The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-29
BRIBERY BOMB
IS HURLED into
L0R|MER CAMP
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merits OF tho matter. Upon the re.
port OF that committee the question
will largely depend.
Foremost in the answer Ut the Sens,.
tor to the charge stood his assertion
that II had been formulated by the
Chicago Tribune with the purpose OF
destroying a new banking association
in that city. which Mr.. Lorimef has
organized Concluding, he offered a
resolution calling for senatorial In
vestigatfon Of the charges against him.
Defends Mr.. Browne.
Relating that IL had been charged
that the bride had been paid through
cratic leader of the Illinois House OF
Representatives. he defended Mr..
Browne as entirely above participation
in such proceeding.
He declared that MediIl Mccormick.
editor of the Tribune, had threatened
that tho bank should never open. and
also asserted that White did not write
the story. as had been claimed, but that
II was "tfe work OF trained news
paper hand, skilled in the art of Great
Ing scandal out OF lies. when 1t is
thought necessary to blacken the char
acter of one whom the newspaper can
not control"
1T is also plain to be seen" he
went on, that every word was passed
upon by a lawyer before 1t was signed
by that poor, low creature White, who
is a part of the lowest dregs of de-
pravtty.'
Defending Charles Luke. a Demo
crat and deceased member of the Leg
islature, against a charge that he
had been a beneficiary OF his (Mr.
Lorimer's) bribery. the Senator de-
clared:
Standing in this historic chamber.
in a. place OF high honor. to which my
departed friend did all in his power to
assist me. would" he said. 'be I'M
true TO our friendship and my high
regard for him ii did not hurl this
malicious, heartless. satanic lie back
into the foul mouth that uttered It,
There is no language to characterize
such venomcus, despicable conduct
This loathsome. detestable creature,
Medill Mccormick. guilty OF this and
numerous other violations OF deccncy.
should and will be in the future, as
in the past. Stunned and avoided by
all decent people"
Mr.. Lorimer then proceeded in
thousands and thousands of words to
outline the history of modern politics
in Chicago. and Incidentally in the
State. including Mr.. Lorinler's several
elections to the national House OF
Representatives.
Coming down to modern times. he
declared that all of the power OF
the city, county, State and Federal
administrations. under the leadership
of Senator HOPKINS Governor Deneen
and Mayor Busse. assembled into a
misft organization" combined to de-
stroy the organization controlled by
Loritner, with intent to give control
to the Tribune.
Seeking Revenge
Senator Lorimer further attacked
the Chicago Trtbune's policy In oppo-
sition to the Payne-Aldrioh tariff. at,
tributing to its failure to put in the
flee list wood pulp, which would have
saved 1t $4,000 a year. This he
said, rs the only tax we have any
record of in which the Tribune pays
its Just share"
Concluding Mr.. Lorimer asserted
that the Tribune had logged him all
these years because 1t had not been
able to lash him into subsection.
The purpose of these charges" he
declared was TO disgrace and destroy
my friends and myself. whom they cam
not control, and to come into absolute
control of the Republican party in MT
Hois and to secure themselves in con.
tinusd plundering of the public treas.