Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1928, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C, TUESDAY. OCIOBER 2. 1928. TEXT OF GOV. SMITH’S SPEECH . 4 BEPORE DIMOCRATIC CONVENTION 7o the Bditor of The Big: ROCHESTER, N.' Y. Cctober ‘The specch delivere@ by Gov, Emll to the Democratic Stete '~emvention ‘here last night as reported by sten~zraphers follows: | Felliow Citizens: L There is something wrong. somsthing | wrong. There has been 2 crossing of | ‘the wires or a missing of signals. Wa-n | the Congressmen infroduced the chief- tain the hand played “The Chocolat~ | Soldier.” «(Leughter) (the band then | played), as the man said at | some early hour {liis morning we cam-~ across the border intn th: State of New after our \/-stern teuyr. T from me, I never t2d such a tis my life. (Laughter) Enjoyed Western Triv. | T enjoyed every minute of i': T todk | personal pleasure and personal dslight | in looking into the ccuntenances of so many fellow oricdn aitizens and w! they were on the far Morth- | western_plains or in the rentral part of the West they just look ke eur own neighbors here in New York. I report a little bit short on sieep ] zrfi Western rmmdsn and the; ; noeking e, wjn V. s haf, past 8 a4 oiclock ‘with th miliar shout, “Come out here, Al, 2nd | gife us a lock at you.” (Laughter and! Sipisise) | am all even on meals. (Laushter.) | ¥ brought back en elegant black and white glarlequin Gtsat pape. .He is| dopn aboard the v;fi walting for me. { i Lost T Derbles. lost two brown derbies. (Laughter.) | Outside of that there are na casualti=s | to} report. X i Here we are tonight in ths Demo- | tic State convention, the supreme | y of the party in the State of New | Yaork, aidembled for .the ncmination of | the State_ticket. At midnight on the | 31st of December I leave the em- ploy of the Staté after a period punc- tured here and there by intervals of only 8 few years at a time, going back | over a quarter of a century. | in one of my speeches in the West I spoke about party responsibility and 1) made my mind up that when 1 came before the State convention as a duty to’ the iparty and to the State, there wduld be no subject so fitting for me to address, it on tonight as the subject of pa¥ty responsibility. (Applause.) { Hvlding Parties Responsible, Now unless we are going to hold the parties accoyntable, unless we are going to. fix responsibility on them, we might as;well stop going through this idle and senseless and useless performance of meeting in convention and making wiitten promises in the form of plat- fofm pledges. We might as well wipe o\é the party lines, get away from regu- lagion of political parties by the State itglf, and make it a free for all and led everybody run for governor: he party who gets the greatest num- of vots will be elected. f we are going to have the party mitem of government, if we are going tokave organized political parties 1egu- I by the State itself by statute, we compelled, if that system is to bs sufcessful. to hold the party to strict ought’ 3 back over the record. ‘The Republican party in convention assembled about three or four days ago adopted a platform thal i, as means. ingless a5 &m_hfl%i ever faw in my life. (Laughter and applause.) Personally, after looking at it, T could ft more fort from s Chiness undry nds of Fish Market. : o v e T 6 ik g, ve go up, mdm ; would im: you were in the ton. Market in the dead of ‘Winter, %\c up a-fish. (Laughter ht is to com- rd and can rec- trate, if t, surely .campaign {5 over, that not a tructive achievement that ing copied throughout onwealths of the country. In their pldtform this vear they take thc credit for it. (Laughter.) } : Cites Opposition. 