The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-23

mate contact with men OF all parties.
| He said he was in Springfield at inc
| time he was elected senator to urge
| upon the legislature tho passage OF a
| waterways law.
Question for Senator Root.
II would like to know from the sem
ator from New York" said Mr.. Lori
| mer turning TO Mr.. Root, whether ne
| has ever been Identified with such
| work and whether he did not find that
under such circumstances ii was neces-
sary to make friends OF men OF all par
| ties. The work that | have done was
generally recognized as one that meant
much 10 Illinois. and some Of my Demo
cratic friends conceived the idea that
if elected to the senate | could do much
TO promote the enterprise.
Mentioning the Democrats who had
been friendly to him. he gave the names
as saying he wanted Lorlmer TO he
governor; of Sydney Espey, who went
so far to say that Lorlmor should ne
president Of Michael Link. who is one
of the men said TO have been bribed TO
vote for Lorlmer, and Of others.
Taking up the charge that he had been
much In Illinois about the time OF his
election. Mr. Borlmcr said:
Suppose | had organized the election
and then suppose ! had been in Spring
field for several weeks and suppose I
dcnce Of corruption and bribery? Has
any senator here ever been at the cap
ital Of his state when they were dis
cussing his election? Is II a crime? II
il is. then | am guilty. Why. Mr.. Pres
idcnt. IL Is like the talk Of a child, and
no man Of experience will pay any attcn-
ton to it
Anybody to Beat Hopkins.
Another class of Democrats that voted
for him he said. was found among those
IInDkinS,
or these was George Alshuler of Hop
lNns's own town. who. Mr. I.orimer said,
was for anybody to beat Hopkins
Mr.. Lorimer found explanation for the
Democratic opposition TO Hopkins in Hop
ltins's bitter Dartlsanship which. he said.
had antagonzed many Of the opposition.
Many Democrats were mentioned a 8
having voted for him because OF per-
sonal friendship Among these was Sen
ator RroderIck. who, Mr.. Lorimer said.
had been his friend for many years, even
when newspaper assassins Of charac-
ter were then, as since. trying to de-
stroy him"
~ never got one vote under false pre-
lenses" said Mr.. Lorimer.
mo Democrat was ever deceived into
the belief that | would cooperate with
the Democrats in congress"
He related some incidents 10 account
for his Democratic friendships. Most
dramatic was his recital of his first aC
quaintance with Alderman 'HiRkey Dink
kenna. who, when Lorimer was a boot
black and newshoy, compelled Mt the age
of ten to earn his living on the streets
came to his rescue and saved him from
the loss Of bundle Of Chicago Tribunes
Recalls Newsboy Experience.
II meant a loss Of $3.50 to him. the
senator said, and that dollar and a half
meant more to me. Senator Root, than
a million dollars would mean 70 some
men now. don't know whether the
the senator from South Dakota (Mr
Crawford know what it means to come
up through circumstances like that"
Senator Crawford rose to his feet. The
interest was intense. every person In the
galleries leaned forward: many rose.
Mr. President does the senator i'm
agine himself the only senator who came
up through hardship and poverty: is he
appealing for sympathy on that score?"
II want no sympathy" shouted Senator
Lorimer. great sigh passed over the
senate chamber.
This is not question OF sympathy.
II Is a question of right and wrong. ! am
only wondering II some senators under
stood ,i hoy w, conditions @ lil<e these can give
'Hinkey Dink" Keuna. " appeared. was
the Democratic leader in the district rep
resented by Assemblyman John Griffin.
Mr.. Lorimer explained how this lifelong
friendship had led Kenna to promise and
deliver the vote of Griffin for Lormer
IF this senate continued Mr.. Lori
the whole room, "can believe me to be
the low. vile creature that the senator
from New York and the senator from
South Dakota and other senators who
straight into the eyes OF Senator Bever-
idge Just across the aisle--"there Is a
plain duty staring YOU in the face, re-
gardless Of the testimony. regardless OF
this record.
Not Pleading for Sympathy.
EFF ! could he the foul wretch that
these senator's have sought to paint me.
! should be driven from yonder door,
branded with the stamp OF infamy. Oh!
no. / not pleading for sympathy: II
am trying to relate the truth Of my cIec
ton as II was and not as the sena tors
from New York and South Dakota would
have this senate believe.
Mr., Lorimer. still dramatically relating
his personal experiences in Chicago,
traced Nanny Abraham's friendship for
him TO the interest he said he mad shown
others of that race from the time Lor-
inner was street car enployc.
Senator Root referred 10 Nanny ABB
rahams' as the 'bellweiher. as ii there
never had been another hel!wether. There
have been bellwethers in the senate.
there Is Democratic belIwether an in
surgen! bellwether. stalwart hellwether.
When ] am out al the beginning of the
roIlcan and | ask. when come in how
Senator Aldrich has voted and then vote
as he voted, he Is my beilwether. II he
Is away ] walt until my colleague. Sen
ator Cullom. has voted and he becomes
my bellwether. But IL I fnd that Sena-
tors Lodge and Lafolette have voted the
same way | wait until some one else has
voted before | select hellwether''
Laughter at Expense Of LaFollette
This sally al the expense OF the Wis
consln senator caused burst OF laugh
ter which did not soon subsidc.
Thirty-four Democrats. Mr.. Lorimer
said. voted for him because they were
his personal friends and not because they
were delivered" by Lee ONeil Browne
why. he did not deliver them: they
delivered him. They would have voted
for me for personal reasons Seventeen
or nineteen OF them would have voted for
me III | had been a candidate from the he
ginning. even though Lee O'Nei Browne
had laborcd with them not To do so"
The senator took up the remarks based
on his having been in the speakers room
at Springfield when the legislature was
electing a senator. This room he de-
scribed more as a smoking room :han