The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-10-10
FINAL PLEAS
. IN SULZER TRIAL
Louis Marshall Paints the
Governor as an HOnOra-
bile Man.
4 THIEF" SAYS PARKER
>arccky Scored Mercilessly
by Prosecutions
Orator.
boy AND HIS MASTER"
Sulzer Defended as a Poor
Man Like Webster and
Mckinley.
IILI DL'h n1-T NJ LD1EN1NS
HELPED OFT BY FRIENDS
summing Up in the Impcach.
mpnt Trial Will Consume
All Of To-day.

ALBANY. oct o.--The Senate Chamber
echoed all day the defamation Of Louis
Marshall and Alton b. Parker. defending
and denouncins Gov. Sulzer.
The defcnce was a flaming picture Of
an honorable man. poor as Webster aud
Mckinley were poor. helped with money
AS they were. striving to be a good Gov
crnor. and succeeding, halted by the
ratrod of political enemies. unreasonably
inpeached. marked for ruin, savable only
lay the high court.
Alton r. Parker. speaking with the au-
ihority of a one time candidate for the
PRESIDENCY, q former Chief Judge of the
,ourt of Appeals. said in unrnstakable
rhrase that William Sulzer was a per-
jurer and thief and demanded a verdict
II guilty ON each Of the impeachment
articles.
Arsument Eads To-day.
Judge Parker will end his address for
the impeachment managers tomorrow.
morning. D-Cady Herrick OF the de-
i. icnce will have an hour and
talf to Say. the last word for
.Sulzcr Ex-senator Bracket master
ol court room invective. will recite
tho accusations against the Governor in
,wn pungent way.
Nobody knows when a verdict will be
cached or even when its consideration
viii he started. The court may adjourn
",cr saturday. Sunday and Columbus
pay and reconvene next Tuesday.
No Word From G0vernOr.
Tn, usual silence envcloped the Peoples
iiou,o TODAY The Governor was correct
80. and amplifying the address to the
pcoplc' whcn will be made public when
ne verdict is in. Stories of some of his
f-lends that he intended to take the stand
d,spite his counsel and was amased when
ne learned that the defence had rested
md little credence here. 1t IL understood
mat he and his counsel were wholly
greed that he should not testify.
When Louis Marshall began his argu-
.dcnt at 10 o'clock this morning the gal
,.rles were crowded. The prospect Of
militant combat between him and Alton
g. Parker attracted more strangers than
usual to the Capitol
Panegyric on SulEeP.
Mr. Marshall was much more vehement
an in his long constitutional argument
car the opening OF the trial fifteen days
20. He not only made legal defence
put painted a glowing picture of the Gov
'ruor's career from the time Mr.. Sulzer
'n,ered public life twenty-five years ago.
iie began:
Who Is this respondent who has thus
hoon placed, as II were, In the prisoners s
docke.. against whom there Is asked to be
pronounced the everlasting doom - In
fanny and shame. who II sought to be
driven out OF the office to which ne was
'xated but a few short months ago and
10 be forever deprived Of the right to hold
public Office and to serve the State?
1t is william Sulzer, who has just
passed his fftieth birthday, which was
Celebrated by those who stood highest in
r ne civic and political life OF the State
With congratulations and re3oicings an
occasion when even some Of those who are
now serving as impeachment managers
'ndulged In loud sounding praises OF him
and were among the foremost to do him
honor.
And now William Sulzer stands before
YOU on trial for his very existence,
charged with being q common criminal
and for what?"
Macaulay's New ZealasdeP.
Mr.. Marshall imagined Macaulay's New
Z"alander or Montesquieus Eskimo ask
'InF why, In this land Of boasted lib
efty and freedom. one deserving SO we'll
At IN" hands OF his fellow men should be
subjected to this awful degradation and
Why the State which he has served so
well should be involved In his RUIN and
disgrace"
Tn" only answer which could be vouch.
safcd 10 them" Mr.. Marshall said. waving
h'S manuscript and sweeping the impeach-
. ment court with his glance. rs to be found
m the articles Of impeachment adopted
at dawn on that fatal thirteenth day of
August, 1913. by the Assembly OF the
N'ale of New York less than thirty-six
oours after the presentation OF the re-
h"'t NJ an investigating committee. which
'as members Of the Assembly could not
'"'Slbly have read or considered"
There could have been no more vOcifer-
lion against a Benedict Arnold or an
Naron Burr than has reverberated against
william sulser. Mr.. Marshall declared,