The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-10-11
|.En|ES TRYING TO Push
IDR|nER OFF HIS THRONE
.1ator's Counsel Tells Commit
Tee He Sees Dark Plot
Against His Client.

CHICAGO. Oct. lo.--sensationai
.I.fkes that conspiracy was on foot
u drive william Lorimer out Of poll
ne. ID Illinois. were made today ~
III. resumption or the Lorimer hear
.n1 b. Judse Hanecy. representing the
Illinois senator
ID questioning former Assembly
man Landee. q L.orimer opponent,
Hnhecy demanded to know why he
went 10 the ONCE OF Roy 0. West
r1.|fman Of the state central commit
Tee and Gov. Deneen's campaign man
a<er. and had q conference with At
ttrney Albert w. Austrian. attorney
Iol states Attorney John e. WaymAn,
ne Chicago Tribune, and others nos
tile 20 Lorimer.
The senate committee wanted TO
know what bearing this had on the
I.ofIm6r hearing.
n want 70 show that q gigantic con-
.nIracr oxiats 10 drive Senator Lori
n,er out OF Illinois politics, BY fair
means or foul. This conspiracy ~
(osfertd BY the Chicago Tribune. ~
ia editor. Jim Kelley: BY its owners,
Ioseoh Nedill Patterson. MediIl MO-
cornick and Others: by Roy o. West
TIh1tn,a campaign manager and infer.
rrfIh1ly. BY Gov. Deneen himself.
tWhen the prosecution wants
.IiahIa witness 70 come here and tell
Z corr that hithertofore has not been
<oll thai witness n always forthcom-
'r< RE chicago Tribune. represent
~ so. 0OO. 900. and the other news
o@rsrr enEaged IN this conspiracy,
r01finnally furnish money and new
urIlnesssa to besmirch the character
of senator Lorimer.' !.
I'h1n the committee assembled w
Iu6ro Cronscnp's court room IN ~.
federal building. there weE 1880.
4-skssor. - WnshinEton: Kenyon, q
e sef Ie az "a aiabamn; Fletcher.
<f f'forlda. ana Lea. OF Tenpsssee. sen
1ftr Kern. 6f Indiana. - expected to-
~ .itn.sses summoned for today
.&.ro rrnnE AZ Land66. state senator.
Moline, Ills; John ~ fenera toE ars
e.r ~ sxsssnator Albert J. Hopksna.
Aurora. and Z number Of members ~
THE general assembly that elected Lor'-
S,.,. senator Landee. the arst Wit
#1{ine The contest by Asssmblyman
Charles Luke. who told MIN sns, "a
Hopkihs would 40 the right snlhS 80 90,
tII., ihs votes 70 win the senatorial
.,1Ifert Luke then asked him. Land4s
saId IL vote for Lorimer LAndes re-
4hat niEht. witness testified. two
mon called az his home One q the
men seized a. spokesman and Sale ne
WAS John HnEhss. sssrs1 1sryhSs tSiS
h',n' Lendss TESTIFIED. that Uorimer was
i-,fIr1Sfed IA the federal company aud
Is (anrhesJ wanted 70 know why Ian
1et did not vote Tor Lorimer nuxns.
I'1<Iner. ne would be allowed 20 con-
troll the federal patronage In his dis.
[r||i Landee testified that ne tnlo
Iiuehss that hs could a,. a0. v ~ HID
&If.a: that his word was all ne had, prt
Rad he WAS going 20 Keep that. La
itI the Witness said. he met Hugfss
p....ett ' Landse vote Tor Iorimer.
Ih%re was renewed talk Of patronage.
I.e|deef aEain refused 10 consider the
Come dime after this. the witness
said he met Lorimer and told him q
II3 incident. He said that he did not
like the way ne had been approached
'1 nv Witness said. that he should
I1f blame Hughes. 40 he had per
|&&6 been sent 10 soc him. It did
-rf aerelop that Lorimer himself had
IInte any 0ffef to Landee.
While Landee was on the stand Lori
nor uttered and took Ntq seat beside
HE counsel former Judge Hanecy
|1nocl cross-examined Landee. he
.treloned the fact that Luke had died
since the incident Involved In the ses-
<|Mony and tried Enthusiastically %
have Iandee admit that the part OF
Ma testimony involving Luke had beeh
I1 al public after Luke's death, 30
IIti Luke could not deny IT.
JUDGE Hanccy asked X Landee re-
1ordsd Lakes proposition e. serious
NJ REGARDED ii a. coming from man
.h6 WAS half Joking and half full"
.1fwnfed Landoe.
Iandes sprung q sensation when he
HUGHES told me Senator Lorimer's
nano would never be Ixesented 70
TIE ronnral assembly until suficint
votes had been pledged to elect him
SENATOR Then, he said, when Lori
mcr's name was mentioned. he would
Be eIected on the first ballot"
This, Landee said. was. in effeet
what happened.