3 In the platform of two years ago they|! took thefcredit for it. And history in« dicates that from 1920 up to the time that it yas finally submitted, they op-{ posed it ot only in the Legislature, but they oppbséd it as a party at the polis In 1931 it could have bcen accom- plished, four years eariier than the pen- ple got the bensAit of it. And what hap- pened? fhe new chairmen of the Re- publican iState committee, the Speaker of the Afsembly, after it had passed the Senate, $hrew it into the wastebaskot. He won't deny that, hs can't deny it. 1t is histpry. “ 1f you fvant confirmption of the elate ment that it was opposed by the Re. publican party es a party, look at the returns the various counties of the | k et Livingston foun.y, the | e United Bt-tes Senator laad- | , and you will | provision for t' | that year by over 5,000 plu- (&pplavss.) How ciick they would: b» ready to| 8pply this test of my sincepity if oneg of | those ampndments had béen ‘beaten on | Oliver stupet. (Hhugnter.) Afier the amef§iment wes adopted it was necesgary to int a committee 1o bring the!? statute v of the Btate, the department law offghe State, into con- formity with the ccnstitution. You all | Know whom the Republi~ans desived for | chairmon;of that committe: i TR ohien: we ok B o1l wou what it fs. T cou'd claim credit Yor all this for th2 D-mmcratic party, bu’. yeur platform does that, and you iy . that # wes the Democrats that fonoht for all this. What 1 em trying to esiablish t: nizht is that if th> Mepublian poriy, as ronorted in tive Senat> and Assembly, had their way about it. you would not have a s'ngle one of these govern- mental reforms. D> you know what the cry down ther> was? “Wait another ycar. The feliow ~n the sacend floor will be out of here noxt year—wait. (Leughier and| =) “Let us g> along another | a chanes; he cannot Ropublicans Declered Fooled. Put the peeple of the State of New | York kind of fooled cur Republican frien4s (aughter) sand kept s»nding | ms back, and the result is that all these | reforms: came by what we may call easy stages. If you will look at the year in which they passsd. you will find it was always an even numbered years, be- cause that was the year they were going out to the people: that wis the year | they wanted to make the record as clean as they were eble to make it: not 57 very clean, but as clean as they were adie ‘to make it. (Laughter and ap- plause.) 1t is a matter of fact that the Re- publican forces in ths State, through their organization in the varjous coun- ti=s, fought at the polls the executive budget. and Senator Knight, the presi- | dent pro tem. of the Senate, even | gfoke against it in-th> campaign. Now, do not let the so-called high- toned Republicans tell you that they have no, rasponsibility for these lraders in Albany. . There is no way of ever fixing th> responsibility unless you fix | i% upon th= elerted officials that carry | out what they believe to be the party | policy. Tssues Declared Opposed. .Take the bond issue. They bitterly fought the issue f6r public improve- ments and the issue for the elimination | of grade crossings. They came out in | the open against the public improve- ments bond issue. and I debated it in the city of Buffalo with Congressman Mills and in Tammany Hall with former Gov. Miller, but they opposed it at the polls, and the vote in the counties indi- cated it. ! ‘They also opposed at the polls the bond issue for the grade crossings elim- ination. And what reason do you think they gave for keeping quiet about it? I found it out down in Westchester County,, epeaking at Briarcliif Lodge. I found out what was the matter. A prominent Republican leader of Westchester County said to one of our women, our Democratic women, °‘Of | course, we don't like to go right out against the grade crossing.’ She said, ‘Why not?’ “Well,” he says. *4f there was a great railroad accident 19 days or a week be- fore election and a dozen cr two dozen people were killed, look at what Smith would say:ebout it.” Not only did they oppose the grade-crossing elimination, but they did it in a cowardly way. Takes Up Water Power. Let us take water power. W= have had 10 years of senseless, swmpid oppo- sition to the development of thz State’s tat “water-power resources. About that there can be no Tmuon. I presented a Gefinite plan. I sim- ply fwu;ti)ed a waterg‘wwer ;\gm‘o;l‘!ykset up for the purpcse of reps ok to the ugsxac&“n a comprehensive scheme for ths development of all our great water power, and the Republican an- swer to it was, “No, we propose to leass them tJ private individuals so that. thsre may e private profit and private gain.” W2ii till I read the water-power plank of this years plaiform and if there is anybody in this hall with a sense of humor, they will find in this| something almost as good as iislening to Moran and Mark. (Laughter). J “Water power: We adhere to the.pol- icy of the Republicen party as-Bere- tofore declared in its