The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-07

! fed Mctiair= had told him vas the bag
man for Tammany Hall IN the eollee-
tion of contributions. Mosiuu denied he
/ had sent any such telegram to HnBness"
/ lie said hu Lad talked with his hrctheI
and coHdiaiens since Henns5sy TESTIFIED
I and told item ne did not havs any sd.h
! information as Hennessy had testified to
..fhen why did you give the governor
| s2500?'' asked Mr.. Whitman.
Il hated to see a good business admin
istration go to smash. There was a great
governor alone in the executive mansion
without friends and he was about to be
I tried by the court of impeachment and
| was sorry for him. He said he needed
the money badly and that 1t was case
| of dire necessity"
| The witness admitted that he had met
| Hennessy in Utica September l. at Sui
! zer's request.
"Hennessy told me-" he said, that Sui
ger had directed him to take part in the
democratic primary fight in Erie county
and that the governor wanted him to
charge Norman E. Mack with failing to
account for campaign contributions. The
governor promised him, he said. to give
him names of those who had made con
| tributions which Mack had not accounted
for and that he went to Buffalo and did
make those charges. Mack had denied
the charge, Hennessy said, and he feared
he did not have the information neces-
sary to prove his case and that Mack
might sue him for sander and recover.
He said he had told the governor he
must make good on the charges and had
asked him for list OF names. The gov
ernor had replied that George Mcclure
knew all about these contributions.
"Hennessy said he had been told that
such and such a company had made such
and such a contribution and asked me
about it. He asked me If Jim Stewart
had made a contribution, and I told him
didn't know, that 1 had no specific
knowledge of any contribution"
Mcguire admitted he had himself col
/ lected contributions in 1910 and 1911 from
several contractors for the democratic
state committee. He named Lane Broth
ers of West Virginia, Scott Brothers and
Luddington & Son of New York, as hav-
ing given 800 each and the Knser Con-
struction company of Chicago as having
contributed $500.
you falsifiod to Mr.. Hennessy when
you said you knew of no contributions"
asked the district attorney
II was not under OATH replied the
witness.
| According to Hennessy Mcclure was
one of several. including Jacob II. Schiff
and George w. Perkins. who had con-
tributed funds to aid Sulzers graft In
vestigation. Henry L. Stoddard was
| The hearing will be continued next Tues
doay when Mcclure again will be called
as a witness. Meantime Mr.. Whitman
| had applied for the impaneling of spe-
cial grand jury for the purpose, it was
| reported tonight, of considering what
| ever evidence may be adduced at the
| inquiry tending to show criminal viola
| ton of the law.
| Regarding McGuires testimony as to a
| $500 contribution toward the Sulzer cam
| paign, former Governor Sulzer in a state
| ment tonight. said:
George H. Mcguire gave me $3.50 the
i day after 1 was nominated for governor
not $500-and this sum was a part of
the $1,000 | gave to John H. Delaney the
! first part of October, 1912, to pay for the
| printing of the democratic state commit
| tee
| Mr.. Sulzer in his statement admitted
| that citizens, of whom Mcguire was one,
| contributed toward the expense of con-
tinung the Hennessy graft investigation.
and declared that he himself had taken
| s2500 of his own money and turned it over
to Hennessy for the same purpose.