The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24
.LOR|MER ISSUE IS
 BANQUO'S GHOST. Aspiring Statesmen Point
 Finger of ScOrn MAY BE A BOOMERANG Ollie James Is After Paynter's Scalp in Kentucky, While Bailey of
 Texas Has a Fight on
 His Hands
MAY BE A BOOMERANG

Washington, April 23.-(Special )-More than one senator of the United States is trembling in his boots gainst that day and hour when some aspiring statesman back home is certain to arise, point T finger at him. and exclaim, He voted for Lorimer.
 Conspicuous among the anxious states men are Paynter of Kentucky, Simmons of North Carolina and Bailey of Texas.
 By vote of 40 to 4s the resolution at the last session declaring Lorimer was not honestly elected was defeated. A fair proportion of the 46 already had been handed their transfer to the Salt river branch with instructions to get on on March 1. Now the senatorial as- pirants out in the woods have taken up the record and the Lorimer question has become a local issue in at least three states, Kentucky, North Carolina and Texas. It will eventually become an Is sue in every state where survivor Of the 4s I,orimer voters is a candidate for reelection
 Ollie M James, giant in the House or Representatives and personal nuncio of the leader on the ways and means com- mittee, is out after the scalp of Thomas Ii. Paynter, who not only was one or the 46 who voted to retain Lorimer, but also was one of the coadjutors Of Bur rows and Bailey on the comuittee that prepared the absolution for the blond boss"
 fol Rai1pV into the camp of the near -protectonists and as sistant- -Aldrichites during the tariff bih 1sht Mir James was aroused, for his views on the tariff are modelled on those of Golden and Bright, although some what intensified by association with Henry Watterson. But when Paynter again followed Bailey as member of the subcommittee that gave Lorimer ] clean bill of health, the James indigna- tion knew no bounds. Whereupon MT. James announced he would oppose Mr. ,Jaynter for the democratic nomination for senator from Kentucky in the July primary The legislature that will as semble next January to elect a senator providing said legislature shall have a democratic majority.
 Ollie James Aroused
 The climax was reached when James discovered Kentucky was being flooded with copies of the speech Lorimer made in his own defense in tho Senate. That I,orimer should thus aid Paynter in the attempt to '.get square with the populace of Kentucky caused MT. James to address the Kentuckans in speech that was csusticly tabasco.
 Senator Simmons of North Carolina Tn the last Congress showed the devotion to the twin causes of lumber and Lorimer. Whereupon, as his term will expire in March. 1913 some folk who were inter ested in neither Lorimer nor lumber, but who have mighty yearnings for the United States Senate have camped on the Simmons trail, among them the former Governor Kitchen and his brother Claude.
 Claude is now the premier rough and tumble debater of the democratic ma iority in the national House of Repre-. senatives and there is feeling that he would make the strongest race against Simmons But his brother was first in the field, and it may be that he will carry the progressive colors in the race.
 At any rate the North Carolina press already has made the Lorimer question q local issue. It was alleged that Senator Simmons declared he would not vote on the IOrimer cause because ne was man cially interested with MT. Lorimer in some lumber enterprises. But he did vote to retain Lorimer, because, his enemies say, he was SO badly frightened by the strength of the anti-Lorimer forces.
 Is Texas Issue
 In Texas the human race is divided into two species-Bailey and anti-Bailey. ine Bailey issue enters into every relation of life. But there are so many different and conflicting reasons for hateing Bailey that the anti-Bailey forces never have been able heretofore to agree upon one as a casus belt The Lorimer case has furn- ished the missing issue. It is now be- coming the chief local issue in Texas.
 A few weeks ago Representative Ran dell Of Texas, now member of the ways and means committed. announced his in tention of running against Bailey for the Senate Mir. Randel represents Senator Bailey's home district in Congress, de- spite the bitter opposition of Bailey and his machine. The fight got very hot. It began to blaze up in the Texas dele gation in the House of Representatives. The Texas delegation Is composed of IS democrats. It developed in fight over the chair