The New York herald., 1922-10-16
GOVERNOR SATISFIED
With WEEKS TOUR
Reaction to Businesslike
Speeches Is Pleasing
to Miller.
KNOWS HE HAS FIGHT
Ignores Flattery of Profess
siOnal Politicians and
Faces Hard Facts.
BARS CIRCUS METHODS
Feels He Can Win With Plain
Talk and Rejects Red
Fire Oratory.
BARS CIRCUS METHODS
Special Dispatch TO THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Alhaux Oct

Special Dispatch TO THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Albany. Oct. IS.
In this weekend interval between
one night stands OF the big Republi-
can review of 1922 called "Alibi AL.
the Cheerful Spender," the star of the
show, Nathan L. Miller, is much more
engrossed ridding himself of the film
of coal dust lavishly conferred upon
him by some of our best known rail-
roads than he is in politics or State
affairs. In the house he enjoys rent
Tree here because he consents to live
in Albany, the Governor talked be-
tween serubbings, so to speak. to some
of his friends about the way the cam
| paign seems to be going.
| The Governor seems to think it is
| going well and that there Is a probabil-
| ity of Republican success. pretty much
everything depending on getting the
party vote out. This rea asonable sum-
ming up of the first week fits Miller
like his coat, nothing eXtravagant about
it. NO wild claims, no soaring predic-
tions, just calm statement that he is
satisfied with the reaction" in the recent
not does not seem as important or inter
esting as the fact that he is obviously
stating what he thinks and not uttering
bunlkum he might hope to make people
believe.
Professionals Fail to Impress.
You can see by his comment how
much he was impressed by the profess
sonal bunk so suavely handed to him
all along the line last week by the vari-
Gus county leaders. the fellows who kept
telling him that he would equal if not
exceed his vote of two years ago. Some
of them deserved a prize. They told him
it looked as il he were. going to beat
Harding's vote. 1t was diverting to
watch Miller as the boys talked. Hav-
ing been a school teacher, he knows
arithmetic medium well and he knows
as a politician what the arithmetic of
offyear voting is. IL he should get al!
the votes promised to him last week by
the yes men there wouldn't be any
left for Al Smith outside Of New York
city.
The Governor knows better. He knows
he is in fight. He knows there are
sore spots. He knows that labor, par
ticularly in some Of the good sized cities,
has been told by agitators that he is no
friend of the horny handed. He prob
lcans upstate are so angry at bootleg
ging conditions, such as are turning
buns into capitalists, that they are talk
ing of voting the Democratic ticket as q
protest. however futile, against the State
and Federal enforcement acts. Miller
believes that he can win, is going to
win. but he is not kidding himself and
he hates bunk more than anything else
in the world.
, Ia tn.
appeal to intelligence. to the thinking
powers of voters. His whole campaign
has been and will be based upon the
unique assumption that voters do think,
do reason, do remember. He has the
audacity actually, TO base his canvass
upon the facts as he sees them, and to
assume that voters are interested in
such cheerless things as compa rative
financial statements. comparative taxa
tion tables and precise comparison Of
just what Smith did or did not do and
Just what he did or did not do about this
or that definite matter. That is the plan
he started on and the one he is going
through with. It's his story and he is
going to stick to it.
One speech n Day Enough.
A good while back when the only T. r.
was campa ignng around the state he
complained to Lafayette Gleason, then
handling the speakers bureau, you
work me as IL | were a county clerk. -
, They don't do those things 60 Miller,
They would have liked to book him for
about ten speeches a day. train end ap-
pearances, where the candidate struggles
heroically for fifteen minutes or so
against all the clamor of snorting loco
motives, the traffic of the adjacent city.
: the crying of babies and the boots OF
the opposition. Not Nathan. Like
Smith. he put his foot down on that
, business He said that the point OF
/ campaigning was to get the candidate s
arguments and views before the people,
that the way 10 do that was TO get
speeches in the newspapers and that ono
speech a day. i'm the big centers, was the
: cats cuffs. or words to that effect. When
they wanted to precede him in every
community with the local aspirants for
office. together with Representatives and
Such he said no agalr. They could
have any night for their local heroes and
, for Congressman Jiggstep. but he,
Miller, would have his say alone. so that
the people, II really Interested in the
: business of the State government. would
not have anything to divert their minds
from the main issue. lie had his way.
and in eliminating at least an hour Of
preliminary oratory nightly indubitahly
demonstrated his humanity and love for
, the people.
tle is going his way pursuing q def
mite and downright theory OF camps ign
ing. which is simply that he can win II
he can make the people realize that every
: individual finds life easier when a state
government saves money while giving
good service, the kind he processes TO
have given and the kind he asserts that
/ Smith did not give. He bends all OF his
energies to that task. lie has no time
for circus stuff. Whatever his audiences
may be thinking however they may in
tend to vote. they give close attention.
The Governor will leave Albany carly
tomorrow morning to 20 TO Bingham
ton TO speak tomorrow night. Tues
day night he will appear IN Elmira and
on Wednesday night ne will speak in
Hornell. Thrrsday Is an open date so
far, with Rochester scheduled for Fri
day night
SENATOR LODGE ILL.