Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-10-18
SULzER MOVES
FROM OFFICE
TODAY
PACKS UP AND LEAVES ==GOvERNOR
GLYNN MOVES M SULzER
ISSUES A LENGTHY STATEMENT
COVERING HIS SIDE or THIS COM
PuCATED CASE.
SCORES MURPHY ...
AND HIS COURTS

Albany, n. Y, Oct. 1S.-Today wa!
moving day in Albany. Governor
Glynn was busy preparing to move
his office from the quarters in which
he has been since the Impeachment
case began. William Sulzer and Mrs
Sulzer were collecting their persona
belongings and making ready to leave
Albany In the senate chambers
workmen were busy marking the
transfers of goods. Official business
was practically at standstill. Gov
ernor Glynn arrived at the capitol be
fore noon and settled down to the
routine of his office and said he would
move into the executive suite Monday
II was not known where the Suffers
were going but their friends say there
are going to the Adirondacks for a
brief rest after which they would &c
to New York.
Mr.. Sulzer made public a statement
last night in which he went into his
side of the case very thoroughly. 1t
is very lengthy but is given in brief
below:
The Sulzer statement follows in
part:
"In response to requests from
friends throughout the state for some
expression from me, can only say at
this time that am glad that my trial
is over.
"By virtue of power beyond the
present control of our electorate, |
now hand back to the people the COM
mission they gave me and I hand it
back to them-untarnished and un-
sullied.
"My lips have been sealed for weeks
while l patiently have submitted in
silence to abuse and villification.
"Of course, when I issued the last
statement i did not think Senators
Wagner Frawley, Rampsberger, San
ner Brown, Blauvelt and Thompson
would act as my judges, as they either
were interested personally in the out
come Of the trial or had acted as my
prosecutors or condemned me before
my trial, or because of personal griev-
ances had expressed an opinion as to
my guilt.
sThe casting of votes by these SEN
ators vitiated the judgment, because
had they refused to vote, as sense
of decency should have induced them
to dol would not have been con-
victed on any one of the articles of
Impeachment.
my trial, from beginning to end.
so far as the Tammanyized part was
ccncerned-was a farce, a political
lynching-the consummation of a
deep-laid political conspiracy to oust
me from Office.
''The court ruled against me in
everything. The we'll settled rules OF
evidence were thrown to the winds.
"A horsethief in the frontier days
would have received squarer trial.
"Mr. Murphy controlled the assem-
bly, and ordered the Impeachment.
He controlled most of the members
of the court and dictated its procedure
and wrote the judgment He was the
Judge, the prosecutor and the bailiff.
"The meetings of the court were be.
hind closed doors. 1t was a star
chamber proceeding where the enc.
mics of the state could work for my
conviction undiscovered.
"They called in the high court of
impeachment, but history will call it
'Murphy's high court of infamy.' The
trial was human shamble, libel on
law; a fragrant abuse to constitutions
al rights; a disgrace to our civiliza-
tion and the verdict overturned the
safeguards of liberty and the prece-
dents of three centuries. The future
historian will do me justice and pos
terity will reverse the findings of the !
court.
There Is higher court than |
Murphy court of public opin-
ion. l appeal from Murphy's court of !
political passion, to the calmer judg- !
ment of the future and the sober re-
Election of public opinion.
when l declined to obey the or
ders' of the boss about patronage; |
when 1 refused to call off Hennessy
and prevent further investigations of !
graft, and finally, when I set in mo-
ton the machinery of the courts to
bring the criminals to justice and to
stop the looting OF the state, then and
not until then, did Mr.. Murphy threat
en- me with degradation and removal
from office. From that day all that
money, power and influence could do
TO destroy me, has been DONE
"Mr. Murphy and the special inter-
ests which l antagonized, have won ,
temporary victory, but the fight for
reform and for honest government
Will go on. The farce of my trial will
have a good effect in the end. It has
opened the eyes of the people to the
graft of millions of dollars annually
and it will hasten the adoption of the
initiative and referendum, bring
about the recall of public officials,
including judges and judicial deci-
sions, and write upon the statute ,
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