Fighting for the rights of our citizens, opposing by every means in our power the selfish interests which would exploit them, the present administration of the City of New York has fought continually against higher carfares, higher telephone, electric light and gas rates, and against every attempt of corporations or individuals to gouge the people. Enforcing economy, oposing waste and extravagance, this administration has not denied to the people of New York the necessities required for their welfare and for the growth of the city.

Lists Achievements of Hylan Regime

Here are some of the things which the present administration has done, but which it has been next to impossible to have treated fairly in the columns of most of the newspapers:

One hundred and ninety-four new schools built or under construction-- Greatest program of public school construction ever undertaken by any city.

Huge terminal markets under construction--Estimated saving to the people in food purchases of $150,000,000 a year.

Purer water, increasing the supply to a billion gallons a day; better police and fire protection; cleaner streets; improved health conditions--Contributing to New York City's conspicuous place among the safest and healthiest cities in the world.

New streets, roads, sewers, piers, parks, playgrounds and public buildings.

Constructed at the lowest possible cost, they are permanent investments of the utmost value.

Five-cent fare maintained--Saving of over $420,000,000 to the traveling public in the past seven years.

New subway system begun, to be owned and operated by the city.

Mayor's Words Garbled By Interests

These are specific examples of municipal accomplishments, but their achievement has meant the curtailment of profit and privilege for certain traction and utility groups as well as the newspapers owned, controlled, subsidized or amenable to them. Consequently, every statement of the mayor, no matter how buttressed with facts, has been distorted or garbled or ridiculed. But greater than the power of the newspapers and selfish corporate groups is the power of public opinion formed by a day-to-day observation of actual conditions and always dependable at the polls. This may be a consolation for the man who would enter public life but who dreads being misunderstood or misinterpreted.