The San Francisco call., 1913-10-03

n !. REEKS IN
GRAFT, SAYS
SULzER
Governor Accuses Tammany
L0oterS in vitri0Iic I'm
peaChment Defense

ALBANY, N. Y, Oct 3-Governor
William Sulzer today outlined the
vitriolic arraignment that he ex-
poets to make in his defense before
the court of impeachment next week
He held up Tammany hall as an in
stitution OF loot and looters, whom
he charges with trying to cruelty
him because he sought to stop the
wholesale campaign Of theft that he
found in full blast
No such remarkable statement has
ever come from the lips of an Amer
lean official Sober, solemn and ear
nest Sulzer sat in his study and
talked with an absence of that ora
torical effect that usually character
ICES his utterances.
Before him sat Rev George ChaI.
mers Richmond, D. d.. of ST. John.
Episcopal church, Philadelphia, wht
had come. to ask the governor for q
message to the people.
The people want a message from
you," began the minister.
The governor replied:
The votes of the. people of this
state consecrated me to task that
had never before had placed before
me-. / felt the great solemnity of 1t
and T. decided then and there. to free
myself from the upholy, evil and sin
lister associations which had. for al
of my political life. surrounded me
Any man who has had Tammany con
nections has been in league with the
devil.
STATE FILLED WITH GRAFT
about every commission. and every
institution in this state is filled with
graft
u have appointed. commissions to
investigate the highways department,
the hospital department, the prison
department and other departments,
and everywhere we have touched the
air reeks of graft
They are talking of a possible com :
promise that you may make with your
foes" suggested the clergyman.
"Never" said the governor. AT the
very beginning Mr.. Murphy tried to
compromise with me"
Have you fully decided to go on
the witness stand?''
Most decidedly. Nothing can pre-
vent me from going on the stand and
telling everything that know il the
judges will give me, the opportunity
of this state-to the: men who are
paying the taxes-the enormity Of the
.plunderinEs that haye. been going on
under the Murphy gang"
ATTACKS MURPHY's MILLIONS
.T had no sooner become governor
and asserted my independence" con-
tinued Mr.. Sulzer; than they. began
to shadow me.
Even in my own house some of my
servants took letters addressed to me
and handed them over to men who
were employed at the capitol. could
not go out to walk without being
shadowed. If at any minute l had
been ready to capitulate ! could be
living on the luxury of the land. j
could have "a political future before
me.
Everything was offered to me If
/ would only go along and follow
the ordinary course of obedience to
Murphy. But l decided when I be-
came governor Of New York to
change my ways. had always
tried to be an honest man. They
worth probably $4,000 as the result
of life of toll. Murphy is worth
millions; where did he get them?
THE trouble is that these con-
tractors in politics who have been
stealing hundreds of thousands in
money from the people can not bear
to see the new order OF things. Their
motto is: Never go back on the or
ganization; il you do, we will stran-
gle you.'
They have been trying to strangle
me.
II have no fears as to the result /
am not worried for myself This is
the cause of righteousness and
truth