The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-13
WILLIAM SULZER Political Downfo Of Late New York Governo-onIy One 30 mpeoehed-Is Interesting Reading.
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by the TanAmAny bosSes with the assertion that he was much more valuable to the party h Congress.
 gulser apparently took the flat. tery as genuine, but about the time he let it be known inst he wanted the nomination he began Q quiet end effective os1osRalar campaign for euizar. fe spent his summers in the rural districts Of the State from MontAuk Point to Niagara Falls. His appearance, caTeleggness In dress and addiction to chewing tobacco made him . favorite with the 3armeTs. He cultivated the country editors and made c speech on every possible occasion on every possible subject, but always wound
 up by saying that he was the fare mer's friend. He sent tons Of free seeds Into the State and thousands of copies of his speeches. Tn the country fair season he traveled from fair ground to fair ground and was always invited to make 6 speech. Generally he spoke from the Judges stand on tho race track end lot !t be known that he was 6 farmers Son and proud of it. He had an occaaionaI hcmeiy wit, although he was generally serious to the point Of eolemnity. To MT, sulser as given the credit fog intFcducing inc to the Stats Oe New York tho exc presaion Spilled the beans" Flo probably picked it up in Alaska, which first allured him as fer back as ie0e, right after he was admitted to the bar.
 If tho news Of the activities Of William Sulzer upstate reached Tammany Hall and Boss Murphy, they were greeted with moclGery. eul1eE was characterized by the TamEnany leaders as Q "nut". But when the convention of ioi2 came to pass William eulSeT suddenly burst into view as Q person of more than ordinary importance. When the convention opened ct Syracuse it was found that guizer had enough delegates from upstate to win the nomination. He had the backing of such solid New York Democrats as the late John B. stanchfield and others equally prominent, who told Murphy that 1t would be suicidal not to nominate Sulssr.
 Murphy found that oil the anti. TainEnany leaders upstate were for sulSer. The country Democratic press was for him. After sizing up the situation Murphy fell back on | his habituel expression: "Let the convention choose the candidates" The late Justice Victor J. Bowling | was Tammany's candidate but his name never came before the con. vention. Suizer was nominated by exclamation but the TAmHnany dele. | gatlon laughed and hOoted.
 The race was made for Gulzer. Any Democrat could have won, be- cause Theodore Roosevelt had split the Republican party wide open in the Chicago convention and headed so many Republicans o6 the reser. vation that Nr. Taft, the Repuhn- can candidate, carried only two states, Utah and Vermont, and re- ceived only fifteen electoral votes.
 In New York State sulzer ran against the late Oscar Straus, on the Progressive, or Full Moose" ticket, and the late Job D. Hedges on the Republican ticket. He won by over 100000 plurality, and free. ly Connded to his intimate friends that he didn't see how the party could refuse him the nomination for the presidency in 1916.
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 Friction between the newly elected Governor and Tammany Hall de- veloped shortly after the election. Tammany was largely ignored in the distribution of patronage. Murphy had set his heart on the appont- ment of his friend. James D. Gan. ney, as Commissioner Of Public Works. Sulzer refused to appoint him. He gathered about him at the executive mansion ixa Albany, which he called 'IIae Peoples House" the strangest collection of advisers and intimatcs that Albany had ever seen. John A. Henneesey of Brooklyn and ~FGAM &G &RAAA& " AeNW 8V&A Wg8G AAAC only c0nfidants of Eulzer, who were credited by TAmmany with having any political sense.
 The session Of the Legislative of 1913 developed Into a continual fight between the Tammany gegislatces and the country legislators Tam. many controlled, on the one hand, and the Governor on the other. At the conclusion of the regular session the Governor called it into special session Co take care of some matters which had not been acted upOn. The bitter feeling grew during the early days Of the special session. xhe late Patrick McCabe og Albany, Demo- cratic leader Of Albany county, nnd clerk Of the Assembly, jolned with Tammany in & movement to iInpeana the 0OveEnor and tho Assembly ili- ssituted the impea aehnAeEle on Amgust A, 1913. The Senate approved and organized an Impeachment court.
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