Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-28
single. member Of the general assembly
for his vote for me.
Charges Political Conspiracy.

CudTReS 1O11LiCdl SVAoPAA"SS'
when the truth is known everybody
will understand that the publication vi
the Tribune article signed by Whlte Is
a part of a political conspiracy to drive
me out of public life, to ruin me imam
cially because j will not do as other re-
publicans in Illinois have done-place my
self under the absolute controi anu uic-
tatorship of the Tribune. In all these
wears of this dastardly war made on me
by the Tribune there was never .lhle
when I could not have made my peace
with the Tribune and secured lniniun, a!
from further attacks by surrendefins anu
becoming it's willing slave.
The story of his campaign Tor senator
and of his election was told by Mr.. LOTT
mer, who said it was upon the sussest t,a
Of Gov Deneen that he had entered tne
field to defeat the Tribune combination
and then only after he and the governor
had besought others to make the race.
He related how on the Gay peiore ne
was to give his assent to become a can
didate the governor had changed his
mind but said that he never had Deen
able to understand why. the governor
wanted the legislature To adjourn WIN
out action but the members were NOT
willing More than $50 candidates had
been voted for. Party ties were forgot
ten: independence was popular: chaos
reigned. Charging the Tribune with re
sponsibility for the Independent senti-
ment he said the paper should not COM
plain if it was turned against it and its
friend in the election of a senator
Goes Back to 1884.
Mr. I.orimer then entered upon long
diversion for the relation of his own po-
litical history and of that of the Tri-
bune's owners and editors for the purpose
of explaining the genesis of this attack
upon himself. Starting with the Blaine
the republicans of his ward in Chicago
morgan iZed, he had gone to work to
remedy this defect and how later when
they had chosen candidate for alder
who was not to the liking of the
editor of the Tribune then Joseph Me-
DILL he summoned them to his sane
tum to protes and to urge another man.
Iorimer was member of the committee
chosen to meet him.
II earned my living in those days As
conductor on a South Halsted street car
he said, land felt that l was highly hon
ored in being delegated to wait upon the
editor of one of the leading papers in
that section of the country"
In the face of the editors protests the
nomination was persisted in Their cam
didate was opposed by the paper and was
beaten But said Mr.. LOrimer, some
what dramatically. upon that rock was
built an organization that in future years
was destined to wrest absolute control
of the republican party from the editor
of the Chicago Tribune and his newspa-
per combination. Here is where l went
on the Tribune blacklist
Supported Medill for Senate.
According to Mr. Lorimer the Tribune
continued to dictate all tickets until 1884,
when Mr. Medill became candidate for
the United States Senate. in which he
had Mr. Iorimer's support. He was not
successful and Mr.. I.orimer asserted that
from that day since the Tribune had been
the enemy OF every man VINO nao then
supported its editor
Proceeding tim in thousands of WORDS
to outline the history of modern pohticS
in Chicago and incidentally in the state,
Including Mr.. Lorimer's several elections
to the national House of Representatives.
that gentleman ultimately came to the
time when in 1902, he said some OF his
friends urged him to make peace with
the Tribune. which he SAID ne coutd ilo'
do without deserving other friends
Among those who advised reconcfi,a-
ton were Gov. Deneen, then county at
tcrney for Cook county, and Roy -.
West member of the board of review:
When they were poor and in need or
help" he said. they were anxious ana
pleased to work with the organization,
even against the constant assault or the
newspaper trust: but alter they had pc
come prosperous and afhueDf they 1e't
they could stand the flashing no longer.
and ran to the newspaper cover and have
been subservient since that time
Breach With Gov. Deneen.
Coming down to recent times. he de-
clared that ''all Of the power Of the city.
county, state and federal administra-
lions, under the leadership OF Senator
Hopkins. Gov. Deneen and Mayor Busse.
assembled into misfit organization
combined to destroy the organization con-
trolled by Lorimer. with intent to give
control to the Tribune.
He traced his breach with Gov Deneen
largely to a difference of opinion be-
tween the two as to the wisdom of
spending independently of action by the
national government the $2O,OO.UO
pledged by the state toward the deep
waterways-to-the-guf project, which the
governor favored and he opposed.
He asserted that the governor per-
sonaily advised in the preparation of the
White story in the Tribune. He went
on to say:
The governor joined this campaign OF
Islander because he saw an opportunity to
throw dust In the eyes Of the people. use
the conspiracy to defeat those who stood
for federal cooperation In expanding the
$2O.CO0.C0O and secure control of the next
legislature.
''Why he persists in his efforts to get
control of the $2o,OOo,oO. when he well
knows that it in itself is not sufficient to
construct a waterway, is mystery that
cannot fathom.'
Charges Against Tribune.
Senator Lorimer further attacked the Chi.
cago Tribune's policy in opposition 10 the
Payne-Aldrich tariff attributing it to the
failure to put in the free list wood pulp,
which would have saved II $4,000 a year.
This he said. lis the only tax we have
any record Of in which the Tribune pays
it's just share" He also charged the
Tribune establishment with being the
beneficiary Of the Chicago educational
board: of collecting extra rental Of SIT 500
a year for it's quarters in the Tribune
building, and of S9i, eco through alleged
differentiation OF its site, owned by the
city.
Concluding. Mr.. Lorimer asserted that
the Tribune had logged him all these
years because il had not been able to lash
linn into subsection.
''The purpose of these charges. he de-
clared. was to disgrace and destroy my
friends and myself, whom they cannot
control. and to come into absolute control
Of the republican party in Illinois and TO
secure themselves in continued plumber
sng OF the public treasury
Senator Lorimers resolution for an in
vestiSation of his election to the Senate
was referred under the rules to the COM
mittee on contingent expenses.
ACCUSED OF PERJURY.