New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-07

50. 500 for Honnessy's investigations"
he asked.
Why, / felt sorry for him. hated to
see his administration go to smash, and
he promised to return it TO me out or
the contingent fund after his trial was
over" replied MCGUIRE.
You knew then. didn't you. that your
$500 contribution 10 his campaign fund
had not been reported"
Yes"
And Notwithstanding that you gave
him another $4,000"
well, yes, his dire necessity-he
said Hennessy had TO have It. Said he
was looking for all the help he could
get"
Mcclure was somewhat clustered when
Whitman brought these earlier admissions
back TO plague him with the inference
that his near monopoly" In the bonding
business made him an ideal agent for
Mclean and Tammany campaign asses
sors In the contractors field. and the best
explanation he could offer was finally
couched In these terms:
We'll, the state hadn't had a Demo-
cratic Governor in a long time. Every
year I'd given from 500 to 5000 I
thought In 1911 that Il might be a nice
thing for me 10 help the men who were
managing the party along by asking the
men I knew had contracts II they felt
they wanted 10 make a small contribution
that I'd send 1t in for them"
Whitman questioned Mcclure then as
10 why he had not given 10 Hennessy the
information as 10 the collection" he for
warded 10 Mclean. and Mcclure could
think OF nothing to respond with except
the proposition that 1T was none OF Hen
nessys business"
But you knew Hennessy was the Gov
ernor's representative, and you were a
friend OF the Governor and knew the Gov
ernor wanted just such information?'
"Yes. but | didn't tell Hennessy."
Now, isn't 1t a fact that you did give
Mr.. Hennessy these names?'
Mcclure still insisted that he had not
given Hennessy any information.
Doesn't It strike you as at all peculiar
that the names Of the men you now recall
as contributors from whom you collected
are all on the list furnished by Mr. Hen
messy to the court as names Of those you
had told him were contributors
mo. that's just a coincidence"
Did you solicit any funds from con-
tractors when Sulzer was a candidate?'
mo, | decided It didn't go we'll with my
business"
Mcclure said that he met Sulzer first
when he was "A candidate for the nomina-
ton for Governor In Buffalo In 1886.
Asked as to his dealings with Sulzer at
the Syracuse convention last year, Nc
CURE demurred, and said he would prefer
not 10 answer, but after Judge McAdoo
had directed him to answer he told OF
meeting Sulzer in the hotel in Syracuse,
going with him to his room and congratu-
Iating him upon his nomination. This was
on the day after Sulzer was nominated.
81 told him / would be glad TO contrib
ute something and he took me into tho
bathroom. where / handed him $500 In
bills"
He saw Sulzer later I'm Washington, he
said. and Sulzer told him then he HAD
intended TO ask him to become his private
secretary. sulzer said. however that he
had made inquiries and found that Me-
Cures business was too Dig 10 alIo"
him to make such sacrifice. ana Ac-
CURE told him he would be just as frieiiu-
~ 10 his administration AS II ne was
part of II.
"J had several conversations with Gov
ernor Sulzer about my business, he said'
| "and he wrote me frequently during the
| time after his election and before inausu-
! ration. He sent me a big plaster bust OF
himself. with letter asking ME 10 place
Il I'm the public library at Syracuse or III
| the Democratic Club
Whitman cut him off on that line, say
ing that It was scarcely material to the
inouiry. and Mcclure went on to reiter-
ate that Sulzer had talked to MIN many
times about his business.
"Did he send for you any time after
the articles Of impeachment had been
voted?"
Mcclure demurred. but again Judge
| McAdoo ruled that he would have TO an
| swer.
well. in the latter part Of August
WAS in Albany on highway business, ne
said. "and Sulzer called me on the teie-
| phone. and asked me to come 10 the hA-
ecutiye Mansion at o'clock that night
He went there, he said. and Sulzer toio
him that he needed money badly that
hio fr,ends were leaving him. and he
needed money right away. Sulzer asked
h,r, for e.. 800 he said, and he agreed 10
| Give II To him. That was on the last
Monday in August. Mcclure said. and he