The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-29
SENATOR LOR|MER
DEMANDS INQUIRY
Accuses the Chicago Tribune
and Gov. Deneen of Con-
spring Against Him.

Washington. May 2S.-For just two
hours today Senator Lorimer Of I'LL
nois, stood In the Senate and, in vigor-
Gus language, denounced as untrue the
charges of bribery made against him
in connection with his election to the
Senate. Upon leaving tie chamber az
the conclusion OF hts speech, Mr.. Lori
mer hurriedly put his affairs in order
and caught late train for Chicago n
his address Mr.. LoriTne- nlada emphatic
denial of all the allegations OF corrup-
ton and sought to turn the accuSa-
ton of wrongdoing upon the Chicago
Tribune, in which th5 charges were
first published.
The speech was devoted to a review
of charges and Illinois politics for the
last % years. He charged the Chica go
Tribune with sinister motives in its At
tacks and, saying that il had been
fighting him ever since 1884, charged
that it was inspired because Of its fail
ure to control his course as a public
man. Mr.. LOrimer gave many particu-
lars concerning his senatorial election,
saying that after persuading him TO
enter the race, Gov Deneen had de-
serted him and sought to turn against
him those whose support he had for
merly procured for him.
Asked An Investigation.
At the close of his speech, Mr.. Lori
mer offered resolution directing that
the committee on privileges and cleo
tiOns.
Under the rules of the Senate the
resolution was referred to the commit
| the question Of cost 10 case of d ia
vorable report from that committee, OF
which there is no doubt, the resolution
will go to the committee on elections
for consideration Of the merits of the
| matter. Upon the decision OF that
committee the Senate's actions viii
I largely depend.
In opening, Mr.. Lorimer said:
Mr. President: 1 rise to question
| of personal privilege to state the facts
concerning and the reasons for the
most recent assault made upon me by
! the Chica go Tribune with the intent to
! blacken my character with the people
of the country and to destroy me and
my friends financially and politically"
He then detailed the fact of the Trib-
une's publication, on April 1st last, of
story over the signature of Charles
A. White, a member of the Illinois leg
islatUre, IN which IT was alleged that
he had procured his seat in the Senate
! through bribery and corruption. Il
have been compelled he went on, ito
defer my return to the Senate owing to
the fact that the story was timed ami
published with a deliberate purpose to
destroy a new banking association in
/ Chicago which I have been organizing
with some of my friends. The assault.
L
opening. It utterly failed of its pur-
pose, but 1t required my constant at
/ tention to build an impTegnable bull
Wark around the bank to safeguard the
/ interest of those who have entrusted
/ their funds to the care of my associates
/ and myself against any malicious or vi
cious assault that may be made against
it by the Tribune"
Defended Lee Browne.
| Relating that it had been charged
I 10 ha Hv-fE
Hon. Lee O'Neil Browne the Demo-
/ cratic leader of the Illinois house of
! representatives, he defended Mr.
Browne as entirely above participation
in such proceeding.
! He declared that Medill Mccormick
| of the Tribune, had threatened that the
/ bank never should open and also as
| serted that White did not write the
/ story as has been claimed but that It
/ was the work of a trained newspaper
/ hand, skilled in the art of creating
| scandal out of lies, when il is thought
/ necessary, to blacken the character of
one whom the newspaper cannot con-
I troll
1T is also plain to be SEEN" he went
/ on, that every word was passed on by
| a lawyer before il was signed by that
/ hesitate to commit forgery for a few
! dollars, and to whom perjury is no
/ crime, who is part of the lowest
! fringes of depravity and who to Sc
! cure money for debauchery, sold what
/ little was left of his manhood and be-
\ came the plant tool of the Tribune in
! this timed and malicious attack"
/ Defending Charles Luke, a deceased
I member of the legislature, against a
] charge that ne had been a beneficiary
/ OF his LOrimer's) bribery, the st ia
/ tor told how Mr. Luke, a Democrat,
] had risen from practically his death
| bed to vote for him. a Republican, but
! without other motive than friendship.
Standing in this historic chamber. in
1 a place of high honor, to which my de-
I parted friend did all in his power to
/ assist me, would" he said, "be untrue
/ TO our friendship and my high regard
/ for him if I did not hurl this malicious.
/ heartless satanic lie back into the foul
/ mouth that uttered it.
There is no language 10 character
lie such venomous. despica5le conduct"
Bitter Attack on Mccormick.
Senator Lorimer then proceeded with
/ unmeasured words of bitter invective
/ and epithet, an attack on Medill Nc
/ Cormick personally. He asserted that
/ Representatives Link and Breckmeyer
/ charged. but. on the contrary. said that
/ ''the charges stand as they stood April
/ 80 the uncorroborated lies of the Trib-
une. supported only by the bought sig
natures of their weak tool, White"
| At great length Senator Loriner de-
! scribed Chicago political developments.
/ In 1902. he said Governor Deneen, then
/ county attorney and other friends
urged him to make his peace with the
| Tribune
| of help" he said, they were anxious
and pleased to work with the organi-
zati5n even against the constant as
sau lt of the newspaper trusts; but after
they had become prosperous and affIu-
ent. they felt they could stand the