The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-10-14

successfully accomplished. the speaker
said. as the effort of the insurance in
terest to defeat the purpose OF the work
mems compensation law.
Denouncing the Lusk laws. calling fol
loyalty tests from teachers and requir.
ing private schools TO subject themselves
TO a like standard AL worked himself vi
to high point of Indignation.
Everybody knows" he cried. "that
those laws came from the brain storm
of a Legislature seeking to serve the spe-
clal interests. They were seeing red.
Cost to Bar Socialists.
Everybody ought to learn how much
II cost to throw the Socialists out of the
Assembly-men who were properly
elected but who did not have chance
1t cost the people S21S.00o."
Discussing welfare legislation AL said
II want to be fair. Gov Miller
warned us two years ago he would be
against all bills that would make work
ing people comfortable. That would be
paternalism. Let them take care OF
themselves"
The former Governor is taking to
heart the pounding Of his administra-
iion by. Gov. Miller for its extrava-
gance.
When the Governor said my admin
istration was wasteful," he declared.
he spoke in the heat of passion. He
did not say it two years ago. He said
II was good.
IF it had not been for the Harding
landslide two years ago Gov. Miller
would have been left in Syracuse.
From the enthusiasm l have en-
countered and the reports 1 have
heard" the candidate prophesied. II am
sure we can look forward to two years
OF complete Democratic rule
This declaration followed a plea for
the election of a friendly Legislature.
one that would not always be making
hostile moves" against him.
John Il. Mack Presides.
who has gained some fame in the Still
man case, presided. DIR. Royal S. Cope
land. candidate for the United States
Senate. who spoke first. said he came
from Michigan. where it cost quarter
of a million dollars to get a nomination
to the Senate.
II didn't dig up a cent and I didn't
make promise" he announced. His
constant Biblical illusions kept the audi
ence in good humor. He spent the after
noon talking to the farmers in Hudson
Falls.
Al was greeted at the train this after
noon by Frederick III. Van de Water
chairman of the Duchess county COM
mittee Jesse j. Graham. head of the
city committee Mr.. Mack and Thomas
NJ. Lynch. Inside the station was Mrs.
Franklin ID. Roosevelt, who welcomed
the candidate to Duchess county on be-
half of herself and her husband. who
could not be present. 1t was Mr.. Roose-
velt's letter to Al which resulted in the
latter's declaration that he would accept
"a nomination for Governor.
Taking up the discussion OF the Labor
Department Mr.. Smith said:
'Q I charge that in the first year of
his administration Gov. Miller de-
moralized the great Labor Department
of the State not alone for purposes of
political patronage but In order to
weaken and to destroy the important
labor laws passed for the protection of
working men, women and children
"(2) / charge that because of this
wilful and deliberate action of Gov.
Miller the Labor Department has
become completely disorganized-not
organized-that factories remain with
out adequate inspection and illegal
child labor goes on without prosecution.
"(9 I charge that the department is
months and often as much as year
behind in disposing of claims for COM
pensation filed by injured workmen and
dependents of those killed in Industrial
accidents"
Z, Mr.. Smith spoke of thirty bills for