Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-10-29
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POLITICS
SuLzER PRINTS A LETTER FROM
EX-SENATOR STILWELL, NOW IN
PRISON, AND STILLWELL REPu=
DATES IT, BELIEVING THAT He
WILL Be RELEASED.
SULzER IMPEACHMENT
PLANNED LONG AGO

New York, \. Y, Oct. 29.-The let
ter of convict in Sing Sing as given
out yesterday by William Sulzer, de-
posed governor, and present candidate
for the state assembly on the Pro
gressive ticket, was again today the
axis about which reyolved the heated
controversy of personality and an in
cident to New York's mayoralty cam
paign.
From IL cell in Sing Sing, eX-state
Senator Stephen J. Stilwell repudiat
ed the correctness of his written appli
cation for pardon as made public by
Sulzer. He was backed up by James
M Clancy, warden of the prison.
Standing by Stilwell, but denying that
he was attempting to shield Tammany,
Clancy promptly wrote out his resis-
nation and sent it to the state depart
ment of prisons.
Senator Stilweh refused to make a
confession last summer, so ex-Gover-
nor Sulzer was informed today, be-
cause the Tammany leaders had as
sured him that Sulzer would be re-
moved from office and then Stilwell
would be pardoned.
Mr.. Sulzer received this informa-
ton today in letter from the Rev. O..
r. Miller, of Albany. The letter says;
"One day the latter part of last June
called on Senator Stilwell in the
Tombs. Stilwell said he ought to
suueal on the Tammany senators.
some of whom he said had done worse
things than he. He insisted that he
knew much to tell on other Tammany
men. However, before | left, Senator
Stilwell said to me: oh, | shall not
sGueal--not yet. They are going to I'M
peach Sulzer and remove him from Of
fee and then the chief says | will be
pardoned He said that he had talked
with big Tammany men lately and
knew whereof he spoke.
"A day or two later | told Governor
Sulzer what Stilwell had said to me.
The governor spoke up emphatically:
Stilwell is guilty and deserves little
consideration he said"
A dozen subpoenas were issued at
the district attorneys Office late yes
terday calling, it was stated, for the
of men believed to have
of facts alleged in state
ments made by John A. Hennessy in
his campaign attacks on Edward e..
Mccall, the Tammany candidate for
mayor.
These men are said to have been
to Assistant District At
terney Clark by Hennessy graft inves-
tigator for Sulzer, while the latter was
governor. Henessy is now campaign
speaker for the fusion municipal
ticket headed by John Purroy Mitchell
for mayor. Henessy, as well as Sui
ger, who is a progressive candidate
for the assembly, has made charges
against Tammany of such character
that District Attorney Whitman deem
ed them worthy Of Investigation. Hen
messy was the first to be examined in
this inquiry. He did not complete his
story at his consultation with Mr..
Clark and will be examined further.
The outcome of Hennessy's state
ments was request by the prosecu-
tor to City Magistrate McAdoo to be-
gin John Doe' proceedings on Thurs
day at the conclusion of which Mag
istrate McAdoo will submit report
from which the prosecutor will de-
termine whether he shall submit the
matter to the grand jury.
John A. Hennessy, personal graft
for former Governor
Sulzer, read excerpts from his copy of
the interview he had in Sing Sing pris-
Oh with former Senator Stephen j.
who is serving a sentence
there for bribery. That he did not
make disclosures he had promised was
due he said, to a statement accredited
to Stilwell today that this interview
was confidential.
Hennessy began by explaining that
he went to see Stilwell with propo-
sition from Sulzer,, then governor,
that Stilwell would be given an un-
pardon if he would turn
his knowledge of conditions at AL
bany to public account by making his
disclosures to District Attorney Whit
man. These terms Stilwell refused,
Hennessy declared. saying he was
afraid of Whitman. Hennessy quoted
Stilwell as saying:
81 am afraid that if | ever went
down there and gave this evidence
that Whitman would return me to
Sing Sing while he was trying the
case. If | ever came back | would
be murdered and | would rather stay
here for twenty-five years than go out
and tell the truth and then come
back"
Hennessy said Stilwell demanded
an unconditional pardon, land then
he said to me, Now l have told you
The name of one senator and | have
told you the name of the other fellow
and l have told you that I have the
goods on them and that there is no
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