Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-25

money than getting votes during his
for election. declared Eugene
Lamb Richards. of counsel for the
i'm his address opcnlns the
ease against the inl;,aecled executive
Charges High Crimes.
'.Al the technicalitios and unibhlcs
raised by the respondent have been
swept away by this court. began Mr
Richards and he must NOW meet this
case on it's merits. High crimes and
High is the office and
position OF William SulHer. but low and
soruid the crimes and miSdemcanors
which we shall prove against him His
chief offenscs are plain fraud. larceny
and perjury.
After outlining the provisions of thu
election laws relating to ih, reporting
ney continued:
With these provisions in force, what
did William Sulzer do He WAS nom
mated on october .. 1872 ANA almost
he began 10 solicit and
obtain large sums OF money for cam
paign purposes l.c went at his cam
paign for money with system Good de-
liberation and cunning schemes To con-
ccal what he got.
ifivo days .lfh !o f9.,s nominated
he made b, public announcement thai:
he would have no campaign collectors
OF IiDsiHtldl Ill;iIldStIS 'iJI' N''i Nv ti''ie
moment his private secretary WAS al
ready running . secret campaign ilc-
count and he himself had collectors
working for him securing the city and
state for checks and cash.
Had Bag Open, He Says.
He preferred first currency which
has no earmarks. next checks To bearer.
next checks TO the order of some on'.
other than himself and If this were inn
to his own order. He had more than
one 'baRrnan which. believe is u fla
vorcd expression of his. He had a bag
himself which WAS ms open to q $40,
900 contribution as to a So one.
We shall show this court instances
of his requests that checks should be
made 10 he order of some one other
than himself thai he preferred cash
to checks and thai when some OF his
collectors came I'm with checks, he
asked them in tho future To cash the
checks ard bring the cash
He did more than collect and hold
these checks He intended to keel
them. He had no thought of returning
the surplus to the contributors. for il
| will clearly appear that he used and in
| tended Ia use their contributions To buy
stocks and To supply margin for stoch
| specua,ions
lie had many WAYS OF getting mone>
I and ne tlad MANY WHY'S oI HlSl'oslilS 81
| ii
His Alleged Accounts.
During the period from October Il
/, November 1872 into and out OF tn
/ ca.npaiun bank account OF his secr'
| t4ry, Louis s;areSN went practicall.
| 2l2 900 about $1,000 more than the d.
I.fcndant reported in the post election
statement Into Suffers Farmers
Loan K Trust company account wen
/ ~, rt.i.. II ,,t,ll
| stock brokers' there went 100000 u
| Boyer. C:riswold q Co. $4,000, and 4,
1 Fuller d GRAY $4,000 OF thes
amounts over 100000 was in currency.
The prosecuting attorney then tool
! ny the governors statement of cam
! paign expenses which recorded the re
ceipt ni only $54G0.
..Iie reports 6S contributors MI
/ Richards continued. and while the
are undoubtedly cstimablc men thcr
| are not to Dc found among them an
/ man of prominence in the tinancia
| world not single contributor who's
name could carry meaning tn sucl
electors, as might examine the state
ment
..Thcre is no report of any contri
button from such financial lagnate
as Jacob H. schitf. OF +. c. Benedict
| nor from Myers. tho banker. nor frof
Morgenthau or Mccombs. Eor fror
wealthy men identified with the brew
ing and liquor interests. whose contri
buttons had been received by the rc
! spondent We shah ask the court /
infer that il was not BY accident bli
by design that the names of wealth
and POWERFUL contributors whose infiu
cnr, might have been felt i'm his admin
isti:ition are omitted from the list.
I'VE shall show that the responder
continued to speculate in stocks aftc