The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
ROOSEVELT KNEW ALL ABOUT STORY
 OF LORIMER BRIBE
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE D he had written an account of. the con- yersation between himself and Funk, but without mentioning Funk's name to | Senators LaFollette and Root. senator Root wrote me in reply" said the witness, "and thanked me for l the information He said that 1t had 1 greatly influenced him in making his | speech against Lorimer on the floor or l the Senate" What" exclaimed Senator Gamble. | "do you mean to say that the senators were influenced in arriving at their l decision by matters not in evidence?" T did not discuss that question with Senator Root" replied MT. Kohlsaat. | The matter of q newspaper mans obligation to one who gives him news came up when Editor Kohlsaat was | questioned regarding his promise to | Clarence s. Funk not to make public his source of information after Funk | told him of an alleged request for 1 SIG, GOO contribution to a $1o0,0O0 fund,
 used to put Lorimer across at Spring | field
 By what code of morals or good citi- zenship, I should like to know" declared I Senator Gamble, "could you keep secret | such information as you believed you pos I sessed when the honor of a senator and | the fair name of a state was in dues- | tion?"
 At this juncture Senator Luke Lea of | Tennessee, himself editor, came to the
 rescue of the witness by shouting: Good citizenship does not require the sacrifice of personal integrity"
 Mir Kohlssat agreed with that, and | added:
 senator Gamble. if you ever bestow
 upon me such confidence 1 assure you
 1 will keep It.
 Gives Namea
 While detailing the Funk conversation
 nearly the entire membership of the com
 miitee urgedeM MT. Kohsast to give all the
 names mentioned. Finally Mir. Kohl
 saat yielded
 "I have faced one jail sentence,' he
 said. but l give the names now with
 the explanation that in no manner were | reflections cast upon them"
 He then mentioned Sullivan, Conway
 and one of the weyerhaeusers. but which
 one he could not say. He said that Con
 way later denied to him any knowledge of l the t10QOO0 fund.
 | Mir Kohlsaat said Mir Lorimer once
 ran for constable as a democrat. that he
 resigned from a position in the Chicago
 water department because of some irreg
 ularity in the pay roll,' and that Lori
 mer's candidate for alderman in 1892
 
 was paid, according to report, $l0,000 to
 withdraw from the race l Mir. Kohlsaat was asked to tell of libel | suit brought against him by Lorimer in
 1898, and dismissed year ago by Lori l mer without trial. 1 Which shows a possible ground for
 hostility to Lormer," suggested MT. Mar
 ble.
 MT Kohlsaat said that in 1910. when he
 returned to the editorship of the Record | Herald, he had wiped out all personal | feelings.
 "Lorimer was in the Senate and I re- l solved to give him chance to show his
 worth" said the witness. "In view of your high regard for his personal lift don't you hesitate to say
 these things about Lorimer's public 1ife?"
 asked MT. Marble | "I would not hesitate to say to a man
 what I say about him in my paper" said
 MT. Kohlsaat. "I am not a coward. Senator Lorimer listened attentively to l the witness.
 MT. Kohlsaat described how his paper | happened to print the editorial which led l directly to an inquiry as to what the writer knew of an alleged Lorimer cor ruption fund and indirectly to testify be- | fore the Helm committee regarding the
 Funk ontersation. MT. Kohlsaat said
 he personally wrote the bug in the ed 1 itorial
 1 silence followed Evidently no one
 understood what the bug was.
 "The lines with the sting in them" ex- | plained the witness. "The lines asking if | no money was spent to elect Lorimer,
 what became of the $10o,000 that was sent i 10 SpringfeId?' '
 Some one on our editorial stan sug- gested an editorial on Senator Bailey g | speech" continued the editor. q said | to put in that question. The editorial | was written, but the last lines did not suit | me, so I re-wrote them" Did you think it would result in what | it dd?" he was asked | 'I don't know that l did ! The witness said that James Keelev general manager of the Chicago Tribune,
 was told the story of the Funk converse | tion by Kohsaat either before the first | Senate Lorimer investigation or during
 the Senate committees hearings in Chi l cago.
 1 Judge Hanecy asked if the witness had
 not criticised Lorimer savagely in his pa per for his vote at the republican nation- al convention in 1892, when Lorimer voted
 for Blaine.
 1 Mir. Kohlsaat said he believed Lorimer /, had no right to vote for Blaine when he
 was instructed for Harrison. 1 The witness denied that he sent word
 to Lorimer that he would drive him out
 of public life for voting for Blaine. Chicago, June 24.-Roger C. Sullivan l democratic national committeeman, mem 1 toned by H. H. Kohlsaat, editor of the Record-Herald, in his testimony relative | to an alleged s100,000 Lorimer election fund
 today. denied that he had given anything
 to the fund.