Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-08-22
gov. WILLIAM SULzER is IMPEACHtD
New York Assembly Accuses the Executive OF Larceny 1e
and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors-ifia WIN 20
Before the Senate

+, cuser. I'm 1890. That accusation dun |
seem to have much effect IN the va
Of running Sulzer, SO suit was hieu rs
philadelphia by a young woman
of the name OF Mignon (Poiiyl
Hopkins. charging Suizer WIFE
breach of promise. This action
Sulzer said also, was move on .he
part of mis- political enemies. MISS
| Hopkins asked $4,000 damages for her
wounded heart. Sulzer admitted nav
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 1t
his business to start legislation for al"
rect primaries on its 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, but
before 1t was voted upon another d.
| rect primary bill, which Sulzer char
| acterized a fraud upon the people,
was introduced in both branches of the
| legislature and passed. Governor Sui
re, vetoed 1t, 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 shakings of fists in the di-
rection of the capitol. There were
cheers and shouts when 1t 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 q
case Of open warfare.
His Campaign Fund Investigated.
The governor instigated investiga
tons of several state departments, and
then Tammany retaliated in kind with
an investigation of Suffers campaign
fund by q legislative committee. Sen.
ator Frawley, 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 UNI
der the laws Of New York state. Two
checks were introduced into the evil
dence. One was for $4,000 from Kuhn,
Loeb e Co.. the bankers, and endorsed
Mr.. Schiff's contribution to the Sui
Ger campaign" The other check was
tor $500 and was signed by Abram i.
Elkus, prominent New York city law
yer. 1t was alleged by the Frawley
committee that neither of these checks
appeared in Suffers campaign list.
At 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,-
599.S8 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. e. Spriggs, of
Montana, who paid $4,000, and Louis
M. .'osephthal Of New York, who, on
July 10 last, paid $26.749.2l.
1t also developed before the COM
mittee that Sulzer had traded with
Boyer, Griswold & 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
fought 200 shares of Big Four for $12.-
OBS. 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 campaign contribution.
The Frawley committee alleged that
the seven other checks we're also cam
paign contributions, and asserted that
this would be proved.
Other Governors lmpeached.
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 G. Warmoth, Louisiana, 1872.
term expired and proceedings dropped.
Adelbert Ames. Mississippi. 1875, re-
signed