The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-10-22
Bf VOTE OF FORTY THREE TO
TWELVE NEW YORK EXECU-
TIVE Is REMOVED FROM
GOVERNORSHIP.
impcachcd Executive, Besides Saying
He Will Go at Once, Refuses to
Discuss Futurc--Acquittcd on Four
Articles Not Taken up by High
Tribunal ON First Day of Voting.
Presiding Judge Still for Him.

J, was removed from office by the high
court OF impeachment by a vote of
10 to IL. Two members did not vote.
\ Martin III. Glynn. lieutenant gov
ernor. was sworn in as his successor,
the first i'm the history of the State to
step into his high office in this man
ner.
The verdict of the court was that
Mr.. Sulzcr was guilty of falsiacation,
perjury and an attempt to suppress
evidence against him. OF all Other
1 charges he was acquitted, the court
today unanimously voting him not
guilty on the four remaining articles
of Impeachment.
BY virtually unanimous vote the
' Impeachment tribunal also decided
that Mr.. Sulzer should not be punish
ed by disqualification to hold Office of
honor and trust in this state in the
future. This would have been the ex-
treme penalty under the law.
The ousted executive was served
with n copy of the courts verdict at
the executive mansion-christened by
himself the peoples house"-a few
minutes before 6 o'clock tonight.
Good! 1 thank YOU" he said to
the sergeant-at-arms of the senate,
who delivered the document.
Mr.. Sulzer. private citizen will leave
the capital probably on Sunday.
Where he will go he has not disclos-
ed.
The incoming governor issued
statement in which he said his en-
deavor would be Ito give the people
OF the State an honest. peaceful. pro-
gressive and wise conduct of public
affairs"
The outgoing executive issued
statement in which he denounced the
tribunal which had removed him as
"Murphy's high court Of infamy"
Murphy controlled the assembly
and ordered the impeachment" he
said. 'He controlled most Of the
members of the court and dictated
procedure and wrote the Judgment.
He was the judge and the jury. the
prosecutor and the bailiff.'
Mr.. Sulzer declared his trial was a
political lynching rs far as the Tam
manyized part of the court was con-
cerned-the consummation Of a deep
laid plot to oust me from Office"
At todays session of the court,
which lasted little more thar an hour,
most OF the members recorded their
votes without explanation. Presiding
Judge Cullen who voted mot guilty"
on every article of impeachment,
stuck To his convictions to the last.
He asked TO be excused from voting
on the removal of the governor, and
following out his logic made sim
liar request on the vote for disqualif-
cation.
IL fell to Judge Cullen to pronounce
the verdict of the court. His last
word was spoken almost on the hour
of noon and a minute later the court
dissolved.
The stenographer's record showed
that more than 100000 words of ties
timony and argument had been ut
tered since the trial began September
IS.
Probably the most dramatic feature
of the day was the serving of the copy
of the courts order of removal on the
ousted governor.
IL was a few minutes before 6
o'clock tonight when Thomas G. No
Ian, sergeant-at-arms OF the senate.
and George a. Mutard. the process
server. arrived at the executive man
sion. They Immediately were admit
ted and escorted to the study.
MIR. Sulzer and Chester G.. Platt. his
secretary were seated at the table
Nolan handed the document to Mr.
Sulzcr. IL was written on a piece of
ordinary foolscap paper.
Mr.. Sulzer took the paper. crum-
Piled II In his hands. paled slightly.
threw the document on the table with
out reading IL and said Good. /
thank YOU. sergeant"
The whole transaction was over In
less than two minutes. In the mean
time score Of newspaper men who
had becn sunmOued to the executive
mansion To meet the governor at o
o'clock waited on the vcranda outside.
Nolan passed out and the newspaper
men were admitted In the hall out
side Mrs. Sulzer played with Patsy. an
Irish terrier The animal growled ana
snapped at "a shawl she held. while she
scOlded him gently. n moment later
Blatt annparp1 uith cnrtoo 4