p'atform. ~W: - pes: th> sale or alicust cf»-'ms State's interest in its water power re- | sources. . We favor thossisound poliziss in the development of water power which will adequately protect the econ- sumer, ‘We favor the development of such rescurees under striet superv:sion and regulation by law and’ under fuil ssfeguards’ of the Constitfition.” Déclared Meaningless. ... - Who can make anything cut of that? (Laughter).. That do'usnflt mean u! single thing. What_they . really. did favor was'a 50-year jeass; and.in month . of Dzcember, 1926, bef went out of power {hey Ware Dated o eliver a S0-yiAreass b0 Am A by them 4 n than th» Republican imself, th> Attorney Gen- cral, Ottiiger. (Applays®). H> was a member of the Watar Power Commis- sion by viriue .of -his office- 25 af °y genorgl. |, Hé éxamined ‘(he egse. Ha said h;tzh(h ‘¢lughter : and m,t 4 they; queght' to go g1 Wi . B A Mind you, they were {n. full'eon‘rol J. didn’t havs & thing dp-with it—of- ficially. Al T had to do ‘was sit’in the capitol and dare: thepyito do it. (Laughter and applause). Avd at ths Jast moment they weakened. (Laughta and applauss). Now, they were ci’her right or they were wrong. If they wars right, they should have driven s'raight through. (Lapghter and applause). And if they wore wreng, they shouid never hav: staried it And no attorney general .any of this, “meenest tricks that the polifies of this ter of caftle for tubsrzulcsss, ARRIVAL OF GOV. SMTTH AT ROCHESTER said. when all the boarders were roated | a4 dinner.at ‘night. putting his head out | through the little p'ac> where they usad | 10 ‘hand out the food, remember, “Thes> | that has puddin' can't have pie.” | (Laughter.). For as long back as I am able to re- D ©h, how they love him in ) (Laughter.) If 'the farmer couid just paraphrass Jimmy: Walker's celebrated melody and | sing back to them, “Will You Love Me in February, March and April As You Do in Ocicber?” (Laught-r.) The one thing that tne agricultural interests of this State were intzrested in lest Winter in Albany was an approvria- tion to pay for the breaking down of th> Federal eensus from countis into town- | ships on questions of egricultural pro- | duction. That is sll th> interest th: had—$25,000. And th> Republica party, in the interest of economy, in ths | inter-st of pro‘ecting th~ poor taxpayer, in a budget of $245070,000 saved that | 25 and let the farmer go without the | census. (Laughier and applauss.) Cne of th> great qu-stioms in this State, not only for the farmer but for | people g-neraily, is th= slaughter of tubereuler cattle. The lest Repub'ican administration made np epprrpriation for indemnities to the owners of slaugh- tered cattle, eithough the attorn~y gen- era] rendersd an cpinion that th> De- partment of Farms and Markots under the law must prozesd with th> slaughter. Tells of Large Appropriatiens, Cons>quently, when th> Democratic administration ceme in en the 1st of January, 1923, not cnly h2d w» our own progrem ehead of us, but we had what was left from ths two yeors previous. Accordingly in six years, w2 apnroprizted $29,000.000 as indemnities to th» own-rs of slaughtered cattle. Republican neglect plus our z-al to do a gnod, clean joh in th> matter of cleang up th> ‘cattl> horés of the St meant that thos> twenty millions were ‘added to th» ex- gavpganx of th2’pres=sit administra- ien. i A You do not hear any of th» men who ar: connected in ,A'b.-nvdmking ebout 'd ‘not keep a straight face! (. -snmehpod.v writes thess - Ahe _spaker’s bureau gets together and th= orafors ars turned locs= around ths Btate. But th» men who arz on the ingide do not sprak sheul it becaus> they ape afraid that they mav_ b “confronted with their fesponsibility if anything is wrong. Branded “Tcancs’ ‘Trick. Education: Th» .Resubiicah part bors's’ ebrut its W el - %€ (to educa- tion, and in 1924’ they tried.0me of the State has ever known, wh=n the s'ate- ment was put out that ths govarnor was endsavering to got coptrol of the Department of Bdueation. ‘Tt was cxs bosed in _en-ediiorial in. th> Sracus: Herald, that, was afi*ward or'nisd in cye? newszapsr in ths Stat> es’ @ paidad, ' * 4 Y : What nre.the: focts?. “Talk about tha increase in. Governmepi:.yes. . You ‘e*n charge it to thres activit’es: the slaugh- 5, cdnca- ton and {he road sysiem of ths State. (Applause). S , Here are the fsets. In 1913 the emeunt “contributad < by, - th> State of Now York to the variaus'soiool Incaities for teachers' salapes was $7.033,555. Last year it was $70.000,000. (Applause). Now, let us s2e whar» th's cam fre Do not let th> Reoublican party hav the nerve and th> brass to cla’m credit for (h's_appropriation for pubicaiion, protecting ths pecple’s right to thess grent ‘Waterspowar res should h'!" advised them as he did. (Ap- plausc). H's at “Master Mind.” Wall, who.is, the chi’f oppsnent, who ‘s the master mind, who sat at th: “witchboard end pluggsd in *h> npum- bers against it for 10 years? The new chairman cf the Republican Siate ¢ d, -the | e man | 7Clzims on Hus! They Suggested M. men that!tortured ii to do that straggled it. | sclected ex-Gov. Y ) | I am taking v 7 E gt it belongd to laus Now, Iét jus constructive reform. Lost elsction nine amgndmen‘s to th> eansiftaiton were offered to th~ p2ona of thn & of New York. With telligences thoy accer: hem feoidd: Liy» four-year; term bacauss t a4’ ssaveved that the iRenublizcn na to put sgmething over by law. lause.) . And they'b-a! What did th> Lonub'-ans.then €97 ‘They went b: i 11 1923 291 In deflance ¢f th~ir own d of public 'saniiy t h Etate they In eil of New Yorx: “ our way or (Ap- b n2 knows, any+ Inowy, thit, ths 3 st | edvanced step ernmental machir during our by, 19) Siats, from 07> g y2ing’ AL, b they stood egainst it, Amendm> ‘What happened commission put th2 deparimenis; gether under the “constituiion, wrote a report thaf th~ ranrgani n could not’ PossTBly Ak witivout the executive budget,” and 17" MapH0'd himself, who fought an1 crgn2d against 1t, actually signed the report declering that the only way you could 72 it was by amendment to the constitution Now, I have a reegon for sresking Q0 way I am spaaking tonient. I wil l" thjsct ef Every- i copmittee, who left a lucritive cffice in"the Northeastern Powe: Co. to bs- ceme chairman cf the neruhnmn S'ate committ; You “can bid good-by to any Siatc devlepment of wat: in. th> eveni of . Repubinan. su~e They will take it o5 2 mandate fror th 1 it for 50 years to a 1 2m gaing i0 step fror this sube | iezt that T am only gaing to glots over, | berauss it would faks an hour for ma 0 exp'ain it and that is ths ganeral the §'2te's finan-es. I em| {#inz 1o dispcss of the. argument of | {ths Republican commit'es by their cwn B .. I am not going to sy a cut ik T am gng to pu’ the i€me ond 196 the plat. Hers §5 ths way works; § * Tinances. 1 “Uner the hesaing of St |try £19 faw't wi b the § Nz this pla was write ten in one place and ih: other plank 1 am goinz to read was wriilen e'ss. w; hey novar compared th-m piatform ih2y claim T ushing the inzemy 37 of 300« M ptver; and ¥ |the crodi” ond ¢Sman? tha’ na”gve51. {3 ! 3 the df Stale tax from'2Y; Th-y sr~ oo, (Apriauge) Thors h: Fre taxaiion. “Vs, ihs Rapulyisan cenvention oss-mb's | 1~ ereeit for r { overburd v yer of the Stats, y said i the les® ert. {nct do that in ! you get dowa | (Anpl b~ 19| ). l2gairg because T not only racemmended it, but h>4 to fight for it. (App'aus2.) Did yon cver h-ar cf ths Frisdsam biil th~t ceme from ths so-called Fried- sam Commi in New York? Thay wera rejected by th> Republicen logis- | latur;—turned dovn. And- th>n the tried to play a littl> smart trick. ' Anpropriation De-lared \Vithheld. They withheld th> approp thon in ths letur 5 the sclorics of the teachers in York after r~fusing to make the monay aveilab'e. The sthoal teache a nit Logis- dar in- 1 problem? | that | it eight | ht, to give | s2ctions in ! n-1 hen-- | r°n in the 1 cculd get no Republizan it i W» have bee A'bany. I have reccmmend times. Thora it is. T have sou th» children in th~ countr ths State th> some edu fit that we give to th» chil it hnve a situation IE\ this Cta‘e in clti~s, alihough we end a number of largs | net anv deub’ in my | the epro-tuni a batter n for ths venns hes d of prople o th? farms & This rural s*hool quection has been ! itatsd for the lost 12 vears. but! . and_ths Tomubtican thora | — 1 frisnd of i farm- 7, thr hing about it. | Padlis 12:1th Predls . ! tha russyom of thepublic hoatth. | ct iaifit fcl'bvou o cbneeive st doing | 2 haadih; ! Take Ty 7hody Y that? | | that they have don® cv ¢ | conduct fathnt it of tting on ths back. The labor plank this vear claims credit for every thing, even for ths warkers’ compensa; tion act that was signed by Martin Glynn. The real fact of th> matter is y human thing they could to cripple the labor depar.