The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-05-23
SENATORSH|P
COST HIM
s11l,885.49
Wisconsin, Senator May Lose
His Scat In United States
Senate

That the reelection of Isaac Steph.
enson Of wisconsin 20 the uuited
states senate cost him sl1l,3S5. i9,
and that the United States senate
viii have TO undertake another Inyes-
| tgatlon on par with the "Lorimer
case" Is charged by Alfred Henry
Lewis IN the June issue Of Cosopoli.
tan magazine.
Mr. Lewis says IN part;
Having organized his campaign,
alr Stephenson knocked in the head
ol hts barrel--he confessed that 1t
contained about $4,000 and told
Mr Edmonds. Game Warden Stone,
Mr. Pnellcher, and the others to get
busy They got busy, as appeared
BY the evidence taken before the
senate Investigation committee, in cv
cry corrupt fashion known to politics
and politicians.
There were Notwithstanding and
deadlocking, and the days dragged
on. Il a quorum we're IN the room, Al
i ajority of taat quorum would elect
But always and ever Mr.. Stephenson
lacked that majority. AZ least there
came tired day. when many Demo
Gratis and anti-Stephenson Republic.
ns--0f that sort that fall asleep at
the switch-were absent. In all one
hundred and twenty.six were present
land yoting-a quorum If Mr.. Steph
enson could but poll majority, six
tyfour, he would win But the most
ne could muster. and do his hest,
was sixty-three. So the vote stood.
Then the unexpected, not to say
the suspicious came to pass. Three
Democrats arose-looking ike sheep
killing dogs and left the chamber.
The whole vote following this deser.
tion was one hundred and twenty.
three MI Stephenson, still polling
his sixty-thlce, was declared elect
cd
Corrcboration Of this startling
c1arge Is given In the testimony Oh
cy-Sheriff Knell says he:
| II looked at the campaign as d
pain business proposition and paid
corps Of workmen TO get the best
results. ! hired meh and paid them
| to work because of their being we'll
acquainted, having large circula.
tion Of friends and being able To get
those people. TheIc were lot oi
my friends who came to me and
they said, Billy If you were can
didate for Office We would not only
devote our own time but spend our
own money. but why should we do IL
fer stephenson, who is advertised
broadcast in this state as being
worth thirty mllionsY"
Mr.. Lewis concludes: I.
Mr. Stephenson should lose his
| Pace in the senate. There Ii LITTLE
question as 10 tue bribery and cor
ruptIon by which he compassed hii
election. The present Us not a Lori
mer senate. To be sure, its mem
bcrship cannot be described ais alto
gether virtuous Considered for It's
| honesty 1t isn't wholly snow.white
And yet II will refuse to applaud cor
ruption, and by endorsing those
Stephenson briberies declare thai
seats In Its own sacred body may b,
bought and sold for money
Mr. Stephenson will go
And IN that going, criminal none,
| will lose senator. the people vii
gain one. The senate viii be reliev
cd thereby OF futility, Wisconsin
wasted of its disgrace, Mr. LoFollettt
g antod new colleague
| The June issue OF Cosmopolitan ha'
lots OF really good 6ctiou by Jacl
LoBdon, Robert W Chambers, George
handolph Chester and others III ad
dltion to this startling political ez
pose You will find it well wotl
reading