Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-19
Wants to Be Sent Back to Al
bany to Finish Work for Re-
form Which He Began.
SAYS HE is MAKING FIGHT
FOR HONEST GOVERNMENT
Strength of Former Governor Must
Be Determined by Demo-
cratic Managers.
BY N. o. MESSENGER.

! NEW YORK. October 1s.-William
Sulzer is the fly in the democratic oint-
ment. The main effort of. the demo-
| cratic managers is to ascertain the
strength of the drift to Sulzer. That
there is Sulzer sentiment no one denies.
Likewise. it is assumed that Sulzer will
draw SO per cent of his support in the
normal democratic vote and the re-
mainder in the progressives and repub-
Ncans.
| From now on the democratic voters
will have the proposition put sauarely
up to them by all their orators, Are
you Wilson democrat or Sulzer
democrat?" 1t is already determined
to be necessary to use the Presidents
name; Glynn's is not alone sufficient.
Suffers dismissal in the governorship
by Impeachment, which one might think
would forever discredit him, is being
used as an asset by him. The disgrace
of it never feazed him for a moment
! doubt if anything short of the Wash
| 1ngton Monument falling on Bill
Sulzer would make an impression. He
is turning his dismissal into an asset
by claiming to have been martyred by
Murphy.
| 1 had a talk with him today before
he started on a tour up state. His
| gaunt frame has grown thinner. his
cheeks more sunken. his pallor more
perceptible;; The deep set eyes look
shaggy brow. He is an embittered
man and he is in this fight for ven
geance. Tell my friends in Washing
ton." he said grimly, that l am going
| to make the democratic bosses of New
York suffer for what they did to me-"
| And the democratic bosses are not
quite certain how much harm he can
do their ticket.
Running as Independent.
| Perhaps you would like to know upon
what grounds Sulzer is appealing for
| support at the polls. He is running
| as an Independent candidate for gov
ernor, small favors thankfully received
from voters of. any party. This is the
way he talks to the voters:
why am I candidate for governor
again? Because: l want to beat the
bossesi because I want to get the
grafters; because want to go back to
Albany and finish the work for reform
which began.
reelection to the governorship. My
fight is in the interest of the taxpay-
| ers, to further the cause Of honest gov,
ernment, and to promote the genera
| welfare. Ny removal by the bosses
was illegal, unconstitutional, revolu-
tionary and the corrupt contamination
Of the greatest political conspiracy in
| the annals of the state.
| THE voters of the state know that l
! was removed from office. not because 1
did wrong, but because 1 would NOT De
| dishonest; because l would not obey
the bosses; because 1 would not violate
! my oath of Office; because would not
| betray the people; because 1 INSISTED on
Investigating graft; because l set in
| motion the machinery of justice to send
the grafters to prison, and because I
| would not connive at crime and be a
party to the looting of the state.
| When they ask you what my politics
are now tell them that ! am an lnde-
pendent candidate for governor; that l
am a Thomas Jefferson democrat, but
not a Charles F. Murphy democrat.
| Murphy is not a democrat; he is polit-
I ical buccaneer. Murphy is the same
kind of a democrat that Capt. Kidd
was a sailor.
| COMPARES Himself to Lincoln.
Then 1 am an Abraham Lincoln re-
| publican, but not a William Barnes re-
| publican. Lincoln struggled for five
| years to free our country from human
slavery. i am willing to struggle for
the next ten years to free our state
| from graft and the servitude of polit-
| ical bosses.
| tween the political methods of Barnes
/ and Murphy. They are both bosses.
They are both doing business at the
old stand. They both have thorough
| understanding. The only difference be-
| tween Boss Barnes and Boss Murphy is
one of degree-Barnes got a degree;
| Murphy never got one. In other words,
to make the simile little clearer,
Barnes eats peas with his fork.
| Then 1 am a pioneer progressive.
\ but not an invisible government pro-
/ gressive My record of six years in
the legislature of this state: my record
of eighteen years in the Congress of
the United States: my record as the
| Governor of New York, proves beyond
| successful contradiction that am now
and always have been a genuine pro-
! gressive.
"Then I am for prohibition, because
| prohibition is a principle. and you can
not compromise principle. 1t Is
| either right or wrong. 1 know pro-
l hibition is right, and l shall continue
1 to fight for it until the battle is won,
because 1 know the adoption of prohi-
bition will benefit the human race and
promote the general welfare.
"I am after the grafters. You can
rob the people for years. you can fool
the people for years, you can outrage
the people for years, but when the
people find out how they have been
plundered, how they have been fooled.
how they have been outraged. their
wrath is terrible"