The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-06-29
ELECTIyG IORIMER AND FIXING
UP" OTHER SOUTHERN DEMO
Gratis.

ELECTING LORIMER AND FIXING
UP" OTHER SOUTHERN DEMO
Gratis.
Golfers Weekly has leading arti'
Gle reviewing how the Lumber Trust
helped TO elect Lorimer TO the Senate
and how they got enough Southern
Democrats to break their platform
pledges to put protective tariff duty
on lumber That journal copies from
the Democratic platform the follow.
ing plank:
I'VE demand the Immediate
repeal OF the tariff on wood-pulp,
print paper. lumber, timber and
logs, and that these articles be
placed upon the free list"
And then proceeds TO show that II
the Democrats in the last Congress
had stood by their platform pledge
that they could havoc gotten 1t enact.
ed into law.
That paper then proceeds to show
the activity of Mr.. Hines, the head oil
the Lumber Trust, in deyoting his
time between looking after the tariff
on lumber in Washington and the
election OF Senator Lorimer in Hi.
nois. Under the heading, Fixing UI
Southern Democrats" hat paper
says:
I'm April of the present year a
committee of the Illinois Legisla-
ture was investigating Hines
connection with the 100000
fund that elected Lorimer One
of the witnesses was w. H. Cook
of Duluth, a lumber man. He
spoke Of meeting Hines in Chi
cago one day in May, 1909.
(That was on one of Hines hur-
ried trips from Washington to
Chicago; it was just when he
was excessively busy at both
housekeeping the tariff on lum-
Der in Washington and electing
Lorimer in Illinois.) Cook was
an official of the Rainy Lake
Lumber Company. He swore:
Mr.. Hines was going through
the lobby of the Grand Pacific
Hotel and he saw Mr.. furnish
and myself standing there. He
stopped and spoke to US. Mr..
furnish asked him how he was
getting on down in Washington,
'Oh," ne said, Il am having a
hell of a time. Now there is, for
instance, old Stephenson. After
l elected him he has gone down
to Washington and started work.
81 ing there for free lumber. l had
a terrible time getting him lined
up" Then he went on and told
about what q time he had with
the Southern Democrats. He said
he would have them all fixed up
to-day and tomorrow they would
flop, and he would have to go
and fix them all over again.
The list of Democrats who violated
that platform pledge in voting for {
protective duty on lumber are the1
given in full. Among the list ar.
the following North Carolina Con
gressmen: Senators Overman ant
Simmons, and Representatives Small
Pou, Goodwin, Page, and Webb.
Golfers Weekly then proceeds t,
comment as follows:
Now, it is by no means to be
charged that Hines approached
all of these men. Bear in mind
that he commanded the strength
of all the affiliated members of
the National Association of
Lumber Manufacturers. That is
what is meant by well-organ-
lied special interest Hines
could, and there is evidence that
he did, telegraph to local mem
bers of the Association, in the
districts of individual Congress
men, to bring pressure to bear"
In this connection, we simply wan
to observe that if the North Carolin
Senators and these North Carolin
Congressman voted in the interest @
the State and the South, then thei
platform is Numerically opposed t
the interests of the people of tn
State and the South.
Sundays Charlotte Observer, 1