Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-08-20
vsstigation" OF some Tammany-con.
trolled state department.

I
ments- Boss Murphy sought to have
certain organization men appointed tc
Office. Sulzer declined TO appoint them
although he had been something Of an
organization man himself for a great
many years, and Immediately after his
election TO the goeernorship had been
intimate with Murphy. so intimate that
Mr.. and Mrs. Murphy were welcome al
the Peoples House, as Governor Sui
! ger asserted himself in an interview.
Sulzer may have told the truth when
he said his life was In danger. He
declared. after his break with Tam
many Hall. that he had employed
guards to protect him against possible
/ assassination. Attack after attack
mostly traeeable TO political enemies
was made on Sulzer. He was accused
of perjury, the alleged offense having
been committed, according TO his ac
cuser. in 1890. That accusation didn't
seem TO have much effect in the way
of running Sulzer, so suit was filed IN
Philadelphia by young woman
OF the name OF Mignon (Pollyl
Hopkins. charging Sulzer with
breach OF promise. This action
Sulzer said also, was a move on the
part of his political enemies. Miss
Hopkins asked $4,000 damages for her
wounded heart. Sulzer admitted hav.
ing known Miss Hopkins some years
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 il
his business to start legislation scr di-
rect primaries on it's way He dis.
covered. however. that he and his po-
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, Sut
before it was voted upon another di-
rect primary bill, which Sulzer char.
acterized a fraud upon the people.
was introduced in both branches of the
legislature and passed. Governor Sui.
ger 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 seem There were shouts
of rage and shakings of fists in the di.
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 a
case Of open warfare.
His Campaign Fund Investigated.
The governor instigated investiga-
tions of several state departments, ard
then Tammany retaliated in kind with
an investigation of Suffers campaign
fund by 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, a misdemeanor un-
der the laws of New York state Two
checks were introduced into the evil
dence One was for $4,000 from Kuhn
Loeb & Co, the bankers. and endorsed
Mr. Sehiff's contribution to the Sui.
ger campaign" The other check was
for $500 and was signed by Abram L
Elkus, prominent New York city law,
yer. 1t was alleged by the Frawiey
committee that neither of these checks
appeared in Suffers campaign list
At a later session of the Frawley
comrittce, held in New York. it de
veloAcj that Sulzer had owed the stock
brokerage firm OF Harris & Fuller $4s,
599.3S on January 1. 1912, when Sui
ger was in congress. According to
testimony and evidence offered, sulzeI
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. E. Spriggs. OF
Montana, who paid $4,000, and Louis
" Josephthal of New York, who, on
July 10 last, paid s26.749.21,
II also developed before the com
m.ttee that Sulzer had traded with
Boyer. Griswold & Co. Charles II
/, 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 S12,
OBS. The stock was paid for the same
day with eight checks and s7,125 in
cash One check given in payment for
the stock was campaign contribution
The Frawley committee alleged that
the seven other checks were also cam
paign contributions, and asserted that
this would be proved.
Other Governors inpeached.
Seven other governors in the United
States have faced impeachment pro-
ceedings. These men and the results
that followed were:
Charles Robinson, Kansas, 1862. &C.
quilted
Harrison Reed. Florida, 1868,
charges dropped.
William w Holden, North Carolina,
1870, removed.
Powell Clayton. Arkansas, 1871,
charges dropped
David Butler, Nebraska. 1871. re-
moved.
Henry c. Warmoth, Louisiana, 1872,
tery7 axpirod oud r,roraedfupQ drnppad
Adelbert Ames, Mississippi, 1876. re