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THE IMPEACHMENT^
or gov. sum
A great event is on the stage at Albany.
The title given it is “The Impeachment
of the Governor of the Empire State. ”
The liile is misleadingly inadequate. It
should be'merely a more pregnant mat
ter than the title denotes.
A regulation polotieians’ shindy had
been going on between Tammany Hall
and William'Sulzer since the latter’s in
auguration as*Governor. The contend
ing parties manoeuvred for position with
an eye to the immediately following
elections. The trenches thrown up by
the Governor were not ill chosen: they
ran alo:ig*lhe lines of State-wide prim
aries: the success of the nianoeuver would
strip"tlie]!Tamma:ly-ru 1 ed State Conven
tions of the despotic power that they, in
common with all oth^r purely politcal
party conventions, enjoy of dictating the
ticket to the unorganized but by far more
numerous supporters o‘f such’ parties at
tiie hustings. Tammany realized the
danger to itself, and characteristically
threw up its trenches along the liues of
mystification—the alleged saero-sanct
ness of conventions.
111 the’struggle, Tammany had the ad
vantage.: \ it |owned the Legislature: it
voted down the Sulzer primary proposi
tions, and’when the‘Governor called the
Legislature in special session to re-con
sider;the bill, die Legislature re-voted it
down. So far Tammany held the fort,
with what looked like an impregnable
position. The Governor flanked the
same.
There is an'election for Assemblymen
this November; next year Senators also
arc to be elected. The agitation, conduc
ted. in the meanwhile in favor of the
State-wide primary, might, or might not,
wrench the Legislature from Tammany;
scandalous disclosures, however, of Tam
many corruption in .State Department
surely would. The Governor moved
in that direction. The Moreland act of
recent annuetmeut afforded a handymeans
to this end. The ecc authorizes the Ex
ecutive to institute “special investigations
of State Departments. Accordingly,
while’the Tammany Legislature- was in
vestigating the Governor, the Governor
started a back-fire investigation by ap
pointing his principal lieutenant, John
A. Hennessey, to investigate the newly
established and Tammany-run Depart
ment of Efficiency and Economy. To
raise the lid from that Department was
■’ a thrust aimed at Tammany’s vitals.
IIo.v avert it?
William Sulzer is no better than the
run _>f-politician s, perhaps'.worse than’some
mcroever he is mi intellectual feather
weight. All that notwithstanding, that
lie should have committed so scatter
brair.edlv, the acts of corruption that he
is charg.d with by the Frav.tey (Tam
many) Committee is, while not imposs
hie, yet unlikely. The suspicion that
the Frawley disclosures are fraudulental
half-truths receives strong confirmation
from the records of the Tammany legis
lators and place men at Albany, some of
whom have convict records.
What then can the purpose of these gen
try be in starting impeachment proceed
ings that, in all likelihood, will fall
through, and bring only ridicule and dis
grace to the impeachers? The answer is
found in the interpretation that the lead
ers of the impeachment move put upon
certain clauses of tha State Constitution.
According to their interpretation, the
mere act of impeaching the Governor
suspends him, vacates his seat, perman
ently, if he is convicted, or temporarily,
if acquitted. The emmediate consequence
of this interpretation would be the im
mediate occupation of the gubernatorial
chair by the Tammany Lieutenant-Gov
ernor, Martin H, Glynn; and, in the in
toxication of their glee, some of the in
discreeter Tammany impeachers have al
lowed their interpretations rapidly-to
follow consequences to leak out—-first,
the recommendation to the Legislature by
the then Gov. Glynn that it repeal the
Moreland act; secondly, the immediate
and glad acquiescene by the Legis
lature; and, last, but not least, in
deed, the real purpose in mind, the
dropping of investigator Hennessey’s
head into the basket. The Moreland act
being out of the way, the Governor’s ac
quittal anti re-installation, tho’ not de
sirable, would be immaterial—Hennessy’s
investigating head could not be restored
to him, and the lid will remain tight on
the Department of Efficiency and Econ
omy. In short, the solemn machinery of
impeachment is put in motion, not in
order to cleanse the gubernatorial chair,
but to side-track the incumbent long
enough to enable the Lieutenant-Gover
nor, in conjunction with the Legislature,
to strike# off the statute book an act by
virtue of which light threatens a pecul
iar!'' dark corner of Tammany.
Nor yet is the event at Albany un
veiled in ail its instructive fullness.
The present Constitution of the State
is the handiwork *of the State’s and na
tion’s leading lawyers. Joseph H. Choate,
siuce then American Ambassador to
Great Britain, was a member of the Con
stitutional Convention that framed the
present constitution, iiliim Root, since
then Federal Secretary of State and now
senior Senator from New York, was its
chairman And yet, a convention largely
composed of such legal luminaries in the
bourgeois firmament of the land trained
a Stata Constitution whose knock-nneed
clauses are giving room tor the spectacle
of two Governors sitting simultaneously
and at once at Albany—-one, agreeable to
one interpretation, the Tammany; the
other agreeable to another interpretation,
the anti-Tammany; either interpretation
plausible.
