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breakdown. I saw most of the rest of them that night. They put the resolution through, I think, that very night, or certainly the next day. I think it was that night in the night session, though. They put it through and most of them sobbed as they voted for it. They were in a terrible state of emotional reaction.

So I learned another thing - that politics is full of emotion. They really cared. They were deeply distressed that the high office of the Governor of the State of New York was to be so deteriorated and degraded as to have its occupant impeached. He was being impeached for what seemed to them proper reasons - namely, his refusal to accept party authority. It had cased to be Murphy's personal word and become the direction of all the representatives of the party who were then in office, including the upstate Democratic members. I'm pretty sure it will be found that Harvey Ferris voted for the impeachment. He was an upstate man from Utica. There were one or two others. And, of course, one or two others voted for impeachment.

The evidence of what they had against Sulzer was such that, even though you might feel sorry for him, he had done wrong. You could say to yourself, “Well, he's done no worse than other people have done.” Many of the Republicans said that to me. I remember Harvey D. Hinman, a tall, lean, thin