The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-26
Vice President sherran's Mysterious
Visit to Chicago is Thought
to Have Been
Such.
REFUSED TO EXPLAIN
Poll Of Senator'S is Said to Have
Shown That It is High
Time He Was
Resisning.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
CHICAGO, May 25.-vice President
Sherman was in this city today, but
around his trip and his mission here
much mystery was cast. He arrived
early and got off at the Englewood
station. He sped away in taxicab
and his destination was kept pro-
found secret.
Sherman left late this afternoon for
| Washington. When seen at the rail-
road station he would neither affirm,
or deny that he had seen Senator Lori
mer.
Did your visit have anything to do
with the Lorimer case?" he was asked.
Il would like to tell you exactly what
the purpose of my visit was" replied
the vice president, "but the circum-
stance are such that l am obliged to
4 remain silent
1t was learned that when Vice
4 President Sherman made his quiet en-.
trance to the city today, Elbrige
! Hancey, counsel for Lorimer, and Will
liam Lorimer, Jr., were at the station
J and spoke to him. The vice president
was accompanied by Representative
: mann of Illinois, who remained In the
city to attend a banquet of republican
) precinct committeeman tonight. 1t
, was said that Judge Hancey and Lori
i mer remained at the station after
3 Sherman and Representative Manr
{ had driven away in taxicab.
t Even the politicians were in doub
q as to his reason for coming to Chicago
7 at this time. Harry S. New. nationa
: committeeman of Indiana, said he Is
not here on any business having to dc
: with the republican national conyen
! ton, SO far as he knew.
4 The generally accepted belief is thai
, Sherman had come to tell Senator Lor
. inner that his hope Of being permitted
3 by his colleagues in the United States
4 senate to retain his seat in that body
was a lost one. and that poll of the
y senators showed that his seat wal
rlcertain to be vacated.
t! Washington dispatches, on which
3 this belief was based stated that Sher
. man would advise Lorimer to resigr
Y and save the senate the alternative o'
1 an custer vote.
s. An army of reporters beseiged Sen
t ator Lorimer's home, all day and to
night. Lorimer-if he was at home
s refused to be seen, and members o
e his family declined to say whether he
had seen or would see Vice President
+ Sherman.
|. Senator Lorimer's condition was
{ such, it was said at his home, that he
0 was not strong enough to stand any
h excitement. Lorimer suffered nerv
e GUS breakdown shortly after the pri
e mary election In Illinois, in which al
e Overwhelming majority was cast To-
i Colonel Roosevelt and against Taft
for whom Lorimer was making a de
termined fight,
An Eclipse Is Scheduled.
/ WASHINGTON, May 25.--Lorimer''
: sun will set before the end of thu
e present session, according to views ex
: pressed by senators today Senate
membership is much more unfavorabl'
to him than was the case little owe
a year ago, when he won by vot'
of 46 to 49,
Eleven senators who voted for hin
, at that time have retired to privat
life, the retirement of number o
!. them being due chiefly to their sup
!. port of Lorimer Vacancies in tn
p senate have been filed with progress
: sive republicans and democrats,
h large proportion of the latter also be
j ing of progressive tendencies
I A poll of the senate indicating tina
n Lorimer could not possibly muster
!. majority, became the basis this after
I noon of the report of Vice Presiden
!. sherman's one days visit to Chicag,
' was for the purpose Of informing Lori
4 mer that he had no chance to win
a Friends of Lorimer in the senat
o feel that he should protect them from
q the embarrassment involved in lof
J. linz. fight waged in his defense. II
s favor them and escape expulsion the,
believe he should resign. He woult
e have good reason for the. action. the,
e contend, because Of the fact that h
e was once acquitted by the senate ant
t a majority of the committee that con
g Quoted the latest investigation report
q cd in his favor. A poll of the sen
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