The Daily Missoulian

ADMIRERS CALL ON SULZER AND GIVE HIM A LOVING CUP

Hundreds of Supporters of Deposed Governor Express Their Esteem in Substantial Fashion—A Bouquet Is Presented to Mrs. Sulzer.

Albany, N. Y., Oct. 18.—There was red fire, oratory and music by a brass band at the executive mansion tonight, when several hundred admirers of William Sulzer called to present him with a loving cup.

A driving rain fell while the marchers were en route to the mansion. Sulzer started to shake hands with all his callers, but did not complete the task. They crowded around him and refused to move. Some one said a few words of consolation to him, only to be interrupted by Mrs. Sulzer.

"The action of the court is the least of our troubles," she said.

The crowd began to cheer.

"We'll have you back next year, Bill!" one man yelled.

Another enthusiastic man cried, "Hurrah for the next president of the United States!"

Thereupon there was more cheering. Cheers for Mrs. Sulzer followed. Chester C. Platt, Sulzer's secretary, read a speech assuring Sulzer he had been removed because he would not obey the bosses. Mention of Charles F. Murphy brought hisses.

"Lynch him!" shouted one man at the mention of the name of an assemblyman.

The cup presented to Sulzer was inscribed, "To William Sulzer, a victim of corrupt bossism, October 17, 1913."

Mrs. Sulzer was presented with a bouquet.

Due to Tammany.

Sulzer in a speech reiterated his assertion that his removal was due to his displeasing Tammany hall.

"Had I obeyed the boss instead of my oath of office, I should still be the governor and the organization would be patting me on the back and telling the people that I was a second Andrew Jackson," he said.

"My condemnation by the boss is intended to serve as a warning and a precedent to all who follow me, of what will happen to them if they do not 'obey,' but I believe my fate will have a good effect in the end, and do more than any other single thing I could do to destroy the terrors of corrupt bossism in the state."

A letter which Colonel Roosevelt wrote Sulzer on October 3 was given out by Platt. It was in response to one from Sulzer, telling Roosevelt, that on advice of counsel, Sulzer should not permit a letter he wrote the former president regarding the impeachment case to be made public. The letter follows:

"I thank you for your letter, and I am sorry that I have to leave before your defense is made public. I wish it had been possible for you to write to me the letter of which you wrote, giving me the definite facts as to the efforts of Mr. Murphy and his associates to bend you to their interests against the cause of honesty and decency in popular government, and their promise of immunity to you of impeachment if you would cease your attacks on the men who have been guilty of misconduct and theft in connection with public office, and if you would cease your demand for direct primaries. Such a letter, giving me in detail the facts, would, of course, have enabled me to speak more strongly than I have spoken."