- ment, to reduce its efficiency and to retard the operation of the workmen's compensation division. In 1925 ihe first thing that came from the Senate was an investigating committos headed by Senator Whitley of Roci er. He went Gown to New Yori and made a searching investigation. He came back with the.report and said that it was ebsolutely necessary if this commission was going to function 100 per cent that there be two more indusirial commis- sionors and four or fiva more referees. Why? Becous» they amended the, workmon’s compensation act to cut down. th2, waiting potiod aficr azels dent bafore cempenszidon ecmmonaed. This cdded over 300009 now cbas ta ba considored happeried? Why, encz end rather then let the: Demo- cratiz gavernor h2ve th2 cppoinim-n’ of two prople they wovld sccner let | the workingman wait ano'her year. (Ap- plause.) Question of Laber. Every two years in the off-year thers is 2n attack med= upon th> labor do- mariment. In 1923 they uscd an organ- ization of business men and I immedi- ately’ constitutsd myss!f a Morelend <commissioner undor the executive law and s-nt for eil th> business m-n 2nd said, “What do you know about it?"and not ene of thera knew anything absut . (Laughter snd epplauss.) And when we got ol finirhed. not ons of them hed a werd of complaint fo mak~ egainst the oncration of th- tabor department. They serted it right off the b ginning of this year. Assembiyman Corncar from Jefferson County said that there was graft and rrookedness 1n the Department’ of Labor. Just lik» that. I sienpad right on him 2nd apnointed Prof. Lindsay Rogers of Columbia University a More- ‘and commissioner under the exscutive law, and the minute his commission was sgned he sont a man up with a «=uhno~ra and he put it in th> assem- blyman’s hanés °nd seid, “Coms down here and make that good.” And when (h> 2ss»mblymen came downstairs he said, “The newspaper men did not properly revort what I said.” (Laughter and epplause.) He rrawied out of it. them shut up eiter that because that w2s a warning. (Laughler end ap- piauss.) Taking the 48-hour law. Just look a the s-1evlass batile that was made azainst that for eight years, And when they finally did vass it thoy worded it in such a wey that instead of boing a £8-hour law it is 4915 hy “But why battle thece thinws? -Why keen. putting them off and puttiny them off .and puiting them off? Must no adfiim follyw the party that sa condpels 452002 Is it a wis» thing for 2 pepnls of ‘this State to put the stamp of an- proval upon th» political party that is responsible for that kind of a recérd? That is the big euestion. That is what th> psovl> of this State Fave pot to thint 2bout this Fall. Look out about the Jetter of recommendation that you give them. Be very carcful. If that record can be ok.'d by the clectorate of this State, it will bs the end f any constructive refoerm during probably the lifetime of a maiarity of the peopl> that are in this hall tonizht. If 2 cight vears of that kind of toward ‘the State. tha sov- creignty is goine ints the ballat box and net them on th2 back ani sav, * Wan dome. my gond and nobl~ sarvant: well done”—if you.are g6ing to do that look out for what the fiiture has in store. Child welfare. There is great credit for this in the platform. W2 have hoards | of child welfare only in sush counties where there is a sirong lacal sentiment for their ercation. The one thing ths would make every county creats them | would b» a Stats subsidy, so that th~ county that is not suMiently interesta { in caring for o=pan children to sef un a commission ef ifs own weuld find th have to pay for the other cammissio: ihat are creatd. This is t1s auie taem com= 10y the ten *t conld you v that? ITot a chance— | and na reasen azpl The Stata = When T suggesi=d firs eommiasion, ‘Senater Knight ot the floor of the Senat- an said, is a Soclalist.” (Ianght Well, that wes in Jan month of Ma » beea to hear fiom ‘ thm (e ponle g Mg eities, he felt a littl> differantly n Bui un- 21y the hall that they relained was the carburctor. Thoy mac me a £ v rocd autymobil» called a Stats Commission, bui befors they veved it thay removed tha carburate: and (! in7 plan vas the Stale land ban‘. 