Evening journal., 1913-10-18
SULZER SAYS HIS TRIAL
WAS POLITICAL LYNCHING WITH
MURPHY CONTROLLING The COURT

= ALBANY, Oct. 1S.--William Sulze
Iast night gave out the following
statement:
In response to requests fror
friends throughout the State for som
expression from me. can only say
at this time, that / am glad my tria
Is over
by virtue OF a power. beyond tn
present control Of our electorate,
now hand back to the people the com
mission they gave me, and I hand
back to them untarnished and un
sullied.
My lips have been sealed for week.
curing which time I have patientl
in silence to abuse an
However, after stating my case 4
my counsel. and by their advice, ol
August II, made the following state
ment:
] deny that ! used campaign
contributions for personal use.
deny that I speculated In
Wall street or used money con-
tributed for campaign purposes
70 buy stocks. either in my own
name or otherwise.
I never had an account with
Fuller & Gray or Boyer & Girls
void. 7 never heard Of these
firms. ] do not know the members.
and know nothing about the
transactions with these firms,
testified to before the F'rawley
Committee. until recently threat
ened with exposure. and the al
legged transactions we're brought
to my attention by the Frawley
Committee.
The stock matter with Harris
& Fuller was not speculative ac-
count, but a loan account made
upon stocks as collateral, which
stocks had been acquired and
paid for years before my nomi-
nation for the Office of Governor
and from other sources than Har-
ris g. Fuller
Certain checks given to me
during the campaign we're depos-
tied to my personal account, and
thereafter I paid the amount OF
said checks to the campaign COM
mittees.
In filing my statement of re-
ceipts and disbursements with the
Secretary OF State ! relied upon
Information furnished me by the
persons in immediate charge OF
my campaign. and in whom ! had,
and fstill have, the most implicit
confidence; and believed the
statement furnished by them al
the time to be accurate and true
mo legal evidence was adduced on
Ne trial which disproyed that state
1ent
lis Second Statement.
Subsequently. on September IA,
ave out another statement, as fol-
ows:
The stories that I am going TO
resign are false and malicious.
The purpose IN circulating them
must be eviddnt to any one. !
am not goiuk to resign am
going 10 sta&d trial.
have "a some hard things
about some ~ the Senators, and
they haveNAaid some hard things
about msd# but this is a trial, not a
politicsA fight
TMafey are both Judges and iur-
-. and / believe believe that
*nost OF them are large enough
and honest eUough TO rise above
Aany Sersonaf feeling they may
entertain toward me because OF
what hhve said about them, and
do me Justice
haps Several Senators.
ifAhose are the only statements o
Interviews I have made or given ou
4ince the Assembly. by the orders o
the boss passed the resolution O
Impeachment.
"Of course. when I issued the las
|tatcment. on September IA. I did no
hink Senator Wagner. Senator Fraw
ey. Senator Ramsperger. Senator
tanner. Senator Brown. Senator Blau
'ert and Senator Thompson would ac
Is my jurors and Judges. as they were
ither interested personally in tn
of my trial. or had acted az
ny prosecutors and condemned M
oefore trial. or on account OF per
sonal grievances had expressed al
IHlnl0n do W my AQilNs Ant lliHiO ~
priety Of these Senators voting 70
my conviction must be apparent. an
vitiates the judgment. because ha
they refused to vote-as a sense c
decency should have induced them
dol would not have been convicte
on any one of the articles OF In
peachment
a Political Lynchlng.-
my trial. from beginning TO end
so far as the Tammanyized part OF Ii
court was concerned-wa a farce
political lynching-the consummatic
OF a deeplaid political conspiracy
Dust me from office | am glad II
all over ! am tired OF being calun
niated; tired OF being hunted an
hcunded; tired of trying to do n
dufv and being traduced
"The court ruled in everything again
me and ruled out everything in m
favor The well-settled rules of ev
dence were thrown to the winds
horse thief in frontier days would hay
feceived a squarer deal
Mr.. Murphy controlled the Assembl