Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-10
.LORIMER'S OVATION
ON return HOME AT CHICAGO
SUNDAY WAS OCCASION
FOR REJOICING.
Received by Thousands of His Friends
At His Home Sunday Afternoon
Lorimer Made Brief Speech-His
Friends Defend Him and Condemn
Accusers in Newspapers.

Chicago, March 6.-Declaring that
divine providence saved his seat for
him in the United States senate, and
that it was fitting his friends should
welcome him home on the Sabbath dav.
William Lorimer returned to Chicago
and was given rousing reception by
thousands of his friends, nearly half of
whom were women and children.
Senator Lorimer stepped from the
train accompanied by Elbridge Han
ecy, his counsel, and five detectives,
who went to Fort Wayne, Ind, to meet
the train and to act as a body guard
the rest of the journey and during the
celebration in Chicago.
Seventy policemen had all they
could do to keep back the crowds at
the station. With Judge John R. New
conner, Sheriff Strassheim and scores
of other friends in $50 decorated auto
mobiles, Senator Lorimer was conveyed
to Garfield park through a lane of thou.
sands OF men, women and children, who
waved flags, tossed flowers at the sem
ator and cheered themselves hoarse.
AT the entrance of the park the SEN
ator was greeted by 200 members of the
letter carriers association, headed by
the association band. Here more wom-
en- and children pelted Senator Lorimer
with flowers and gave him a noisy well
come home.
From the park to the Lorimer home
the streets were crowded. Women
waved flags from porches and windows.
A military band played, "See the Con-
quering Hero Comes'
The street in front of the residence
was packed with shouting friends whom
the police had to force back to make
way. On the porch of his home neigh.
bors and political associates extended
another greeting, while the pretty Lor-
inner children looked down admiringly
from the windows overhead
The Rev. Michael Bonfiefd made the
formal welcoming speech in behalf of
the poor and needy to whom Senator
Lorimer ever had been g. sympathetic
and helping friend'
Senator Lorimer spoke briefly in re-
ply, thanking his friends for their 10y
atty and confidence in the face of $40
months of character assassination. -
Mr.. Hanecy and Edward Hines also
spoke, the former denouncing the news
papers that had plotted the destruction
of the distinguished Chicagoan.
Score Lorimer and Cullom.
Rockford, ILL.,, March 6-Lorimer
and Cullom heard from the plain people
here Sunday and the sound that the
plain people made was one not calculat-
ed to raise their spirits or add gaiety
to their welcome home.
In the biggest mass meeting ever held
in Rockford the citizens of Winnebago
by unanimous vote and amid
a display of the differing feeling of in
adopted resolutions demand
ing that both of the Illinois senators
resign. Lorimer was asked to get out
of the senate because he had "be-
smirched the fair name of the senate
and because his election was "procur-
ed by bribery"
Cullom was invited to resign because
he had betrayed the people who had
trusted him for SO years. and because
his vote was pronounced a potent fac
tor in having induced the United States
senate to keep Lorimer in his seat.