08z vas. the thing that was to cdues 2 -moeney, hat they don ‘That they held teo J.l:rllllsll“.y’l'l!c ‘rest of it they gave us. Tut they dare not L4l dawn to Naw Yo or for that magter into any city in the Siat ni”h‘;m 1{, un-“ ((c }n'\d ask for a sin- ~1* bit of credit {or it, b2-ause the; not d-serve it. (Awpl Ve Takes Un b, WA eema ta the sufe 2 that is nizr end decr (o ms, and thet i3 (he “ibj=ct of cur p 1 ink (hs s'ory ef s»iting up i a2 Vi cnl7 whon thers 8, o » ¢l publs epicn % thefy hal they wers unchle to | An- i the first pagt they i rondemn {he rkiravagance (ughi-r) Yeu cannot have IA."‘l:r €14 men vho 1-n ths b heuse down in Fazgockauey years g Smiib. both | e | Oh, €27 twd yeors, (hof proizssion | of Jove ond, devstion for th: laboring | man! te, love him in Nctober v amieved yar, R cel 2 in then for Iwshare i w2y Gavalonm Yok eonsiitu 5 ~5 envhody weuld weont Pr ¥ were spre2d cut all aver. the. Siate, un- er nsrs here and undsr trus ve, and everybody in th Legislature scrambled eround trying t: Go th2 h=s% the d t: e'ions fer the 25 cf foy cussos £t up a tale council of perks to supervise ap- And the rest: of | A carburaior in the Siate house- ' -1 The propriations and repair and mainte- nance work throughout tha whole sys: [tem. Tn 1024 there wes submitted to the people a referendum for $15,000,000 for parks and parkways. In 1923 and 11924 there was appropriated each year | $1,000000 for the purchase of park- ways direct from current revenue. The $15.000,000 was a bond issu>. Evervthing went along swimmingly. You never heard anything from the Alkegheny Park region; there was no cemplaint in the Finger Lakes section; | there was nothing as to Westchester |County: thcre was nothing up in Erie, or up at Niagara Falls. nor in the Ad- irondacks, nor in th> Catskill prescrves. Everything was going along nicely—- until when? Until th> Long Island park commissien went down and put its eye cn n piece of proveriy that could be | purzhased for $250,000 called the Taylor cstate. i Mebady knotw that propsrty could be | bougitt for that price until T went in to | buy it: and just as soon as they did a |7roup of voung, rclfish millionaires | made un th=ir minds to g~t ii. an they | “2Ik24 the owners out, of 'solling it to the Binte. rnd said they. would give | 5250,000 for it. Opnos»s Purchase. 1 said: “No, you will not ¢n anything | ~f th~ Kind, Facauss ws will take it i'uv::v frem yeu by the right ol cminent icmain.’ Ard down at th» county fair in Dutchess County, in the city of Pough- -onsie, T signed the paper in th» month of Sepiember. Then thers begen liti- 7ation, fought all the way to the Court of Aopea's. Th2 Republican chairman of th> couniy commitlee of Suffolk Ceunty made up his mind that h» would defrat’ th2 Slate. I went down there to s~ him and told him: “Yeu will nevee beat the State of New York. We will b-a’ you into ths ground with all your mon: (App'ause.) Th> isu» was finally decjded only. in th~,;8pring of thiu;‘year by ths;Court of Avpoe's, and I had fhe pleasure “of Aroppinz in thers this Summer to see thousands of peeple with lunch baskets and with picnic hoxes gotting the ad- vanfage of one of the finest parks thore is today on Long Island. (Applause.) Let me tell you how far ths Repub- lican party went in its effort to defeat th= State. I say, to doefeat the State they post- pened for ene year—for one solid year— every. appropriation from th: bond is- sus that the people in this State or- derad in th popular election of over a million plurality—they ellowed cne solid year to pasy without approvriating e sinkle dollar in order to try.and de- feat ths taking of the Taylor estate in th= interest of a small handful cf men. (Anplanse.) And here is the young man who ‘en- aintered it ell, Mr. W. Kings'and Macy, who is the vice assistant chairman of the ‘Hrover-Curtis campaign committes, (Laughter and applause.) Angd thoy bad at all times the assist- ance 'of the attorney genera), now e_for governor. (An) Capital Girl ‘"Wouldn’t Eat body in the ne:zhborhood zy about Frances. She ivas rightest little thing says her mother, Mrs. Clark, 1111 Columbia he oked so healthy we d never have any trouble. 