Smyrna times., 1913-01-08
GOVERNOR TENER, PENNA.
REMOVES CAPTAIN DELANEY
CLAIMS TO HOLD CAPITOL
GRAFT CONFESSION
Chief Factory Inspector Claims Con-
tractor Sanderson Left Document In
His Care and Hints at New cuIprits.

flee John c. Delaney, the Pennsylvania
state factory inspector, ''for the good
Of the service"
Captain Delaney has for several
weeks past been under charges Of
lax enforcement of the state factory
laws. Last Friday he gave an inter
view to a Philadelphia newspaper, in
which he said he had in his posses
sion an alleged confession" made by
John H. Sanderson, the state capitol
contractor, who was convicted of fraud
and died pending his appeal.
In this alleged confession" De-
laney said, Sanderson declared that
the real culprits in the capitol scandal
never had been apprehended nor had
their names ever been mentioned in
the course of the investigation.
Captain Delaney also said that the
confession" was locked in a safe, and
it's contents never would be revealed
by him. Mr.. Sanderson's widow, now
a resident of New York, Captain De-
laney added, was the only person who
might ever reveal the secret of the
hidden paper. She, he said, might do
so at some future time in order to vim.
dicate her husbands memory.
Pennypacker is the only one to date
who can be sure that the breath of
suspicion will not demand an explana-
ton, for he is the only one in connec-
ton with the gigantic and criminal
grat who, Delaney says, ''is as free
from any part in the division of the
spoils as newborn babe"
The true reason for the astounding
revelation of Delaney that he has such
a confession will be searched for by
Attorney General Bell, who will confer
with Governor Tener. Captain De-
laney will be present at this confer
ence and will be asked who are the
digger men" named in the confession
and never brought to justice.
Delaney has said that he was Of
fered 100000 for this confession, and
that he refused it; that he will not
make it public under any consider
alton unless the widow of Sanderson
says that she is will that he should
do so.
Why Delaney should refuse 100000
for the paper and now stir up the dis
quieting suspicious it will be the duty
of public officials to point out.
1t is expected that the governor will
issue statement after the conferences
with Bell and Delaney.
Politicians profess to see in the re-
markable announcement of the chief
factory inspector an effort on his part
to strengthen his position in Harris
burg, where he must eventually meet
the charges of child labor associations,
the Central Labor Union, the State
Federation of Labor and the Consum.
ers' League, that he has not taken
cognizance of numerous infractions OF
the state factory laws. DeIaney's term
expires in May. His position carries
with it salary of $4,000 a year.
Former Governor Pennypacker is
very anxious that Delaney should turn
over the confession to the attorney
/ general, but there is considerable
doubt in the minds of lawyers that he
can be made to do so. Even if the
statute of limitations has expired, ii
any politicians are connected with the
capitol scandal they can be driver
from public life by the publicity giver
them.
! Delaney does not propose to willing
ly part with this dynamite-laden docu
ment.
No man will ever know its entire
contents while l have anything to dC
with it," he said, cor unless Mrs. San
derson would desire it's publication
Even then | am not sure that | woul(
let it out Of my possession. All that
will say is that the big men who wer,
guilty escaped"
"Will you make = it public if vol
leave the hill?" he was asked.
Il don't expect to leave the hill"
"But suppose you do?'"
Il would not give it out"
1t was reported in Harrisburg tha
Tener would ask for Delaneys resie
nation, but the governor declined t
state what action he might contem
plate regarding the chief factory II
spector. His advice to Delaney is t
give the paper up.
Former State Treasurer William F
Berry does not doubt that Captain d.
laney has the confession.
Il have always been perfectly sati
fed" he said, that the men who wer
the chief beneficiaries of the capt.,
contract manipulation were not th
men hailed into court. found definit
traces that some prominent men, NJ
officially identified with the admin
tration, but influential in the Republ
can organization, had the bigger fl
ger in the pie. wanted Mr.. Scarlet
the states attorney, to go after the
when l discovered the traces on Il
: books to which I refer. l was convin
ed later that the states probe wou
. have been sufficient"
! Mr.. Berry declines to name the m,
whom he says were involved in Il
conspiracy, but he did say: 9TH
were the brains of the conspirac
E they undoubtedly laid the plan (