Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-08-22

he said his life was in danger =
declared, after his break with M ~
many Hall, that he had emplovas
guards to protect him against nosc;S1
assassination. Attack after attaSs
mostly traceable to political enemioa
was made on Sulzer. He was accpsos
of perjury, the alleged offense bavinS
been committed, according to his -
cuser, in 1890 That accusation didn.
seem to have much effect In the wor
of running Sulzer, SO suit was filed i
Philadelphia by young woman
of the name of Mignon pollr-
Hopkins, charging Sulzer with
breach of promise. This actin
Sulzer said also, was a move on tha
part of his political enemies. Miss
Hopkins asked $4,000 damages for her
wounded heart Sulzer admitted hav
| ing known Miss Hopkins some wears
ago, but denied that he had ever prO.
posed marriage to her.
Row over Direct Primaries,
When Sulzer promised real direct
primaries to the people of New York
he evidently meant what he said
When he went into office he made #
his business to start legislation for di.
rect primaries on its way He dis.
covered, however, that he and his NO.
litical associates had very different
ideas of the kind of direct primaries
New York wanted. A bill was intro.
duced at the instigation of Sulzer. hut
before it was voted upon another d.
rect primary bill, which Sulzer char
acterized "fraud upon the people,
was introduced IN both branches of the
legislature and passed Governor Sui
ze- vetoed it. and then called upon
the legislators to pass his bill. The
assembly and then the senate killed
the Sulzer bill, amid scenes such as
the senate and assembly chambers had
never before seen. There were shouts
of rage and ghakings of fists in the d.
rection Of the capitol. There were
cheers and shouts when it was an
nounced that the bills had been killed.
SulZer then started a campaign to
obtain direct primaries. He enlisted
many well known men in his cause.
and called the legislature in extraor.
binary session. 1t had then become
case OF open warfare.
His Campaign Fund Investigated
The governor instigated investiga.
tions of several state departments, and
then Tammany retaliated in kind with
an investigation Of Suffers campaign
fund by a legislative committee. Sen
ator Frawley, a Tammany chieftain,
was the chairman of the committee
and it commenced its sittings in al.
bany. 1t was intimated that Sulzer
had received checks for his campaign
fund which he had not listed in his
sworn statement, misdemeanor IN
der the laws of New York state Two
checks were introduced into the ev-
dence. One was for $4,000 from Kuhn,
Loeb & Co., the bankers, and endorsed
Mr.. Schiff's contribution to the Sui
yer campaign" The other check was
for $500 and was signed by Abram /.
Elkus, a prominent New York city law
yer. 1t was alleged by the Frawley
committee that neither of these checks
appeared in Suffers campaign list.
At a later session of the Frawley
committee, held in New York, it de-
veloped that Sulzer had owed the stock
brokerage firm of Harris & Fuller $4S,-
1898 on January /, 1912. when Sui
ger was in congress. According to
testimony and evidence offered, Sulzer
had been a steady loser in the stock
market. The brokers to whom he owed
money dunned him for payment, ac-
cording to the testimony, and Sulzer
was finally rescued by his business
partner, Ex-Governor A. g. Spriggs, Of
Montana, who paid $4,000, and Louis
M. Josephthal of New York, who, on
July 10 last, paid 26,74921.
1t also developed before the COM
mittee that Sulzer had traded with
Boyer, Griswold G Co. Charles H.
Reynolds. formerly cashier for the
firm, testified that on October 16 last,
Frederick L. Colwell, whom he under
stood to be an agent for Sulzer, had
bought 200 shares of Big Four for $12,-
O25. The stock was paid for the same
day with eight checks and $7,125 in
cash. One check given in payment for
the stock was a campaign contribution,
The Frawley committee alleged that
tie seven other checks were also cam
paign contributions, and asserted that
this would be proved.
Other Governors Impeached.
Seven other governors in the United
States have faced impeachment pro-
ceedings. These men and the results
that followed we're:
Charles Robinson, Kansas. 1862, &C
quilted.
Harrison Reed, Florida. 1868,
charges dropped
William W. Holden, North Carolina,
1870, removed.
Powell Clayton, Arkansas, 1871,
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