The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-07-18
|T04MPEACH JUDGE.
PUNISHMENT SOUGHT HE SAYS,
BECAUSE HE COULD NOT BE
"coNTRoLLED.'
VOTE HIM OUT 900 TO 1
Saya Corporations Are Also Fight,
ing Him-Evidenee OF Ram
pant Hypocrisy"

washington, ID. &. - For the sec
ond time in 10 months, William Lori
mer took the floor in the senate to
! defend his title to a seat in that body
as the junior senator from Illinois.
For three hours he inveighed against
the newspapers which have fought him
and against his political enemies. The
attitude OF President Taft and Colo
mel Roosevelt toward him and his
associates in Illinois politics occupied
much of his time.
The senate did not force him to a
conclusion OF his speech. His en-
phatic delivery OF the denunciation
OF his opponents weakened him physi-
cally and at $3.50 o'clock in the after
oon the senate recessed until Mr..
Lorimore could resume. 1t is expect
ed that he will conclude his speech in
a few hours longer and that before
the end of the session the senate will
take its final action upon Senator
Luke Lea's resolution OF explanation.
Before Mr.. Lorimer had spoken an
hour the galleries. which were half
empty when he began, had filled to
o~yerfiowing; the senate floor was well
filled with members giving close at
tention to him and around the walls
of the senate stood scores of mem
bers of the house. From a position
at the rear of the chamber in the mid
die aisle. he delivered his speech
with dramatic gesture, and in a voice
that frequently rose to note that car
ried far through the capital corridors.
Contrasted TO his Geographic speech
OF February, 1911, when Senator Lori
mer gave in detail the circumstances
which he claimed had influenced the
votes of 90 Democrats for him in the
Illinois Legislature, his latest speech
was an attack rather than a defnse.
He scarcely touched upon the charges
of bribery in the Illinois legislature
while he held the floor.
Chicago newspaper owners and pub
fishers. Governor Deneen, States At
torney Wayman and others who have
been active in the prosecution of the
Lorimer case in Illinois, were the chief
objects of his shafts. He sought to
show that back of the prosecution was
a conspiracy of newspaper and corpor-
alton forces to punish him because he
could not be controlled
At the close of the afternoon, Sena-
tor Lorimer furnished a sensation by
introducing afidavits made by dele
gates to the recent Republican onven
ton at Chicago to the effect that they
had been offered money to vote in
support OF the Roosevelt forces in the
convention. The names attached to
the affidavits included j.. M. Shumpirt,
A. Buckley, ID. w. Sherrod. r. B. Butts
and William Jones of George and 9th
err southern delegates.
These affidavits c me after Mr.. Lori
mer had dealt in detail with the let.
ter OF President Taft to Colonel Roose-
welt, made public with the Interna-
tional Harvester company co%rrespon-
dence during the preconvention con-
test.
Senator Lorimer declared he did not
seek to prove anything in his own case
by the afidavits; but that he wanted
to ''show the ~hypocricy running ram
pant through the country" Colonel
Roosevelt's friends, he declared. would
have secured his nomination II pos
sible. by the corrupt use of money"
while Colonel Roosevelt himself was
declaring he would destroy every po-
litical c~orruptionist.'
AS to his support of President Taft
Mr.. Lorimer said he had suppc rted
the principles of constitutional govern
ment for which the president stood.
He declared the president would not
have received as many votes in Illinois
as he did In North Dakota in the
primary campaign IF the meE with
whom / am associated in politics" had
not voted for him.