New-York tribune., 1922-10-31

| the Derocratic candidate makes. se
did Iimi the power to obstruct by pro-
| viding that after ample opportunity
| had bee, afforded the city administra-
| tion to cooperate. II nothing but OBJ
| structier were offered, the commits
| sion coald go ahead regardless of that
| obstruction. We provided for the rule
| which applied when played baseball
three strikes and out. We provided for
three opportunities for the city admin
| istration to Cooperate.
/ "Until the cxigencies of the cam
paign appeared to demand something
else there was evidence Of a growing
| disposition to cooperate, and the
Mayor himself announced that he and
| the Transit Commission were not far
apart.
1 "You have had before you the work
| OF the Transit Commission for a year
and sir months. ] cannot discuss that
work at length tonight. wish to
say that it Is not my work. 1t IL the
work Of the citizens of your town. The
only thing that have done and the
| only thing I propose, il continued in
office, to do, is to support that work
SO long as it is done in its present
fashion, by all Of the power and all of
the weight and all of the authority Of
the State Of New York. And it Is
necessary to have that support, TO have
anything effective done, as you have
already had an object lesson.
"The traction interests may have
been hailed TO court by the Mayor and
his Corporation Counsel, and they may
have been daily denounced, but nothing
worse than abuse was Inflicted upon
them," added the GoAernor. "The Tran
sit Commission, ON the other hand, has
improved the service, refused to in
crease the fare, squeezed the water
from the Interborough stock and insist
ed upon the readjustment of the rela-
tionship between the Interborough and
the Manhattan Elevated Company.
Promises Universal Scent Fare
'Weighing my words, am now pre-
pared definitely and unequivocably,
realizing fully the difficulties that may
still be met with from obstruction to
re-establish the fve-cent fare and to
make it universal five-cent fare, and
by universal five-cent fares mean tho
chance to ride from any point in this
great city to any other point in this
great city for single fare OF five
CENTS" ne concluded.
Governor Miller ossailed his onpo-
nent on the Port Authority Issue be-
cause Mr.. Smith has recently modi-
fed his support OF the plan by sub
scribipg to the Democratic. plank call,
ing for two representatives. of the
city on The commission. First, how
ever, he scored the Democratic candi-
date for not having done anything to-
ward advancing the project Willie in
office, pointing OUT thai The initial de-
lay in inaugurating the protect was not
due to the opposition of the Repub~
lican Legislature, as claimed by Mr..
Smith. but TO the veto of the Governor
OF New Jersey. which arose from the
fact that New York was not yet ready
to enter the project.
~ did not prepare that plan. It
was left entirely, SO far as the State
of New York was concerned, to the
commission composed of your own
citizens, The Democratic candidate
did have hand in the preparation Of
that plan, because l had appointed
him member Of the commission. 1t
was his plan. He was for the plan
then because he strongly advocated
1t when 1t wss presented to the Legis-
plan now.
Mayors Plan Ridiculed
another plan was submitted by the
city administration, radically differ
ent from the plan of the Port Au-
thority. That plan was urged upon
the Legislature by the Mayor of the
city, and | am told was ridiculed and
torn to pieces by the present Demo
cratic candidate for Governor.
"If the proposition for which he
now stands had been embodied in the
compact year ago the Inevitable re-