Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-24

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raised by the respondent have been swept
away by the court" began Mr.. Richards
and he must now meet this case on its
merits. High crimes and misdemean-
orsr High Is the office and position OF
William Sulzer. but low and sordid the
crimes and misdemeanors which we shall
prove against him. His chief offenses are
plain fraud, larceny and perjury"
After outlining the provisions OF the
election law relating to the reporting OF
campaign contributions. the attorney con-
tinued:
did william Sulzer do? He was nomi-
mated October ., 1912, and almost imme-
large sums of money for campaign pur-
poses He went at his campaign for
money with system. cool elaboration anc
cunning schemes TO conceal what he got.
Collectors Kept Busy.
Five days after he was nominated he
made a public announcement that he
would have no campaign collectors or
financial managers, and yet at that
moment his private secretary was al
ready running a secret campaign ac-
count and he himself had collectors
working for him, securing the city and
state for checks and cash.
He preferred first currency, which
has no earmarks; next. checks to bearer
or cabs; next, checks to the order Of
some one other than himself. and IL
this were impossible, he was willing to
take checks to his own order. He had
more than one bag man, which I be-
lievc is a favored expression OF his.
He had bag himself which was as
open to a ten thousanddollar contribu
ton as to two-dollar one.
a N
of his requests that checks should be
made to the order OF some one other
than himself: that he preferred cash
TO checks. and that when some OF his
asked them in the future to cash the
checks and bring the cash.
He did more than collect and hold
these checks. He intended to keep them.
lie had no thought of returning the sur
plus to the contributors, for IL will clear
~ appear that he used and intended to
use their contributions to buy stocks
and to supply margin for stock specula-
tons.
Payments to Accounts.
He had many ways of getting money.
and he had many WAYS of disposing of
It.
During the period from October to
November. 1912. into and out of the cam
Louis Sarecky. went practically $4,000.
about $1,000 more than the defendant re-
ported In the post-election statement.
Into Sulzer's Farmers Loan and Trust
Company account went $4,000 more To
Harris B. Fuller, stock broker. there
went $4,000; to Boyer, Griswold 4 Co.
S12OOo. and to Fuller & Gray. $1,000
or these amounts over $4,000 was in
currency.
The prosecuting attorney then took up
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but $500.
He reports sixty EIGHT contributors"
Mr.. Richards continued, and while
they are undoubtedly estimable men,
there is not to be found among them
any man OF prominence In the financial
world. not a single contributor whose
name could carry meaning to such
electors as might examine the state.
ment.
Big Names Under Cover.
There is no report of any contribu-
lions from such financial magnates as
Jacob H. Schiff or Z. C. Benedict: not
from Myers. the bankers nor from
Morgenthau or McCombs: nor from
wealthy men identified with the brew
ing and liquor interests whose con-
tributions had been received by the
respondent.
We shall ask the court to infer that
II was not by accident, but by design.
that the names OF wealthy and power
ful contributors, whose influence might
have been felt in his administration.
are omitted from the list.
we shall show that the respondent
continued to speculate in stocks after
he became governor. and that while
so interested he caused to be intro
duced In the legislature and advocated
the adoption of legislation vitality
affecting the rise and fall of securi.
ties on said exchange. and we shall
leave IL TO this court to say whether
his act as governor in fathering such
legislation was not influenced by his
personal interest In the fluctuations of
securities affected by that very legisI
lation.'
Opening Guns Fired.
Yesterdays session of the court was
about equally divided between efforts Of
the governors counsel to convince the
judges that the articles dealing with
contributions should be dis
missed and the arguments of their OPP
ponents that they We're rightfully in
cluded In the Impeachment charges
d. Cady Herrick fired the opening gun.
He was followed by Harvey ID. Human.
who presented the brief prepared by for
mer Judge Irving @. vann. the latter
oSAoB pfeNcHtSu ut AiiHeSS from appear
Ing In person.
Former Senator Bracket led the de-
Tense of the articles and was followed by
former Judge Parker and Isador Kresel.
Austin @. Fox OF the governors counsel
had not completed his argument I'm re-
buttal when court adjourned. Elihu Root,
jr.. filed a brief upholding the conten-
lions OF his colleagues in the governors
camp. The principal contention OF the
governors side was that the acts speci-
fled In the three articles objected to
were committed. If at all. while Sulzer
was a private citizen.
Defense of Articles.
Their opponents argued that they were
so intimately connected with the office
that II would be impossible TO separate
them. The managers here" declared
Mr.. Bracket. want to stand broadly
Upon the proposition that a man may
be wholly unfit for governor OF the
empire state some little time before he
- really ripe for states prison. The
dividing line between the two--betweer,
ripeness for the states prison and for
The governorship-is broader than that.
Il want to stand for the proposition
here and now that IL at all within the
power or jurisdiction of this court or In
any way competent. II should brush aside
every contention that stands between the
governor of the state at the present time
ma his opportunity to come here and be
cross-examined, make defense af71rmA.
lively and demonstrate that he is a At
and clean man. II would be doing 70
Gov. Suizer himself the greatest good
that can come to him during the term
for which he was elected