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SMITH WASTEFUL, “Jimmy.” IN OPENING FIGHT Notification Meeting. By Joseph S. Jordan. The campaign of the Republican State ticket opened last night with a bang. The occasion was the notif:en- \ tion of Gov, Nathan L. Miller, United flashing eyes: L. Donovan and the other candidates { of their nominations. Cooper Union | has held larger crowds, but rarely a more enttrusiastic one. The meeting was full of fireworks. . Miller has developed into some is fam not a reached into York City two years ago as a candi- date for the office of Chief Execu- tive. He took up the challenge that], had been laid down by the “enemy.” He said that the issue was clear-cut and sharply defined, and that it was up to the people to decide whether of two parts— the other of p re to be thelr record. they wish a continuance of the pies-| nave increased the cost of Govern- ent Government or a return to the) mont and manipulated the reports of Government which the State had tw] stato finances to conceal the extray- years Se0. agance and waste of their Administra - “T say at the outset,” he said, “that! tion, oficial in this campaign we shall stand on our record."’ This statement was met with the wildest applause, and the Governor got another great 'and]/the two yea: Buffalo man as platform says! appearance and he gabed down upon a forest of tiny flags waving in his honor, while men and women stood wildly cheering him. And when the evening was growing late and Senator Calder was intr duced the band played “We Won't Go Home Till Morning."’ did that nobody knew, for the Senator . r. didn’ k 1 peech. Challenges Comparison With] "pit the crowd went wild over Wid i * Donovan when the candidate for Democratic Record at Bili"’ Donovan when the candidate for Lieutenant Governor and Senator Wadsworth alluded to the ‘Colonel of the gallant 69th Regiment." They nearly tvok | 9) the roof off Cooper Union when Col Donovan, who looked every inch the soldier he was in France, said with as Introd “I want to make very clear at the beginning of the campaign one thins, States Senator Calder, Col. William! and I hope !t will not be necessary for me to refer to it again, and that soldier candidate," Gov. Miller went into figures that the millions, but crowd followed him as tensely as If it was listening to a tale from “Arablan Nights," and everybody knows how tedious figures can be, He srovaiener since he came to NeW! said the Democratic platform consists one of accusations omises, ‘Their accusations,” he continued, Their promises are to be judged by I propose to compare reports show the propriations for State Government in the two years of the Smith Admin- istration were $241,000,000, and United States Why they the ap- for of the Miller Adminis- when he followed with: tration, $285,000,000, an increase of “And at the outset I challenge any} 44,000,000. Gov. Miller has been a cun- one to name a single pledge that has|ning juggler of facts and financial Bot been redeemed, or a single prom- | statements, but the taxpayers’ burden ise that has not been performed.” | has not been lightened. By sham re- The band played “Hail to the|organiztion of State departments they Chief" when the Governor peel gel IBS Oi OE ae Mts OES IE Ad SAN Se Snellen be ana his have debased the civil service and in- 000. $145, 000,000, 000, almogt three times the entire cost of the State Government twenty years ago, and one and a half times its cost ten years ago—an Increase in two yoars one and a half times as much os the total increase in seven years, including the period of war inflatica.| to have helped to save some at least size one can question, There was an in- crease the second year of $21,000,000, schools wages, economy, Bn en mere ener Ter SE ec TER RT OTR CW a SIG TT creased the cost of county and munici-] not $206,000,000, as was requested, | increase of the personal exemption to] McGoldrick and Lehman, for the Re- 1 government.’ If that charge can be supported we are not entitled to the continued eh vents AE Zee, Coco lsworth tendered | confidence of the people. If the re-] we continued the reduction §2, Ser Or ae oy uchaif of the State | verse Is true, then those who prefer| more, notwithstanding the fact that ta] Personal Income Tax Law on the Convention, and the band played the| that charge are not entitled to a re-| the first year, with all of thelr ex-| books. “Star Spangled Banner’ for] turn of the people's confidence. travagant appropriation, the outgoing There is nothing in our record ’ “The Smith Administration came tn on Jan, 1, 1919, after the war, at the time when there was the greatest nee and opportunity to practice economy, | secutive decreases the cost of gov-|that has been pleasing to the special Gov, Miller appointed McGoldrick} that he made a good fight. Then an- of General Seséions was a candidate We had gone through a period of ex-] ernment, we took care of several mill-/interests, And I care not whether by| 4, succeed the late Justice Barstow |ther friend stepped up and intro. /as was John G, Saxe, ‘Tammany's well tension of government activity inc dent to the war. The State expendi-| capital expenditures, permanent im-Jister corporate