The Washington times., 1912-07-11
.LOR|MER BITTERLY
ATTACKS ENEMIES
IN SENATE SPEECH
Chicago Newspapers and
Governor Deneen Are
Under Fire.
"Would Be Injustice
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duties in this body may not have had
the time to examine the case"

duties in this body may not have had
the time to examine the case"
"Would Be Injustice"
1T is a fact" said Senator Lorimer
earnestly, that the Senate has the
power which is subject to no review
under heaven to deny me seat in this
body
But he denounced the injustice of such
a proceeding.
II shall show" he said, that not one
single vote was corruptly caused for
me-
After referring to remarks of Senator
Kern in his speech raising the question
why, IL the question of res adjudicata
was to be brought up, 1t had not been
raised when the second investigation
was ordered and thus the inquiry of the
committee avoided. Senator Lorimer
! proceeded:
"Mr. resident, this is no joke. It is a
solemn, serious matter, and II the Sen
ate shall adopt the report Of the min:
ority of the committee that investigated
| this case, 1t will be travesty on civil
lied Jurisprudence and a mockery of
! Justice
He declared 1t would be a sign the
Senate had determined to follow the red
flag and support the recall advocated
! by "the arch-champion of the destruur
ton Of American institutions"
Judgment Was Deliberate.
There never was a more deliberate
! judgment than the one handed down
by the Senate in the last Congress-" de-
clared Senator Lorimer, as he proceeded
to argue for the doctrine Of res adjud-
| icata. He said this was doctrine well
recognized in the jurisprudence of this
| country to protect the citizen against
assault on his liberty, property, or his
rights"
! God help the country" exclaimed
1 nTiy11 f,t, fhnr
he walked out into the aisle, III this
| Senate is to adopt the report advocated
by the minority of this committee"
The speaker then proceeded to attack
Chicago. He declared that If there
were a law officer in Cook county who
would enforce the law. this case would
not now be pending before the Senate.
I'm order that the Senate of the Unit
ed States may know something of all
the men back OF this conspiracy, 1 pur-
pose to say something of them anr re-
late something of the conditions in the
city of Chicago"
He then proceeded to attack the Chi
cago Tribune, taking up especially the
old charges against that paper growing
out of tbs location on school property.
manner attacked Victor F. Lawson, Of
the Chicago News. and the Pattersons
and McCormicks, Of the Tribune, as
well as II. II. Kohlsaat Governor Di-
i'Sh ~ iol n SStCic SSOiiI Dc-
cause of his alleged illegal retention
of certain fees amounting to $243. 600.
which Senator Lorimer maintained
should have gone to the school fund.
Lorimer said that Dineen was not en-
titled at the most to more than $40, 1000
of this.
Some day the people of my State
will come to know the truth" said
: Lorimer, "and they will rise up in their
might and put a man into the State s
attorney office who will make Governor
+ Dineen pay into the school fund over
$1,000 that no more belongs to him than
this building belongs to me-
This is no evidence in this case"
continued Senator Lorimer, "as evil
dence in this case it is not worth the
snap of a finger, but l want this Senate
to know something of these men, some-
thing of Governor Dineen, something of
Victor Lawson, and of the McCormlcks
and Pattersons of the Tribune in order
that 1t may judge whether they would
try to hound and destroy man in pub
lie life.
They have dictated who shall fill
the offices in Chicago for the last
twenty-five years. only one man in
that time has dared to sthand out
against them. That man was the sem
ior Carter II. Harrison He was at
tackled and villifed until he was lool:-
ed upon by many people as a mon
ster. These attacks resulted ulti-
matelV in his assassination