. 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 . r. Marshall spoke for more than two hours. One part ofhis speech which attracted general attention was: If such a procedure should be declared to be within thespirit of the constitution, the time may come when, as a resultof momentary excitement, the rhetoric of a demagogue, orheadlong passion, a bare majority of the assembly may bebrought together by malign influences, for the very purposeof impeaching ever
. 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 . r. Marshall spoke for more than two hours. One part ofhis speech which attracted general attention was: If such a procedure should be declared to be within thespirit of the constitution, the time may come when, as a resultof momentary excitement, the rhetoric of a demagogue, orheadlong passion, a bare majority of the assembly may bebrought together by malign influences, for the very purposeof impeaching every member of the Court of Appeals and everyjustice of the Supreme court. Under such circumstances chaos and anarchy would reign,and grim revolution would stalk throughout the state. Thisis not a mere figment of the imagination. If the contentions of the managers in the present casewere upheld, would it not, at such periods of storm and stressas are apt to arise in every decade of our history, seal the foun-tains of justice and paralyze the arm of the judiciary ? \This is not a novel position from the standpoint of is as old as tyranny; as ancient as lawlessness. Those who. Senators Wagner and Frawley Senator Robert Wagner as a result of the removal of Sulzer becameLieutenant-Governor. Senator James J. Frawley asked for and received as asouvenir the pen that wrote the decision of the court that removed Sulzer. Impeachment of Governor Sulzer 157 controlled the machinery of the star chamber in the days ofthe Tudors; those who issued letters to cachet in the reignof Louis XV; the mobs which in our own land have resortedto lynching have been actuated by a common abhorrence oflegal procedure according to established principles, and haveviewed the restraints of the written law and of elementaljustice as technicalities. And we have now, in our day, come to the task when anappeal to the supreme law—the constitution—which en-shrouds the self-imposed restraints of a free peo
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