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Show LIVELY FIGHT IN NEW YORK. Ther is a row on in political circles cir-cles in New York which is of national interest. Gov, A E Smith is a Demo .crat, and the Hearst papers are classed as Democratic. Bui lately the governor gove-rnor and William R Hearst htve reached the parting of the ways, nd, as a result, Governor Smith has challenged chal-lenged his adversary to meet him on I the platform. One of the New York papers re- porting the exchange of uncomplimentary uncompli-mentary remarks Mjrs: The attack of Mr. Hearsl by Gov. Smith was not Wholly unexpected unex-pected Politicians have wondered why it did not come boforo Tho reason was political; certain leaders lead-ers In Tammany Hall bHng afraid of Mr. Hearst, and esp?ciall) afraid of his ability to do lim organization or-ganization harm through Iayoi rlylafl The fact that the governor gover-nor has now thrown down the gauntlet to the editor-politictan .s r carded as joining the issue between be-tween Hearst and Hylnn on I he one side and the governor and the Democratic party on the other. The Tammany allet;ifince is divided. di-vided. Gov. Smith's speech war made al the so-called breakfast given bv the Woman's Democratic League to the women workers of thp organization or-ganization There were 2000 or more women present, and one of them in the course of Gov. Smith a speech shouted, referring t-. Hearst: "He's ihr' mosl dangero'is man in the United States!" Adopting tactics that would be followed only by a "mean man," "a particularly low type of man," Gov. Smith charged Mr. Hears:, through his newspapers, bad a.-tacked a.-tacked him for iiot doing something some-thing which It was legally impossible impos-sible for him to do In connection with the milk question. The attack at-tack was made, he said, because he refused to be subservient to Mr Hearst He r?cnll..: that just a year ago the Hearst papers were being burned in towns around New York because of the doubt of Mr. Hearst's loyalty Hearst, he said, was loyal to no one not even to his own." oo |