The impeachment of a Governor,, even
of the Governor of the Empire State,
need not necessarily be matter of much
importance to the Socialist, or the Work
ing Class in general. The impeachment
might be the result of one of the numer
ous clashes cf political opinion, pushed to
an acute stage by tlie scorching breath of
bottrgois competition. The impaechment
might even disclose bourgois curruption;
but that would furnish only cumulative
evidence of what already is superadund
antly known by everybody, That -which
deeply interests the Socialist in the event
at Albany, and raises the same to the dig
nity of an Event, is the spectacle and
proof of the Political State on the rocks—
the Empire State, as becomes her pre-em
inence, furnishing the stage.—Weekly
People,
THE EXPEDIENCY
OF MICE TODAY
Scene: Court room, a suit for divorce i
being tried, the lawyers are sitting around ,
chewing tobacco and the judge snoring.
Counsel: “Call Jennie Smith to the
stand.”. Jennie Smith takes the stand.
Counsel: “What is vour name?”
Opposing Counsel: “Objection, if the '■
Court please, counsel is calling for aeon- j
elusion of the witness. It hasn't been !
shown that the witness has a name”
Court: Objection sustained.”
Counsel: Have you a name?
Opposing Counsel: “Objection, if the j
Court please, the question is leading and j
suggestive,
Court: “Objection sustained.”
Counsel: “What are you generally
called?”
Opposing Couusel: ‘‘Objection, if the
Court please. Tnere ‘s no evidence
before the court that witness has '
ever been called,”
Court: “Objection sustained.”
The lawyers tye one another, the
Court’s head drops back and he soon be
gins to snore again.
Counsel seems to get a new idea and !
again the following questions are put:
“Are you married or single?”
Opposing Counsel: “Objection, if the :
Court please, the question will tend to
embarrass the witness and the marriage :
certificate is the best evidence.”
Counsel: Do you live with a man who
is reputed to he your husband?”
Opposing Counsel: “Objection if the
Court please, the question is irrelevant,
incompetent, and it is immaterial who
the wittness lives with.”
Counsel: “Is it true that you live in
Henry Smith’s house?”
Opposing Counsel: If the Court please,
the house is the best evidence.”
Counsel: “Is William Smith your
sou? ’ ’
Opposing Couusel: “Objection, if the
Court please, the question will confuse
the witness, besides reflecting on
her moral character and also in
sinuates that William Smith is not the
son of this wonirn.'’
Court: “Objection sustained.”
Counsel takes exception to the ruling
of the court and puts the same question.
After a heated altercation lasting about
three hours over the admisibility of cer
tain evidence in which the lawyers shake
their fists in one another’s faces and one
of them makes a motion to be allowed to
file a plea of abatement, Court adjourns
until the holidays and hot weather are
over.
Five minutes later the lawyers are
sitting with their heads together com
paring notes,
TO DO EOtfOR TO
AUGUST BEBEL
A MEETING WILL BE HEED IN
H A R M O.N I E HAEE, FAIRBANKS,
WEIL OCT. 1, 8:3JP.M. BY i HE EOCAE
ORGANIZATION OF THE SOCIAL
IST PARTY TO HONOR THE MEM
ORY OF AUGUST BEBEL, THE
GREATEST MARXIAN SOCIALIST
OF OUR TIME, WHO PASSED AWAY
AT ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, ON
AUGUST 13, AGED 75 YE:'AS.
The old party politicians who talk
of Socialists founding coioua.: must
have been thinking of the Holy Rollers
and probably were at one Erne mem
bers of that iiluatnou:. body.
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THE DEATH
OF BEBEL
(Continued from Page 1.)
Bismarck, with all the power of the
German State behind him, tried hard to
stop Socialism, but it was a movement
that not even Bisnarck could handle.
All the plotting and planning that ac
cumulated in the fertile brain of that
master hand at plotting could not stop
that quartet from carrying on the propa
ganda of the movement that, in every
part of the dvilizen world .today, is shak
ing the very foundations of-the capitalist
system. •
Altlioug Bebel was old and feeble, yet
he intended to take part in the Soaialist
Congress to be held at Jena, in Septem
ber of this year.
We close the article on Bebel by quot
ing from the Weekly People: At the Bier
of Bebel,
With the passing away of August Bebel
there has passed away at once a pro
duct of the world-ejici rcliug Socialist
Movement, and one who, in turn has
contributed mightily by precept and ex
ample to impart tone, character and di
rection to the Movement.
While in many a respect the personali
ties of George Washington and August
Bebel offer the theme for a contrast, in
more important ones they singularly
present the theme for a parallel.
Like Washingron, Hebei’s first appear
ance upon the public stage was rather in
the opposite direction in which he has
become immortal.
