The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-07
TOO PATIENT TO
Be AN ASSASSIN
Another Crown Placed on the Per-
spring Brow Of Senator William
LorImer Of
illinois.
HIS DAYS NUMBERED
VIII be ousted From the Senate by
Sixteen Majority When
the Vote is
Taken.

WASHINGTON, July Elm a
speech in defense of Lorimer in the
senate this afternoon. Senator Nc
Cumber, OF North Dakota, shouted
oratoric fire.
ut would be political murder" he
shouted, IF the senate should expe!
the statesman from Illinois"
Wrought up by the injustice. IN MS
opinion, by the preceding speeches.
McCumber declared that Lorime-
would be morally innocent If ne kill
ed Representative Charles A. White.
The latter's offense was that he al
legged in confession that he had
been paid money to vote for Lorimer
The only reason White was now
alive, the North Dakota senator as
serted, was because of the patience
and forebearance of the man he Of
Tended.
This movement against Mr. Lori
mer'' declared McCumber, .is domi.
mated by public sentiment and trial
on the law and facts is impossible
There could not he an unbiased yer
dict Ey the membership Of the SEN
ate, he said. Members of that body
had already gone on record with
votes to the effect that Lorimer had
been elected through the use Of cor
rupt methods, and practices"
Chairman Dillingham;, Of the inves-
tigation committee led off in the de
bate He pointed out that a major
,,ity of the committee decided Lorimer
did not depend llpop corruption of
Iany kind. He asserted that Lorimer
had great popularity in Illinois. but
that in his political career he had
aroused animosities. The reasons, de-
clared Dillingham;, were given by
Lorimer himself when speaking in his
own defense, and their truth he said
was demonstrated during the inquiry
Lorimer's great activity In advocat-
ing the lakes-to-the-gulf waterway pro-
ject was the medium, Dillingham; In
sisted. through which he obtained his
non-partisan strength The movement,
he said, was not political.
Senator Meyers, of Montana, made
a vigorous argument favoring Lori
mer's expulsion.
He decla.e ed that such action would
be justified by law, and the facts.
II say the senate Is sitting as a
court in this case said Senator Mey-
ers, in attacking the plea of res ad
judicata raised in defense Of Lorimer
Every court under English jurisdic
tion can command new trial, except
justices of the peace or police courts.
Surely none in this chamber would
place the senate on a level with JUS
tees of the peace or police courts.
When a grand jury begun investi-
cation of the Lorimer case, Represent
ative Wilson fled to Canada and reg
istered under an assumed name. The
wicked fee when no man pursueth'
But they fee much faster when some
one is after them, especially if the
pursuer Is a grand jury.
"The whole record reeks with rot
tenness, infamy and debauchery. When
a democrat in the senate votes for
republican who was elected by meth
GUS useu III iHHilHel peildii tleH
something is wrong with his mind, or
his morals, or both. Everybody in
Springfield knew what was going on.
TT was a sign that something was
wrong when Lee O'Neil Browne used
an hour to explain his vote. He said
he had 1000 reasons for voting for
Lorimer.
"I am satisfied that he did have
900 reasons and that they were in
his pocket book. Each one bore the
impact of the American eagle and the
motto In God we trust"
Meantime the favorite guess among
senators is that in the final vote
there will be majority of 16 against
Lorimer.