Bisbee daily review., 1913-10-18
NEW YORK DISGRACE IS A
 LESSON TO ARIZONA

5, The first High Court of impeachment eonvoked in the history of the Empire State found William sul ger the forty second constitutional Governor of New York guilty as charged in three of the egh. articles of impeachment The charges were brought by Tammany Hall. a political organization reekng with corruption They were presented Tsmmany controlled legisla- ture They were prosecuted by a notorious of Tammany eutenants designated for that purpose by the Tamnrsny legislature Except for the members of the Court of Appeals whom the State constitution provides shah sit with High Court of Impeachment the tri- buna which returned the verdict oi guilty vas Tam many tribunal.
 The shame of conviction which wiD remain indelble in the records of New York heavily the people of the State thaa upon their dsgraced and dis honored Governor They chose him for their Chief EX ocutive by an unprecedented majority They knew him as the same old Bill" when they escorted him to the hustings They raised him to a position in which he should never have been placed. They thaa exalted weakling other states have done not nfrequently
 The sordid story unfoIded during the trial Albany compelled from a other than the High Court Of Impeachment verdict in advance Of the Iatters The Court of Public Opinion returned the prior verdict and it could not have been otherwise than, morally guilty Yet there will 0e host Gfssenters to endorse the verdict of Presiding Judge Edgar M Cullen who voted mot guilty" on every article of tho impeachment, in cluding the first and second articles charging respect fvey fasfcation O statements under the election law, and legal perjury Judge Cullen, whose integrity and capacity of te highest order. weighed the evidence in accordance solely with legal nd tinction from moral preeepts and found the evidence insufficient which to convict It was Tammany HaI therefore sitting on a travestied throne of justice, that convicted New Works Governor.
 William suIzer was impeached, not for what he did but for what he did not do for Tammany. Tammany re7 that it dealing with guilty man when sought to make him subseryent to the demands imposed for the purpose Of piferng the public purse. Not until he sought to do right by defing Boss Murphy and his mnions did Tammany pubich his guiit and prosecute him. Tammauy was an accessory before the fact yet pursued it's course with ehroItery that has made the organization by-word of all decent men.
 Arizc7a has it's Tammany Hall in embryo as mas every state in the Union whose citizens neglect their duties Politics for pelf certain exist weeds in the fairest field All things grow in political soil and the people are the gardeners upon whom rests the reponst biity Of nururug maintaining healthy products eX cIus;vey All that is bad in government all tho graft in prson administration the building of roads, il the various activities having do with the business con duct of the state the indonce of electorate that accepts other than worthy candidates for public office
 William sulzeT of unworthy type for the re responsibilities Of Governor He noioriously whC played to the gaElery, who had of the dignity de uauded by hish office and who did not question tn sources whence his support The wonder is tha woaIng as he tried to be stalwart once th' public placed power. There is much that ii pathetic as a spectacle, in hs fight to keep the fait with those to whom he had made promises By be traying .hem he could have saved himself
 New York States disgrace is infinitely greater thai that wretched Governor Uatil New York cls out Tannnany Hall ard the brand Of politics" play e by such organizations her claim to the proud title Empire State Nln justly be received wth derision.