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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1913
Page
6
Former Governor Sulzer states that his trial was a farce and a human shambles. He accuses Murphy of threats when he refused to obey orders about patronage, Hennessy, and graft investigations. He says he activated court actions to stop state looting and criminals, not until then facing threats of removal.
The dramatic day featured the delivery of the High Court of Impeachment order to Gov. Sulzer at the executive mansion. Sulzer dismissed the ruling as a political lynching and read his prepared statement denying misuse of campaign funds while accusing figures like Murphy and the Frawley committee of orchestrating the ouster.
Ex Governor Sulzer denounces his impeachment trial as a sham and a disgrace to law calling it Murphy’s High Court of Infamy. He attacks secret proceedings, vows public justice, and claims no impeachable offense was proven despite losing the governorship.
The former governor reveals debts totaling 87 600 to creditors L M Josephthal Hugh J Reilly EB P Meaney F E Spriggs Ogilvie Co and others. He says no real estate or marketable assets remain aside from mining stock with no value and asserts his conscience is clear despite past setbacks. He promises another public statement to allow scrutiny by the people.
Elizabeth Garmony sues John Brooks Henderson to prove he fathered her child under Maine law. Henderson, son of former Senator John B. Henderson, is a Harvard graduate and noted scientist. The trial opened with witness testimony and a drawn jury. court adjourned after cross examination began.
The Boston Street Carmen's Union closed its evidence in the wage and working conditions arbitration with the company to present its case on Wednesday. Attorneys debated adjournment while witnesses from the union argued piece work harms health and quality, with wage scales and classifications under scrutiny.
The impeachment tribunal voted almost unanimously not to disqualify Sulzer from future state office after adjournment last night. The ousted governor was served the verdict at the executive mansion known as The People's House shortly before 6 pm. Sulzer, now a private citizen, said thanks to the Senate sergeant-at-arms and plans to leave the capitol probably Sunday.
Ex Governor Sulzer denounces his persecution as a farce and conspiracy. He claims the Tammanized court sided against him, ignored evidence, and delivered a biased verdict, calling the proceedings a hounding and calumny.
An advertisement extols St Jacobs Oil as a harmless local rheumatism cure. It promises relief from rheumatic pain, stiffness, sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia and swelling by rubbing the tender spots, claiming fast, temporary relief with no skin burn or discoloration. A small trial bottle is urged with the slogan limber up.
More than 3000 Socialist party members will march through Boston streets tonight near Tremont Temple to ratify the state ticket. Police say red banners violate a new law and must be removed if challenged. Parade marshal Arthur C. Wyman vows to test the law and proceed with banners if allowed.
Mrs Lavina J. Davidson gave her one month old baby a morphine tablet mistaking it for an indigestion tablet. The child died at Memorial Hospital.
Charles Sumner Bird and his flying squadron addressed about 800 people at three street corner rallies here as indoors were unavailable. In day and night events 1600 were spoken to across towns totaling 19 770 on the voting list. Thirteen townships were visited along an 189 mile circuit.
Arthur Reimer accuses Bird of using slave labor to fund automobiles and a fife and drum corps as he speaks from a soap box across from Bird. Bird replies arguing against the charge and asserts a square deal for rich and poor, denying slave labor in his mills.
Lieutenant Governor Walsh lauded the Democrats at a Greenfield rally for supporting the income tax flow and direct election of U.S. Senators. He cited party platforms dating to 1897 and contrasted Democratic reforms with Republican opposition led by Henry Cabot Lodge, urging support for Senate reform.
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