The New York herald., 1922-11-01
MILLER, TWO FISTED
FIGHTING MAN NOW,
RIPS into HYLANSM
Boards Tammany in ItsLair
With Charges of Huge
Graft Scheme.
DEALS TELLING BLOW
Shouts Liar at Canard oi
Ousting Hylan, Saying City
Must Correct Own Error
CONDITIONS SAFER NOW
Says Al Detests Him, Yet Is
Aided by Him-Could Have
Given Firemen Raise.
DEALS TELLING BLOW
CONDITIONS SAFER NOW


It's Miller the fighter. not Miller
the Judge, who is sweeping through
New York city this week in headlong
attack against Smiths very strong
hold. It's a militant Miller, not g.
cautious. word weighing Miller, whq
is surging through the boroughs De-
nouncing Tammany Hall and all it's
works. including Alfred e. Smith.
The man is a revelation TO people
who have heard of him as cold. re-
strained. He's about as cold az
Jerome used TO be In the days when
Jerome said things about Tammany
that smoked as they left his lips. He's
as restrained as Roosevelt used 10 be
when that inimitable platform speaker
spoke his mind in "short and ugly
words" about bad public service and
evil public servants. He's as tiresomo
as Frank Black used 10 be when thaq
incompatible satirist sprayed his conf
tempt for the unfit. /
/ This about face on Gov. Miller's
his reversal OF campaigning tacticsl =
denly exposed in this city like a BIZ
sword that had been sheathed and \ J.
den, is the most Interesting fact Of Are
campaign UP to date, more interesting,
maybe more important, than the discus-
sion Of issues because OF the attack
that have been made on his 'humanityN
I and on his ''frigid indifference"
Audience Halls New MnIer.
His audience last night in Morris
High School. at the Boston Post road
and 166th street. up in The Bron1,
| thrilled to this fact and rose at the new
Miller. the Fortnight, hard fpghting
Miller, as he scored the blunds rs of
Hylan, branded Tammany as colossal
/ graft system and contemptuously -in-
cuded Smith for rebuke because SrnitA
IS Standing for Hylan and for Tan4-
many.
What will not Al Smith. decent ma'e>
as he has been. do to get into office
There was the heart OF the Governor
! speech In The Bronx last night IA
rousing meeting with more than
people cheering him on. Smith, selI
Disgusting his contempt for Hylan.
pictured as Tammany's best exhibil
urging that the whole transit systdil
the city he turned over TO the &
of Tammany Hall. And that. 5;
Governor, Is the dominant issue
! campaign. iii
EVER word OF this fierce III
snapped and cracked. There watl
/ clrcumlocution. no Latin dei1vif
here. 1t was the good old Anglo-saS
punch.
Il conceive" said the Governor, 'ths
! the dominant issue Is whether the who.
transit system Of this city is 10 be mas
part and parcel OF n political machii
\ DO the people of this town wish Il
10000 employees of the ts.sasfo>- ysts'v,
turned over for exploitation cither't
the Mayor or by Tammany Hall or
an unholy combination OF the two? 81
! and reflect that this involves the cor
/ fcrt, the safety. the very lives OF ,'VoV
600 passengers a day. Does tho Dem.
| cratic candidate stand for that proposi
ton. or Is the plank. like the beer PLANK.
/ intended only 20 get In our
! lie led up 10 this right swing BY re
mindlng his hearers OF what Tammany
always does when II gets power over =
public utility. He denounced tho does
grating that put millions into private
pockets and bagatelle into the city
/ treasury the grating in the Department
1 of Markets recently exposed and tho
! grating that is just now being revealed
/ in the operation OF bus lines.
People Know what It Means.
.Tho people have seen." said the Gov-
ernor with acid sarcasm, what runicl-
pal operation means in this town. 10
/ they want that system extended 10 tnel il
entire transit svstemT"
"Do the people OF THE town want t1e
work Of the Transit Commission to cote
I tinue or TO stop2 The Democratic can3
! didate proposes not only TO stop T.. but 70
destroy Il. lie proposes TO repeal whtt
/ no calls the Miller transit legislation au(d
: 20 turn over tho transit lines OF tho clty
l TO Tammanv Hall. DO the people OF tht
| city want that done2 They have plenty
/ Of object lessons IN so-cslled municirai
! operation. which means operation byn
] political control for private bcncht. They
/ have had it IN their dock system. where
ship docks have been leased for almost
/ nominal sums 20 favor politicians TO be
I sublct at inordinate rentals. imposing
I wharfage charges 20 excessive as TO
/ drive shipping away from tho port OF
New York
They have seen what municipal opcr.
\ alton means in the public markets. with
exploitation OF license privileges aud
/ the license money going into private
pockets instead OF the city treasury.
\ They have seen what municipal opera
tion means in the operation Of tho
I buses. DO they want 10 turn over 10
\ that grating system the problem which
most vitality affects the people Of this
city7
Transit. Upon its right development
depends the proper distribution Of this
I great center All OF your social prob
/ lens depend upon &C. Your housing
/ problem depends upon t. The heaHr.
| happiness, comfort and contentmeut or
millions OF people depend upon ~. N IS
I the subject. OF all others. which must
DO discussed Tho problem which muss
be settled rightly
Liars were they who had painted him
two years ago as man OF gloon and
grim hatred OF pleasure; aud larg ara
they who 20 about now traducins hiii
on other grounds. one of the lies (3s@