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on him. He had so lived that he could say, “Search me.” All that was wrong with him was that he drank too much. Nobody really grudged him that particularly. I think he never could be manipulated by the party or the party leaders or by Murphy. But he was, of course, peculiar and very independent.
He may not have voted against impeachment, but somewhere during the proceedings he made a very eloquent speech against the idea of impeaching Sulzer - very eloquent and very bold. In it he made a philosophical analysis of what we now regard as the moral curse of the habit of saying, “Everybody does it.” He made a good philosophical analysis of it. The pot shouldn't call the kettle black, and so on. “All we, like sheep, have gone astray, but no one sheep should be sacrificed.” I remember it vaguely, not completely, as being a very brilliant oratorical effort.
I was sitting in the gallery, where I rarely sat. When you heard that Grady was going to speak all the space behind the brass rail filled up. Every inch was filled up. People packed the gallery because they wanted to hear Grady. He was a wonderful person.
They did put the impeachment through an that was the end of Sulzer, except as I say I used to see him in the neighborhood, going to the grocery and managing in one way
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