interest of a kind tures in seven years, including tho war periods, and the per capita cost of government, had almost doubled in his State were to absorb the shock of inevitable} ‘"They say that the taxpayers’ bur~ hould not were to @ shook of ; ‘nay that the taxpayers’ bots living by. workiog the: wrorwers, invaluable work for New York as its deflation that me ees savings don as ot ve reduced the direct| "i am not condemning united or| legal representative at the capitol is reasonabl riced at they should be utilized| State taxes Inst year $12,000,000, We|#roup action. I am conderoning mere | When his name went before the Sen YP ment, but th: in the readjustment of industry. have redu them this year $16,000, “Now, what happened? Appro-| 000—$29,000,000 in all—and $17,000,000 priations in 1918 had reached $81,000,- In two years they jumped to] York. “It is true, there was one increase of considerable] the surplus Jumped to $43,000,09 that was legitimate and that no sed by th even that, in part, should have been absorbed out of savings or economies which were possible, and that only amounts to less than one-third of this enormous increase of $64,000,000 in two years. “Notwithstanding the campaign of 1920 was condycted upon the issue of that outgoing administra- tion after the election made up as their estimates of the expenditures needed for the State Government for the next year, not $145,000,000, but $206,000,000. “The Legislature kept its part, 1 signed the appropriation bill without and tested by our record.| tax, for the the two records. The Democratic| have still further increased it. But “*They'—meaning the Republicans dotting an And that appropriation aggregated, and increase of teachers’ That was legitimate, and we THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBUR 4, 1022. Se Mrie, Jack took one look at the um- dertaker and said quietly: “All right, I'll buy,’* some parting moments with up-State 5,000. 1 don't think that the electar- | publicane nominated them the night|congenial friends hajled Jack. ate of this State can be bought so] before, notwithstanding they were] ‘“Shorry, Jack,” he said, “but easily. But [ say that it was their] Democrat, they're goin’ turn you down to-mor- Administration that put the present ro" ‘What, again? demanded Jack, and he made his escape to a place nominate Justice William McCurdy | where he was met by a crowd of con. | might have had the nomination for the administration left $10,000,000 of de-| which holds out promjse to special in-| Marsh, because of their action in}Sdlers and introduced to one centle- | third place on the ticket for the Su- ficlencies for us to take care of, and|terests. There is nothing that has oc-| placing the two Democrats on their|™an who congratulated him on receiv. | preme Court if he desired it, But he that the second year, with two con-|curred at Albany the past two years} ticket, But Tammany didn't. ing 168 votes against 1,000, insisting |turned It down. Judge John J. Frescht not §$246,000,000, as was given the preceding year, but $135,000,000 only "The next year, the year just past, jeremiah 'T, Mahoney, who carried The Republicans had ho; that i the Democratic platform to Syracuse, Tammany would follow their lead and fons more for education, public health, | ‘special interests’ you mean the sin-| Weeks, breaking all precedent in| duced him to the county undertaker of [known In ’ y naming a Democrat in:a Republican provements, aggregating more thaa| which always wants to get a little the : an extra $12,000,009 In excess of what|hest of it at public expense, or| Administration, But Mr. McGoldrick had been appropriated under the pre-| whether you mean the kind of interest] }@@ been recommended by the Bar ‘i o ceding administration. represented by agitutors, by those} 488eclation and even the Republicans . It was imperative if wo ae who, styling themselves workers, get|®Tacefully admitted that he had ‘lone Good Furniture that ly the abuse of the power which such| ate he was unanimously indorsed, action affords. And I want to say that| Republican members vied with one no citizen or group of citizens of this} another in sounding his merits. State can say that the door of the| Justice Lehman's term of fourteen Executive Chamber at Albany has not] years expires this year and the Bar been open to them, or that any rea-| Association indorsed him for another soned appeal in support of any worthy] term. measure to promote the general wel fare has there fallen upon deaf or in-} At the time of the appointment attentive or unresponsive ears." of Marsh and McGoldrick it was cur- GOSSIP AND NEWS _|been reacnea between Gov, Miller nd BOTH SIDES OF THE ‘Tammany that in future similar com- POLITICAL, FENCE binations would be made by the major parties to keep the bench out of poli- tics. But no such agreement was reached. or $23,500,000 less, in all, and the sur-} The Democratic Judicial Conven- plus at the end of the year was]tion of the First Judicial District,! Secretary of State Lyons was 45 500,000) Death, Adusinistrati embracing Manhattan and the Bronx, tt ales he a payers apd “Under the Smith Administration tification in Cooper Union nig! they had to pass the personal income] Met