The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-08
|IIEs ALL BLAME. B!AM!
FROM GOVERNOR
81, sarecky Assumes Re
a naonsibility for Every Act
Charged Against
Sulzer.
/ LOYAL TO HIS CHIEF
81. il Highly Nervous Condition az
impeachment Trial Continues
and Anxious to
Testify.

matted Presr Leased Wire Service.]
E ALBANY, N. Y, Oct. S.-With Louis |
El sarecky, twonty-seven year old
upaturalized alien, who holds a four
kusand dollar job in the state hos
s,l service still under cross exam
nation, the sulzer impeachment trial
Il resumed today. Sarecky, who be-
nne associated with Sulzer when
|d.teeu years old, is giving an exhf-
lit,ou of devotion seldom equaled In
4, court Of record. He has boldly as.
rnM responsibility for every act
.Aayed against the governor. He
,nd not Sulzer, he swears. made up
IL perjured statement Of election
npenses and the governor, although
wearing to it, did not inspect the
hens.
In like manner sarecky took the
blame for applying campaign funds
u Sulzer's personal use. He insisted
hat all he had done had been in a
girN Of loyalty to his chief and al
says without consulting him. The
opposition hoped to establish the al
/ legation that Sarecky was rewarded
With bis Job for refusing to testify be-
lore the Frawley senatorial inyestigat-
NJ committee regarding tho Suizer
inances.
Reports from the Peoples house to-
isy we're that the governor was in a
highly nervous condition. His attor-
hu of record are still trying to get
him to agree not to testify but Judge
Her.a said today he had no infor-
nation to make public on the subject
When you see the governor come
forward to be sworn you will know
R he Is to testify he said. But until
then one guess will be as good as an
other"
Out Of maze OF technical interroga-
ton, responsibility for Governor Sui
sers Inadequate election expense ac-
count was brought very close to the
inpeached executive today. Despite
TIE attempt Of Louis A. Sarecky, for
nef confidential secretary OF Sulzer tc
Shoulder all responsibility and save
DIS chief, he was pressed to the limit
and finally admitted.
Hrst-That although he prepared
ine incorrect affidavit of expense
which the governor swore to, at Sui
( ters request. the candidate never told
MN Of cash or checks received by him
personally and none OF those were in
tluded
second-That he destroyed all rec
0ras OF campaign receipts.
Third That he destroyed all record,
a campaign expenses.
fourth-That he destroyed all can
relled checks and all stubs.
flfth-That although he destroyed
~ Of this evidence, he was perfectl.
lsnlllar with the operation of the cor
fapt practices law.
sMth-That while he recollected re
.eving heavy contributions iron
brewers and the liquor interests, h
sula give no good reason why only
), ,'nsie one of such contributions wa
ucluoed IN the expense account.
!, oeVenth-That although he realize
.aal the s2,5oO contribution receive
aOn Jacob H. Schiff was far an
way the largest contribution, he pc
'Olaiiy received he could not think c
= single reason why he omitted 1t fror
ne sworn statement.
J, y lhe main sarecky made fin
- aless and stuck very close to hi
I'sinai story. But he was forced t
sa'e material gaps In the fortific,