Identifier: tammanystreasoni00forre (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Forrest, Jay W Malcolm, James, of Albany, N. Y., joint author
Subjects: Sulzer, William, 1863-1941 Tammany Hall
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. (The Fort Orange Press)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the impeachment Governor Sulzer wasplaced under a vow by his lawyers not to speak for publica-tion. For a man who was accustomed to discuss through thenewspapers his public affairs day after day, this pledge wasan onerous one for him to make, especially when he knew hewas being misrepresented and maligned. From the moment the impeachment articles had been deliv-ered to the senate on August 13th, the legal advisers of lieu-tenant governor Martin H. Glynn held that under the con-stitution he automatically became the acting governor. Itwas as stoutly held by Governor Sulzers advisers that theconstitution contemplated that an impeached executiveshould continue to perform the functions of governor until hehad been convicted and removed from office. Governor Sulzer offered, under advice of counsel, to submitthe question to the courts for adjudication. This offer was Impeachment of Governor Sulzer 147 THE GOVERNOR AND THE PRETENDER f^ot^ Trte People ! I 6oT l^Y BoVs, l^URPHY!1 A/ANT THE Job
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From the Albany Knickerbocker Press 148 Tammanys Treason rejected by the lieutenant governor, who contended that therewas nothing for the courts to pass upon, the constitution,according to his view, being clear on that point. The entire matter, wrote Mr. Glynn, is now in thehighest court of the state—the court of impeachment—themost august body known to our system. To his intimate friends. Governor Sulzer frequently statedafter his impeachment and before the trial that he knewenough of the character of Charles F. Murphy to feel surethat he would be removed. Tammany controls two-thirds of the court, he said, and it has already been decreed that I am to be ousted fromoffice. Referring to the members of the court of appeals, the gov-ernor remarked that three of the ten members were dominatedby Murphy and three by William Barnes, the republican boss.He believed that these six members were as incapable of doinghim justice as the average Tammany senator. Impeachment of Governor Sulzer 1

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