1 But ghe bezan to be constipated. It iy her fretful, cross and feverish 1th got to be terrible and ue was nearly always coated. nt to do anything but ‘treat and e hap, You ever s ". .Robe Read. “thought < as poer. an giving Frances Cali- rup. It brightencd her {up richt away. She began to eat heartily, her “stomach and bowels | started acting perfectly and soon | he. cemmen cight. { We've used Fig Syrup ever since at the fir t sign of an upset and it never fail3 to help her.” 1 California Fig Syrup is made frem forn‘p Fig € nna Leaves. Children 1l Sfruity toste, It regulat? smach and bowels and gives these crzans tene and steenaih s they continue to act normally, of their { own accord, t | cians' for over £ years | the aword *Californ | stores have it. ‘| continued development and extension He went out of his way to help the little up of millionaires. Without a bit of knowledge of it at all, he had the herve to stand up and declare that the Taylor estate, offered to the people of the State of New York for $250.000. was worth $400.000, and thercfore, in | his opinion, sufficient money was not | appropriated for it. and thet condem- nation . proceedings could not be legally taken. (Laughter and apnlause.) Let me give the credit where the credit belongs. Old man August Heck- scher—I called him up on the phone snd I said to him, “I want $250,000 from you to buy a park.” (Laughter and apniause.» I told him the story, just what hap- pened down there, and h2 said, “Let the park authorities come and see me.” They went down to see him, and he | said, “All right, it is down in the Em- pire Trust Co. whon you want it.” (Ap- ‘plause.) Reads Park Platform. Wait till I read the pletform plank | this year on parks, aftsr that perform- |ance. Listen to this for a minute. It {1s very short—six lines. They deal with it in six lines. All they say is: “For the promotion of the health and recreational interests of the people, we pledge the Republican party to the of our parks and parkways throughout the State.” Now, I challengs that plank, and I make the assertion now, and I will prove it that they are standing in the way now of the northern parkway sys- tem to link up the southern parkway with the Jones Beach Resecrvation and Hecksher Park. They are standing in the of it tonight, and I challenge Hewitt and Hutchison to come out and say that they are ready to sign the allotment of money. (Applause.) Dry Issue Brings Laughter. T looked very carefully through the platform, and I was looking for a plank that might say something about the eighteenth amenximent or the Vol- stead act. (Laughter,) But we are in a great national campaign (laughter) and they are quiet this year. “We might as well have a consistent record; we have double-derit, we have double-crossed, we have hedged and hedged, and one more vear won't do us very much harm. We will take a Senator in 2ny on one occasion snator, why does the Assembly go through the |empty performance of passing an en- forccment bill every year when they know the Senate is not going to pass it?” He said, “Well, you know, Al, you have now and then got to make a little | gesture for the ladies.” (Laughter and 1 applause.) “Stringing” People. Reducing this to ordinary parlance, “it is occasicnally necessary to string people.” (Laughter). They might at least have said, “We indorse the sentiment of the kepubli- can candidate for Presiden%, when he |said that the eightecnth amendment is a noble experiment.” (Laughter and applause). Now, let me call your attention to scmething else in th: plaiform. 1In 1926 the State took over th: town bridges that were formeérly the prop- erty of the townships where they ap- peared on trunk line highways. This year they say:-“Ths Repub'i- can Legislature first provided for the payment by the State of the cosi of construction of bridges on State high- ways. It has made ample provis.ons for this purposs. Thus far, the Demo- cratic administration has defgrred and delayed making- these appropriations effective.” That statement is absolutely and un- quelifiedly false. Here are the facts. Every cent of th> $3,000,000 made available in 1927 was expended in that year. Th2 work hss progressed within ths calendar year. That can be ascertained from the- records of the cffice of the State controller. This year 325 contracts have been let to date, and we havs actually cb'i- gated .ourselves even bayond the $3.