The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-11
SULzER CASE IS
IN THE HANDS
Of HIS JUDGES
Court Will Reconvene Mon
day Afternoon to Decide
Whether Balloting Shall
Be Public or Secret.
POPULAR DEMAND is
FOR OPEN SESSION
Parker and Bracket Hurl In
vective at Governor in
Closing Argument; Her
rick Pleads for Mercy.

ADbAN :, IN. -, OcJs lU.-GOEernOr
William Sulzer's fate tonight rests
with his judges
The final arguments of counsel for
and against him were delivered today
before the high court of impeachment.
Immediately thereafter the court ad-
journed until next Monday afternoon
at 2:30 clock.
Upon reconvening the court will de-
eide upon its plan Of balloting, wheth
er it shall be done in open or execu-
tive session, and then take UP the con-
stitutional objections to the impeach-
ment charges that have been raised by
counsel for the governor. If the judges
hold adversely in whole or in part to
the contentious of Sulzer's counsel,
vote on his guilt or innocence will fol
low. The next question to be decided
will be whether he should be removed
from office. Should this be decided af-
frmatively, the judges then will vote
on whether additional punishment, dis
qualification from ever holding public
Office in this state again, shall be meted
out to him.
Popular demand is for an open ses-
sion Of court
No record has been kept of the pro-
ceedings of the few executive sessions
which have been held and this has
aroused much criticism.
Parker's Invective.
No moro bitter criticism has been
made Of the governor and no kinder
words have been said in his behalf
than were heard in the courtroom to-
day. Judge Alton B. Parker, who for
hours had argued the legal aspects of
the case for the board of managers on
the day previous, suddenly switched
his tactics today and showered the gov
ernor with a fire Of invective and ac-
cusation Of criminal wrongdoing. The
governor, he said, had sought to hide
himself behind his wife's skirts.
"Defance, defense, justification, pre-
varication, denunciation Of his accus-
ers, attempts to suppress and falsify
testimony and efforts to cast the blame
elsewhere-each in turn" declared the
attorney, "has been stripped from his
quaking flesh until he stands now naked
before this court without a rag Of his
attempted vindication clinging to his
deformed and mutilated manhood. Ev-
cry disguise has been torn from his
back, from the petticoat in which he
trusted for safety to the armor Of de.
fance in which he threatened to at
tack and expose a political leadership
to which we have found him suing for
merciful obliteration of his misdeeds
and offering the bribe of submission -
Herrick's Mild Plea.
To Judge D. Cady Herrick, chief of
the governors counsel, fell the task Of
saying the final word for the accused
executive. Ills remarks stood out in
strange contrast to the vitriolic attack
Of Judge Parker. The governor was
pictured by Herrick as an honest but
eccentric man, to whom even the
thought of committing crime was
thing apart. The attorney did not seek
to excuse the governor g method in OBJ
tanning campaign funds and admitted
that Sulzer had low ethical standards,
but argued that no criminal intent had
been shown, and therefore the charges
had not been sustained.
"Some members of this COURT he
said, "have known him for years; Of
his carelessness in money matters; of
his overweaning ambition; known of
his egotism; known of his proneness to
consider those things which are the
creatures of his imagination as actual
facts; but none Of you in the past ever
have regarded him as dishonest man,
perjurer or thief-and that is what
these charges come down to-
Attempts Justification.
Judge Herrick sought to justify the
governor b attempt to seek the politi-
cal influence of Charles L. Murphy and
Republican State Chairman William
Barnes to stop his trial, as testified to
by Allan A. Ryan. The truth of this
testimony, which counsel for the gov
ernor allowed to go into the record
without attempting to disprove, Judge
Herrick appeared to concede.
To determination to shield his wife
the governor g failure to take the wit
ness stand was attributed by the attor-
ney, who declared, also. that the same
motive prompted Mr.. Sulzer when he
sought the aid Of Murphy and Barnes.
tIImagine yourself in his place. he
said. "There are some things that a
decent, manly man cannot do to save
himself; some things a man of even low
ethical standards cannot allow to be
made, even at risk Of losing high po-
sition and being forever disqualified for
political preferment and honors. Which
would you do7 Run the risk of losing
the empty honor Of being governor
empty if held with dishouor-or lose