. 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 . is tousurp legislative you are to set thatprecedent for all time tocome unless there is a radi-cal change in our constitu-tion. Because it necessarilyflows from his argumentthat a man can be impeachedfor not only any offense butfor no offense. That if forany reason, political or other-wise, it is determined that apublic official is no longerfit for office because he be-lieves or does not believ
. 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 . is tousurp legislative you are to set thatprecedent for all time tocome unless there is a radi-cal change in our constitu-tion. Because it necessarilyflows from his argumentthat a man can be impeachedfor not only any offense butfor no offense. That if forany reason, political or other-wise, it is determined that apublic official is no longerfit for office because he be-lieves or does not believe in the direct primaries, becausehe is a low tariff or a high protection man—nay, more—if there is no limit, then the private citizens may be impeached,great political leaders, against whom charges are continuallymade, as they are today in the public prints, may be im-peached by the assembly and brought before a court composedas this is, and forever disqualified as a citizen and ruined inhis political leadership and power. That is a boundless sea upon which he asks you to venture;no rudder, no compass to steer and guide you. In the learned brief prepared by the managers, and I. 226 Tammanys Treason suspect by the counsel for the managers, and I suspect almostentirely by the learned gentleman who is to follow me, it waspractically conceded that there was no power of impeachmentfor offenses committed before entering upon ofhce, because youwill recall the very able effort that was made to demonstratethat the making of this statement of election expenses wasofficial misconduct, that it was so intimately connected witha mans entering upon the discharge of his official duties thatit could properly be regarded as being made—I think the wordwas used—in the vestibule to office. I am amazed, astounded, at an argument from a man whoso recently occupied the highest judicial position in this stateand who controverts every writer, every public writer, uponthe question of impeachment
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