foremost advocate, Z,
OF the reorganization that proposed
and that succeeded in passing through
a Republican Legislature, and which
tered"
"It is true, as Governor Miller in
dicated," said the candidate. "that
could in private life continue to advo-
cate these reforms, but. intend to do
so at the head of the state government.
IN which position can be of greater
service to the people of this state than
possibly can be in the trucking bust
ness. Governor Miller might better
serve the state, so far as a great many
OF its problems are concerned. bv re- :.
turning directly to the practice of law
IN the interests of the great corpora
tlons that he has always represented"
AT the close of his speech Al got
PACK to the ringside, declaring that
ehe dovernor had used many terms ia
| miliar to adherents of the sport Of
hoXing, and allowed that he wonll
hand him back few
TIE .Se Governor said in his speech
last night that I am getting a slittle
| bit groggy.' He doesn't need to worrv
about that. | am able to take care Of
myself, because l am right. Let him
| save all OF his concern for himself. II
| IS ms Job to try and make his admins
| tratlon square with the fulsome nrom :
lses that he is making to the people.
Let him answer the questions that 7
have put to him. He used great
many terms familiar to adherents of
the sport of boxing Let me give him
back a few. He is little bit grogrv ,i.l
on the direct primary. He is not SO
strong in explaining the Lusk bills.
He has forgotten entirely his upstate
| nelghbors on the agricultural oues-
tlons. He is weak on his record in
the Highway Department. He has fall
len down completely on his manage
ment of the Labor Department and the
workmen's compensation law.
/ Hanging on the Ropes
"Governnlent by injunction gives him
chill: He is powerless in his defense
OF his water-power program. His def
ance OF the women on the welfare bills
comes back to haunt him. A commits
sloner of his own appointment weak
ened ms argument on the state hospi-
tails. He is as silent as the tomb on
publicity for campaign contributions
HIS own commissioners have disputed
hlm on transit and his own city will
Tepudlate him on public service. The
Black Leg Bridge bill is solar plcxus
to his claims of budget reform. An up
state newspaper asked, who got the
money for this piece of junk?
he is hanging over the ropes on
home rule. The referee has sounded
the gong on his whole administration.
l am not side-stepping, but ] am front
stepping and back-stepping all over his
claims Of accomplishments. am
blocking his attempt at misrepresenta-
tion. of his administration and I am
holding him to the record in spite of
his great ability to distort it.
when Governor Miller defends tbe
tariff he helps to destroy the picture
Governor that we have had held up to
us Tor campaign purposes and dis
closes the real Governor who SCOTS at
paternalism that helps the poor and tho
aHiicted and praises the kind that pro
notes the interests of the powerful
and the privileged"
Greeted in Richmond
Guarded by detachment Of nolice-
men, Mr.. Smith and his party were met
at the Battery by Commissioner Of
Plant and Structures Whalen. a sne-
Gal ferry boat the Mayor Gaynor, was
placed at the disposal of the party for
the trip to Staten Island
The trip to Stapleton was made i,
| automobiles: a. The stapleton club al
though ordinarily only seating about
300, contained more than 1000 persons
and an overflow meeting of another
l,00o outside was addressed by other
candidates. Charles Gibbs, of the Busi-
ness Mems League, was chairman Of