October 18: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
ON THIS DAY IN 1913, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “ALBANY — There is little of the usual Sulzer vaingloriousness in the statement that has been given out by ex-Governor William Sulzer following his removal yesterday by the Court of Impeachment. Politicians here believe that its comparative mildness of expression and the careful wording of the document in which Mr. Sulzer tries to set himself ‘right with the people’ will do much to accentuate sympathy that is felt for him in many quarters. The Sulzer statement, as given out by him last night, deals very lightly with the accusations brought against him. The statement he made on August 11, in which he denied categorically that he had used campaign contributions for personal use or that he had speculated in Wall Street, using money contributed for campaign purposes to buy stocks, is repeated in full, and Mr. Sulzer says no legal evidence was adduced in the trial which disproved it. Mr. Sulzer also cites again his denial of September 14, that he intended to resign. At that time, he says, he stated that he was going to stand trial because he believed he was going to have justice — that the trial was not to be a political fight.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1925, Eagle columnist Frederick Boyd Stevenson wrote, “The Brooklyn Daily Eagle offers a prize of one hundred and fifty dollars for the best constructive remedy that will check this chaos of crime in the United States … You probably know that the Brooklyn Eagle has been made the medium of an advertising campaign against crime in a series of advertisements now running in this paper and financed by churchmen, laymen, businessmen and public-spirited citizens. These full-page advertisements have been running every week for some time and will continue for several months. They have attracted wide attention not only in this city, but throughout the country, because of the unique method that has been presented to induce the general public to give heed to the crime menace that confronts us all. Many prominent newspapers in the West and South have requested the Eagle to send them mats and copies of the advertisements and the articles appearing in this paper in regard to this campaign, and they have been extensively reproduced. For the purpose of further stimulating the public interest in this most important question that is before us today, the Eagle has offered this prize of one hundred and fifty dollars — not that the money consideration is great, but as a test to determine how many people are seriously thinking of the welfare of their country and are willing to give the best that is within them to serve it in its hour of need.”
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