The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
MAY BEAT Them
Their Vote Oh The Lsrimtr Case Causing
Some Senators Trouble.
With THE home PEOPLE

With THE home PEOPLE
Questions Being Asked Since Fur.
ther the StartH, Revelations In
Investigation by the Illinois Leg.
isIature, Subsequent to "White-
washing" Lorilner in the Senate.
Will or will not the United States
Senate reopen the Lorimer case,
which it thought it had settled at the
last session by admitting "the blind
boss" on the interesting theory that
even if bribery was proved it was not
established that LoTimer was aware
of the bribery or had any part in it?
asked the Washington correspondent
of The News and Courier. He goes
on to say:
The fate of more than Lorimer de-
pends upon this question. The mat
ter Of Lorimer has become not only
national issue, but in several cases
outside of Illinois a State issue OF
vital Importance. A quantity Of
damaging evidence has been adduc-
ed since the Senate "whitewashed'
Lorimer, and II this evidaace shall
seem to the general public to clinch
the proposition that Lorimer's seat
was bought, it will go hard with
some Of the Senators if they adhere
to their former attitude and resist
reopening the subject of their Illi-
nois colleagues eligibility or again
vote in his favor on the reconsidera-
ton.
Most CONSPICUOUS among the other
Senators whose political future is
envolved in the Lorimer matter is
the brilliant and impetuous Mr.. Bail
ey, Of Texas. Senator Bailey has
made the statement that II the evi-
dence appears to warrant reopentng
the Lorimer case, he will not oppose
such action, and that If, on examina-
ton, the evidence appears to prove
that the seat was purchased, he (Mr.
Bailey will vote to unseat. But Il
is the history Of Senator Bailey's
career that he is una1terably tena-
cious of an opinion once formed, and
that he rarely, if ever, takes the
back track" 1t is said that In Tex
as his course in defending Lorimer
damaged him more than anything IN
his record UP to that time. The peo-
pie Of Texas acknowledge Mr.. Bail
ey's great ability and most Of them
have been proud Of the stand ne has
taken among the Intellectual giants
of the country; but there is no doubt
that they are in mood to weigh him
finally in the balance with regard to
this Lorimer business.
Representative Raudell, of Texas,
is a candidate for the seat now oc-
cupied by Mr.. Bailey in the Senate.
1t will be decided by the Democrats
of the Lone Star State this summer
whether the brilliant "Joe" shall re-
main in the Senate or return to pri-
vate life-in which, by the way, he
could make much more than the
large sum Of money he already makes
in the practice of his profession, the
law. In intellectual calibre Randell
nowhere approaches Bailey. 1t has
been one Of the striking facts in the
latter's political life that he has rare
ly encoutered an opponent who came
anywhere near being his equal in
the gift of approaching and impress
ing the public.
Mr.. Bryan tried little catch-as-
catch-can with Bailey by going into
Texas and making speeches against
his denomination the last time, at a
time when the Texan was in desper-
ate political straits. But even tae el-
ouuence of the Nebraskan failed tc
turn the tide.
1t is predicted by those who know
the situation in Texas that there is
no chance. for Mr.. Randell to get
Mr.. Bailey's seat unless the Senator
with the headstrong tendency which
has always characterized him, should
again become tangled up in the L+or-
inner affair on the wrong side. In
that event it is probable that nothing
could save the junior Senator from
the violent disgust of Texas public
sentiment. The friends of Mr.. Bail
ey assert that his attitude on the tar
iff does not hurt him In his OWL
State: that he has stood against the
free-raw-material tide before with
success and can do it again. But
another Lorimer performance would
probably be his last. The American
public has made up it's mind about
the Lorimer case, and is of the same
opinion more and more as the days
go by.
Senator Paynter, of Kentucky, is
another Southern Democrat Senator
who is encountering the Antl-Lorl-
mer public sentiment. Mr.. Paynte1
is opposed for denomination by Rep
resentative Ollie James, the giant
leader of the uncompromisins schoo
of Democrats in the House, ano MT
James is using with great eftec'
against the Senator the latter's vote
for Lorimer, whose record as an ad
yocate of the force bill when he wa:
a Representative and as an aVo"ec
follower of MT. Aldrich in the Senate
is being recalled forcibly to the mem
,ory of Kentucky Democrats IN every
speech Mr.. James makes in his cam
paign for the Senate.
The other Southern Senator's whf
voted for Lorimer are: Messrs Bank