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Show I GOVERNOR SULZER ISSUES STATEMENT GETTYSBURG, Pa., July 2. Governor Eulzer of New York, who arrived here this afternoon, Issued an interview In connection with the suit for breach of promise filed against him In Philadelphia yesterday: "There Is nothing to It I am afraid of. The whole thins looks like a poor conspiracy and seems to be stale and fishy," said the governor. "The suit of this woman Hopkins Is "blackmail and It Is Instigated by my political po-litical enemies, and Is a part of the plot of Boss Murphy and his political conspirators con-spirators to discredit me because they cannot use nie for their nefarious schemes to loot the state of New York. "I defy theni all to do their worst. Their efforts to Injure me with honest men will be abortive. I shall go forward without fear. 1 never did n thing In my life of which I am ashamed. "Sufficient to say," said the governor, In conclusion, "that I knew this Hopkins woman years ago. I was a friend of her family In their distress, but I deny emphatically em-phatically that T ever agreed to marry ner; that I ever wronged her: that I ever lived with her, or that I ever held her out to be my wife." Governor Sulzer's statement continues: Kj "Miss Hopkins sued me in New York for breach of promise some time after I married, about six years ngo. She could not sustain her charges and admitted ad-mitted she brought the suit for ulterior purposes. That case was settled and my lawyer has general release from this woman to inc. My reason for settling then was on awount of the precarious condition of Mrs. Sulzcr." |