The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-08-21
GOVERNOR SULzER
MUST Face TRIAL
Chief Executive of New York Is
ImpeaChed by the State
Assembly.
RESULT OF TAMMANY'S FIGHT
Charges Include Perjury, Larceny Of
Campaign Funds for Stock speeu-
IatIon and Other "Aiah Grimes
and MIsdemeanorS."


and MIsdemeanorS."
Albany, N. Y.-Accused of larceny
of campaign funds, perjury and various
other high crimes and misdemean-
Ors." Governor William Sulzer has
been impeached by the state assembly
The senate has received the articles
of Impeachment and has summoned
Sulzer to stand trial before that body
and the circuit court Of appeals sitting
together as a court Of Impeachment.
The articles were adopted by vote Of
70 to As.
An important part Of the charge IL
What Mr.. Sulzer diverted campaign
contributions to his private use and
invested them In stocks. Just before
the impeachment Mrs. Sulzer made a
statement to the effect that she had
taken part of the campaign money and
bought stocks with 1t in Wall street.
She will probably take the witness
stand at the trial to tell this story.
Charges Against SuIzer
Stripped of their legal verbiage, the
articles Of impeachment against Gov.
ernor Sulzer are as follows:
THAT Governor Sulzer, In filing
his statement Of campaign expenses,
set forth that his entire receipts were
$3.50 and his expenditures $7,724;
that this statement was false and
was intended by him to be false" that
his list of receipts failed to include
II specific contributions, ranging in
amount from 500 to $4,000.
2-That Governor Sulzer attached to
his statement of campaign expenses
an affidavit declaring that the state
ment was "a full and detailed state
ment Of all moneys received or con
tributed or expended by him directly
or indirectly" That this affidavit was
false and was corruptly made by him,
and that he was guilty of willful and
corrupt perjury"
3-That Governor Sulzer "was guilty
Of NAL and corrupt conduct in his Of
f1ce as governor and was guilty OF
bribing witnesses" The specific. charge
is that while the Frawley committee
was investigating the governors cam
paign accounts he "fraudulently IN
duced" three witnesses (his campaign
manager, a personal friend, and a
stock broker) Ito withhold their testi
mony from said committee"
4-That the governor was guilty oi
'suppressing evidence" in violation Of
the state penal law. The specific charge
is that he "practiced deceit and fraut
and used threats and menaces witt
intent to prevent the Frawley commit
tee from procuring the attendance anG
testimony of certain witnesses"
5-That the governor was guilty o.
preventing and dissuading a witness
from attending under a subpoena" the
sessions of the Frawlcy committee
The witness referred to is Frederick L
Colwell, alleged to have acted as Sui
zer's agent in certain stock transac
tions.
6-That prior to his election thu
governor appropriated campaign con
tributions to his own use, land uset
the same, or large part thereof, II
speculating In stocks E. . ant
thereby stole such checks and wal
guilty of larceny"
THAT Governor Sulzer promised
and threatened to use the authorit,
and influence of his office for the pur
pose of affecting the vote or politica
action of certain public officers, includ
ing two assemblymen.
8-That he "corruptly used hi
authority as governor to affect tn
prices of securities on the New Yorl
stock exchange, In some of which b.
was specializing"
How II All Started.
When Governor Sulzer, the pee
ples governor" and the poor man
friend" refused to do the bidding O
Boss Murphy of Tammany Hall, tn
most remarkable political drama New
York state had ever seen was begun
From that very moment Tamman
Hall carried out a steady and cor
Nsistent program of warfare agains
Sulzer and all things Sulzer. The gov
ernor replied in kind, as we'll as b
could. A Tammanyized legislature In
stituted an Investigation" of Sulzel
and Sulzer reciprocated with an "ir
vestigation" Of some Tammany-cor
trolled state department.
What was it all about? Direct pr
maries, mainly. Also about appoint
ments. Boss Murphy sought to hav
certain organization men appointed t
Office. Sulzer declined to appoint then
although he had been something of a
organization man himself for a grea
many years, and Immediately after hi