The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-10-21
GOVERNOR SuLz[R
HAS been REMOVED
Declares Trial Was a Political
LynChlng
VOTE STOOD 43 FOR REMOVAL TO
II AGAINST.

Has Been Offered Nomination TO Con.
gress on Progressive Ticket to Fill
Vancancy.
| New York-A telegram was sent to
William Sulzer Friday night asking
MIN to accept the nomination of the
progressive party for congress in the
| twentieth district, to take the place of
oscar 5. Straus, who recently declined
the nomination, according to an
nouncement by Max M. Huerlenstein,
member Of the Progressive party
committee on vacancies in the district.
Albany, N. Y.-William Sulzer ceas-
! ed to be governor of the state of New
York at noon Friday He was remov-
ed from office by the high court of
impeachment by vote of 43 to IL, two
members not voting.
Martin H. Glynn, lieutenant COVER
nor, was sworn in as his successor.
The verdict of the court was that
Sulzer was guilty of Justification, per-
jury and an attempt to suppress evil
dence against him. OF all other
| charges he was acquitted, the court
Friday unanimously voting him not
guilty OF the four remaining articles
of impeachment.
BY virtually unanimous vote also
the impeachment tribunal decided that
Sulzer should not be punished by dis
qualification to hold office of honor
and trust in this state in the future.
This Wnn1A houo 10
penalty under the law.
The ousted executive was served
with copy of the verdict of the court
at the executive mansion-christened
| by himself. "The Peoples House.
few minutes before 6 o'clock at night,
| Good, l thank you,' he said to the
sergeant-at-arms of the senate, who
delivered the document.
Mr.. Sulzer, private citizen, will
leave the capital probbly on Sunday
wither he has not disclosed.
The outgoing executive issued a
statement in which he denounced the
stribunal which removed him as MUIR
phys high court of infamy."
"Mr. Murphy controlled the assem-
Dly and ordered the impeachment"
He controlled most of the men,
bers OF the court and dictated the pro-
cedure and wrote the Judgment. He
was the judge and jury; the prosecu-
tor and the bailiff"
Sulzer declared that his trial was "a
political lynching, as far as the Tam
manyized part of the court was con-
cerned."
He asserted he had not taken the
stand In his own defense because he
realized that his story attacking the
Tammany leader would be ruled out.
He entered a general denial of all
the charges in the impeachment ar
ticles; denied that he had ever asked
Allan A. Ryan to obtain the influence
of Murphy or Republican State Chair
man Barnes to stop the trial; said the
testimony Of Harry Morganthau could
be explained; asserted that every dol
lar that had been given him during
his campaign had been properly ac-
counted for; that he was $4,000 in
debt; that he had been faithful to his
trust" and that he handed back to
the people the commission they gave
me untarnished and unsullied."
Had I served the boss with half
the zeal did the state, William Sulzer
never would have been impeached. !"
he said.
At Fridays session of the court.
most OF the members recorded their
votes without explanation. Presiding
Judge Cullen, who voted not guilty on
every article of impeachment, asked
to be excused from voting on the re-
moval of the governor and made
similar request on the vote OF disoual-
ification. 1t fell to Judge Cullen to
pronounce the verdict of the court.
1t was a few minutes before 6
o'clock Friday night when Thomas G.
Nolan, sergeant-at-arms of the senate.
and George Mustard, the process SER
yer who located Louis A. Sarecky.
the governors campaign secretary, af-
ter a long search, arrived at the ex-
ecutive mansion bearing the courts
order OF removal. They were admit
ted Immediately and escorted upstairs
to his study.
Sulzer and Chester Platt, his secre-
tary, we're seated at a table. Nolan
handed the document to Sulzer. I'll
was written ON piece of ordinary
foolscap paper. Patrick e. McCabe.
clerk OF the senate, and one OF Sui
zer's political opponents, WAS the PEN
man.
sulzer took the paper. crumpled II
In his hand, paled slightly, threw the
document on the table without read
ing It and said:
Good; thank you. sergeant :"
Statesman.
Avoid chilly rooms In the morning