The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-17
uefsId and are sncamped in comma ndinA
position on the cleaner, sweeter heights above

tisasId and are sncamped in a commandina
position on the cleaner, sweeter heights ABOVE
Go out and look at the battlefield
There u the wreck Of the Lorimer league.
smashed and smoking The name OF Lin
coin has been taken from It by the people
and returned to the place from which It
There Ii Lormer punctured. nattened out
and sprawling. mired In the muck OF hit
ilaiodorous campaign In heap beside him
lie Hines and Hanecy buried under The Story
OF Edward Hines" and THE Plot That Fail
ed" with the smoke OF million copies OF
the Western Catholic. published at Quincy. Ill.
curling up over them 81
Over to the right Is ripped up spot. That
is where the Old Gang stood, to be blown to
pieces before II could escape. There's Me-
kinley. Taft's national. campaign manager. who
lost his precinct lost his town. lost his county,
lost his district lost his reputation and lost
job. and who will be more fortunate than he
dares to hope II he drags himself OF the field
s ar S soe eoen that n lie should lose IL too
the State. There have been too many per-
sonaily owned Traction attorneys in the Legis-
lature for the good Of Illinois.
There liz Cannon, drum major of the Old
Gang. stretched out cold, beaten with his own
baton. and left staring at the moon If It
could tell him what had passed him.
Danville, his own special private preserve.
traitorous-600 majority for Roosevelt. What
viii the Ides of November bring forth for
And just beyond lies Frank l.. Smith. Taft
manager in Illinois. who hestated be-
tween two camps and then chose the wrong
one. Smith who saved his precinct out
OF the wreck of the Old Gang. that and moth
Ing more--a shirt to his back and nothing
more How he must hate his Satisfactorily
prophetic mouth.
There's shattered thing which has form.
mass Of twisted wreckage that once was
the organization OF Taft In Illinois. of Taft
who failed to repudiate openly the forces which
were bringing him To ruin in this State. The
man who undermined that organization was
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man can accept the support Of another with
out bearing to the last iota all the strength
or weakness that such assistance brings in Its
train. Silence sometimes liz damning
vociferous commentator. Taft would not pick
the sleek and unctuous up Ivy the nec;
and throw him outside OF the hr"astworks.
He allowed the enemy to stay in his camp
ard that complete ruin you is the wreck
Of the Taft organization.
And there Is cullom, poor Culiom, old and
with but one thing mestioned 1, his dseredlt.
only one thing. but that too much--a vote
for Lorbner.
Cullom had choice offered him He knew
better than any one in Illinois what Lorimer
meant in the United States Senate. Cullon
haze nothing to debate with himself except ex
peGiency and policy. He heard the voice Of
folly and thought il the voice OF wisdom Pa
triotism offered him strong arm tn ieip him
IN the rest OF his tourney He tnrned aside
from ii and took the shadowy of the
ghost Of policy.
Cullom knew,
There may have been votes for I4ormer in
the United States Senate which mis-
guided but honestly to the support of the man
who ought not to be there. but CuIlom did
not listen to what his experience. his knowi-
edge. and his information would have told
him. He took the arm OF folly and thought
It the arm OF wisdom. He Was led defense
less out on the battlefield and there deserted.
bewfldered and helpless and hopeless in the
face of the onrush OF the army which swept
across the field.
There was a tragedy Pity stiiled many a
voice which would have poiated him nut Ger
execution. He was not singled out Tor attack.
In Kindness the State which re ha served,
but which ne had wronged did not cali out
, its wrongs upon him. But he went down
You know voted for him. That the
only thing held UP against me.
Let Burrows. OF Michigan: Bulkeley Of Con-
necticut: Carter of Montana rnyhse., Of Ken
lucky: Flint. of California. and piles OF Wash
tn9ton, lead Cu1lom from the field. They and
others were in the United Sta-es Senate and
are there no more They voted TOR Lorimer
and are there no more. Let them lead Cul
| lom away and let the present members of
the Senate watch them go. For there will be
others and they should learn how to walk back
home.
Turning from the tragedy Of CulIom. look
to another part of the battlefield and see the
remnants % the Lincoln leasaa OF look ccun.
~. There Is Len Small. the farmer candidate,
ard there is the mephitic inter Ocean. the
vent OF the professionally privileged perjuries
OF the legal jackals who served the blond
boss. There is the futile but filthy publioa-
ton. walioWing help1essy in its own venom,
| malice and lies. What 1t had to say before
the fight wax unworthy of attention and got
| n"ne. but its present condition is worth a pass
ms glance-merely passing careful
! look might bring disgust
There they all sprawled out on the bat
lefeld--Lormer Sma1. Cullorn. Mckinley.
Smith the ruins OF the Taft Organization. the
wreck OF the Lorimer league. the demolished
| lies OF the Lorimer campaign the shattered
perjuries Of the Lorimer defense, TN frag-
r,ents Of the Lorimer tcket-Thompson, OIL
son. Hunter. Bostrom al
Everything has been swepa away which once
hore the rame OF Lorimer. Thera i. nothing
| left bat the ruins and the odo-.
tha ~n&tE p
| lit the ir,rimer case.
That IL the answer OF the people Of III.
nois 20 tho men who try to force them TO sub
| init 20 = disgrace, That Ia .he.c answer ia
| tue fusn who Try to make :henn submit TO
privileged interest.
Go out and look at the battlefield and the an
swer can be read and in that answer thcre IL
glorious hope for better days in Illinois Let
US al: n axe that hope reality Amen.
New York and nlinois
In Illinois 100000 Republicans at the prf-
marfes say that the State delegates to the Re-
publican national convention shall vote for the
nomination Of Theodore Roosevelt for Presi-
dent .,sss, s@. +,