The Penn's Grove record., 1913-10-10
SARECKY TAKES
SULzER BURDEN
Tells Impeachment Court He
Prepared Fund Statement
RECENT APPEAL TO MURPHY
Wanted impeachment Proceedings
Called oH'-sarecky, Campaign
Secretary, Demonstrates His Abil-
to Initiate Sulzer's Signature.

Albany, N. with the testimony
OF Louis A. Sarecky, the most i'm
portant witness for Governor William
Sulzer, except the Governor himself.
the lawyers for the defence began
their fight in the High Court of I'm
peachment to prove the Governor
guiltless of perjury and theft.
Before Sarecky went on the stand
Allan A. Ryan was recalled by the
prosecution and swore that Sulzer at.
tempted recently to negotiate a bar
gain with Charles F. Murphy, leader
OF Tammany Hall, to have his i'm.
parchment trial called off"
Mr.. Ryan testified as follows:
s." suggested to Mr.. Sulzer that,
now that certain charges had been
preferred against him, l could not
see how he could afford to put him.
self in a position not to answer those
charges. He said that he did not
want to drag his wife into the stu.
alton and put her on the stand. He
told me that if the court voted that
his trial was not legal he could make
a statement and explain the situa.
ton satisfactorily.
MI. Sulzer asked me to see Mr..
De Lancey Nicoll. He said that Mr..
Nicoll could see certain parties, and
he thought Mr.. Nicoll could persuade
them to do what he wished to &C.
complish by having me see Mr.. Root
and have him see Mr.. Barnes.
Mr.. Sulzer wanted me to have Mr..
Nicoll persuade Mr.. Charles F. Muir.
ply to endeavor to call off this in
quiry by getting his following to vote
that the court had no right to try,
the Assembly no right to vote, this
Impeachment. Mr.. Sulzer said that
he was willing to do whatever was
right.
81 did not see Mr.. Nicoll and did
not e MI. Root. l told Mr.. Sulzer
that l would see what could do,
and I went out in the country and
forgot it."
Sarecky shouldered the blame for
the omission of unreported contribu-
lions.
When Sarecky left the witness
stand he had testified:
That he was secretary of a highly
informal Sulzer campaign committee:
that he opened Suffers letters,
Endorsed and deposited checks, re-
ceived cash contributions and banked
them and paid out money, all with
out the candidates knowledge.
That he knew some of the money
in the Mutual Alliance Trust Com
pany account had been used for other
than campaign purposes, because
without Suffers knowledge he spent
some of it to settle a lawsuit against
the candidate in the West.
That he made out the statement of
campaign receipts and expenses
without consulting the Governor
elect about what was to go in it and
that he knew it was not complete, as
he did not have all the records.
That the Governor-elect signed it
and swore to it without reading it
and that he said it did not make
much difference who signed the state
ment, as long as we comply with
the spirit of the law"
That he was present at the inter-
view with Sulzer about which Cor
nelius S. ~Pinckney, a former witness
at the trial, testified, and that the
I've said, as Pinckney tes-
titled, that he did not intend to &C
count for certain contributions.
That he initiated William Suffers
signature to a letter authorizing him
to indorse and deposit checks in the
Mutual Alliance account, and did it
with the intent to make the trust
company people believe the candi-
date had written and signed the let
ter of authorization.
That at the time he prepared the
statement of campaign receipts and
expenses for the Governor-elect there
existed and still exists, so far as he
knows, letters which accompanied
practically all the contributions Sent
the office. He did not consult
these letters when making up the
statement.
Ryan's story of the Governors al
legged effort to make peace with the
leader of Tammany Hall was his sec
ond recital of a n attempt on the part
the Governor to obtain political in
to stop the trial. Ryan testi-
fed the day before that Sulzer had
asked him to persuade Senator Elihu
Root to get William Barnes, the New
York Republican State Chairman, to
influence the Republican members of
the Court of Impeachment to ote the
impeachment illegal.