Like Washington, Rebel’s integrity
of purpose and loftiness of ideals pre
served him from the lures of immediate
and easy distinction, and led him to and
on the path on which he grew to be a
maker of history, and the marker of an
epoch. i
Like Washington, Bebel’s personal lov
ableness of temperament grappled to
him the numerous conflicting streams,
inseparable from all revolutionary move
ments, and strongly pronounced in the
Movement, which he pioneered and led;
and Ills life lasted long enough to keep
these streams from dashing destructively
against one another, long enough until,
their sharp edges being worn out, they
might flow together to their common
goal.
Like Washington, Rebel’s memory is
the cherished inheritance of his people—
his people being, in keeping with the
broader Movement, not the people of one
nationality only, but fhe peoples of that
wider nationality that is rising, and over
the cradle of which the sun never sets,
the International Socialist Nation,
In bidding adieu to August Bebel, the
Socialists of America joins her sister
Socialist organizations the world around
in folding all the closer to our heart the
mighty spirit cf the departed Comrade,
Leader and Inspirer.
NO COMPROMISE .
NO POLITICAL TRADING
(Continued from Page 1.)
back under tne dominion of capitalistic
society.
However small such a breach may
be in the beginning, the enemy has
most dangerous when he comes as a
friend to the fortress; when he slinks in'
under the cover of freindship and is rec
ognized as a friend and comrade.
‘ ‘The enemy who comes to us with open
visor we face with a smile; to set our
foot upon his neck is mere play lor us;
the enemy ho wever, that reaches out tne
hand to us for a political alliance and in
trudes himself upon us as a friend and
brother—he anti he alone—have we to
fear.
“Our fortress can withstand every as
sault; it cannot be stormed nor taken
from us by seige—it can omy tail when
we ourselves open the door to the en
emy and take him into our ranks as a
fellow comrade. Growing out 01 the
class struggle, our party rests upon the
class struggle as a condition ox existence.
Through aud w ith that struggle the party
is unconquerable; wuhout it Uie pariy is
lost, lor it will have lost the source ol its
strength. Whoever’fails to understand
this or thinks that the Class struggle is a
dead issue, or that ciass antagonism are
gradually being ellaced, stands upon the
basis of bourgeois philosophy.”
The Alaska Socialist will be issued
every fortuight until we get our plant
in working order, when it will be issued
weekly.
JIM OBEYS
i THE VOICE OF
j HIS MASTER
*
l CALUMET, Mich., Sept. 24.—The
striking copper miners and their families
residing throughout this region have
been enjoined from parading the streets
or gathering iu public places while the
strike is on.
The workers also liave been restrained
from stationing pickets about the mines
j or interfering in anyway with the men who
: have taken their places in the mines.—
Fairbanks Daily Times.
! The al)ove shows tliat it is just as easy
j for the bosses to get injunctions under
' the Democratic administration of Wood
row Wilson and Bill Bryan as under the
I Taft and Roosevelt administrations, a
1 dub feels just as hard under Woodrow
; Wilson as under Bill Taft.
“The grub is soaring out of sight;
And clothing’s extra high;
And house rents upwards take their
course and to the heavens fly,
While wages take the toboggan route,
and downward, down they go;
So workingmen, when winter comes,
may have to live on snow.
For some stand pat for the Democrat,
And some for the G, O. 1’.;
But both will use the riot guu
Whenever it pleases me.
Or split their force in the great sham
fight,
For none understand the game;
bo whichever w ins of the xaithtul tw ins,
1 boodle just tiie same.
They cast their vote for the twelve hour
boss,
And sirike for an eight hour day.
Which cheers me so that i ovcrnow
With mirth and reduce their pay.
They strike like fools ana uiey vote
like mules,
And land in the big bull pen;
Hence i laugh "Ha! Ha: out my in
terests are
Tne same ss the workingmen.
THERE’S A REASON PCR
1HE ALASKA SuuALlSf
(Continued from Page 1)
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otners to subscribe. We nave nxeu uie
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terested in Socialism can auoru to sub
scribe.
We have delayed in starting lor various
reasons and part ox out outfit aus not
been received yet.
The only trouble tliatwc nave nuu w*.s
iu hnding a suitable name lor tne paper,
! some wanted to call it one tiling and
I some auother, and it seemea as u Uiere
j was going to be a rouglinouse. At msc a
| conference of our reporLuiiui =uui was
| called, w hich consists of two cx-ucteeUves,
one ex-preacfier, one ucu\e politician
and a lew workingmen, me two ex
spies, true to their former training ana
tne environment in wlncn inev nuu oeen
raised, wanted to call il me rvcyuoie
; Reporter,” but the ex-pr earner ueiu Uiat
: such a name would corrupt uie morals
| of the young; besides some oi the local
' lawyers, and that tlieir were enougii key
hole reporters in Alaska already and es
pecially in Fairbanks and that such a
name would be of uo use to the working
I class, and it was so ordered.
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Foolish Young Man
The young man who was receutly
! found guilty for embezzling the funds
of a corporation should have gone into
the banking business a-ia-rairOanss.
If he had, it can be saieiy asserted
in the light of past events, that no
felon’s garb would nave adorned hi»
person.
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