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Show THE LE980N OF THE SUL2ER CASE Clear and commanding stands out one great lesson from the Sulzer case, says a prominent Progressive If Sul-aer Sul-aer had been clean and honest, afl he waa ambitious, not c eu tho crooked manipulations of Murphy and Tammany could have pulled him down from the governorship NothlnR the bosB and his gang of grafters devised could have checked hl6 pursuit of the criminals who robbed the state. The sordid story of crime and pillage, whose first chapters have been sketched In outline by John Hennes-sy, Hennes-sy, could have beon continued uninterrupted unin-terrupted to lta close It could have been verified by sworn testimony and unassailable evidence in the courts The crooks and the rascals could have been brought to book for their crimes. The prisons where they be long would have taken them home. New York state would have been cleaned up and a new inspiration would have been given to public men and tot private citlxens throughout the United States a new impetus to the forward movement in politics, a new faith in the efficacy of self-government If Suiter had been clean! |