The New York herald., 1922-10-29
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Ter to the rebounding echo as he took
Smith and exeoriated Smith FOR accusing
| him. Miller of the things that were done
under Smith. but stopped by the suc-
ceeding administrators.
At Buffalo the Governor stirred 10
combat and showed himself In a brand
new guise. Here he plunged into the
battle with an AK in one hand and a
! spiked club in the other, hitting with
both hands. 1t needs little imagination.
probab y, to comprehend that the air
sizzled when this ordinarily sedato ex-
judge of the Court of Appeals cut out
the muffler. lie wasted little time In
going to 1t, saying almost at the outset :
From the opening of the campaign
Until now we have met with all scrts or
charges, ali sorts of accusations nightly
repeated. We were charged at the out
set with being reactionaly devoid OF
human understanding and feeling. We
are nightly charged with being the tool
Of corrupt interests. l am rot con-
Quoting the campaign upon charges.
am not conducting 1t on the basis or
what my adversary has or has not done.
/ am conducting II solely On the basis of
what the State administration has done
But 1t does not appear to me t, be en-
trely fair. or even discreet, 20 make
sinister appeals to prejudice"
Calls Charge Unfair.
II say that the charge that I am
subject to corporate influence, which
those who make it know to be false,
and the whisperings that they have
started among the uniformed is not
fair. legitimate or decent cam
raisn argument TO be advanced by one
who is still the president of sub
sldiary of a powerful combination.
when l became Governor of this
State l resigned from every direct
ship, from every counselship, whether
individual or corporate. which / held.
Foi two years l have served but one
corporation. and in this campaign
aiE rendering an account of my SER
vice to the stockholders of that cor
poration.
Among other misstatements which
have nightly been repeated has been the
charge that ! have been unfrfendly 70
the workers. / have challenged any one
to name single unfriendly act OF the
present administration toward the work.
ers But that charge is nightly repeated
and the one specification made is tliat
1 emasculated the workmen's cornpen-
sation law and the labor laws and de
stroyed their enforcement.
The charge has been nightly made
that we reintroduce the so-called perni-
cious direct settlement which turns the
injured workman or woman over to o'ths
tender mercies of the insurance carrier,
and that we have destroyed the labor
laws and the workmens compensation
law by breaking down their enforce
ment.
II have met those charges and have
completely refuted them from the re.
cord, only to find them repeated each
night Tonight / wish finally to dis
pose of them from testimony that our
adversaries must accept. because they
gathered it.
Gov. Miller said he purposed &c shoW
the style of campaign Smith vas now
conducting and he read oxtrac te from
smiths speech at Dunkirk lasr night
J; Guiding lit remained for Gov. Miller
Il show the interests tha- desired the
,epeal OF these laws (the labor laws and
workmeRs compensation sct) low to
ois feat them without repeating the stat
ute
Note there" said the Governor. 'the
sinister appeal to prejudice
He pointed out that while Smith had
recommended the abolition OF the direct
settlement pIan tnat 1t was not under
the direct settlement plan but under the
so-called adjustment plan. by which a
contract Of settlement for lump s m
may be made directly between the in
jured workman and the employer or the
insurance carrier, that the graft oc-
CURED. He wished to show. he said.
from the testimony of the man appointed
by Smith TO investigate the administra-
tion of the workmans compensation law
why he reorganized the Industrial COM
mission. He was wi ling. he explained.
to stand on the record. as always.