The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-05-01

Chicago. April Estates Attorney
Waymau began an investigation to-day
into the charges Of Representatives
Charles a. White that he had been paid
bribe Of $1,000 to vote for William Lori
mer for United States Senator.
Representative White true TO his
promise OF aiding I'm any prosecution.
went to Mr.. Wymau in the afternoon and
arranged 10 place all his evidence before
the States official
Senator Lorlmer tonight issued the
following:
The white statement is absolutely
false from start to finish. II is a lie on
the face OF IL. What is the matter with
White is beyond me What is the matter
with the people behind him. the Chicago
Tribune, is easier to tell They are trying.
by deliberate lying. TO wreck the financial
institutions which I am known 10 be
starting. 1t is an old game with these
people.
Calls Tribune Nemesis.
For twenty years the Tribune has
imagined that it could ruin me, not only
personally and politically, but in every
enterprise with which I have been con-
.nected. How well it has succeeded any
body in Chicago to-day may judge FOR
himself
AS to White. ] never had anv but
casual meetings with him. and. as it hap
pens, I never saw him alone.
In general, his story is so impossible
that its falsehood Is apparent az glance.
Anybody who was in Springfield during
the Senatorial contest. or is AZ all IA
miliar with Springfield affairs. would
know in minute that Il could not be
true. Such fantastic things don't happen.
IF YOU ask me why White tells this
impossible story, I can't tell you. Some
time ago, in Washington, I got a letter
from him saying that he was going to
write a story OF his life I'm the legislature
He said he had written 10000 words. for
which he had had an offer Of 500 a word.
As that would mean $1,000. l concluded
that the man was crazy.
My secretary suggested that the letter
was a blackmall letter, but did not be-
lieve it at the time. Now 1 can see it
more clearly.
But I just sent White a reply TO the
effect that I was glad he was doing SO
well
offered to Help Him.
'I might say here that a little before I
received this letter had been told that
White was very poor and needed work
and that l asked some friends to get en-
ployment for BIN. as the man had voted
for me. However. he never appeared TO /
take the place which was open for him.
THE premeditated untruthfulness OF
Whites whole story is shown by his quot /
ing Charles Luke as his authority at the /
only point where he attempts to bring me
in directly. Luke is dead
This is the point to the lie: There can /
be no reply from the grave. The trick is /
so much newspaper trick that I can /
hardly think White did it, 7 am conf /
dent that the people IN the Tribune Of /
fee, who made il an object for him 70 /
sign the article. supplied him with this /
crooked falsehood
Incidentally, after reading the dime /
novel stuff printed in the Tribune and |
il with the letter he wrote 70 4
me, can say that White had about as /
much to do with writing the Tribune /
story as if he had never been born
In conclusion I would say that the /
Tribune's an.mus and purpose should be
plain 20 anybody who noticed that
Whites pack Of lies were printed right
next 20 the announcement that I was to 4
be president Of two banks that am Or
ganizing."