The Washington times., 1911-07-08
Illinois Senator Certain to
Make Long, Hard Fight
for Victory.
AMMUNITION NOW
PREPARED FOR HIM
Matter Being Brought Out at Hear
ing Designed to Furnish
Political Capital.

The Lorimer case will only be hall
ended if the Senate of the United
States some afternoon next winter
after solemn debate and learned dis.
cussion of the law and the facts, con-
clpdes to--kick the Hon. William Lori
mer from out of its midst.
Senator Lorimer will not rest with
the kicking out. This may be ac-
cepted as settled Close friends of the
Senator say that in the event he is
unseated, he will unquestionably go
before the people of the State of IL
linois and seek a reelection to the
Senate for the purpose Of getting vim
dication. as well as the Senatorship.
Has Powerful Backing.
Some of those familiar with the
strong public sentiment in some parts
OF the country against Lorimer might
be inclined to jeer at the idea of
Iorimcr getting a reelection in Hi
nois. 1t is certain there is a powerful
element in the State against him But
his friends profess to think that he
would stand a good show of re-elec-
tion. They say he would go up and
down the State, into every county,
town. and village, and make a per
sonal appeal
They think that he would win no
end of support on the plea that he
had been unjustly attacked and per
secuted, and that he would be able
a primary.
Observers of the Lorimer investiea-
ton, as 1t is now in progress, have not
failed to notice the vast amount of de-
brought out. That some of this is in
tended for use by Lorimer in case he
has to make a future campaign for
Tindication, is the view taken in some
this testimony is of little immediate
service in the question of whether Lori
mer's seat was obtained by corrupt
means
Doesn't Know When He's Licked.
Lorimer's whole record is that of
man who does not know when he is
licked and who has a way of rescuing
victory from seeming certain defeat.
Right now, there is not much question
what the Senate would do II the Lori
mer case were voted on.
It would say he was not entitled to
his seat. When the investigating COM
r7ittee first started work, 1t hoped to
finish this session. But it will not finish
probably until September. Lorimer's
friends think that by next winter senti-
r1ent may have in some measure
changed.
One of the strange things about the
whole affair is the seeming complete
imperturbability Of Lorimer. If his
nerves are wearing themselves down
to an edge, he does not in any way
show it. He seems to take the entire |
matter blandly and easily. He does not
get mad about anything and even in |
privacy, among his friends, he is said
70 be Just as suave and undisturbed |
about the matter as he is in public,
Lorimer's Point Of View.
1t might be thought that after the |
siege Lorimer has been through, he |
would be a nervous wreck and on the |
verge of prostration. But if so, he con-
ceals II perfectly. One view of this is |
that he is so constituted that he doaz
not look on such charges as are mada
against him as anything to be ashamed |
of, and that he believes all is fair IN |
politics. Another view is that he has |
enlisted for long fight. which will NOT |
end with the verdict of the Senate and
hence does not regard any adverse de-
cision of the Senate as determinativ tive OF !
his political destiny. But whatever the
cause, he shows as little outward con-
cern as If he had never been under in
vestigation.