The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
SULzER InPEACHED
BY Vote OF 79 TO 45 AFTER AN
ALL MIGHT SESSION
Wife TAKES ALL BLAME


His knowledge, but Her Eleventh
Hour Statement Failed to Halt the
Impeachment Proceedings.
Governor William Sulzer was i'm
peached at Sis o'clock Wednesday
morning by the democratic majority
in the assembly of the New York leg
islature at Albany. The vote, 79 to
As, came after an all-night session
and after the governors wife had
made an eleventh hour effort to save
him at the risk Of sacrificing her own
reputation.
After marking time all day Tues,
day in order to allow absent mem
bers time to arrive in Albany so
as to have enough votes to carry the
impeachment resolution the New
York legislature went into session at
elevent o'clock Tuesday night.
The first roll call indicated that
the organization had the votes to
carry out its program to impeach the
governor before adjournment. One
hundred and twenty-five members
answered to their names as follows:
Democrats, IS; Republicans, 35;
Progressiyes, 2. Of the IS Demo-
Gratis, the majority leader was conf
dent that 7S-two more than a bare
majority-would vote for the i'm
peachment resolution.
On Tuesday afternoon fearing i'm
peachment proceedings against her
husband Mrs. Sulzer told Senator
Palmer that she had dabbled in
stocks with the campaign money. but
that. the governor knew nothing Of
her dealings on the Exchange until
the Frawley committee began it's in
| vestigation. When he first heard the
revelations, his friends said, he re-
fused to believe, but ridiculed them
as hoax and branded them as an at
tempt to secure his resignation.
L; er, when it was seen that the
| Frawley committee was in earnest In
it's Investigation, Mrs. Sulzer, it Is
declared, told the governor of her ac-
tons and volunteered to make a pub
lie statement detailing them. This,
it is said, Governor Sulzer refused to
permit. When the testimony con-
cerning the Wall street transactions,
was brought out, Mrs. Sulzer again
insisted, according to the story, that
she tell all and save her husband.
Governor Sulzer consented to per-
nit Mrs. Sulzer's declaration to be-
come public late Tuesday night, only
when he found that he could not pre-
vent it and that it lived as rumor
on the lips Ct every member Of the
assembly.
At one o'clock Monday morning
Governor Sulzer, Of New York, who
faces impeachment on charge OF u.s.
ing campaign contributions contrary
to law, and who is also charged with
having sworn Incorrectly to his ex-
| pease account, gave out the follow
| ing statement:
"In view of the fact that the Fraw-
ley committee is about to make its
report of the investigation it has been
making, 1 am advised that it would
be unwise for me at this time to
| make any detailed statement in reply
to the matters that had been brought
to the attention Of that committee,
but having promised that would fur
| nish the press statement, in fulfill
ment of that promise I make the fol-
lowing brief reply to the matters that
I am informed had been brought be-
fore such committee.
'I deny that I used any campaign
contributions for personal use.
'I deny that I speculated in Wall
street or used money contributed for
campaign purposes to buy stock eth
er in my own name or otherwise.
II never had an account with Full
ler & Gray or Boyer & Griswold. I
never heard of these firms, do not
know the members, and knew moth
ing about the transactions with these
firms testified to before the Frawley
committee until recently threatened
with exposure, and the alleged trans
actions were brought to my attention
| by the Frawley committee.
The stock matter with Harris and
Fuller was not speculative account
or matter, but loan made upon
stock collateral, which stocks had
been acquired and paid for years be-
| fore my nomination for the Office Of
| Governor, and from other sources
than Harris and Fuller.
Certain checks given to me for
campaign purposes were deposited to
my personal account, and thereafter
I paid the amount of said checks to
my campaign committee.
"In filing my statement Of receipts
ard disbursements with the Secre-
! tary of State I relied on information
| furnished me by the persons in i'm
! mediate charge of my campaign, and
in whom I had and have the most
! implicit confidence, and believe the
statement furnished by them to me
] 70 be accurate and true"
Since his occupancy Of the Execu-
tive office Governor SulZer has de-
clared he has been subjected to con-
tinual espionage. Spies invaded his
household in New York before his
! Inauguration, friends declared, and
! followed him to Albany.
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