Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1913 — GOVERNOR SULZER MAY BE IMPEACHED. [ARTICLE]

GOVERNOR SULZER MAY BE IMPEACHED.

Frawley Report Advises It Alter Investigation Into Campaign Contributions. The Frawley committee which investigated the campaign contributions and their use in the election of Governor Sulzer, of New York, advises - that the governor be impeached. The report says that the use of the money was so serious in its character and so violative of the laws of the state that the governor should be removed from his office (Majority Leader Levy of the assembly announced • that he would introduce a resolution impeaching the governor “for willful and corrupt conduct in office and for high crimes and misdemeanors.” The conclusions of the report are that Governor Sulzer falsified underoath his campaign contribution account, diverted some of these contributions to the purchase of stock, speculated in stock at the time that, as governor, he was earnestly pressing legislation against the New York Stock Exchange*' punished legislators who. opposed him by vetoing their bills, traded executive approval of bills for support of his direct primary measure and did everything in his power to conceal proof and obstruct the Frawley committee’s efforts to bring it to light. The report also recommends the punishment of Louis A. Sarrakey, confidential secretary of the governor during the' campaign, and also Frederick L. Colwell alleged to have been the governor's representative in some of his stock transactions, for contempt when summoned before the committee.