Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-30
NEW CHARGES MADE
IN NEW YORK FIGHT
hennessy and Suffer Keep Up
Attack on Tammany and
Mccall.
mitchell IS ASSAILED
BY ENEMIES OF FUSION
Oeposed Governor Tells of Of
fers Sent to Albany by
Murphy.


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NEW YORK, Oct. 30.-The political
fight in New York city reached
climax of bitterness today following
charges and counter-c charges made in
speeches last night.
John A. Hennessy, Governor Sui
zer's graft investigator, whose
speeches for the Fusion ticket, headed
by John Purroy Mitchell, have been
striking feature of the campaign,
kept up his attacks on Tammany
Hall and Edward 10. Mccall, the
Tammany nominee for mayor, laying
stress in his talks last night on
charges Of barge canal graft b.
which he declared Tammany benefit
ed. Former Judge Mccall, who spoke
In several places in Manhattan and
once in Brooklyn, attacked Mitchell
for his former connection as counsel
sor a corporation.
New Charges by SuIzer.
Suffers latest charges against Muir
ply are published today in copy
righted interview given to James
Creelman. of the New York Evening
Mail. In part this follows:
ut is hard to put in words sense
of the power with which Governor
Sulzer told me the story of how Mr..
Mccall, now the Tammany candidate
for mayor. struggled with him In
the stately executive mansion at AL
bany in an effort to serve the brutal
master of Tammany Hall.
And the most astonishing thing
about 1t all was Mr.. Suffers charge
that Mr.. Mccall wanted him to stop
Mr. Hennessy's official investigation
of wholesale frauds and graft In the
great State departments In order to
please Mr.. Murphy and secure for
himself the nomination for chief Judge
of the Court of Appeals.
Mr.. Hennessy, the governors
graft hunting assistant, was present
all through Mr.. Suffers amazing de-
scription of his dealings with Mr..
Mccall.
"One day, in June, think it was"
said Mr.. Hennessy, Mrs. Sulzer told
me in the executive mansion that a
great friend had come UP from New
York and had told her and the gov
ernor that ] was the cause of all the
governors troubles with the organi-
zation.' BY that time 1 had worked
pretty deep into the Tammany rob-
berries committed in State road con-
struction in many counties.
1.-THE very next day l went to the
governor and asked him about it, and
he admitted that Judge Mccall was
the friend who had made that state
ment. I told the governor that If
was standing in his way l would
cheerfully get out. He took me by
the hand and said. John, keep. on
going after the grafters. That's what
l want. Stay where you are"
st remember it WE'LL said Mr..
Sulzer, nodding his head. at was
Judge Mccall himself who came up
from Mr.. Murphy to get me to call
off Mr.. Hennessy.
Mccall Said to Have Threatened.
Judge Mccall did all he could to
induce me to stop the graft investi-
cations. He said to me: Unless you
atop they will throw you out of Of
flee. These men will stop at nothing.
They can do anything. Why they
are so organized and so skillful that
they could blaclxen the character of
the Archangel Michael himself
1.-THE Investigations that had
started made It certain that good
many prominent Tammany men
would probably go to prison. Mr..
Murphy was desperate in his anxiety
to save them from punishment.
Judge Mccall put 1t to me that 1t
was my own interest to stop Mr..
Hennessy from going any further"
The $4,000 campaign contribution
from Anthony N. Brady, traction
magnate. now dead. first offered to
and declined by William Sulzer when
he was running for governor last
year, and then given to Charles #.
Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall,
who declared that he returned it to
Brady, remained moot point OF dis
cussion Support was given Murphy's
that he rofurna6 the
money to Brady by statement from
former Judge Samuel A. Beardsley,
who originally took the $4,000 from
Brady to Sulzer and on the latter's
refusal to accept 1t handed 1t to Muir
ply.
Brady's $4,000 Gift.
Beardsley in his statement yester-
day, without mentioning Murphy's
name said that "a campaign contri-
button of $50, 900 made by Mr. Brady
in the campaign of 1912 was subse-
quently returned to him."
Hennessy in one of his speeches
last night challenged Beardsley to
furnish proof that Murphy gave back
the $4,000 and declared that Boards
ley could not and would not attempt
to prove any such thing through the
Brady estate.
ISSlLIlOIy " SuppoiI llio dutiiCi-
ITCHY Of letter written last summer
from Sing Sing by ex-senator Ste
phen j. Stilwell, convict, asking
the then Governor Sulzer for par
don in return for an exposure of
boss rule in New York city, was
given by Colonel William III. Amory,
who carried the pardon application
to Albany. Stilwell had declared the
published version was garbled. Colo
mel Amory declared the letter as
made public was exactly as it was
originally written. "Stilwell had the
goods on certain senator's Amorv
asserted. Stilwelrs alleged disclosures
against Tammany legislators and
others and his reported willingness
to make more under certain condi-
lions have figured largely in Hen
nessy's recent campaign speeches.
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