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ceived many more votes than he got in
the primaries in South Dakota.
Taft Created Sentiment.
And it was the President of the
United States, mind you, who was going
about the country creating sentiment
against Lorimer when the case was be-
fore the Senate for decision. OF course
the people will believe him. 1t Is only
natural So is there any wonder that
not only the people Of this country, but
the people of the world, believe that
Lorimer should be driven from the Sem
ate?'
Senator Lorimer was in the last ditch
and facing almost certain expulsion. Yet
the remarkable self-possession and cour-
age that he has shown from the begin
ming of his long fight did not desert
him. He turned upon his enemies and
scored them unsparingly. He attacked
President Taft for the attitude he had
assumed toward him, fayed the news
paper proprietors who had insisted on
the prosecution of the case against him
and finally threw a bomb into the Roose-
Welt camp by charging that the colonel
himself would have obtained the nomi-
nation at Chicago if his friends could
have obtained it through corruption
Turns on Roosevelt.
Mr.. Lorimers attack upon Roosevelt
was his answer TO the anti-Lorimer
speeches that Roosevelt had been making
up and down the country, but he added
to the effectiveness Of his argument by
sending to the Vice Presidents desk
three new affidavits from Southern dele
gates to the Chicago convention. Each
of these delegates charge that the Roose-
welt people tried to brfbe them to vote
for the colonel at Chicago.
These affidavits," Numbered Lorimer.
stamping down the center aisle of the
Senate, have no bearing on my title
to my seat. and are introduced by ms
merely to show the hypocrisy that is now
running rampant through this country"
The production of the new affidavits
was the sensation of the Lorimer speech.
II was toward the close of a three-hour
speech that the Illinois Senator turned
to Col Roosevelt. He was almost ex-
hsusted from his long effort His collar
was wilted fiat on his shirt bosom and
his hair was wet with perspiration,
There was hardly Senator in the
chamber whose sympathy was not going
out 10 him in this final struggle. Lorimer
himself had apparently been on the
verge Of a breakdown two or three times
in his speech. but when ne turned to
Roosevelt the bitterness and rancor in his
soul fired him with new energy.
Mr.. Roosevelt" yelled Lormer, has
declared that my election was corrupt
on what H II. Kohlsaat had told him.
He never read a line of this record in
his life. Yet he says he wants to get
rid Of the bosses
nf rnp.nEr,a~
The Senator from Illinois did not al
tempt in his speech to argue the merits
of the case against him. As IN the no.
table speech that he delivered in his
defense last session, he devoted himself
to showing that he was the victim OF a
He charged that the Senate
had been forced to reopen his case by
a conspiracy OF newspaper proprIetors,
and that he was about to be condemned
not on the merits of the case but IN
response to the same vicious lnt1u-
ence."
IF the Senate shall adopt the mi
nority report against. me- cried. the lii
nois Senator, lit will be a travesty on
civilized Jurisprudence and a mockery on
justice. 1t will be a sign that the SEN
ate is following the red flag. and has
adopted the doctrine OF the recall OF
judges advocated by that arch-cham-
pion of destruction
Lorimer declared that the men IN Chi
cago who were prosecuting the case
against him ought to be behind the peni-
Tertiary bars.
Il viii show" he shouted, that II the
law was enforced in Cook County the
criminal owners OF these chicago news
papers would to-day be behind the
bars"
Senator Lorimer had brought two
charts into the Senate which he had
hung on the wall. He then reviewed IN
detail the charges that he had made in
his previous speech that the Chicago
Tribune and the Chicago Record Herald
were evading their taxes. He SAID that
in 1895 the Chicago Tribune building was
located on school property, property be-
longing to a school FUND for the educa-
ton of children. The lease provided FOR
the revaluation of the property every
i've years.
"Vnctor Lawson, owner, Of the Chi
cago Record-Herald. and the owners of
the Chicago Tribune said Lorimer, got
together and decided to loot the school
fund.-
Looted School Funds.
Lorimer said that the Chicago Tribune
sent word to a member of the school
board that they wanted the valuation
clause stricken from the case and
threatened TO drive this man out of
public life unless the request was COM
1lied with. The retaliation clause. ac-
,ording to Lorimer, was stricken out |
Lorimer charged that in taxes alone the |
Tribune was ''robbng the school !
und of $4,000 year,
AT the end of the ninety-year lease
aid he, they will have robbed the !
people of the city of s6,5oe. CO.
The Senator from Illinois made sim
lar charge against Victor Lawsons !
Daily News. and accused Lawson also of |
'vading taxes on his private residence. |
>orimer charged openly that this ma
lipulation of the tax rolls had been |
,rought about through connIvance with |
clerk in the assessors office.
Lorimer produced photographs of the
ecords in Cook County to substantfate