Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-11
Parker and Bracket Unmerci-
full in Denunciation of New
York Governor.
GUILT HAS BEEN PROVEN,
DECLARES PROSECUTION
Herrick Makes Final Defense in
Closing Impeachment
Trial.

ALBANY, y. Y. October 10. - Never
since the impeachment trial of Gov. Sui
ger opened has he been subject to such
a severe verbal fiaying as Judge Alton
r. Parker and former State Senator Ed
gar L. Bracket delivered for the board
of managers today. Judge Parkers cas-
tigation came before the court had
scarcely settled down to work. the judge
merely taking a few minutes of the
morning session before giving way to
Judge Cady Herrick. for the defense.
Before this bar the defendant stands
guilty of these offenses charged by the
Impeachment and proved by uncontro-
verted evidence" he said. Before the
bar OF the court of public opinion this
defendant stands condemned by further
damning testimony of his shifty defenses
and his futile efforts to dodge by tech
nicalitieS the trial of the issues before
this high court. In these actions. public
opinion. with a freedom not committed,
judicial opinion finds direct evidence of
guilt.
moral Near-Sightedness."
THE same public opinion takes cog
nizance OF the fact that the defendant
is suffering from such a severe attack
directed by a myriad of scornful fingers
he cannot discern the criminal and dis
honorable nature of the acts proved.
Even justice must see through its Sc
we're eye something of the pathetic in this
defendants frantic efforts to cover the
na"edncss of his wronsdoing. Defiance,
defense. Justification. prevarication. de-
nJnciat.on of his accusers: attempts to
suppress and falsify testimony. and eff
forts To- east the blame elsewhere-each
In turn has been stripped from his quak
Ing flesh until he stands now naked be-
fore th1 court without rag of his at
tempted vindicatIon clingins to his de-
formed and mutilated manhood.
Every disguise has been torn from his
back. from the petticoat in which he
trusted for safety TO the armor of de-
fanCe i'm which he threatened to attavk
and expose a political leadership to which
we have found him suing for merciful
obliteratou of his niisdeeds and Offering
the bride of submission.
with this court alone rests the duty
Of delivering this state from the menace
that hangs above il so long as this man
remains in the executive chair
Judge Herrick's Plea.
Judge Herrick then began the final
arguments in behalf of Gov. Sulzer
Not single great ruler In history"
he said. can be absolved by Il judge
who fixes his eye inexorably upon one
or two unjustifiable acts.
Some of you are member of a pow
erful and irnperiOus political organiza-
tion that has Kept the respondent in
public life for years and has placed
him where he now is in more than one
respect. Differences have arisen be-
tween that organization and this re-
spondent Many OF its members be-
1teve him ungrateful and disloyal Who
is right and who is wrong. I know not;
whether the allegiance and loyalty de-
manded by that organization came in
conhict with the allegiance and the
loyalty that he owed to the state
know not; whatever the causes of these
differences may be with that organiza-
ton, you are bound to disregard them
lie Is not on Trial for disloyalty; he
Is not on trial for ingratitude. and you
nave taken solemn oath to try him
impartially upon the charges here
brought. against him and nothing else
Another Class of Judges.
fhen there is another class Of judges,
men with whom he has had personal
controversies, toward whom he has used
abusive and threatening language; some
OF YOU. he said. he would drive from pub
lie life. / have no justification for the
language used 1t was wrong, particu-
larry when addressed by the executive Of
the state To members of coordinate
branch of the government. but you are to
cast aside all personal feelings disregard
all personal controversies clear YOUR
minds of every prejudice, every passion
and eveiy feeling. because he is on trial
Tor none OF these things, and you have
sworn to pass Judgment upon this case
impartially.'
Bracket Speech vitriolic.
Former state Senator Edgar T. Brack-
eft closed the case for the board OF i'm
parchment managers with a vitriolic
speech. In the course of II he asserted