The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-06-10
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4 Naa tbai iHs senate subcommittee
4 haH ba.n named fH take charge Of
/ fbe Loum,, investigation ID begins
( fo look lke somtthine nill be- done
4 PubrD opinion is practically unaul'
mons that hc ought fo De unseated.
but t s divided as Go wether tho
senate Viii ao ifs duty Some think
fhat thc ueay discovered evidence
against iorimer BIS so strong that
even those plufoeratic senators who
are Inclined TO 90 the bidding OF
their trust masters u defiance OF
right aud the win OF the people. viii
boz shamed into voting 10 unseat the
senator whose seal Was bought 10y an
open 8ud shameless use OF money.
Iu the North American Review
James "a Blouut writes as 20 the
Nhitevashing OF Lorimer There
was much evidence tending 10 show
that more than seven members of
tho assembly were brtbed. but the
minority report of senator Frazier
Congressional Record January 30.
1871. page 1870. the only member
Of the seuai~ subcommittee who
saw and heard the Witnesses who was
for unseaung Mr. Lodmsr, held the
evidence OF corruption clear only as
TO seven and il was ON this issue
that the great parliamentary battle
was realty fought. There were 202
votes cast, OF which MT. Lorimer re
Z ceived los. amoug them the seven
4 votes alleged 20 have been corruptly
cast. Senator Bailey contended: Dc
Quoting those seven votes from Lori
mer's los would leave him 10l. and
! deducting those seven votes from
! the total of 202 would levae ly5, OF
which the 10t votes received by
Lorimer would constitute clear le-
gal majority Senators Cummins,
Borah and others contended that the
seven should be deducted from the
los, but not from the 202, which
would leave Mr. Lorimer's uncorrupt
vote 101 out of 202. and therefore
not majority; in other words, that
202 votes we're in fact cast, and
therefore the successful candidate
must have majority of that mum
her. but that as Lorimer got only
lOl legal votes he was only entitled
to count 101. The report of the sub
committee distinctly failed to meet
| the main question in the case, name
| ly. whether or not if three members
! did in fact bribe four others to vote
! for Mr. Lorimer, such seven corrupt
votes were in law sufficient to des-
troy the validity of the election
Not only should Lorimer be I'M
seated, but we should have state
laws and a federal law providing for
the heavy punishment of any man
who uses money or any equivalent
thereof in securing or attempting to
secure the election of a United
States senator The crime is moral
ly treason The briber is an enemy OF
the republic
The harm done by the crooked
election of a United States senator
is continuing harm. The crooked
election of a United States senator
usually means that the crooks who
put up the money do so as an invest
ment, in order that the United
States senator with the tainted seal
may vote for laws which profit his
predatory patrons at the expense o.
the people,
If we are going to continue tC
punish burglars and sneak thieves
and persons guilty of grand ant
petty larceny, we can not consistent
Ily permit crooked United States sen
ators and their crooked hackers t.
escape. Houston Chronicle,