Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-08-26
vestigatiun'- or some Tammany-con
trolled state department.


trolled state department.
What was it all about? Direct pri
maries, mainly. Also about appoint
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 Tor a greal
many years, and Immediately after his
election TO the governorship had been
intimate with Murphy, SO intimate that
Mr.. and Mrs. Murphy were welcome a.
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 traceable to political enemies,
was made on Sulzer. He was accused
Of perjury, the alleged offense having
been committed, according to his &C
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 a young woman
of the name of Mignon (Polly)
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 $50, 900 damages for her
N1-nt Cd
ing known Miss Hopkins some years
ago, but denied that he had ever pro.
posed marriage to her.
Row over Direct Primaries.
When Suffer promised real direct
primaries to the people of New York
he evidently meant what he said.
When he went into office he made it
his business to start legislation for di-
rect primaries on it's way He dis
covered, however, that he and his po-
htical 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 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 seen. There were shouts
of rage and shakings of fists in the d.
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 we'll known men in his cause,
and called the legislature in extraor-
dinary session. 1t had then become a
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 legislative committee. Ser
ator FTawley, a Tammany chieftain,
was the chairman of the committee
and it commenced its sittings in AL
bany. It was intimated That Sulzer
had received checks for his campaign
fund which he had not listed in his
sworn statement, a misdemeanor UNI
der the laws of New York state Two
checks were introduced into the evil
dence. One was for 800 from Kuhn,
Loeb & Co, the bankers, and endorsed
Mr.. Schiff's contribution to the Sui
ger campaign" The other check was
for $500 and was signed by Abram /.
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 a later session of the FraVley
committee, held in New York, it, de-
veloped that Sulzer had owed the stock
brokerage firm of Harris & Fuller S4S-
599.3S on January l, 1912, when Sui
ger was in congress. According to
testimony and evidence offered, Sulzer
had been steady loser in the stock
market. The brokers to whom he owed
money dunned him for payment, &C
cording to the testimony, and Sulzer
was finally rescued ~ his business
partner, Ex-Governor 4 z. Spriggs, o!
Montana, who paid $4,000, and Louis
y. Josephthal of New York, who, on
July 10 last, paid S26,74921.
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
bought 200 shares of Big Four for SIP.
OPS The stock was paid for the same
day with eight checks and SIPS in
cash. One check given in payment for
the stock was a 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 Impeached.
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, 1858,
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, 1874
term expired and proceedings dropped
Adelbert Ames, Mississippi, 1876, rs
signed.
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