The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-18
Calls Impeachment Tribunal
Murphy's High Court
Of Infamy"
"POLITICAL LYNCHING"
WAS ANOTHER CRY
Notice Of His Removal Was
Served on Him Last
Night

Albany, N. Y, Oct. ls.-William Sui.
yer was served last evening with copy
of the verdict Of the impeachment court
which removed him from office OF gov
ernor OF New York yesterday.
"Good, / thank you" he said to the
sergeant-at- of the Senate, who de-
livered the document.
Mr.. Sulzer, private citizen, will leave
the capital probably on Sunday, where,
he has not disclosed
The incoming governor issued a state
ment in which he said his endeavor
would be "to give the people OF the
state an honest, peaceful, progressive
and wise conduct of public affairs"
The outgoing executive issued state
ment in which he denounced the tribu-
nal which had removed him as Murphy's
"high court Of infamy.'
Murphy controlled the Assembly and
ordered the impeachment" he said. HE
controlled most of the members OF the
court and dictated procedure, and wrote
the Judgment. He was the judge and
jury; the prosecutor and the bailiff.'
Sulzer declared that his trial was a
.politieal lynching as far as the Tam
manyzed part of the court was con-
cerned, the confirmation of deep-laid
political conspiracy to oust me from Of.
flee"
"a horse thief in frontier days" he
said, "would have received squarer
deal"
He characterized the secret sessions OF
the court as 'star chamber proceedings
where the enemies of the state could
work for my conviction undiscovered"
He asserted that he had not taken
the stand in his own defense because
he realized that his story attacking the
Tammany leader would be ruled out.
Duncan w Peck, who testified that
the governor had asked him to deny un-
der oath contribution to his campaign
fund "lied about me to save his job"
Sulzer declared.
He entered a general denial of all
the charges in the impeachment articles,
denied that he had ever asked Allan
A. Ryan to obtain the influence of Muir
ply or Republican State Chairman
Barnes to stop the trial; said that the
testimony of Henry L. Morgenthau
could not be explained; asserted that
every dollar that had been given him
during his campaign had been properly
accounted for; that he was $4,000 in
debt; that he had been faithful to
his trust" and that he ''handed back to
the people the commission they gave me
untarnished and unsullied."
"Had | but served the boss with half
the zeal / did the state, William Sui
ger would never have been impeached,"
he said.
A Tense Moment.
1t was few minutes before o'clock
last night when Thomas G. Nolan, SER
geant -at-arms Of the Senate, and George
A. Mustard, the process server, who To-
Gated Louis A. Sarecky, the governors
campaign secretary, after long search,
arrived at the executive mansion. They
were admitted Immediately and escort
ed upstairs to the study.
Sulzer and Chester G. Platt, his secre-
tary, were seated at table. As No
Ian entered the room they recognized
him, but did not rise. Nolan drew the
the copy of the courts judgment from
his pocket and said:
civilian Sulzer, hereby serve you
with copy of the judgment of the
high court of impeachment of the state
of New York"
Then Nolan handed the document to
Sulzer. 1t was written on piece of
ordinary foolscap paper. Patrick Z. Nc
Cabe, clerk of the Senate and one of
Suffers political opponents, was the
penman. He wrote Court of Impeach-
ment" across the top of the sheet in
ink and placed the state seal, or part
of it, for the stamping machine did
not land squarely, on one corner.
Sulzer took the paper, erumbled it in
his hand, paled slightly, threw the docu-
ment on the table without reading it,
and said:
"Good. thank you, sergeant"
Still sitting, Sulzer bade Nolan good
bye, and the sergeant at-arms left the
room. The whole transaction was over
in less than two minutes.
In the meantime score of newspaper
men, who had been summoned to the ex-
ecutive mansion to meet the governor
at o'clock, waited on the veranda out |
side. Nolan passed out and the news
paper men We're admitted into the cred
ROOM to the right of the front en-
trance to the mansion.
They arranged themselves in circle
around the room and waited quietly for |
the impeached executive. In a hall out |
side Mrs. Sulzer played with Patsy
an Irish terrier dog. The animal growled
and bsrked and snapped at the shawl
she held in her hands, while she seold- |
ed him gently.
Nathan B. Chadsey, a member of the
Sulzer Kitchen cabinet" who was visi-
bly, excited, appeared and said the state
ment was almost ready. A moment |
later Platt appeared with copies of it.
"The governor win see you in a
minute" he said.
Suddenly, from out of a dsrkened |
room to the right SpIzer stepped into
the circle. If he is the nervous wreck |
that some have reported him to be, he
did not show it. He was pale but smil-
ing. He shook hands warmly and told
everyone he was glad to see him."