The Cairo bulletin., 1910-05-29
DENEEN ISSUES STATEMENT
IN DEFENSE OF HIMSELF
Governor Says He Told Tribune Whites Con.
fession Should be Observation-Disclosures
Speech on Floor Of Senate, Asking Full
Inquiry Of Bribery Charges Against
Him In Illinois


hours today LoFimer, of Illinois,
stood in the senate and in vigorous
language denounced as untrue the
charges of bribery made against him
in connection with his election to the
senate. AT the conclusion OF his
speech. Lorimer caught a late train
for Chicago.
He made emphatic denial of all the
allegations of corruption and sought
to turn the accusation of wrong doing
upon the Chicago Tribune, in which
: aasssaaaeE41hasehaEges Weseafrst spllhs
lished
Tribune His Foe Always.
The speech was devoted to a re-
view of the charges and Illinois poll
tics for the last 25 years. He charged
the Tribune with sinister motives in
its attacks and saying it had been
fighting him ever since 1884, charged
that 1t was inspired because of its
failure to control his course as q pub
lie man. He gave many particulars
concerning the senatorial election,
saying that after persuadlng him to
enter the race, Governor Deneen de-
serted him and sought to turn
against him those whose support he
had formerly procured for him.
At the close Lorimer offered a reso-
luton directing that an inquiry into
the charges be made by the commit
tee on privileges and elections. TN
der the rules Of the senate the reso.
luton was referred to the committee
on contingent expenses to consider
the question of cost. In the case of
favorable report from that commit
tee, of which there Is no doubt, the
resolution will 90 to the committee
on elections for consideration of the
merits of the matter. Upon the re-
port of that committee he senaes ac-
tion will largely depend.
After His New Bank.
Lorimer said the Tribune's charges
stroy his new Chicago bank Detail
ing Representative Whites story of
the alleged bribery he said Represen.
tative Browne, who is charged with
the distribution Of the bribe money,
"is entirely above participation in
such proceedings" He declared that
Editor Mccormick, of the Tribune,
had threatened that the bank never
should open" He said White did not
write the bribery story, but it was
prepared by trained newspaper
hand.e He spoke of White as "a poor,
low creature, who does not hesitate
to commit forgery for d few dollars"
He defended Representative Luke
against the allegation that he accept
ed money for his vote. He denounced
Mccormick for making such charge
as a "loathsome, detestable creature"
He declared Linz. arr-1.--Beckemeyer
had not confessed.
He said the Tribune fled, and that
Whites story was part of a con-
spiracy to run him financially and
politically
Scores Deneen.
Coming to Deneen, Lorimer said he
entered the senatorial race at the
governors suggestion. He declared
that later Senator Hopkins, Deneen
and Mayor Busse, Of Chicago entered
combination with others to de-
stroy his political organization with
the intent to give control to the
Tribune. He traced the break with
Deneen largely to the difference OF
opinion as TO the wisdom of spending
independent Of the national govern.
ment S20,006,0O0 for a deep waterway
and said that the governor was adj
vised in the preparation Of Whites
story for the purpose Of deceivng the
people and defeat those favorable to
federal cooperation in expending that
$4,000, 600.