The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1911-02-23

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his only purpose was to set before IN,
Senate the truth. 1t was not a matte,
OF sympathy, he said, but of right ant
wrong.
MT. Lorlmer undertook also to show
now his advocacy of the Lakes-to-tbe
Mississippi Waterway has caused
many members of the legislature tc
be partial to him.
He said he had made an effort tc
induce Governor Deneen to become a
candidate to breach the senatorial
deadlock and, in effect, he declared
that If Deneen had been so inclined
ne could have elected Hopkins by
throwing his vote to him.
One or two illusions were made TO
the prosecution of the case and ais
enemies We're referred to as "as-
sassins of character" There were oc
casional pointed references to the
speeches of opposing senators, Messrs
Root and Crawford coming in for es-
pecial attention. Mr.. Lorimer asserted
emphatically that not only had he not
used money to influence his election.
but that on his honor he knew of none
having been so employed
"HinRy Dinky" Kenna, it appeared.
was the democratic leader in the dis
trict represented by Assemblyman
John Griffith. Mr. Lorimer explained
how this lifelong friendship had led
Kenna to promise and deliver the vote
of Griffin for Lorimer.
IF this senate" continued Mr.. Lori
mer, 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 have
attacked me" he looked straight
into the eyes of Senator Beveridge,
just across the aisle-"declare. then
there is plain duty staring you in
the face, regardless of the testimony,
regardless of this record. If | could
be the foul wretch that these sena-
tors have sought to paint me, | should
be driven from yonder door branded
with the stamp of infamy.
"Ohl no! am not pleading for
| am trying to relate the
truth of my election as 1t was and not
as the senators from New York and
South Dakota would have this senate
believe"
Mr.. Lorimer, still dramatically re-
lating his personal experiences in Chi
cago, traced many Abrahams friend
ship for him to the interest he said
he had shown in the welfare of the
Jewish peddlers, and others of that
race, from the time when Lorimer
was a street car employe. He said
Abraham could not have gone back
home from Springfield and told his
people that he had refused to vote for
Lorimer.
Senator Root had referred to Many
Abrahams as The Bell Wether."
"As if there never had been another
Bell Wetherl" exclaimed Mr.. Lorimer.
There have been Wethers in the
senate; there is a Democratic Bell
Wether, an Tnsurgent Bell Wether,
Stalwart Bell Wether. When / am
out at the beginning of a rollcall |
ask, when j come in, h " Senator
Aldrich has voted, and then vote as
he has voted; ne is my Bell Wether.
If he is away | wait until my col
league, Senator Cullom, has voted and
he becomes my Bell Wether. In his
absence it is Senator Gallinger or
Senator Lodge But if | find that
Senators Lodge and LaFollette have
voted the same way, wait until some
one else has voted before | select
Bell Wether"
This sally at the expense of the
Wisconsin senator caused burst OF
laughter, which did not soon subside.
Thirty four democrats, Lorimer said,
voted fer him because they We're his
personal friends. and not because
they were delivered by Lee O'Neill
Browne.
"Whv he did not deliver them, they
delivered him. They would have
voted for me for personal reasons.
or nineteen of them would
have voted for me If | had been a
candidate from tle beginning, even
though Lee O'Neill Browne had la
bored with them not to do So"
The senator took UP the remarks
based upon his having been in the
speakers room at Springfield when
the legislature was electing sena-
tor. This room he described more as
a smoking room than as chamber OF
privacy. He expressed tae belief that
nobody would give any weight to his
mere presence in such room as evi-
danee of bribery or corruption, 1t
was brought into the case to "unsad-
die the minds OF senators. to lead
them to believe something was
wrong"