The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-12
Loriner Scandal Will Be
Paramount Issue In the
Political Battles
CANNON|SM AND TARIFF
WILL ALSO CUT FIGURE
State Primaries Will BE Held In Sep-
tember and People VIII Endeavor
To Shake Themselves Loose
From system
BY wATTERsoN sTEALEY

Washington July 11.-(Special.)-Th
Lorimer scandal will be the paramount
issue in the campaign in Illinois this
from that state.
National issues will be prominent, but
overshadowing everything else will be the
effort of the people to shake themselves
loose from a political system which has
been disgrace to the state.
The preliminary campaign in Illinois is
already well under way The struggle
promises to be one of the most interest
ing political battles of the year. The pri-
maries will be held September 15 and will
be hotly contested.
The people of Illinois are thoroughly
aroused in support of the proposition
that the state Legislature shall be cleaned
voted for William Lorimer for senator.
OF the 2o4 members of the Illinois leg
islature, 50 republicans and SO democrats,
los in all, voted for Lorimer for the Sem
ate. A few of the los are hold-over sem
ators who cannot be reached by the
voters at the coming election. Four of
the los have confessed they were bribed
to vote for Lorimer. Another, who has
not confessed. has already been tried
once for bribery, and will be tried again.
Still another has been indicted for al
legged bribery.
The situation is similar in many re-
spects to that caused by the action of
the Legislature of 1897, which passed the
Humphrey gas bill and the Allen street
railway bill, the result of which was that
0na mo Of he 0isio
reelected. For 13 years Illinois has lain
dormant. but now it is aroused. and an
Indignation that is non-partisan is sweep
ling over the state as a result of the
Lorimer scandal
The issues In Illinois this fall promise
to be as follows:
In the congressional campaign Cam
nonism, the tariff law. and the high cost
of living will be the most discussed
In the state campaign the Lorimer
scandal will be paramount In the Chi
cago county campaign the republican
party will have to answer charges of
negligence and graft In the administra-
ton of the business affairs of the city.
Anybody that wants a navy can get
one cheap by taking advantage of the
opportunity offered by the navy depart
ment to purchase the cruisers Detroit
and Boston, the gunboat Concord and the
torpedo boat Winslow. They will be ad-
vertised for sale within a few dys With
them will be given, If desired, certified
pedigree showing that they have been In
action at one time or another and that
they have acquitted themselves with dis
tinction
The Detroit participated in the bonn
bardment of San Juan during the Spanish
American war The Boston once hoisted
the American flag over Hawaii The
Winslow is the boat on which Ensign
Worth Bagley was serving when killed
during the Spanish-American war
Nobody knows who is likely to buy
these ships. They are the first steel
vessels offered for sale. Obsolete wooden
vessels are disposed of readily enough.
as they can be hauled up on the beach
and burned for the copper that is in
them. The steel vessels have no such
value They must serve as navies or
junk.
Representative Hull of Iowa who was
recently defeated for denomination in the
primaries, has betaken himself to his
big farm along the Potomac In Virginia.
This farm. which consists of about 1000
acres, was one of the things that con-
tributed to Mr.. Huls defeat in his dis
trict 1t was freely declared by his op-
ponent that he was practically a non-res-
ident and that he spent most of his time
on his Virginia property, returning home
to warm up to old friends just about
the time to start a new campaign
In view OF the enactment by Congress
of bill for postal savings bank sys-
tenn in the United States, the following
review by Consul General John L. Grif-
fths of London, of its operation in the
United Kingdom, where the deposits are
mounting uptoward a billion dollars, will
be of much interest:
In 1908 there were 1S,379,9e1 deposits.
aggregatng s217.S70ll. and 1885,. 1863 with
drawals, aggregating s220.916.714 The
amount withdrawn during 1905 exceeded
the amount deposited by sS.oae. .7os, but
in 1907 when financial conditions were
less stable. the amount Withdrawn ex-
ceeded the amount deposited by $40, 49,
ssS. The largest number of Withdrawals
on any one day was BASS, and of the
entire number of Withdrawals in 1903
500. .4s5 were made on demand.
The total sum to the credit of the H.
251 depositors In the postoffice savings
bank on December 81, 1908. was $7S1, ,794,-
533, an increase of SIS. 800, 400 in the year
Ignorant postmasters in many parts Of
the country have been collecting postage
on mail matter sent by Mrs. Cleveland.
the widow of President Cleveland and
Mrs Harrison, the widow of President
Harrison, both of whom are privileged
to send mail free. The Postmaster Gem
eral today found 1t necessary to issue a
general order to postmasters that there
are to be no collections of postage upon
mail bearing the autograph signature OF
the two widows
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