The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-24
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Wisconsin Senator May Lose His
Seat.

/ WISCONSIN OCUdIOT way Lose tbs
Seat.
That the reelection OF Isaac Step
henson Of Wisconsin to the United
States Senate cost him $111,3S5.49,
and that the United States Senate
will have to undertake another inves-
| tigation on a par with the "Lorimer
Case" is charged by Alfred Henry
tan Magazine,
Mr.. Lewis says in part :-"Having
organized his campaign, Mr. Stephen
son knocked In the head of his bar
rel-he confessed that it contained
about SIP, 000-and told Mr.. Edmonds
Game Warden Stone, Mr. Puelicher,
and the others to get busy. They got
busy. as appeared by the evidence
taken before the Senate Investigation
Committee, in every corrupt fashion
known to politics and politicians.
There were COMMUNICATING and
deadlocking, and the days dragged on.
II a quorum were in the ROOM ma.
jority of that quorum would elect. But
always and ever Mr.. Stephenson lack
ed that majority. At last there came
tired day, when many Democrats
and anti-Stephenson Republicans-of
| that sort that fan asleep at the
switch-were absent In all one hun
dred and twenty-siX were present and
voting-a quorum II Mr.. Stephenson
could but poll majority, siXty-four,
he would win. But the most he could
muster, and do his best, was sixty.
three So the vote stood.
Then the unexpected, not to say the
suspicious came to pass. Three Dem
ocrats arose-looking like sheep-kill-
ing dogs-and left the chamber The
whole vote following this desertion
was one hundred and twenty-three.
| Mr. Stephenson, still polling his sixty
three, was declared elected"
| Confederation OF this startling
charge is given In the testimony of
Ex-Sheriff Knell, says he:
81 looked at the campaign as plain
business proposition and paid a corps
OF workmen to get the best results. |
hired men and paid them to work be-
cause of their being we'll acquainted,
having a large circulation of friends
and being able to get those people.
There were a lot of my friends who
came to me and they said, Billy, If
you were candidate for Office we
would not only devote our own time
but spend our own money; but why
should we do 1t for Stephenson, who
is advertised broadcast in this state
as being worth thirty millions?
Mr.. Lewis continued Mr.. Step
henson should lose his place in the
Senate. There is little question as to
the bribery and corruption by which
he comprised his election. The
present is not a Lorimer Senate. To
be sure, its membership cannot be
described as Altogether yirtuous. Con
sidered for its honesty, it isn't wholly
snow-whlte. And yet it will refuse to
applaud corruption, and by endorsing
those Stephenson briberies declare
that seats in its own sacred body may
be bought and sold for money.
Mr.. Stephenson will 90. And in
that going, criminal money will lose
senator, the people will gain one
The Senate will be relieved thereby OF
futility, Wisconsin washed of its
disgrace, Mr. LaFollette granted q
new colleague"
The June issue of Cosmopolitan has
lots of really good fiction by Jack
London Robert W. Chambers, George
Randolph Chester and others in add
ton to this startling political expose
You will find it well worth reading