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


Trial.
ALBANY, y. Y. October IL. = Never
since the impeachment trial of Gov. Sui
ger opened has he been subject 10 such
a severe verbal f1aying Judge Alton
b. Parker and former State Senator Ed
gar T. Bracket delivered for the board
of managers today. Judge Parker's 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 &c
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 defensee
and his futile efforts to dodge by tech
niealities 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." "a
"The same public opinion takes cog
nizance of the fact that the defendant
is suffering from such severe attack
of moral near-sightedness that even when
directed by a myriad of scornfui 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
nakedness of his wrongdoing. Defiance.
defense. Justification, prevarication. de-
nunciation of his accusers: attempts to
suppress and faisify testimony. and ef-
forts to cast the blame elsewhere-each
in turn has been stripped from his quak-
ing flesh until he stands now naked be-
fore this court without a rag Of his at
tenlpted vindication ciinging to his de-
formed and mutilated manhood.
"Every disguise has been torn from his
back. from the petticoat In which he
frosted for safety to the armor Of de-
fance in which he threatened to attavk
and expose political leadership to which
we have found him suing for a merciful
obIteration of his misdeeds and Offering
the bribe of submission.
with this court alone rests the duty
Of delivering this state from the menace
that hangs above 1t 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 Sulxer.
Not a single great ruler In history"
he said, can be absolved by a Judge
who fixes his eve inexorably upon one
or two unjustifiable acts.
sSome of you are member of a pow
erful and imperious political organixa-
tfon that has kept the respondent in
public life for years and has placed
him where he now Is in more than one
reanbCf niRoranNaR ho
tween that organization and this re-
spondent. Many OF its members BE-
neve him ungratefui and disloyal Who
Is right and who Is wrong. know not;
whether the allegiance and loyalty de-
manded by that organization came In
conflict with the allegiance and the
loyalty that he owed to the state I
know not: whatever the causes OF these
diHerences may be with that ,organiza-
ton. you are bound to disregard them
He is not on trial for disloyalty; he
is. not on trial for ingratitude. and you
nave taken solemn oath to try him
imparually upon the charges here
brought against him and nothing else
Another Glass Of Judges.
Then 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-
larly when addressed by the executive of
the stase to members of a 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 every feeling, because he is on trial
for none Of these things. and you have
sworn TO pass Judgment upon this case
inpartiaffy.''
Z 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 1t he asserted
that former State Senator Stephen J..
Stflfwell. who is now serving q term in
Sing Sing prison as a barterer Of his leg
islative vote and influence, might have
sat at the feet of Gov. Sulzer and learned
crime
'And this is the pharisee,' he said,
actery. in proof OF his own virtue de-
manded that Stiffwell resign - Stiliwell,
who, il all charges against him were true,
and more. could still have sat at the feet
of,this man and learned crime, even as
Saul sat at the feet of GamaIiel and
learned all the wisdom Of the ancient
Jews"
Attempts to Terrorize.
From the beginning of the impeach-
ment proceedings. Mr. Bracket declared.
there had been persistent and studied
attempt to terrorize the members Of the
Impeachment court, and every person as
ISOLATED with the prosecution
every means known to the dema-
gogue has been attempted to accomplish
it," he said.
political extinction has been threat
ened to those bold enough to urge that
IL might be well to have an orderly IN
vestigation of the matters charged against
this man. Counsel have been warned
that their appearance for the people here
would result In savage attacks upon them
We have witnessed the iBdeoency-for
think n fcan be called nothing iess-oi
public meetings called to overawe your
Judgment and 10 give you instructions
how TO decide this cause before single
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