The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19

thot and expression to the familiar
localities of Five Points and Hells
Kitchen, if this may be said without
undue offense to these localities"
After this adequate, concise and.yet
comprehensive description Of the
Tammanyite governor of New York,
Mr.. Hearst then cites his petty bour-
geois list of grievances against the
late national convention of the demo
cratic party. First he asserts that
Smith and McAdoo, after the long
struggle at the national convention,
met at a room in the Ritz Hotel,
which Hearst intimates was paid for
by the House of Morgan, and there
agreed upon John w. Davis as the
presidential candidate. Secondly he
raises the question of Governor
Smith having been put into the ma
tional convention in order to prevent
the nomination of a representative Of
the liberal (petty bourgeois) wing of
the party and eventually throw the
nomination to Morgan's lackey
With the customary hypocricy of
the intellectual leaders of the middle
class Hearst concludes his indictment
of Smith by asserting that he cannot
support such party while a brazen
instrument of the traction interests
sits in the governors chair and claims
to be the democratic leader of the
state"
Hearst refrained. of course, from
comparing the mental capacity of
Hylan with that of Smith. The stories
of the lives of these two political
pawns are not dissimilar-the differ
ence is that one of them is the plant
tool of the House of Morgan, while
the other serves Hearst, the political
spokesman in the East of the mer-
cenary middle class that is always
for sale to the highest bidder.
Smith closed the debate by crawl
ing even lower in the gutter in order
to appeal to his supporters, most of
whom are also dominated by the ultra
montana machine directed by the
agents of, the Pope aof Rome. and
whose training enables them to APP
preciate the governors style of pol
itical argument. Speaking of Hylan's
recent visit to Hearst's California
ranch, the governor said: while he
(Hearst) and the mayor (Hylan) were
out brushing flies off the cows grazing
on the thousand hills, they were both
engaged in shipping the bull back to
New York"
Smith Accepts Brides
THO not candidate for Office in
L this election, the role that Tam
many imposed upon Governor Smith
has revealed him as one of the low
est types Of political hireling. Most
politicians receive their pay from the
corporations they serve in indirect
ways, but the governor of New York
receives some of his direct. He main
tains an extravagant suite at the Bilt-
more Hotel, but does not pay one
penny rent The hotel is owned by
the Vanderbilt family, the New York
Central railroad and Armour & Co. of
the meat trust.
Under the domination of Hearst,
Mayor Hylan, during his seven
years in Office, has succeeded in build
ing up a rival machine to Tammany.
He has his own political favorities in
all the various boroughs who fatten
at the trough of political spoils. The
regular Tammanyites had been left
out in the cold and had been enduring
lean years since the second inaugural
of Hylan. Hence the fight in the
various burroughs was a veritible guer-
lila warfare between the ward-heeling
gangsters in both groups.
Labor Fakirs In Scramble
MOST Of the reactionary labor lead
A'A ers in the city and state are part
and parcel of the Tammany machine.
Thru this political machine the Off
ofo -