Arizona republican., 1914-02-27
Insists That Leader of Tam many Did Not Give Back the $25,O00 Campa ig n Contribution of Anthony F. Brady
REPORTED UNDER
 DUMMY NAME
Comedies That Murphy Did Give That Sum to Brady, But Only to Compromise
 the Suit Filed for Forty Thousand Dollars
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcH1


 NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-Charles F.. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall. did not give back the $25,00O cam paign contribution of the late An thony F. Brady in 1912, according to the sworn testimony today of William Sulzer, the deposed governor Of New York state. SulZer, wit ness for the second time at the John Doe inquiry into political graft, testi- fled that Murphy had told him that he turned $25,000 over to the demo- cratic state committee. He added that Murphy also said he had fixed it. so that it would be reported in the committees list of campaign contributions under dummy name.
 It was the $25,0OO which Sulzer says was first offered to him and which he refused to accept. Sulzer conceded today that Murphy had given the sum of $25,OO0 back to Brady, but that it was not the same s25,o0o. The s25,OOO was paid to Brady according to Sulzer, to com promise a suit for $40,O0O which he said Brady had brought against Mur- phy.
 Sulzer also testified concerning the S10,000 contribution which Allan A. Ryan, son Of Thomas F. Ryan, the financier, asserted at the witness inn peachment trial, he gave to Sulzer, which was never reported in Sulzer's list of contributions. The witness said he gave the money to John II. Delaney, Tow head of the state bu- reau of efficiency and economy. and that Delaney had told him he gave Murphy the money. This was an other contribution which he said Murphy had told him he had listed under the name of a dummy. He also declared that Delaney kept flor his own campaign expenses the S5,000 which he (Sulzer) had given him to help out the democratic cam- raign committee.
 You will find a lot of dummies on the list put in by the democratic state committee" continued the wit ness.
 "A lot of men who would not give $1,000 to save the democratic party from going to the damnation bow VOWS"
 Thomas F. McAvoy, called as the next witness, denied that he had given one dollar to the democratic party that was not my own money"
 ''I gave him s2.500 to s3,0O0 every year." he said, fin accordance as to how I fixed my own interest in the campaign"
 George Washington Plunkitt, who was also to have been called, failed tc respond to his subpoena Another witness was William J. Sullivan, sec retarv to James A. Farrell. president of the United States Steel Corpora tion. He said that in 1912, at the request of Farrell. he gave s2,500 in cash out of Farrelrs personal funds to Arthur A. Mclean, treasurer of the democratic state committee. He produced a receipt made out to him. self, signed by Mclean.
 How did you happen to have a receipt made out in your own name instead of Farrell's?" the witness was asked
 Tt was my own idea" Sullivan said. 'I knew that MT. Farrell was the only democrat in the steel or ganization and I thought that he would prefer not to have his name appear. He was quite exercised over il and told me that there was no reason why it should not appear in his name, but to let it go, as it was immaterial"
 It was brought out that the con- tribution was never reported by the democratic state committee.