The Prescott daily news., 1913-10-04
THEY SEEK TO CRUCIFY ME BE. CAUSE TRIED TO STOP
 THEFT, HE DECLARES.
VOWS TO TELL EVERYTHING
Will Take Stand to Bare Graft Crib Held by Murphy-Has No Fears of Result of Impeachment
 Trial-WiI Purge State.

~ j Albany, N. Y, Oct. 4.-Gov. William Sulzer has outlined the vitrolic ar. raignment that he expects to make in his defense before the court of i'm peachment next week He held up Tammany Hall as an institution of loot and looters, whom he charges with trying to cruelty him because he sought to stop the wholesale cam paign of theft that he found in full blast.
 No such remarkable statement has ever come from the lips of an Ameri can official. Sober, solemn and earn est. Sulzer sat in his study and talked with an utter absence of that original effect that usually characterizes his utterances.
 Before him sat Rev. George Chal mers, D. D., of St. Johns Episcopal church, Philadelphia He had come tC ask the governor for a message to the people.
 
 the minister was ushered was a pile of papers Among them was a copy of the Bible that gave evidence of re- cent and frequent use. Patsy, the lit tie dog of no pedigree but immense loyalty, wagged his tail with glee as he ran about the room, He looked happier than the governor, who came a moment later.
 "The people want a message from you," began the minister,
 Graft Everywhere, He Says.
 Among other things, the governor said
 "The votes of the people of this state consecrated me to a task that I had never before had placed before me. l felt the great solemnity of it and l decided then and there to free myself from the unholy, evil and sir ister associations which had for all of my political life surrounded me.
 "Always I had been on the side of the laboring man and the oppressed and had stood for the cause of justice. But any man who has had Tammahy connections has had connections with the devil.
 About every commission and every institution in this state is filled with graft
 "I have appointed a commission 10 investigate the highways department, the hospital department. the prison department and other departments, and everywhere we have touched the air reeks of graft, And we have only scratched the surface of things.
 "This state needs the most thor ough purging it ever had, and l pro pose to give it that purging. That is my mission; that is why l am getting this treatment
 "They are talking of possible com promise that you may make with your foes" suggested the clergyman.
 Never Will Compromise.
 "Never,' said the governor.
 "This case must never be compro- missed. At the very beginning MT. Murphy tried to compromise with me. His followers came to see me. It can not be compromised No man can serve God and Mammon at the same time"
 Have you fully decided to go on the witness stand?'
 Most decidedly. Nothing can pre- vent me from going on the stand and telling everything that l know If the judges will give me the opportunity. I am anxious to reveal to the people of this state-to the men who are pay ing taxes-the enormity of the plun- derings that have been going on un- der the Murphy gang"
 Then he paid his respects to the methods of his enemies
 "I had no sooner become governor and asserted my independence, con tinued MT. Sulzer, than they began to shadow me. Even in my own house some of my servants took letters ad- dressed to me from my table and handed them over to men who were employed at the capital. could not go out to walk without being shadowed. They employed the highest-priced de- tectives they could to watcS me. was pursued by day and by night. If at any minute l had been ready to capitulate I could be living in luxury.