The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-04
lie Lifts Lorimer Case
Above Attack on
Individual.
w HOLE STATE
is BESMIRCHED
Declares Lee Browne and His
Followers Band Of Robbers"
and Says Their Votes Should
Be Eliminated-Hale Pleads
tor Some One to Defend
Illinois.

Washington. February 5.--scnator
Root. Of New York to-day lcaped sud
denly to a position OF leadership
among tho anti Lorjrncr fcrccs in the
senate, and caused the case temper
ar!ly to he lifted above Inc attack up
on the Individual. SO as 10 barn the
blot upon the name Of The state OF
Illinois. When Mr. Root concluded
fenator Hale. tho veteran Republican
leader OF the Senate pleaded With
state, and he suggested Senator Gull
lorn. to make a reply TO ar Roots
speech which would exoneratc not
only Lorimer but Illinois
I refuse to believe that SO great
people arc rotten TO the corc.' said
Eenator Bailey, of TcAas.S"If we arc to
try Senator'S on the general ,niscon
duct Of legislators. then the Senator
whose right Is challenged now, Is not
Sne only one who must yicIi his seat
His colleague. Mr, Cullom, WAS elected
By one OF those Legislatures, and no
man here believes that he was a par,y
10 any OF these evil. practlccs bat
still the case OF Lorimc- is tho case
OF Cullom.'' f
Senator Lorincc had NUMEROUS de-
tenders who replied TO the attack upon
him and tho method Of his election
which was made by Mr.. Root Chief
among them was Senator Hepburn. OF
Idaho. member OF the L.orimer in
vesIsattns committee, who charged
that some persons had entered into
The attack upon Lorimer in the spirit
OF q man hunt. ga.
BrOWnc'h EplIOwiur Corrnn<
Before Mr.. Root had proceeded far,
II developed that he went tieycnd ths
position Of others who have condemn
cd tho election OF Isoriner as having
been accomplished by bribery He dis.
missed as inmntcria1 the controversies
over the question OF eliminating the
seven alleged tainted votes from the
total vote on joint ballot as we'll as
from tho number received by Lor;rner
Tho rottenncss shown BIZ the testi-
mony. continued Mr.. Root. was SUN.
Client u inyal!date tho election OF
l.orimcr, and he asserted that all Of
the following OF Lee O'Ne.il Browne,
inc Democratic leader in tho Illinois
Assembly. was corrupt, and the votes
Of that following should have been
eliminated.
Few Senator'S left their seats during
the speech and the galleries were
crowded, with hundreds or others in
The corridors waiting for chances or
admission which never came.
We are bound continued Mr. Root
Ito act upon the universal knowledge
that the facts we have established I'M
8pl!cate others than those absolutely
known to have been involved"
MIR. Root reached the conclusion that
deducting the seven tainted votes, Mr.
lorlmcr had been left without ma
jority. "a fact which" ne said, In
validates his election
This was equally true. he said, whe.
Their the corruption Tund hal been used
either TO increase Lori,ner's vote or
TO reduce the total vote Mr.. Noot In
Weighed strongly against the methods
by which 1t IS sought to sustain Mr..
l.orimcr He declared that tfTe senate
could not afford to sanction such me.
thods. If they stand the senate can
not stand" he said. III they stand,
tho government Of the United States
cannot stand"
his thirty followers as "a band of rob-
bers,' and declared that all OF their
votes should be rejected in Lorimer's
election.
The conclusion OF Mr.. Roots speech
was marked by an unusual scene MIR.
Halo. of Maine, took tho floor, and with
voice almost tremulous pleaded for a
reply to the New York Senator that
would exoncratc not MIR Lorlmcr but
illinois,
Declaring that the Senate could not
have been comfortable white Mr.. Root
was making his powerful argument"
and confcssing that he himself had not
been. he said. he had been impressed
with the seriousness Of tho situation.
AS listened to the distinguished
Senator's lamenta BILE and melancholy
arraignment," said AIR. Hale ''the Iii.
nois Senator disappeared entirely. and
! became impressed With the serious
reflection upon the great State whose
name is involved
When Mr.. Bailey called attention to
the fact that Mr.. Lorimer had not been
present during the days proceedings
thereby rendering, his disappearance
Impossible, Mr. Hale replied that he
had not referred to tho physical pres.
ence of the Illinois Senator, but had
meant merely to say that I.orimer had
been so completely overshadowed In the
issue as to DO eliminated from consid.
grafton. This had not been an arraign
ment OF Mr.. Lorimer, but of the maie
tic State Of Illinois, Mr.. Hale said, and
he added that he did not want the
case disposed of until Senator CulIom
or some other friend Of the State
should arise and. If possible. free the
state from the inevitable result of the
charges OF the Senator from New York
IL VIC may believe what has been said.
there exists, and there has existed FOR
years, q most Unconsrionable4 practice
and habit Of corruption
Mr.. Bailey followed, saying that IL
Mr.. Roots doctrine was to BIZ foil owed
! L would be found that tIere had not
been lawful election in Illinois for
many years.
This election was not an exception"
no said, and added: .'For my part, 1
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