Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-28
SENATOR LORIMER
SAYS CHARGES
ARE ALL FALSE
Illinois Scion Attacks Chicago
Newspaper in Address to
His Colleagues.

WASHINGTON, May 2s.-Strenuous
denial of the charge hat he had OBJ
tanned his seat in the United States
Senate through bribery and corruption
was made before that body today by
William Lorimer, of Illinois. Soon
after the assembling Of the Senate Mr..
Lorimer arose to a question Of per-
sonal privilege and began his reply to
the charges that have aroused wide
interest. His statement upon the floor
of the Senate has been eagerly awaited
by his colleagues. of whom there was
practically a full attendance, n
earnest attention was given him.
Foremost in the answer of the n
tor to the charge stood his assertion
that it had been formulated by the
Chicago Tribune with the purpose OF
destroying a new banking association
in that city which Mr., Lorimer has or
ganized. Concluding he offered a reso-
luton calling for a senatorial investi-
cation of the charges against him..
In opening Mr.. Lorimer said.
MIR. President, l rise to a question Of
personal privilege to state the facts
concerning and the reasons for the
most recent assault made Upon me by
the Chicago Tribune with the intent to
blacken my character with the people
of the country and to destroy me n
my friends financially and politically"
He then detailed the fact of the
Tribune's publication on April l last
of a story over the signature of Charles
A. White, a member of the Illinois
Legislature, in which it was alleged
that he had procured his seat In the
Senate through bribery and corruption.
Il have been compelled" he went on.
ito defer my return to the Senate ow-
ing to the fact that the story was
timed and published with a deliberate
purpose to destroy a new banking as
ISOLATION in Chicago which l have been
organizing with some of my friends.
"The assault was made to prevent
the bank from opening. 1t utterly
failed of its purpose. but 1t required
MY constant attention to build an Inn
pregnable bulwark around the bank to
safeguard the interests OF those who
have entrusted their funds to the care
of my associates and myself against
any malicious or vicious assault that
may be made against II by the
Tribune"
Relating that it had been charged
that the bride had been paid through
Lee O'Neil Browne. the Democratic
leader of the Illinois members of tho
House Of Representatives, he defended
Browne as entirely above participation
in such a proceeding. He declared
that Medill Mccormick. of the Tribune,
had threatened that the bank v
should open, and also asserted that
White did not write the story as
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 neces-
sary, to blacken the character of n
whom the newspaper cannot control
Concluding, Mr.. Lorimer asserted
that the Tribune had logged him all
these years because It had not been
able to lash him into subsection.
''The purpose of these charges he
declared, twas to disgrace and destroy
my friends and myself, whom they
cannot control. and to come into abb
solute control of the Republican party
in Illinois"