The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-30
HYLAN|SM NEAR
END, WALLSTE|N
Tells G. P. men
Citizens Union Counsel Con
dennis Mayors School, Po-
lice and Other Policies.
ENTIRE RECORD IS BAD
New York Gets Noise and
Buster Instead of Serv-
ice, Speaker Says.

NEW YORK. May l2.-Speaking Be.
fore the Lenox Hill Republican Club
Leonard M. Wallstein, counsel for the
Citizens Union, vigorously attacked
the Hylan Administration. declaring
that personal politics, noise and blus-
ter had been substituted for efficiency
and service. THE end of Hylanism
appears to be soon in sight" declares
Mr.. Wallstein, who said In part:
Those who have kept themselves In
formed as to the conduct Of the City Gov
eminent under Mayor Hylan have long
ing more clearly, namely, that we are
afflicted with a city administration which
substitutes personal politics, noise ane
i H the e puSlie in.slisenee By ehes1
votion to the public interests, which st
tempts to cover it's stupidity, Its blunder-
nate vituperstion against ali but It's sat
elites, its sycophants and Its fayorites
and which trusts to public indifference ana
blindness s to keep p.t i, power Ss .o,,s
administration OF conscience, would BE-
needed at the earliest possible moment.
This appeal Mayor Hylan has persistently
Ing with malice aforethought for the dc.
liberate purpose Of turning II to his owr
political advantage. While the people
plead for more subways, Mayor Hyian
gives them nothing but endless, tiresome
screeds, repeating his parrot prattle about
the traction interests
Says Buses Give City Nothing
"His only action on the transit prob
lem has been unlawfully to grant privt-
leges for the operation Of buses to those
rake-on from the profits, while no single
cent is paid into the city treasury.
"The Police Department under Mayor
Hylan has been breeding place Of favor
ltism and inefiiciency. Policemen havs
been illegally reinstated as long as ten
years after their dismissal from the de-
voided such reinsatements, special acts to
validate them were log rolled through tbs
legislature. Even the commissioner has
followed the same tactics to obtain a spe-
conducting, with the assistance of one Of
his millionaire special deputies, a success
full stock speculation without payment Of
2 nickel, and to receiving from the same
Favored individuals in the department
have been promoted without warrant Of
law and other favorities have been granted
pensions, which were denied to those who
we're not in right with Enright. officers
shown to be allied with bootlegeers con,
tinue as members Of the force. Transfers
the Mayors Office. Nearly 200 police on
GERS spend their time playing music and
singing, while a host of others are as
signed to soft berths In 'rsided premises
mysteriously Withdrawn. Meantime, sensa-
tfonal and spectacular robberies and bur-
glaries IN bread daylight continue un-
abated. While the department every day
Commissioner apes the Mayor in vitupera-
ton Of those who dare TO say SO.
Qualified Educators Dropped
'"nhe children of the city are entitled to
the best educational advantages which
political administration Of the schools, an
adminastra ton which at the least provides
adequate facilities for the school popula-
ton; But Ways Mayer ayle5 has provided, in
with single exception, Of rubber stamp
mediocritfes. He drives qualified educa-
tors out Of the service, because they refuse
to prostitute their Official power to petty
partisan and patronage purposes. He pro.
notes those who have powerful political
conneetious or who are subservient, or
whom he hopes 30 make subservient.
He pledged a seat for every pupil but
early he Increased the part time school
population, and all these derelictions he
attempts to conceal under cover Of attacks
upon a mythical Rockefeller Gary educa-
tionsl crowd assisted by boasts about
the en- ormous sums OF money spent on the
schOols--net how wisely he has spent IL,
but how much SO prodigal have been
under the supervision Of Mayor Hylan's
personal physician, aided by an expensive
staa Of Mayor Hylan's personal appointeess
today is even higher than at the time IL
was revealed by the Lockwood COMMITTEES
that Mayor HylaB was signing Hettriek's
letters on the detted line.
"The cfty's finances, the Hylan Admin
lstration has brought to q sorry pass and
the taxpayers burden IL has aggravated
to the breaking point. The budget for
this year, which totals $S76000000, IL
n no mn ha
that for 1913, which was the last budget
prepared by the Mitchell Administration
Cites Rise In Tax Rate
Notwithstanding an increase Of over
s,cooSS0ooGo N t, tax yai sn te the "a.
1924 and In 1921 It was 2S2. Notwith-
| standing that the increased realty assess
ments since the beginning Of the Hylap
36OeOoOOo In the eitys borrowing capa.
city, In additions to the gains from re-
demptions during the same period, Mayor
Hylan Is agitsting for q constitutional
borrowing. While the nation and the
state are bending every effort to reduce
taxation, Mayor Hylan spends his time
load Of city taxes-his latest plan invoiv-
Ing an increased cost Of $15,0O0,O00 per
year for interest and amortization, not
outstanding Che fact that the tax cost
before.
"Daily the results OF such maladminis.
tration grow more serious. The effects
Of It viii remain with us for years to
| come. Mayor Hylan rode into once on
a campaign OF vicious misrepresenta tion
| and abuse. The same devices have kept
him In once. At length, however, the
people, whom he processes TO serve, but
| whose needs he shsmelessiy exploits to
their Increasing discomfort and cost, are
| seeing through bis game. The end Of