New-York tribune., 1922-10-15
Miller Deplores
Rivals Use of.
Personalities.
Hillside Farm Birthplace
Good as Fulton Market,
He Says in Closing Of
First Weeks Campaign
Puts Income Tax on Smith
I6 Million To Be Topped
% OF Real Estate Levies
This Year, Says Governor
From a STAFF Correspondent


SCHENECTADY, Oct. 14s--C;oyerror
Miller ended the first week of his cam.
palgn tour here tonight by speech in
winch he reproached his opponent, ex-
Governor Smith, for descending to ner-
sonalities in attacking him, and as
serted that Smith had begged the ques
tion in his statement last night that the
state should have mitigated the in
come tax at the earliest possible mo-
ment
incidentally. for the first time to-
night, the Governor met with an in
terruption. The heckling came during
an indictment against labor agitators
whose principal interest in labor is to
live on the labor of others"
Miller's Reply Stirs Audience
When man sitting in the front of
the audience shouted "Name them!"
Governor Miller leveled his finger at
the interrupter like flash and turned
the occasion into an ovation for him
self by replying in stentorian tones:
"Mr. Peter Brady, Mr.. James Holland
and others Of their kind, sir. The fault
they find with the present administra
ton is that they cannot dictate to the
present Governor of this state as +hav
have undertaken to do. They have had.
sir, let me tell you, a fair hearino
every time they have had any matter
to present in the legislative chamber
at Albany, but the trouble with those
gentlemen. sir, is just precisely as it is
with another class of public enemies.
those corporate interests that are no
more land no less corrupting the gov
ernment than those men that I am tall.
ing about--both of them want the
pest ct it; neither is satisfied with n
fair deal, and that is all either of them
can get from this administration"
tremendous applause and cheering
broke forth from the audience at the
Governors reply, which was renewed
when some one in the back shouted AZ
the heckler:
~ guess that will hold you for a
whilel" 'i
Heckleys Join in Applause
The force of the Governors retort
evidently carried conviction, for sew
eral minutes later. when the speaker
had finished explaining the labor meas
ures that his administration had put
through, both the heckler and his com
oanion. who from their appearance were
laborers and foreigners, were seen to
applaud. .'
/ The Governors attack on Mr.. Smith
on the score of personalities was
vigorous. si.s
He asks me to talk about welfare,
and says that / am reactionary, that
myaenvironment, training and education
have put me in the school which be-
lieves that the dollar is above personal
rights" began the Governor. eWell,
have never gone about the state
boasting about my origin, but / do not
think that Brother Smith ought to re-
tect upon it, because claim that it is
just as good as his. Ifthink if he could
|,see the little hillside farm in Solon
where was born he would think it
didn't have anything on the Fulton Fish.
Market, where he claims to have had
his early educationi
II had thought that this campaign
might be conducted without engaging
in personalities. Certainly / shall not
call Mr.. Smith names or undertake to
discredit the nature and characteristics
Of his mind or Of his personal qualities.
He says that called him 'Alibi AL but
did nothing of the kind. l did say
program of reorganization of the
state government by constitutional
amendmen ent as an alibi for non-perform-
ance, but some one else, not I, dubbed,
him 'Alibi AL / have not called him
any names. 1 shall not, and shall not
impugn his motives. / propose to stick
to the record and to continue to ap-
peal not to prejudice or passion or i'll
feeling, but to the intelligence of the
people, whose intelligence | am at
tempting to inform by giving them an
account Of the conduct of their gov
ernment."
Governor Miller then quoted Mr..
Smith as saying in his Poughkeepsie
address that taxation is holding back
progress, not only in this state but
throughout the country"
Says Smith Fathered Income Tax
And in that same connection" thun-
dered the Governor, "he added and
when the State of New York for the
first time in its history made that di-
rect tax upon the income of it's men
and women there rested upon the state
the burden of endeavoring to relieve
1T at the earliest possible moment He
could hardly have recollected, when he
said that, that the personal income tax
was first passed in this state under his
administration to provide means for
taking care of the mounting cost of
government. He can hardly have re-
flected that his administration was
period of increasing revenues from the
existing sources of taxation, but that
they were not sufficient, and so it was
necessary to impose a personal income
tax which, the last year he was in Of
fice, took from the pockets of these
men and women that he refers to more
than $17,000,000 for the support of the
state government alone.
: He says the personal income tax
ought to be reduced. We have reduced
taxes, but we started with that species
OF taxation which rests most heavily
upon the people of this state-taxes on
real estate, which are directly paid by
the rent-payers of the state, and we
reduced those taxes last year $4,000
wy and will reduce them this year
5000, ,oO0."
Cites Fuel Legislation
Reyerting, to Mr.. Smiths assertion
concerning his views on personal
rights, Governor Miller heatedly de-
ciared that his past record proved the
contrary.
The fact is" he said, sthere has
been great deal Of claptraD talk
about property rights and rights of
persons. The truth is that property
rights are but one of the rights OF
persons i protected by the constitution.