The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-22
o,, HORSE CAR PLATFORM TO
,-<,TED STATES SENATE.
.., Iorimer, Who Is Charged
W." .,-,.t, Having Bought His Way In
1rDner Branch of Congress.

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70 Upper Branch of Congress.
rno alleged use of money in the
.!oo of United States Senator
I,,l,;om Lorimer of Illinois has led
wa" republican split in that state,
~ ,.d;c+ments of prominent politi-
IN connection with the charge
'l .aorruntfon and to a demand made
oonotor Lorimer himself in a
.ob in the senate chamber for an
.l-ostigation by that body.
In his defense before the senate
..n,or asserted that not a dollar
os snent for his election, charged
chicago newspaper and Governor
a,orIos S. Deneen with collision in
4artin. he bribery story and called
s st'. C1 es made against him a ma
Iicious satanic lie.
lI'I ~ was Charles A. White, demo-
40 member of the Illinois house
q e. CONSERVATIVES from the forty
VI n+h district who first preferred the
I LIMO, charge, alleging that he was
Uaid ST 900 to vote for Lorimer for
pionator, The Illinois legislature had
Soon deadlocked for 125 days, eX-
0onator Hopkins being the principal
ronnhlican candidate. Toward the
.nd of the deadlock there was some
Uttered talk about electing Lorimer
ND some further talk of fund of
s90O 600 which it was said had been
roised to send him to the upper
nranch of congress. On the first test
vote after the name of LOrimer had
noon presented, he received one vote,
and his opponents breathed sigh
of relief, believing that he was out
of the race. But when the second
ballot was taken Lorimer received
los votes-a clear majOrity-and
was declared elected. Fifty-five re-
nnblicans and SO democrats voted for
him.
The charge made by White that he
was paid $1,000 by Lee O'Neil
Browne the democratic leader of the
Illinois house of representatives, to
vote for LOrimer created a sensation
and led to a grand jury investiga-
ton. 1t forced LOrimer to defend
himself before the United States SEN
ate in remarkably bitter speech.
But its effect was more than coun-
teracted by confession made at the
same time in Illinois by Senator d.
W. HOlstaw, who admitted that he
was paid $4,000 by John Broderick,
a fellow senator, to vote for Lorimer,
and that he also had been given $500
from another corruption fund.
Whereupon the Sangamon county
grand jury in Illinois promptly in
dicted Frederick. Among others in
dicted in connection with the bribery
charge are Lee O'Neil Browne, Sena-
tor S. c. PembeTton and Representa-
tive Clark of the Illinois house of
representatives.
The result of all this will be a
bitter factional war in Illinois and a
series of prosecutions which will
throw an interesting light upon re-
cent politics in that state. That the
bribery charges will have an effect
upon congressional elections in the
state this fall is certain.
Bland and Blond.
What manner of man Senator Lori
mer is may be CLEANED from the fol-
lowing character sketch of him APP
pearing in Human Life:
'Lorimer, the article begins, ''is
the most deceitful optical illusion
known in politics. The eyes observe
him going down at the precise mo-
ment when, in, reality, he is going up.
On numerous occasions kind-hearted
persons have turned aside and have
covered their faces with their hands
mat they might not see William
dashed on the cruel, cruel rocks, and
when they have mustered up courage
10 uncover their eyes and view the re-
mains, have been startled to observe
nlm sitting in his meek and child-like
IaShlon on some neighboring pima
cIe or prominence. Such perform
ances, repeated now and again, have
surrounded Mr.. LOrimer with an un-
cdnny atmosphere. He seems to be
superior to an important law of phys
les.
The bland and blond boss was de
teated in every major political con-
.eSL IN which he engaged from 1908
10 May 1909. That is why he now
Is united States senator.
II he could run around in his
mdclu, good-natured fashion for an
osner SIX years, and encounter as
many defeats as he has in the last
SIX ne might be almost anything ex-
tSpI president, and probably the only
t .blns which would keep him out of
r rua1 once would be the fact that he
was porn in Manchester, Eng.
Thrived on Defeats.
mere never was a man who so