The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-08-03
WHITE; UNM0vED,
TELLS HIS STORY
ASSUMES AIR OF MARTYs A. Laws
YERs FOR LORIMER GRILL
HIM.
DOES NOT EVEN BLUSH
WITHOUT TURNING COLOR on
SHOWING A TRACE OF EMO
TIoN REClIEs TALE OF
GRAFT.

psychologists, told the Lorimer COM
mittee to-day about his corresponds
ence with Lee ONeill Brown. Demo-
cratic leader of the Illinois LegisIa-
ture, and Senator Lorimer, before he
made public his exposure of the Leg
| isIative corruption.
White, never turning color or show
/ ing trace of emotion, admitted that
| he was borrowing money from Brown,
/ from time to time. while he was writ
/ ing his expose Of Brown and the
Lorimer scandal. He seemed incapa-
/ bic OF emotion. as IL all the human
| sensibilities had been squeezed out OF
him. He was slammed by nothing.
seemed TO regard lightly the acts OF
| pertiidy ne had performed toward his
''old pals" in the Legislature. was
utterly beyond any of the ordinary
appeals of pride or resentment.
| The lawyers could not get him an
! CRY, and no more could the senator's
/ when they grilled him horribly. The
man appears to be either wreck OF
! all human sentiments, resigned to a
! fate that he cannot now escape; or
else he Is sustained by the zealots
| conviction that he Is a martyr, doing
| at the cost Of his own life and friends
| and career a service that needed to
| be done for the public.
| This letter is the explanation he
himself makes; AMI to it he sticks.
| despite all the gibes and sneers that
are hurled at him. One thing about
| his story, however, is the more nota-
| BILE because of the contradictions In
| his mental and moral attitudes. Ha
| sticks to his story, makes 1T fit con-
| stanly and perfectly into the docu-
! mentary records that have been pro-
| duced. and has not swerved at all
from the essentials.
| White said he got $1,000 for voting
| for Lorimer; the money was paid to
him by Brown. Afterward he blew
| in" all his money. got broke and
| Brown induced Lorimer to get a po-
! sition for him: but this White re-
| fused.
| To-day's examination covered the
/ period following the payment for the
/ Lorimer votes down to the time when
White had his story written and was
ready to sell it, During that period
he spent more than a week with
Brown; they had a huge time In and
around Chicago White said he spent
$500 and thought Brown spent about
81 1000. In rather less than two weeks:
but they rolled 'em up high.
Incidentally, White alleges, they
talked about legislative corruption,
and he got some information he need
ed from Brown.
The day before Lorimer was elect
ed Otis Marlborough and ] were at the
buffet of the St. Nicholas Hotel when
Representative De Wolf came along"
The buffet Is the"
| Bar: yes, the bar. and ] asked De
| Wolf to join us. He said
! Well. Whitley, have you been up
| to the trough YETI
| II said. No what do you mean
! HE replied. well. I've been up to
the trough
d. tvS
! late July or early August. 1909, in
Chicago. at the Briggs House. bat
! had little time with him. Later. per-
/ haps a week he went to Chicago
again and had another visit with
Brown.
I'VE took some trips to St Joe.
Mich. and Muskegon, Mich. by boat.
Left Chicago on Sunday morning.
spent the day IN St Joe. went to
| Muskegon Tuesday and back to Chi
| cago "Wednesday night"
Amy drinking
Some: yes. sir
How much did you spend ."
] Il had $3.50 when went to Chicago
and loaned Brown s220. He gave
me back SEQ to pay hotel bill. and
| afterward sent me the s20o.,
Brown and White must have pro-
| duced all the primary colors along
/
: he sPers abspett $780, asats Brown abssssts
! $1,000 during the two weeks.
Most OF it vas spent pretty fool
! ishly." admitted White "A lot for
! tips. YOU know. and"
Any of 1t for drinks
| Yes. some. Why, once We gave
a fellow on the street SIS for drawing
| a little sketch that didn't take him
more than three minutes.
| Gu he No
he observed that he ought to get
more out of the proposition than tho
other members: he had more chances
TO take He suspected that he was
being Swallowed and said:
| "If they're trailing after me I'll
show EN- a merry clip
II asked him who put up the money
to elect Lorimer, but he didn't say.
He spoke about Representative Luke:
said he'd go down and spank Char
ley Luke II he didn't be good.
| Discussed Veto.
| Then we had a talk about the
governors veto of certain bill. On
the boat Brown told me that $4,000
! had been put up to pass that hill.
and when 1t was vetoed. that money
was lost to the jackpot. 1 heard
Wilson say at st, Louis. too. when
he paid me for voting for Lorimer.
that that veto had lost the jackpot
| $50, 900
DO you know what bill that was?"
mo. / don't. Never asked
did they tell you how much they
distributed from the jackpot"
| only that Brown told me he saw
Mr., Riley in Joliet. and Riley said
he had got $1,000"
| But he. never told you how. muck
the jackpot totaIed?"
! mo, STR"
How much of the money you got
| did You give to the labor organiza-
tions?''
! Not any. ] used ii In various
ways. and made the exposure my
self"
"You went to the Legislature to
discover II there was any corruption,
| to take brides II they were offered ID
you. and to expose it for the good oe
the public?"
II intended to expose any corrup-
ton i found, yes l did it too--Aa
soon az ] could get ready for Il.
told some OF the labor leaders tho
facts long before It was published"
White denied that he ever asked
| $4,000 for his story. as Mr.. Kelley,
OF the Chicago Tribune. alleged he
/ did. He declared that was q mis-
take: his first price was $500, ana
he got $a.2so.
did Brown handle all the 5ackpe1
money--who got II? Merely the
Brown followers the Democrats w.