Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1913-10-24
SULZER 0USTED, AURLS
|NVECT|VES At MURPHY.
DECLARES THAT HORSE THIEF
WOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN
sQUARER DEAL

New York, Oct. 2o-A telegram was
sent to Sulzer asking him to accept the
Remination of the Progressive party
for congress in the Twentieth district
to take the place of Oscar Strauss, who
recently declined the nomination, ac-
cording to an announcement by Max
Huerlstein, member Of the party COM
mittee on vacancies In that district.
The committee will meet tomorrow to
fill the vacancy.
Albany, N. Y, Oct. 2l-William Sui
ger ceased to be governor Of New York
at noon on. Friday, Oct. II.
He was, removed from Office by the
high court Of impeachment by vote
OF 4s to 10. two members not voting.
Martin Glynn, lieutenant governor;
was sworn in as his SUCCESSOR; the first
IN the history of the state to step into
the high Office in this manner.
When Glynn became governor, the
duties Of lieutenant governor fell to
Robert Wagner, president protein ct
the senate, Glyna is 40 years of age,
married and was formerly an Albany
newspaper man. He served term in
congress and a. state comptroller. He
| is democrat.
Guilty of Three Charges
The verdict of the court was that
sulzer was guilty Of falsifcation, per-
jury and an attempt to suppress the
evidence against him. OF all other
charges he was acquitted, the court
voting him not guilty Of the four re-
naming articles Of impeachment.
| By virtually a unanimous vote also
the impeachment tribunal decided
that sulzer should not be punished by
disqualification to hold an office Of hon
, or and trust in New York state in the
faftttaTe.. ffttiss.' = e.
I This would have been the extreme
penalty under the law.
Papers Served at Home.
Phe ossted governor was served
with copy of the verdict at the exc
cutive mansion christened by himself
! "tle peoples house, few minutes
before six O'Clock tonight.
sulzr as a private citizen, viii
leave the capital probably Sunday fo'
where he has not disclosed.
The incoming governor issued 9
statement saying that it, will be hit
endeavsr to give ''the people an hon
, est, peaceful( progressive and wise
conduct Of public AFFAIRS
Scores Murphy.
The outgoing governor issued :
statement in which he denounced th'
tribunal which removed him a
"Aurphy's high court Of infamy."
"Murphy controlled the assembl!
and ordered the impeachment" sait
sulzer. "Hs controlled most Of tn
members Of the court and dictated
the procedure. He was judge, jury
prosecutor and bailiaf.'
sulser declared the trial was 'tpo
litical lynching as far a. the Tam
manyized part Of the court was con
cerned and was a deep laid politica
conspiracy to oust me from Office"
"a horse thief In the frontier days
!. said the governor, "would have re
, ceived squarer DEAL" He eharaster
: ICED the secret sessions of the cour
3 as "star chamber proceedings, wher'
? enemies Of tho state could work fo
t my conviction undiscovered
: Couldn't AID Himself.
: He asserted that he had not takel
the stand in his own defense becaus
q he realized that his story attackin'
t the Tammany leader would be rule
, out.
: He entered a general denial of al
charges in the impeachment articles
g and denied that he ever asked Alla1
: a. Ryan to obtain the influence O.
= Murphy or Republican State Chair
a man Barnes to stop the trial. He sai'
|. the testimony Of Henry Morgentha
e could be explained and asserted tha
y every dollar given him during tn
campaign had been properly accounte
for. That he was $4,000 in debt; tha
!. he had been "faithful to the trust;
I; 1T have handed back to the people tn
k commission they gave me, untarnishe
/; and unsullied.''
: At today's session, which lasted
n little over an hour, most of the mem
J. bers recorded votes without explana
tion and much ponderous formality, re
d quired by the rules Of procedure, wa
dispensed with.