Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-10
.5ULZER LASHED
NERC|LESSLY
BY PARKER
Last Shred of Defense of Accused
Executive Gone, Jurist Declares
to Impeachment Court.

ALBANY, n. Y, Oct. 1o.-Judge
Aron 3. Parker dashed Governor. Sui
,er numerically to-day. the last Of
the great impeachment trial.
Even justice must see through its
severs eye something pathetic in this
& defendants frantic efforts to cover
m the naiEedness of his wrong
s doing. he began, declaring Sulzer
now stands naked before this court,
without a rag Of his attempted vindi-
cation ciinging to his deformed and
uutNatsd manhood"
D. CAAy HsTTfck followed Dor the
defense. claiming the court has no
power TO convict for offenses PRIOR to
Suffers taking office.
E. T. Bracket closed for the pros
scution.
Judge Parker said of Sulzer:
Defiance, justification, provoca-
ton, denunciation Of his accusers,
attempts to suppress and falsify tes-
timony and efforts to cast the blame
elsewhere each in turn has been
stripped from his quaking flesh until
he now stands naked before this
court without rag Of his attempted
indication clinsing to his deformed
s and mutilated manhood.
Must Protect State.
with this court alone rests the
duty of delivering this State from the
menace that, like the sword of Da-
mocles hangs over it as long as this
man remains in Office. The purpose
Of this impeachment is to protect the
State.
The question is not William Sui
zer's punishment. 1t is, is this man
guilty and a menace to the Stats?'
Whether there ever was a day when
William Sulzer was At for public
service we need not inquire. We shut
out his past"
Judge Parker then recapitulated
4 the charges and the testimony ds-
veloped by the prosecution.
Judge Herrick appealed to the
court in behalf of Governor Sulzer,
declaring the court without power 10
convict for offenses committed prior
TO the time that an accused official
took office. he said this is the po-
stion the prosecution had taken.
Judge Herrick attacked the argu-
ments made by Judge Parker, say
. ing:
1T necessarily follows from Judge
Parker's arguments that a man can
be tmpeached not only for any Of
tense, but also for no offense; that
4c - Ill
wise. II is determined that a public
official is no longer At for office be-
cause he believes or does not believe
in direct primaries or some other po-
itical Issue, then he may be i'm
psached."
The chief figure in this tragedy
slept hate. Sulzer-for two months a
prisoner in the Executive Mansion in
the confines of the worlds greatest
state-had chafed under the slow
moving hours of the night. He moved
|restlessly about the house, hollow
eyed, pale and detected. The fight
that he had showed when he thought
that he might go before the court and
talk was gone.
1t will not be known before
night just what will be the final
procedure. There was a dispo-
elton among some OF the judges OF
the Court Of Appeals to vote to-mor-
row on the issues. A few of them
wish to write opinions on the case.
Many of the Senators want to do
likewise. All of them want something
TO say in the executive session at
which the real fight Of the trial will
be made.
In addition, showing the trend of
the times, there are many holders of
reserved seats for the Saturday base
ball game between the Giants and
Athletics, and the holdings of seats
rs factor in the solemn proceed
ings, where the political life of high
official is at stake.
The plan chiefly favored was ad-
lournment until Monday, although
some of the Senators wanted to OBJ
serve Columbus Day Cat $3.50 peri.