Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-09-30 | Page 22 | Attacks a Custom

ATTACKS A CUSTOM G GOVERNOR SULZER'S accusers accusers accuser bc before ore the impeachment im- im J nt court have decided to investigate in the allegation that he has hns been influencing legislators to support or oppose certain lc legislation Presumably they hope to him culpable in iii this respect and to convince con con- vince vilice his ju judges that such an action is indeed most reprehensible To Po those who have haTe felt but a mild mHd concern concern concern con con- cern in the farce at at- Albany Alban this new departure should be the necessary dash of ginger that will revive rei flagging flagging flagging flag flag- ging inter interest Bt Before our eyes as we wait with bated breath ma may y bo be forever fore settled the thc question whether an executive has the right to influence the legislative department of government Mr Sulzer's admirers should feel greatly heartened b by this evidence of the desperation of the le Tammany cause causo When they attack him for or actions of which every executive of every state or nation has so 80 long been guilty that it has become becom a custom they but hut render the tho prosecution ridiculous The Tho line of cleavage between n what an executive e emay may pro properly rh do do to influence legislation and that which he lie may not rightfully attempt is most indistinct indistinct indis indis- there is of a certain certainty b a n twilight zone between that which is right and that which is iB wrong wherein actions Partake of both the time good g and the bad Practically Practically Practically the sole standard should be t tye c character of the legislation th that t is advanced