- 000,000. that statement in thy Re- ‘publican platferm is. absolutely falss, nng ‘haflenge them to>mak: it-grod. T defy th*m ‘make it good. They | can't do it. (Applaus® Quotes Another “Fa'sc”. Statement. Here fs' another falss statement in the platform: Speaking about $300,000 tectural services. This State of New York suffered for 20 years from Re- publican. neglect of our Siale ins'itu- years. too cool. cost heat, to Buck Run Ce d R Coal Coi e o ol PGl Coul O Core Bros. & Co., Inc. Brook (Generai Coai Co. e oA ey tions 2nd necessary State M\‘dhfi»! And when we finally started to catch | up after the neglect, ebsolutely the of- fice of State architect was flood=d. For no one sing'e man, even if he were a super-man, could begin to take into his office the burden that thes> bond is put upon th> State architect. ‘What happeped? I called a meeling of the Butlding and Siigs Commission. The Building and Sites Commission has three Democrats .and four Republicans on it—the spoaker of ‘the Assembly, the president pro tempore of the Benace and chairman of the finance mittee, and the chairman of waysand means— | al g\lt this_ proposition up to them and they wabsolutely agreed to it Where did the €500,000 com~ from? It had to be appropriated by the Repub- lican Legislature. They s3t .own and agreed to it. | And now in the platform they talk about—wait till I see what they say about it, (Laughter.) Declared on Fee Basis. “More than a score of architeets out- | side of the State, mostly on a fee bha- sis——" Why, certainly on a fee basis~ Joe McGinnies knows that: so dees John Knight; so does Everly Hutchison. They sat down there and even talked the fee with me. I told them I thought 1 could npga] to some of the big drchi- tects in this State to work for theState for 4 ger cent, although the ordinary fee is 6 per cent, They all said, “If you can get it done for 4 per cent, go ahead. “We will pat up the money. We got it done for 4 per cent. And they know all about it ‘The whole platform plank and what young Mr. Davison, the spokesman of the millionaire blockade group for the Long Island pdrks, eaid about this is absolutely false and absolutely wrong. 1 defy the to make it gaod. I dare them to even try it. (Applause.) Now, who is to carry through these | 1ot th> record I kave laid out.beforg grest referms n th> gavernment of the Stat:—tha«party and that labored for: them. or the y that fought against the thing humanly passible to Nothing will bs more regretful ahm’!!"n 1 tonight gst the approval of the ptople of the bl;gc!t te in'ths Union) . It wauld: i effect ‘e saying fo po- litical parties, “Go ah°ad. it makes very little difference to the rank and file of the people whare vou stand on any- thing: take any kind of position you. like and when tha time comes by the force of numbers we will send you back Into office.” Refers to Senator. Moses. This is what it means: it means what Senator Moses of New Hampshire, the permanent chairman at the Kansas City convention, said: “Becausc there ‘are five miillioh more Republicans in this country than there are Democrats, we def; u. Bring en your candidate and we will bury him. We do not care whether his name is Brown, Jones, Rob- inson or Smith.” This is the rttitude of th> Republican party in this State: “We have these things; we do not believe in‘them: they interfere with membars of our party and we are in defiance of you: you hawe got to put us back because there are so many more Republicans than there ar Democrats.” _Now, it is up to the people. of the State. This record of progress can be continued. How? By the election of. the candidates that come out of this convention. Ir- : Treparable injury can come to the State by any other courss and I earnsstly hope and pray that the result on the 6th of November will be a vindication of progressive, Democratic policies and a repudiation of Republican, mm reactionary policics. (Long. and = ued applause.) at, fought for them, that ‘was approptiated for outside archi- |, - oo PLEASE SETOUT % Ten Thousand Milk Bottles— That's wkat it takes to contain one day’s supply of a city of only forty thousand people. Now milk bottles cost about five cents apiece, *So'if thcse botties are held out of circulation for only .-iwenty-four hours ‘it means five . hundred doliars added to that day’s. o3t of s2rving the milk. 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