The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-10
BITTER ATTACK
ON SULZER BY
JUDGE PARKER
Continued From First Page.o

brought up to the stage of the bal
loting of the Judges, today, by for
mer State Senator Edgar T. Bracket,
who closed the case for the board of
impeachment managers. In the course
of it he asserted that former state
Senator Stephen J. Sti1we1l, who is
now serving term in Sing Sing prts-
on as barterer Of his legislative vote
and influence, might have sat at the
feet Of Governor Sulzer and learned
crime"
And this is the pharisee,'' he said,
''who, pointing to the width of his
phylactery in proof of his own virtue,
demanded that StiIweH resign-Stil-
well who, If all charges against him
were true and more, could still have
sat at the feet of man and learned
crime, even as Saul sat at the feet
of Gamaliliel and learned all the wis
dom of ancient Jews"
From the beginning of the inapea ch-
ment proceedings. Mr.. Bracket said,
there had been persistent attempt
to terrorize the members of the court
and every person associated with the
prosecution.
Every means known to the dema-
gogue has been attempted to accom-
plish it, he said. Against all this
he continued, 'I hold up to you the
simple oath you took. at the beginning
OF the trial. Its solemn words are
fresh with you and I know that In
| their presence the least thoughtful
will be sobered to the fullest sense
of his duty I know, too, that this
wave of clamor will never arise in
| influence to the level of the so1es of
your feet
Mr.. Bracket then launched into
| discussion Of the evidence support
| ing the accusations in the fourth of
| the articles of impeachment, charging
| that Governor Sulzer sought to pre-
vent testimony before the Frawley
committee. The attorney held that
the article was broad enough to in
| cIude the alleged attempt of the gov
ernor to dissuade Henry Morgenthau
from testifying in regard to his ST.
| 600 campaign contribution.
1.-THE damning character Of the de-
| fendant's request is apparent at a
| glance continued Mr.. Bracket. HE
/ wanted Mr.. Mergenthau to perjure
| himself to save him. The defendant
| from the result of his previous crime
| in not reporting the Mergenthau com
| tribution, made to him during the
campaign, thereby brought himself
| precisely within the section of the
code and precisely within the arti-
/ cle.s'
The alleged request of the governor
| to Duncan Peck, that he deny his
contribution of $500, Mr.. Bracket
1 put in the same category.
'sThe testimony of Allan Ryan is
| still to be considered he continued.
| cit stands here without contradiction
Of any kind. The defendant asked
him to see Senator Root and have
| members of this court solicited to vote
i IN his interest, to dismiss these pro-
ceedfngs; failing that to see Mr.. Muir
4 ply for the same purpose, saying he
would do whatever was right If he
could be freed from the Impeachment
proceedings.
"Ti1is is the black evidence convict
4t7f,
urged by the defendant stands out in
tsa11 its detestabIe lines. He urged
Mergenthau to perjure himself, he urg-
) ed Peck to perjure himself and de-
: c1ared his intention of doing so@and
he urged Ryan to tanper with this
court to the end that he might be ac-
quilted.
"And through and over it all runs
the fou1est of crimes connected with
the administration of justice, subor-
nation of perjury and an intention OF
the defendant himself to commit per-
jury. God in heaven, can more be
required to convict this defendant and
remove him from his high place and
forever dfsqua1ify him from associa-
ton with law abiding mem
KNOWING full well, appreciating to
the utmost the disgrace and degrade
ton that must come upon this most
; unhappy man by your verdict OF
guilty. still sDSS you nut 10 CIllIk
! you will mitigate his punishment by
Judgment of acquittal' of the
charges here proved. 1t will not be
your action that will render him in
famous for all the future. That fu-
} ture is already his before you speak
, If he take the wings of the morning
and fly to the uttermost parts of the
, earth the record of his disgrace is
! there before him to meet and greet
: and abide. with him.
IL eff this act under which we have
rested in security all the century and
5 a third of our natural life, under
: which the state has been the leader
: of all the sisterhood that accompa-
MES the situation, shall fail at the
D point that we may not remove from
: high office men confessed1y guilty OF
. crime, then, indeed, are we of all mer
the most miserable"