Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-03
SULzER SAYS HIS
STORY WILL TUf.
ALL IN HIS FAVOR
Every Decent Man and Woman
Will Be With Me-" He
Declares.
GOVERNOR PREPARING TO
FLAY FOES FROM STAND
His Lawyers Go Into Retirement
to Plan for Ordeal Next
Week.

ALBANY, n. Y, Oct. 3.-Ex-Judge
D. Cady HerriclS, chief counsel for
Governor Sulzer. who ever has been
silent regarding the plans of the de-
fense in the impeachment trial of the
governor, went a step farther today
by going into retirement.
Senator Harvey d. Hinman, who
| will make the opening address for
the governor, locked himself in his
hotel room and continued working on
his opening statement to be made
on Monday.
The Governor continued work on
his own story. While he is consult
ing the lawyers on it in every way he
is insisting that he be permitted to
make the fullest statement The
strain of the long trial is telling on
the Governor, and sometimes he ex-
presses the wish that the whole fight
was over. Not that he is afraid of
the result but rather because the
tension is so great and the work is
so hard.
But now l am in the fight" he
said to friend, "and I am going on
to the end. Let come what will, /
am going to tell my story in my own
way Mine will be an astonishing
narrative, and when have completed
1t and the whole truth of the manner
in which political bosses have tried
to coerce me and failed is known,
every decent man and woman in this
State will be with me, despite what
the impeachment court may do
A rumor that Governor Sulzer
was to be called upon to ac-
count for $4,000 he was report
ed to have obtained through the
national committee, appears to
have fattened out. This money
was said to have gone to him
in sums of $50,000 $4,000 and $1,000.
Fifty thousand dollars did come to
this State from the, national COM
mittee, but it did not go directly to
Sulzer, according to the report of the
committee now on file in Washing
ton, his friends say.
Counsel for the board of managers
is not inactive despite the adjourn
ment until Monday. They are in
vestigating the Governors record
from the time he entered Congress. in
the hope that they may find daIu-
aging evidence on which to question
him on crCSs- Ss-examination.
They profess TO have found mucl,
such evidence and express the hope
that he will take the witness stand
in order that the bars to interrogat-
ing him may be thrown down. Doubt
is expressed however, if Presiding
Judge Cullen will permit them to go
into Sulzer's history before he en-
tered into the gubernator.al cam
paign.
Mny Attack His CredibiIity.
Counsel for the managers assert
they believe they will be able to in
troduce this evidence when they at
tempt to question the creditability of
the governors testimony.
1t is believed that the Sulzer de-
fense, so far as Sareckys testimony is
concerned, will be to throw on him the
full responsibility for making out the
alleged fraudulent campaign state
ment. Sarecky had an account made
up of Sulzer campaign checks of about
ST., 600
1t will be urged for Sulzer that the
candidate drew on this fund for his
expenses and that he kept no track
of its details. He relied on his agent
to keep him within the laws limit as
far as expenditures, were concerned.
If too much money was spent. or if
contributions came in that were left
unrecorded in the statement of ex-
penses and receipts it was Sarecky's s
fault, not Suffers.
There is good ground for the state
ment that Sulzer. who never has
been known as a Spendthrift of funds
given to him for any campaign he has
run, really spent about $4,000 in the
gubernatorial campaign. OF this
there were large sums that could
hardly be set down as strictly cam
paign expenses. but they were laid
out for things incidental to the cam
paign.
All of this money came out of the
checks deposited in Sarecky's name.
The prosecution, it is thought. will
not concern itself so much about this
fund as it will about the elevation of
Sarecky to a $4,000 year State job
from an $1,S00 job at the time he was
refusing to answer questions before
the Frawley committee. Sarecky owes
much to Sulzer, and it is said that
Sulzer owes not a little to him. There
is no questioning the cleverness of
this smooth faced young man from
New Yorlx's lower East Side. He is
as keen as a razor. of impressive
countenance. cool in manner and has
the general appearance of one who
will not be driven from stand he
has taken without fight