Evening journal., 1913-10-18
SATURDAY OCT. l8. 1913.
SULzER'S INGLORI0Us END.

TA7 LILLIAN sULzER Democratic Governor OF New
w York, has been ousted from the high Office 10
which he elected by the people Of that State last
November which Office he had held only since last
January That is the climax of Of the worst po-
htical and official scandals that ever has conyused
what is admittedly the greatest state the Union The
TACT that the in the high court of impeachment
stood AZ to ~ against the accused executive is sgni-
dcant 1t shows that his defe Sc along certain lines
made little impression upon the minds of his judges
It did upon the minds Of persons outside the court
and outside the State. The fact that the im-
reachment court refused absolutely incorporate I.
Ms sentence of removal from Office a provision that
he be barred forever from holding public office show
ed that wholly lost to pity for the man who
had risen high and sunk so low in such compara-
lively short time.
Republicans the nation over may feioitate them
selves that the sulzer is scandal of the Demo-
Gratis by the Democrats and for the Democrats In no
sense is il that affects either the honor the in
tegrity Of the Republican party. The Democrats
mated suzer; they stood sponsor for his personal
and official prohity and they responsible for the
urwholesomo nature of his ftaTred ard discredited
administration Those facts that never should be
sight of by those who considering the rise and
fall ST tie whose public career has been wrecked
beyond repair a result Of his own folly
The articles OF impeachment upon which Governor
suzer was adiudged guilty were three in number, as
follows:
Article 1.--That Governor sulzsr filed with the
a
and oAher monetary transactions involved in his Gu
b@fnatorial campaign
Article 2-That he committed perjury in his state
ment to the Secretary of State relative to receipts
and expenditures.
Article 4-That he suppressed evidence by means
Of threat to keep witnesses from estfying before the
Legislative investigating committee
There eight ARTICLES in all, but those three
suaced to rid the public service Of the man whose
unworthness had been alleged and established to the
satisfaction of the court of impeachment
It IS useless now for the friends of the deposed
Governor to plead that he the victim of po-
itical conspiracy If he innocent OF the charges
ass,nst him, he had ample opportunity to prove
H. His defense weak and far from satisfactory
TO those who believed him to be wholly innocent
and who wished TO permitted continue in that be-
lief. No one VIII deny that Tammany Hail. perhaps
the corrupt political organization in the United
States, decided to ruin sulzer when 1t discovered it
could not use him. II should he borne in mind. how
that If suzer had been the clean, and honest
he professed to be and that If he had COM
ported himself properly, Tammany would not have had
it in its power to ruin him, matter what it might
have done
The trouble with Suzer was not that Tammany
made certain charges against him. but that IL was in
position to prove them after it had made them. In
other words. he had opportunity to prove his in
nocence and confound his political enemies and failed
to do it, That being the fact that he had cor
rupt accuser in Tammany Hall becomes mere Incl
dent
Suggestion is made by his optimistic partisan,
that his not ended and that he will fol
office again There is doubt that under po
Iitical system will have il within his power
nounce himself candidate for any offc from thai
o. President OF the United States down We feel sure
however, he will get far in the No party
would dare to nominate him and his record has been
that his appeals for independent support would
fall upon Sulzer has his political race
II Is pity it has had such nglorious ending