The Prescott daily news., 1913-10-10
SULzER'S DEFENSE
 Is TECHN|CAL|Ty LAWYER CLAIMS ACTS CHARGED WERE COMMITTED BEFORE
 HIS INAUGURATION. GOVERNORS RECORD UPHELD Attorney Calls Testimony of Duncan w. Peck, Who Said Executive
 Asked Him to Swear
 Falsely Invention"
GOVERNORS RECORD UPHELD

Albany, N. Y., Oct. 10.-Final argu- ments in the Sulzer impeachment trial will end tonight Attorneys for each side were allotted five hours virtually a full days session-for making their summing up addresses. It is now believed that at the end of the arguments tonight court will adjourn over Monday, which will be observed as Columbus day, until Tuesday. Then voting on the con- stitutional objections to the impeach- ment articles brought by attorneys for the defense and the impeachment articles themselves will begin.
 The voting on the objections to the articles of impeachment and the tes- timony will be done in executive ses- sion. The final vote will be taken on each of the eight articles separately, if all of them are allowed to stand
 'We are on the threshold of an event" began Attorney Marshall of Gov. Sulzer's counsel, which will make a permanent impression upon the history of our state, which will determine whether the reign of law has ceased and that of passion and prejudice has begun.
 Tt is for this court to decide to create a precedent which will inevi- tably and irrevocably declare the pol icy of this state with regard to the permanency of it's institutions and T Nft ~bn ln l. a up the sum total of it's official life.
 The picture which is now unfold ed before the civilized world is unique in the experience Of mankind. The governor of the greatest state in the Union, with a population of 10000 00O free men, who was elected less than one year ago by an un- precedented majority, is upon trial on an impeachment which charges him with the commission of various acts which. it is asserted, entitle the com plainants to a judgment of forfeiture of that office and which place an everlasting stigma upon his name and upon the honored office to which he was thus triumphantly chosen by the suffrages of his fellow citizens
 Sketches Governors History.
 Marshall then sketches the govern or's political history.
 And now William Sulzer, who wrought all this" continued the at torney. stands before you on trial for his very existence, charged with being a common criminal. Not be- cause, while an incumbent of office, he has been guilty of official cor ruption, not because he has taken one dollar of the peoples money, nor has enriched himself at their expense or has received a bribe, or has done aught to injure the public veal; not because he has been guilty of trea- son, of violation of the constitution, nor of his oath of office; not because he has neglected the performance of his official duties; nor has absented himself from the seat of government; nor indicated. to the slightest degree, a lack of zeal for the public welfare. The achievements of his administra- tion, as they have passed before the eyes of the people, absolve him from all suspicion of guilt in regard to any of the offenses contained in the cate gory of the usual forms of official misconduct.
 And yet the impeachment man. agers are now seeking to remove Will liam Sulzer from the office which he has thus honorably filled Is months before the expiration of his term. If Macauley's celebrated New Zealand. CT. or Montesque's famous Persian are now among us, he well might ask why, in this land of boasted liberty and freedom, one deserving so well. should be subjected to this awful degradation, and why the state which he has served so well should be in- volved in his ruin and disgrace.
 Discusses Old Question.
 "The only answer is to be found in the articles of impeachment adopted at dawn on that fatal thirteenth day of August by the assembly of the state of New York in less than 36 hours after the presentation of the raport of an inyestieating committee