last night in Tammany Hall and} ,, deponnaire as if there had been no tax. For the first time we had to|nominated for Justices of the Su-|conyention at Albany last week. Jack's have a personal income tax in this] preme Court William Harman Black, |a good loser, possessed of a keen sense State, They think they éan buy some| Justice Edward J. MeGoldrick and re- }of humor and an ever ready smile. votes by putting a plank in their] nominated Justice Irving Lehman, After the convention had adjourned platform in which they advocate the ‘This insures the election of Justices |a delegate who had been spending ofthat comes out of the City of New an Increase of $64,000,- “They say we have taken money from the surplu The surplus 01 June 80, 1920, the last full fiscal ye: of the preceding Administration, was $21,000,000, On June 80, 1921, the year of which six months was in this Administration, during which I claim to bo entirely fair, that] of that $10,000,000 that was not spent, Last year we took from the people pockets $13,000,000 less in direct taxes, and $10,500,000 less in indirect taxes, direct mill and a half support of the public We Connection With Any Omer Establishment in the World RTH THIRTY FOURTH STREET Tue PROOF of the pudding is quickly deter- mined by the eating, but the test of good furni- ture is arrived at slowly through the years. Go to a specialist—above all get good furniture, Selling nothing but good furniture and selling “Ll” or crossing a : H i i i i = } | Is PERHAPS the newest thought along lines of developing the Tailleur is the origination by this Shop of two- piece tailored suits with expressly designed blouses . to ! accompany them. It definitely establishes a renaissance of the vogue inspired by the Parisian version of the relaxed tailleur. Types informal to wear for a morning's shopping tour or modes that reach the dignity of a ‘‘costume elegante’” for a formal luncheon. i neh aa SECT tre er teen Matelasse blouse wit TAILORED SUITS Second Floor Pe ) BONWIT TELLER & CO. '} De Specially Shop of Originalons FIFTH AVENUE AT 38™ STREET, Uj Have Originated and Now Introduce rs A Most Interesting Collection of Models in — (@ TWO-PIECE TAILORED SUITS ' 9 WITH SEPARATE BLOUSES TO ACCOMPANY Two-Piece Tailored Suits in Box, Blouse or Tight Hip Silhouettes. Separate Blouses in New Treatments. ‘i SOME EXAMPLES AND SUGGESTIONS OF THE |: { BONWIT TELLER & CO, TWO-PIECE TAILLEUR i= AND BLOUSE TO ACCOMPANY. VE} DYNE SUIT with taupe fox collar, kit fox color. Flat Crepe de Chine blouse with Japanese embroidery. 14,50 | SU)T OF MARLEEN with large beaver fur collar. us Ribbon-run blouse of Crepe de Chine. 13.50 ; > SUIT OF VELDYNE, patch pockets and beaver fur collar. \ Crepe de Chine blouse embroidered in bullion thread. 19,75 "| SUIT OF FASHONA trimmed with beaver or squirrel fur. Cocoa blouse with Persian embroidery. 16,50 SUIT OF MATELASSE SILK with chinchilla rat fur. silk thread embroidery. 18.50 BLOUSES TO ACCOMPANY CARACUL CLOTH SUIT with black fox collar and cuffs. Jerkin blouse of silver or Persian metal cloth. 24.75 Main Floor a great quantity of that, a specialist like Flint & Horner can actually give you the greatest values in town. EXAMPLE: The solid mahogany writing desk is priced at $74—the Windsor side chair is $10.50. FLINT & HORNER CO., Inc. 20-26 West 36TH Street A few yards from Fifth Avenue Newer Frocks Unsurpassed in Smartness— Unequalled in Value at this Low Price | McCreery 65th Anniversary Sale ‘Imported “Suedette”™ Van Dyke Gauntlet 175 After this Sale 2.25 ‘The Van Dyke is a e — new. Fall. Gauntlet, pleasingly contrasted with pointed insets of a harmonizing shade at the cuff. [Main Floor] ‘Reg, App. For ADE NNN Imported Real Kid Strap Gauntlet 2% After this Sale, 3.75 As these gloves are of real imported kid of a éuperior quality, you will want to take ad- vantage of their extraordinarily low price now. Purchases under the new tariff will necessitate selling similar gloves for more than 3.75. re prea Flat Crepe Frock with Poiret Twill Frockina Chiffon Velvet Frock~ Draped Frock of Flat white collar and cuffs simple tailored style long sleeves and a sug- Crepe with two beaded and ribbon at waist with pancl, braid and gestion of drapery — ornaments at side, sash line ? 25.00 bone butions . 25.00 a blouse . 26,00 in back . ; 2 Crepe Silks—Chiffon Velvet—Poiret Twill (Main Floor) Silk, Velvet, and Duvetyn Hand Bags 375 After this Sale, 5.75 In the never-failingly popular pouch shape, these’ silk, velvet, and duvetyn hand bags pre- sent a value which i rarely duplicated. We have chosen fabrics of a sturdy quality and finely woven to guard against wear, while presenting an attractive appearance. (Main Floor) 79.50 Offering latest Autumn modes and advance Winter models at phenomenal values 5.00 More than a score of different models—four-of which are pictured above—all featured, despite their superior quality and smartness, at this one’ low price, 98.50 | 115.00 155.00 175.00 James MeCreery & Co. FIFTH AVENUE 84th STREET 165.00 A_not-to-be-equalled array of frocks for, every The Sunday ESTATE hace Fates hour of the day, in Paris inspired modes. MUST BE IN THE WORLD OFFICE BEFORE FRIDAY, © 4 Circulation Over 600,000 >