Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-10-09
.SULzER INNOCENT
ASSERTS SARECKY
Governors Secretary Accepts
Full Responsibility for Jug
gled Campaign Funds
Records Are Gone.

Albany. n. y. Oct. 9.Louis A.
Sarecky. formerly Governor Suffers
campaign secretary, under cross exam
ination at the Impeachment trial to-
day, told how he had destroyed prac
.tically all of the check books, check
stubs and memoranda in connection
with contributions to the governors
campaign funds, which We're in his
possession. He also admitted omittns
the contributions of prominent brew
ers from the campaign statement
which he said he prepared and which
the governor swore to and filed with
the secretary Of state. The cross ex-
animation OF Sarcclly was not com
pleted at the close of the morning seaA
sion. 1t had been searching-an In
quiry into the most minute details Of
his connection with the impeached
executive and of his handling of the
Sulzer campaign funds.
Sarecky declared he had no bank ac:
count In which he placed campaign
contributions except that in the Mu-
tual Alliance Trust company in New
York.
Sarecky on Stand.
Louis A. Sarecky. the governors cam
paign secretary. youth OF %. shouldered
the blame for the omission of unreported
contributions from the governors CAM
paign statement and confessed he had
initiated the governors signature to de-
ceive a bank and admitted he, an alien
born In Russia and never naturalized.
had been promoted from the position of
the governors stenographer to the head
of the deportation bureau OF the state
hospital commission.
saracky much heral,led as the govern
or,s sta,. witness took the stand amid a
craninv OF nccks and a buzz of interest.
| He spoke in high piping voice. and
his answers came almost uniformly with
ont hes,tation
1--WE rncnivcd either from Tammany hall
or from the secretary of state" began
sarackv @, HANK form In which state
nSa,,t ,,,.s =, ~, ,,,ado o,,t M ,.ceints AVID
axnan5itrres of cannaipn funds
nrhe question came I'm as TO whether
4 tb. oon,nittee Of tho governors friends
| Of which was treasurer had the right
Ito file a statement. nasmuch as II had
Ibeen neglected or someone had neglected
on behalf of the committee to file with
| the secretar,. of sfate a notice To the ey.
1 feet that such a committee had been
| formed. So someone suggested that
ltake the matter up with Mr. Sulzer.
went into his room and told him of tn.
quandary we were in and he said: Well
| make UP the statement anyway. NJ doe:
| not matter very much who signs IT as
long as We comply with the spirit OF tho
law. So went outside and then worteo
on the statement for about day and ;
half, brought IT In to Mr. Sulzer and h'
signed It,
4 VINO. II anyone. assisted you IN pre-
pairing 1t 2 asked Attorney Hinman.
II think Mr.. Horgan was the one whe
helped me get II up. He brought an add
ing machine from his office and he and
worked on 1t and finally got IT up
The witness referred to Matthew I
iorgan. who. he said, formerly had beel
employed In the governors New fori
ofhce and who later became secretary o
the F'rawlcN investigating committee
which unearthcd much OF the preliminar!
evidence on which the Impeachment ar
ticies Were based.
Did William s1lizer have anything