The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-12
Senator LOrimer Continues tO
Berate His Enemies.
COrtelyOu's Testimony of Yes
terday Gives Him a Cue.
SAYS FIGHT WAS UNFAIR
Declares His Opponents Sneak
ed Up Behind Him.
The Press and the Trusts Com
bined Against Him.

Washington July 12.-Renewing his
attack upon his opponents Senator Lor-
inner today began the conclusion of his
| speech of defense in the senate. Els
belligerent attitude of yesterday when
! he asked for no quarter, but assailed
| those who had been active IN prosecut-
ing the case against him, was appar-
ent from the outset. He launched once
more into an attack on Col. Roosevelt
and characterized as inaccurate and
unreliable" the report of the minority
| members of the committee which in
vestigated his election.
| Well filed galleries and an attentive
audience of senators and house mem
bers heard Mr.. Lorimer. Dramatic
( gestures again characterized his deliv-
| cry as he strode back and forth in the
center of the aisles of the senate
chamber. The attack on Col. Roose-
welt @as based on testimony given by
George b. Cortelyou before a senate
committee regarding the 81, 100000 cam
paign fund raised for the Republican
campaign in 1904. Mr.. Lorimer re-
ferred to Col. Roosevelt as the "custo-
dian of all the morals of the country,
private and public
'Of COURSE" he exclaimed. mot a
cent of that $1,900,Vv- could have been
contributed by the predatory wealth of
the country. Surely all of it was the
free gift of the common people for
whom this man is the great champion.
No malefactor contributed to that fund
only the common people of whom ne
was the guardian"
The letter from President Taft l.
Col. Roosevelt expressing the hope that
Lorimer would be ousted, which became
public in the pre-conVention campafen
again was taken up by Lorimer He
drew attention to President Taft
phrase embracing the necessity OF
winning"
Not Fair Fight.
He declared his enemies had tried
10 win not by free and fair fight.
but by sneal1ing up benin, like tnier
in the night"
Was ever mortal. man more com
pletely surrounded by conspiracy and
| lntrigue2" exclaimed I,orimer drama
| tically. THE president of the limited
states William Taft; Theodore Roose-
| VeIt, the expresident; a former Demo-
crat candidate for the presidency VIM.
Jennings Bryan and the trust press of
the country all were in it-aII Joined
In the conspiracy to poison the minds
of the citizenship in order that one
man might be destroyed to satisfy
the malice of the most corrupt set
of newspaper owners known to the
history of the country"
Mr.. Lorimer claimed that the Helm
committee of the Illinois legislature
was a subterfuge to bring about a
second inquiry by the U. S. senate He
declared the hearing had been neither
impartial nor thorough and asserted
it was conducted only to bring the
matter into the senate again that it
might be tried by a new set of judges.
You cannot strike out the former
verdict of the senate. he exclaimed.
and 1 believe that I have a title that
has been declared valid"
Takes Up the Evidence.
Senator Lorimer then announced
that he proposed to discuss for the
first time in his address to the SEN
ate some of the evidence in the case
He began by reading an affidavit by
former State Representative Joseph s.
Clark, who was alleged to have voted
for him on promise that he would
be allowed to name a new postmaster
at Vandalia, Ill. The affidavit denied
the charge flatly.
Lorimer charged Senator Kern
with attempting to make IT appear
that Charles S. Luke, a dead member
of the Illinois legislature had testified
in the case. Luke had died he said.
before any of the hearings began. So
on Lorimer took up the allegations
against Jandus, Sheppard and Tippit,
also members of the Illinois legisla-
ture. The implication attached to the
fact that Sheppard and Tippit had
rented safe deposit boxes at the time
of his election he denounced as mere
insinuations. Then Lorimer took up
the four socalled confessions of men
said to have been bribed to vote for
him The first of these was Charles
A. White.
He declared White was a perjurer:
that he had admitted perjury under
oath. Lee O'Neill Browne had been
charged with bribing White. Lorimer
contended it has been shown that
White had announced his intention II
voting for him before the alleged brtb-
ing transaction took place.
No Hope for Him.
Senator Lorimer appeared to have re-
covered from the weakened condition
in which his vigorous speech yesterday
had left him and he continued the
spirited denunciation of his enemies
with energy. Those opposed to him de-
ciared his fight a futile one and that
the final vote would show a substantial
majority against him.
His friends, grave and silent, for the
most part, made no predictions.
Senator Lorimer took up the crfti-
cisms made by Senator Reed in his
speech yesterday on Lorimer's contri-
button of $4,000 to the defense Of Lee
C'Neill Browne, charged with bribing
White. He declared he had contributed
to Brownies defense because he knew
If Browne were convicted it would be
hard to make any one believe that Lori
mer had not bought his seat. They
thought Browne could not egcape. All
the power of the third degree was to be
used upon him by States Attorney
Wayman.
Returning to White. Mr.. Lorimer de-
clared no one had a right to accept the
testimony of a man who had said ho
would sell his soul for money.
Dramatic Periods.