The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-24
MASON 5 HOT CHARGE
Illinois Senator Bitterly At
taCks Governor Yates.
WILL FORFEIT $4,000
He Says If He Cannot Prove
the Governor a Thief.

Chicago, Oct. 23.-"Thievery in the gov
errors chair should be the same as thiev-
cry in this hall. I charge Governor Yates
with putting his hand into the state
treasury-your treasury-and pocketing
s7Oo0O,0oo a year. If Governor Yates will
| take the witness stand I offer 10 prove
out of his own mouth that he has taken
this amount of money and put it into his
own pocket, and if 1 fail 1 will forfeit
$2.eo0 70 any charity ne may name and
retire from the race l charge that it is
thievery on the part of the governor
that he has taken this money from the
lame the halt, the blind, the insane, the
feeble-minded and the orphans"
This was Senator William E. Mason's
blast of criticism directed against the
chief executive OF the commonwealth last
night in Stiles hail. Willard avenue and
Iwenty-secold street, in his first speech
Of the campaign in Chicago. 1t was a
meeting marked with spirited enthusiasm.
dlstlnctyely anti-LOTimer and pro-Mason
The circulars even criticized the Lori
mer style of campaign with this criticism:
No big tent. No moving pictures No
brass band. No merry go-round. No
prize packages. Simply an old-fashioned
Republican meeting like Lincoln used TO
attend"
The junior senator from Illinois was
loudly cheered when he assembled the
platform and opened his speech as fol-
lows:
L repeat. I chage Governor Yates with
stealing this money. 1 do not call a
spade an agricultural instrument, as you
may observe. Larceny is larceny, thiev-
cry is thievery. This is plain PROPOSE
ton, and l have the evidence in my pos
session to prove the charges 1 prefer
What would you do if you had a man
working for you and he was instructed
to pay your employees and the employees
were to receive $50 month, and he de-
Quoted $3.50 a month from your bank
account and gave his men only $3.50 a
month? This would be larceny, would il
not? You would jog him off to Jail in
jiffy, would you not?
We'll, that is exactly what the gov
ernor of the proud state of Illinois is do
ing. He is paying the employees who |
should receive $50 a month only $3.50 a !
month, and 1 have the pay envelopes TO |
prove that statement. That is larceny. |
That is thievery. That is stealing from |
the state treasury and there is no vRy |
to get around it through any argument /
you may offer
Some people are asking me: Are you |
a Democrat? There is not a Democrat |
in the state who thinks I am l am 100 |
publican. believe in the cardinal faith /
OF the Republican party. I believe in the
Republicanism Of Republicans like Lin
coin, Grant and Logan, and I have ar
gued that kind of Republicanism in the
halls of congress, although l have been
charged with being a traitor 10 my party.
The charge is not true. I am a Repub-
hcan. and l am here tonight to assert
my Republicanism. However. I allow no
man to challenge my politics or religion
1 10 say, l say it right here and right
now, that l do not consider FaTnum
the candidate for senator, and Nohe, the
candidate for the legislature Republicans
and the majority of the Republicans do
not consider them such, and they will
ind it out on election day"
Senator Mason spoke for the independ- |
ent candidates, Fisher and Hoeder, as
against the two Lorimer candidates, Far
mum and Nohe. He was preceded by AL
herman Charles II. Rector of the Thirty
fourth ward, who flayed William Lori
ner and charged him with being not a
eader of men. but fixer OF men. He also
declared that he was the Jesse James of
politics The meeting was
leld in Lorimer's home ward in the Lawn
iale district, and is of particular impor-
ance politically because of that fact
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