Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-14 | Page 4 | Declares Sulzer Offered to Resign

( DECLARES SUIiEfi OFFERED TO REM Aaron Levy Makes Statement Which Is Pronounced False by D. Cady Herrkk. TAMMANY MAN INSISTS Charles Dorsch Denies Story That He Collected $50,000 I for the Campaign. By International' News Service. NEW YORK.; Sept. I, ".."Governor Sulzcr, through au emissary," ottered to resign if wo would drop the. imeaoh-nicul imeaoh-nicul proceedings. against Jiin:. We. declined de-clined to do it. ' This statement was made tonight, by Aaron ficw. chairman of -the'asscmbly I beard of impeachment, vfr.ei" he had been informed that. D. Cady llervic-k of counsel for the impeached governor had denounced as;. false1 a'similar. statement trade earlier in the day.-"A day.-"A direct oft'erVame to 'the impeach -ment board, ' added'' "IM r. ljey, "through a lawyer- who spoke, of himself him-self as a life-long friend of Governor ,n Sulzer. He is well known as a forim-r M judge in this city. fro Told us he had I been authorised b Governor Sulzer to scp about abandoning he impeachment. impeach-ment. 1 1 0 said,. 'Governor Sulzcr is willing to resign if yOu will let the im-' im-' pearhment proceedings drop. Ho is tired l of it all.; Declined to Compromise. "When I told him that it was be' yond our power to drop the proceedings I now. he suggested that a man like Al- i ton B. Parker be .elected by both sides j to compromise the matter. ,1 informed, I him wo had evidence against ' Governor M j Sulzer that would warrant his removal II and 1he matter would have to take its fjlj "our?e. M "To make mire of the authority of it! vrc emissary,.! asked. if he had consult- 7' cd the governor and he replied, ' Yes, ffl 1 have talked with the governor and it III i is from him that, I have conic to you.' n ?,;) When D. Cady llcrrick at Albany !5 l e.ard of this statement he telegraphed :.i Mr. Levy: . I "I ask you- what the name ot that prominent lawyer is; Kifher you are stating a falsehood c'r you have been imposed upon. Governor Sulzer has no intention of resigning." "dust, the same." commented Mr. Lew after reading this telegram, "the lawyer did come and the proposal was made as I have stated it." According to Mr. Levy, the board of impeachment now has evidence that since the beginning 'of the'inipcacluneut proceedings. Governor Sulzer has written writ-ten to iospVetrve..;7vitnesses urging them not to appear and Testify against him. These letters, lie said, will form the basis of newly discovered evidence that, will be presented to the assembly next Thursday" rfigbt'Xvh'en thVTriTpeaell-" mont. comes up. "We have cvidonfe ' that Govornor-Sul'.er Govornor-Sul'.er has offorcd jobs 'to. certain men as an inducement notto testify against him. Clearly he has tried to coerce witnesses." continued. Mi Lew. "and on this alone we could remove him' ' ' Denial by Dorrsch. Charles Dorsch denied 'tonight, that ho had made a statement to Jlie" Snlzcr impeachment managers about having collected $50,000 for the Sul.cr' campaign. cam-paign. "F talked to Mr. Krosc of counsel for the board of managers, Friday," said Mr. Dorsch. "and told him that o.v-Scnafor Charles A. Stadler and some of his friends, all of them friends of Governor Sulzer, had made up a little fund to ontributc to Sulzer. 's campaign fund.- Tt was about $1000, certainly not more than $1200. I took the checks down, a few checks, and T really acted as the messenger in taking the checks to Mr. Sulzer. That -was all there was to my testimony."