Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-23
SULZER GIVES UP
POST DURING TRIAL

there is no ground for the charge of
perjury, nor for the charge of neg
lect of duty"
Points Surprise Court.
These points were advanced in a
supplemental brief which. came as
q surprise to members of the high
court, to whom copies of Judge Her.
rick's original brief had been dis
tributed. Messengers were sent sour
rying to obtain law books, and the
members seemed to take a greater
interest in the new contentious than
they had evinced during any of the
other legal preliminaries. Informal
whispered consultations were held.
While the governors leading at
torney was speaking, the serenity Of
the court room was disturbed for a
moment by the falling of the heavy
velvet draperies over the door at the
left of Presiding Judge Cullen
through which the newspaper men
enter and leave the court. They
came down with thud.
That startled every one. Judge
Herrick halted his argument. but as
it was seen that nothing serious had
happened Judge Cullen motioned him
to proceed.
Bracket Speaks for Prosecution.
Shortly before the adjournment for
lunch Edgar T. Bracket began to
speak in behalf of the prosecution
That candidate for office is as
amenable to the laws governing the
place to which he aspires as is the
occupant of it was the burden of the
argument of Edgar T. Bracket for
the prosecution.
A ,vtt, aof ax,oif fQd INefn a n
officials induction into office mNle the
perpetrator as guilty in his new po-
sition as before his election, he de-
clared.
Bracket reviewed that portion of
the corrupt practises act dealing with
the publication of campaign expendi-
lures and then said: ut will thus be
seen that from time to time a person
is nominated for office he comes un-
der the provisions he is not yet an
officer, but he is seeking to become
one, and, in order to become one, is
required to conform to these direc-
lions of the statute.
1.-THE Defense" said Bracket, lis
resting upon the proposition that i'm
parchment may not be had, must
claim that the people have a right to
elect a criminal to high office, and
that having done so there is no relief,
that such election purges the offender
from the faint of crime and leaves
him free to assume the role of an
honorable man among honorable
men.
"Omce Doesn't Purge of Crime"
"Shall it be said to students of our
system of government that securing
the highest office in the State purges
of such loathsome crime; that the
way to avoid a punishment for per-
jury is to be elected to high Office,
and that such election retains the oc-
cupant in association with decent
men in high place? If So then what
is the result when, having been thus
elected Governor, the individual at
once after his election, but before his
Inauguration, before his official term
begins, commits the perjury"
when at the next regular session of
the legislature the Senate sends it's
committee to notify the governor of
the State that it is convened, must the
message be taken to a criminal or
one with criminal characteristics?
And must such a man be permitted
to send to the houses of the legis-
lature his views on public affairs, and
be allowed to approve or diSapprove
legislation here passed?
when it comes to the dread issue
of life and death, must the criminal
feel that he is applying to fellow
criminal for reprieve, or pardon, and
If denied, go to his doom with the
lust feeling that he has been judged
by an unclean mana Fellow Grim
inal with himself?
1.-THE questions are their own an
swers None of these things must be,
nor can be-"