The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-17
Found Guilty of Three Of Eight
Counts Charged Against
Him by Tammany
Assembly.
NOT ENTIRELY MARTYR
Undoubtedly Guilty of Some Of
the Things Which Had
Been Laid at His
Door.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
[By John Nevin. Staff Correspondent
of the United Press.l
ALBANY, N. Y, Oct. 17.-Martin H.
Glynn, governor. vice William Sulzer.
impeached and removed.
That is the way the records Of the
state of New York now read.
Today the high court OF impeach.
ment, by vote of 43 guilty to 10 not
guilty, formally removed from offie%
the elected chief executive. Convict
ed on three of the eight counts for
"high crimes and mtsdemeanors"
charged against him by the Tammany
assembly. the court confined It's yer.
dict by ousting him from the position
which has often been designated as
the stepping stone to the presidency" J"
Two members, Judge Cullen, presiding,
and Senator Wend, of Buffalo, were
excused from voting.
The entire membership of the court
of appeals with the exception of Judge
Cullen voted to remove the governor
from office with the senators. With
the senators the total vote was 43, or
more than the two-thirds vote neces.
sary for removal.
Though disgraced by this verdict
which he declares was due to his re
f,lsal to bow to the vii of Tammans
fhal1, Sulzer has chance OF rehabilita
1 tion. He is not forever disqualified
| from office holding. To use his own
| language they gave him a chance to In
stitute personally conducted recall
election. This Sulzer declares he viii
do. He declared that he will get his
side of the case before the people. He
/ insisted today to his friends that he
had just begun to fight" and would be
a candidate for the nomination fol
governor one year from now. Sulzel
insisted that privately he would MOI
accept the verdict OF disqualification
as meaning anything other iian the
will of Tammany hall and the votes
that it controlled in the senate and the
court Of appeals
habiltation along the lines of con
certed fight to kill Tammany as pc
litical factor in the state.
Sulzer has publicly claimed time and
again that had he been willing tc
! agree to appoint Tammany men to of
fice he would not have been hamperet
in his work as governor. He has al
legged that his first real break will
4 Chas. F. Murphy came because he re
4 fused to appoint the latter's friend ant
business associate, James Gaffney tt
office under the administration. Blu
| while it may be true that Sulzer woult
never have been impeached had bt
bowed to Tammany's will, no one whc
has analyzed the result of the trial ant
the vote as recorded can believe tina
Sulzer was made martyr. The proof
of his guilt were clear and decisive
/ Even his own counsel admitted thi
fact but in their arguments they at
tackled the legality of the impeach
ment proceedings. Their fight was al
along technical lines and they did no
make any real attempt to overthrow
the evidence of the prosecution. The
brought out Louis A. Sarecky TO
years the confidential stenographer o
/ the governor as a scapegoat. Sareck
accepted the responsibility. But hi
story was so plainly influenced by hi
loyalty to his chief that It had little ei
feet on the court.
Although this was the first time il