Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-24
LORIMER is MADE AN ISSUE
Aspiring Statesmen Who Voted for
Illinois Senator May Be Retired.
SOUTHERN STATES IN THE FIGHT
Number of ScRIps Arc Marked aud
knives that Are to Lift Them
Are Being whetted mt

WASHINGTON, April 2S-Cspecial Tele-
gram. More than one member Of the
United States senate is trembling in his
boots against that day and hour when
some aspiring statesman back home is
certain to arise. point r finger at him,
and exclaim; "He voted for Lorimer''
Conspicuous among those prominent
statesmen are Paynter of Kentucky Sim
mons of North Carolina and Bailey of
Texas
BY vote of 40 to is the resolution at
the last session declaring Lorimer was
not honestly elected was defeated. A fair
proportion of the forty-six already had
beens liaitded their transfers 10 the Salf'
river branch with instructions to get off
on March 4. Now the senatorial aspirants
out OF the woods have taken up the record
and the Isorimer question has become a
local issue in at least three states Ken
lucky. North Carolina and Texas II win
eventually become an issue in New York
state, where a survivor of the forty-six
Lorimer voters is a candidate for re-
election
Ollie NJ. James, giant i'm the house of
representatives and personal nuncio of the
leader of the ways and means committee
Is after the scalp of Thomas n. Paynter
who not only was one Of the forty-six to
retain Lorimer, but also was one of the
coadjutors of Burrows and Bailey on the
committee that adopted the absolution for
the blonde boss"
ollie James Feels sick
When Paynter followed Bailey into the
camp OF the near protectionists during the
tariff bill fight Mr. James gorge rose
for his views on the tariff are modelled
on those of Golden and Bright, although
somewhat intensified by association with
Henry Watterson. But when Pavntor
again followed Bailey as a member of the
subcommittee that gave Lorimer a clean
bill of health the James indignation knew
no bounds Whereupon Mr. James an
nounced he would oppose Mr. Pavnter for
the democratic nomination for senator from
Kentucky in the July primary which will
advise the legislature that will assemble
next January who TO elect for senator
providing said legislature shall have a
democratic majority
The climax was reached when James dis.
covered Kentucky was being flooded with
copies OF the speech Lorimer made in his
own defense in the senate. That I,orimer
should thus aid Paynter in the attempt
to get squareT with the populace OF Ken.
lucky caused Mr.. James to address m.
kentuckians in speech that was mostly
tabasco.
Camp on simmons Trail.
Senator Simmons OF North Carolina in
the last congress showed his devotion
to the twin causes of lumber and Lorimer
whereupon, as his term viii expire in
March, 1918, some folk who were interested
In neither Lorimer nor lumber, but who
had mighty yearning concerning the
United States senate, camped on the Sim
mons trail Governor William Kitchin.
former Governor Clarence B. Aycock. Rep
resentative Claude Kitchin and some other
North Carolinians are suspected of desire
to succeed him.
The two Kitehins are brothers Claude is
now the premier rough and tumble debater
Of the democratic majority in the national
house of representatives and there is a
feeling that he would make the strongest
race against Simmons. But his brother
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