. Tammany's treason, impeachment of Governor William Sulzer; the complete story written from behind the scenes, showing how Tammany plays the game, how men are bought, sold and delivered . , then it is a demon-stration that, in their at-tempt to destroy the gover-nor, they have lost all senseof proportion; that they con-sider everything grist whichcomes to their mill; and thatthey evince a disposition toaccomplish their ends byhook or by crook, by pan-dering to every prejudice, bycasting forth a dragnet inthe hope that something maybe found which will enablethem to disable and disarmthe govern
. Tammany's treason, impeachment of Governor William Sulzer; the complete story written from behind the scenes, showing how Tammany plays the game, how men are bought, sold and delivered . , then it is a demon-stration that, in their at-tempt to destroy the gover-nor, they have lost all senseof proportion; that they con-sider everything grist whichcomes to their mill; and thatthey evince a disposition toaccomplish their ends byhook or by crook, by pan-dering to every prejudice, bycasting forth a dragnet inthe hope that something maybe found which will enablethem to disable and disarmthe governor whom they de-liberately set out to makeharmless when they discov-ered that it was his purposeto be the governor of thestate, and to assert his inde-pendence in that high Marshalls address was regarded as a brilliant portrayalof the entire case, showing numerous precedents set by highcourts by which the impeachment court should be , Marshall took up every one of the eight articles, carefullyanalyzed the charges, the evidence which had been submittedby the prosecution, and showed on how little fact the prose-cution had based its house of cards, as he termed Wins Attention Instantly We are on the threshold of an event which will make apermanent impression upon the history of our beloved state, Impeachment of Governor Sulzer 213 which will entail consequences far beyond our ken; which willdetermine whether or not the reign of law has ceased, and thatof passion and prejudice begun, asserted Mr. Marshall inopening. He had the attention of the court instantly. Every eye wasupon him; every ear trained to catch his words. Famed as aconstitutional lawyer, an effective orator, Mr. Marshall hadno difficulty in keeping his hearers at attention during hisentire argument. While the duty which rests upon counsel cannot be toogreatly emphasized, that which rests upon this court is infinitelygreater, he asserted. For while it is given to counsel butto present argument
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