. 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 . urt were finallyto decide against the respond-dent on the question whetheracts done as a private citizenand before entering office areimpeachable offenses, andwere to find the respondentguilty by a two-thirds voteon any one of the articles, itwould then pass to the sec-ond question, which is Shallthe respondent be removedfrom office ? In considering and deter-mining that question, what factors or elements ar
. 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 . urt were finallyto decide against the respond-dent on the question whetheracts done as a private citizenand before entering office areimpeachable offenses, andwere to find the respondentguilty by a two-thirds voteon any one of the articles, itwould then pass to the sec-ond question, which is Shallthe respondent be removedfrom office ? In considering and deter-mining that question, what factors or elements are to be considered ? Our position on thatquestion is that the welfare and best interests of the state andof its people must be the main consideration; that what therespondent was or was not, and what he did or did not dobefore he became governor, is of minor importance. Thegreat question would then be, what has he done and what hashe failed to do, what has he tried to do and what has he triednot to do, as governor ? Did he as a private citizen before hebecame governor do anything for which he should be removedfrom office ? If his administration on the whole has been in the interest. 210 Tammanys Treason of the people of state—if what he has done and has been at-tempting to do as governor has been in accordance with thesolemn promise which he made when he took his official oathof office—if what he has done and attempted to do is to rid thegovernmental departments of the state of graft and grafters(if graft and grafters exist)—if the public welfare will be pro-moted by a continuance of the investigations which he hadinstituted and which were in progress before his impeachment,and which have been suspended during and because of his im-peachment, and which will, in all probability, not be resumedif he be found guilty and be removed—then surely he ought notto be impeached and ought not to be removed from officebecause of any acts done by him before January 1, 1913,whether th
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