New-York tribune., 1922-10-14
Smith Flopped
On Port Plan.
Asserts Miller
Changed His Mind s:to
Please Somebody" Gov
ernor Tells Enthusiastic
Syracuse Audience
Points Out Big Tax Cut
Shows That His Admins
tr1tion Saved Onondaga
Go. $55O,OOO in 2 Years

from stag Correspondent
SYRACUSE, Oct. 13.-Declaring that
Ex-Governor Smith Is running counter
TO his personal convictions and his
previous official stand on the question
Of the Port Authority of New York in
subscribing to his party's attitude as
expressed in it's platform, Governor
Miller scored his adversary tonight
for switching his attitude ain order to
please somebody"
1t was the Governors first reference
to tho Port Authority during his speak
ing trip, and the criticism of Smiths
tergiversation came in the course of a
detailed account Of his administration
that the Republican candidate laid be-
fore an enthusiastic crowd of his fell
low townsmen. Eighteen hundred of
them were packed into the Wieting
Opera House, and they cheered him to
fered.
"Mr. Smith stands, he must stand,
Tor the plan which was presented by
the Port Authority and adopted by the
Legislature" asserted the Governor in
nent. The administration of the City
OF New York has different plan. It
selected engineers, and they worked
OUT plan IN many respects radically
different in its Improvement. When
the plan presented by the Port Author
ity Of which Mr.. Smith is a member
was before the Legislature, the city
administration was there with its plan,
insisting that its plan and not Mr.
Smiths should be chosen.
Warns of Deadlock Danger
What would have happened if the
the Port Authority? The compact pro-
vides that no action can be taken by
the Port Authority without the concur
renee of two members from each state
Necessarily the result would have been
that two members from the State of
New York would nave voted for the
Hylan plan, and four members, only
one of whom was from New York,
would have voted for the other plan,
and we would still be in deadlock.
"Mr. Smith, who is for port develop
ment just as am, who helped himself
to prepare the comprehensive plan
which has laid the foundation for port
development, in order to please some
body is running upon platform
which proposes to create deadlock
and to stop further progress of any
plan, platform which proposes that
two out of the three members OF the
Port Authority from the State of New
York shall be appointed by the admin
istration of New York City"
Turning his guns for moment on
the record of the Smith administra-
ton, Governor Miller drew the audi
ence's prolonged applause when he ap-
piled his simile of the baseball player
to Ex-Governor Smiths structures on
the present form Of the state govern
ment.
"He wants to discuss the organiza
tion Of the state government to ex-
plain why he failed when he was
Governor to make the machinery of
government function, and suppose as
an excuse for non-performance if he
should again be elected" said the
Governor. "He reminds me very much
of the baseball player who strikes out
and then blames it on the bat. There
is this difference, however, between
him and the ball player When the
ball player next comes to bat he can
make great ado in pretending to Sc
lect different bat, but Mr.. Smith has
only one bat to choose from-the pres
ent machinery Of The state government,
and confessing that he can't use the
bat he is asking for the privilege Of
trying it again. / don't claim that I
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