New-York tribune., 1922-05-20
Stand on Achievements.
BE Vigorous, and Keep
Enemy on Defensive"
His Word to Committee
Hylan Misrule Is.
Shown by Figures
Housing and Transit Twin
Issues, Governor Tells
Town Hall Gathering

introduced as "our present and next
GOVERNOR by Samuel Koenig, presi-
dent OF the Republican County Commit
tee, Governor Miller responded to
cheers from the 1000 men and women
in Town Hall last night by outlining
the issues on which the rext state cam
paign will be waged.
He declared that the administration
would stand squarely on it's record of
achievement and wage an aggressive
campaign, keeping the Democrats on
the defensive from the start, and ic-
noring their Misrepresentation.
In addition to reviewing the work of
his administration, the Governor, after
citing the saving effected in the cost of
running the state government, quoted
from figures obtained from Comptrol-
ler Craig of the Hylan city government,
where he said opportunities for saving
were greater because Of it's greater
expenditures. to show that the grossest
extravangance had been committed
Speech Is Campaign Material
In his speech. which was regarded
by all who heard it as campaign
document, the Governor instanced the
following as the great achievements
Of his administration:
|. Putting the state on q business
like basis and cffecting promised
economics.
2. Developing the states water pow
er under state control.
program.
4. Enacting the most progressive
liberal and just workmens compense
tion act in the country
Referring to housing transit, the
Governor declared that .e solutions o.
the two problems were interwoven and
that the Hylan administration. despite
it's policy Of obstruction and destruc
ton, could not delay the distribution
Of the congestcd population to the sub
urbs by unified transit system for a
single fare.
obstruction Hylan's Only Policy
The Governor reminded his hearers
that at the time of the creation Of the
Transit Commission the cry was set up
that it would establish an Scent fare
| He pointed out that it had been at
work a year and had laid it's plan on
the table, and that the Hylane admin
istration still continued to obstruct.
~ think the eight-cent fare myth has
been dissipated," continued the Gov
ernor, "and there was just as much
truth in that propaganda as in much
that you are likely to hear between
now and next November. You know
how acute the situation was growing.
We could have dallied with it another
year or still another, and it would have
still grown more acute, but there was
so pressing, involving as il did the
comfort, the happiness, the welfare of
these millions Of people and the future
development OF this great city, that r
did not think the Legislature or
the Governor had any right to stop to
play politics with that or to refrain
from discharging it's duty merely for
political expediency.
at is appalling when you stop to
think what will happen in this town if
some relief is not speedily obtained
Your existing facilities are more than
saturated, as you know, and the travel
is increasing every day at the rate of
1000 day. If you could begin to-
new lines it would be years, as you
know, before they could be put into
use. / am appalled, at what you will
have to suffer even if we could make
/ the most haste possible.
$50 it seemed to me that that was a
situation which did not admit of tenn
porizing and that it was necessary to
substitute action for talk. Now you
have had a year of this commission of
your own citizens. two of them Demo
Gratis. What have they done? They
certainly have not given you the Scent
fare which it was charged they were
created for, but they have been pro
ceeding, not by proclamation, but by
investigation. Instead of issuing harm
less fulminations attacking the Inter
ests" they have been investigating the
rights of the people and ascertaining
ali Of the facts. And they have been
doing it in open day, all of the cards
laid out face up, for every citizen OF
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