The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29
Senator Lorimer Hurls Invective at Those
Who Accuse Him Of Bribery
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me and my friends financially and po-
liticalIy"
He then detailed the fact of the Tri-
bunes publication on April l last of
story over the signature of Charles A.
white, member of the Illinois legis-
lature. in which it was alleged that he
had procured his seat in the senate
through bribery and corruption. 'I
have been compelled" he went on, "to
defer my return to the senate owing
TO the fact that the story was timed
and published with a deliberate pur-
pose to destroy a new banking asso-
citation in Chicago which I have been
organizing with some of my friends
He declared that Medill Mccormick
of the Tribune had threatened that the
oank never should open and also as
serted that White did not write the
story as had been claimed, but that 1t
was the work of a trained newspaper
hand skilled in the art of creating
scandal out of lies when it is thought
necessary to blacken the character of
one whom the newspaper can not con-
troll.
ut is plain to be seem" he went on,
that every word was passed on by
lawyer before it was finished by that
poor low creature, White, who does
not 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
secure money to satisfy his instinct
for debauchery, sold what little was
left Of his manhood and became the
plant tool of the Tribune in this
timed and malicious attack"
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 Beckmeyer
had not made confessions, as had been
charged, but on the contrary said that
the charges stand as they stood April
30, the uncorroborated lies of the Trib-
une, supported only by the bought sig
nature of their weak tool. White"
Senator Lorimer went on with in
creasing vehemence to assert that the
Chicago paper lied and knew it lied"
in charging that money was used to
purchase his election.
Not one dollar was paid to a single
member of the general assembly for
his vote for me-" the senator declared.
and he added that when the truth was
known everybody would understand
that the publication of the article by
White was "a part of a political con-
e.
to ruin me financially. because I will
not do as other republicans in Illinois
have done-place myself under the alb
solute control and dictatorship of the
Tribune"
DENEEN ADVISED HIM
Senator Lorimer gave his version of
HIS senatorial nomination and cleo
ton. He declared that it was at the
suggestion of Governor Deneen that he
had entered the field and then only
after he and the governor had be-
sought others to make the race.
The senator went clear back to the
Blaine campaign of 1884 and then to
ward contest in Chicago for the al
legged genesis of his disagreements
with the Chicago Tribune.
At great length Senator Lorimer de-
scribed Chicago political Developments
In 1902, he said, Governor Deneen,
friends urged him to make his peace
with the Tribune.
Coming down to modern times, he
declared, that all the power of the city,
county, state and federal administra-
tions, under the leadership of Senator
Hopkins, Governor Deneen and Mayor
Busse, assembled into a misfit organ
ization,' combined to destroy the or
ganization controlled by Lorimer, with
intent to give control to the Tribune.
He traced his breach with Governor
Deneen largely to a difference OF opin-
ion between the two as to the wisdom
of spending, independently of action by
the national government, the s20,000,-
600 pledged by the state toward the
deep waterway TO the gulf project,
which the governor favored and he op-
posed.
He asserted that the governor per-
sonally advised in the preparation of
the White story.
GOVERNOR A sLANDERER
He went on TO say:
The governor Joined this campaign