MR SULZER’S IMPEACHMENT

Evening Star, Issue 15308, 7 October 1913, Page 6

MR SULZER’S IMPEACHMENT

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEAV YORK, October 6. (Received October 7, at 12.5 p.m.) In opening his defence ex-Governor Sulzer’s counsel endeavored to show that the moneys alleged to have been wrongfully used by him were really given for other purposes than campaign funds, consequently no charge of wrongful conversion could lie.

It is expected that Airs Sulzer will be examined as to the part she played in the alleged stock transactions to which she has confessed.

[Air William Sulzer, Governor of NcftYork State, who has been impeached, began life as an office-boy, educated himself, and became a, lawyer. He soon had an excellent practice, went in for politics, and has been a leading figure’ in the United States Congress. He posed as a Democrat of the Democrats, and let it be known that he preferred to be called “Plain Bill” Sulzer. Alost of his constituents in New York’s East End called him “Billy.” His success in politics was due entirely to his association with Tammany Hall, but when he became Governor he struck out an, independent line; refused' to allow the > Tammany “boss” to dictate his nominations, and, began a, campaign