Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-21
Suffers Program.

The former governor will begin CAM
paign for the assembly Immediately and
speak day and night.
After that he will accept lecture en-
fragments up to the first of January. If
it then is necessary for him to come to
Albany he will arrive here on the open
ing day of the legislature to start his
fight which he hopes will put him back
in the executive chair. His promise is to
make the fur fly if he is made an
aSSemblyman
my enemies in the assembly," he de-
clared; IN make them take notice In
other places, too"
A few minutes after the convention
that nominated him for assemblyman
met ia New York last night Mr.. SuiZer
issued statement telling why he had
consented to come back to Albany"
There never was any doubt that he
could have the nomination IL he wanted it,
he declared. Nor does he doubt that the
| list of January will see him back where he
began his political career twenty years
ago He and his friends also are con-
v.nced that he will go from there to the
| speakership and thence back to the gov
errors chair.
| His statement follows, i'll part:
Importuned to Accept.
In view of the urgent pleadinga from
! lifelong friends and the request i'll writ
ing from more than half of the registered
voters of the sixth assembly district, re-
CARELESS of party utilization, begging me to
accept the nomination for member of as
sembly to further the cause of honest
government 1 have consented to come
back to Albany as a member of the as
sembly for the good that can do.
81 shall be q non-partisan candidate
having no AK to grind and no motive or
purpose other than to do what l can for
the cause Of good government-the strug-
gle for which accomplishment brought
about my removal from the governorship
! by an arrogant boss whose dictates to dc
wrong / defied.
Obviously Sulzer was well pleased with
his nomination. He walked UP and down
| his office in the mansion, SmOkin, q cigar,
smiling and telling how he intended to
| fight his enemies to the last ditch. He
| waved his callers to a chair and besan to
| tell how he regarded his removal as a
possible real blessing in disguise.
| THE Indians declare" he said. that
everything is for the best. I'm pretty
much of an Indian myself. I've been our
west fourteen times. Sometimes j think
that's where l belong. People out there
against Tammany that if I were amons
them they would send me to the United
States Senate. Maybe they would
| reckon belong out there. I don't seem
! to get on very well in this effete east.
Could Do Nothing as Governor.
But I started to say that 1 thought
maybe my removal was for the best
What could l do in the governors chair
now? Nothing. But l can do a lot in
the assembly and other places. l can
carry out my reforms there. / tried to
carry them out in the governors chair
| He was silent for a moment, walking
| the length of the room. Suddenly he
stopped, closed his eyes and said:
| Yes, sir. tried so hard that lost my
| job"
In an exclusive copyrighted interview
published in the New York Mail, Mr.
Sulzer declared that Charles F. Murphy
had offered him money to pay his debts,
| and that he had refused to put himself
| in the Tammany leaders power. Last
night Mr.. Su.zer declared the interview
accurate in every respect.
| NEW YORK. October 2l.-The nomina-
| ton of Mr.. Su ger last night was brought
about az aiust the desires or the state and
county leaders of the progressive party.
| The sentiment among the progressives
/ throughout the state and in other states
| was generally against the move. accord
ling to State Chairman Theodore Doug
| las Robinson and County Chairman
| Francis w Bird.
/ Mr. Bird, in letter to MIR. Staindler
prior to the meeting, cautioned him re-
gardiug the unwisdom of nominating
| Mr.. Suizer."
"Ok course II is fundamental progress
sive .psinciple that the settled will OF the