The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-06-06

Everybody. however, will be graft.
fed that the facts will be given 10
the public. because the American
people have shown their limit OF pa.
thence with bosses and dark lantern
methods.
The Ugly Lorimer Case Again.
The nauseating Lorimer case was
taken up in the Senate again today.
Senator Kern, OF Indiana, led OF
with a speech In favor OF ousting
Senator Lorimer from his seat, and
/ made lengthy argument reviewing
the evidence OF fraud and corrup-
tion and bribery. The friends OF
Senator Lorimer, including Senator
Sipmons, of North Carolina, have ex-
erted every effort to postpone a vote
on this case until after the election
The majority OF the Senate. however,
decided against such a postponement
Then Ii was that those who favor
ed Senator Lorimer, realizing that a
majority of the Senate would not
vote again to keep him in his seat In
the face of the new evidence, exerted
every effort to prevail upon Senator
Lorimer to resign out of charity to
his supporters. In this, however,
they failed.
4 poll of the Senate, recently
taken, indicates that a majority of
from five to nine Senators will vote
to oust Lorimer from his seat.
Among those who are reported to
have declared that they will again
whitewash Senator Lorimer is Sena-
tor Simmons, of North Carolina.
The False Economy Program.
The Senate has just voted to re-
pudiate the false economy program
inaugurated by the Democratic
House for campaign purposes. That
program included the refusal to vote
a single dollar for new battlesh'ps
and also a refusal to vote necessary
money to finish the Panama canal
and fortify the same.
1t will be remembered that the
Democratic House, though making
economy their chief campaign slogan,
has voted for a wholesale pension
steal bill that would increase pen
sions to northern soldiers, including
a large number OF negroes who never
fired a gun, to the outrageous extent
of seventy-five million dollars, and at
the same time refusing to vote money
for the navy and other purposes
clearly needed to support the dignity
of the government In defense of the
nation.
Every one knows that our Monroe
doctrine is not worth the paper on
which it is written, unless our navy is
strong enough to enforce it.
1t will be remembered that in the
face of this political campaign pro-
gram for economy that the Demo-
cratic House has refused to cut off
the mileage graft Of twenty cents per
mile for themselves, and, on the
other hand, when the question was
raised voted to increase the salaries
of their clerks from fifteen hundred
dollars to two thousand dollars a
year.
The record made by the Demo
cratic House has been such as not to
command the approval of the coun-
try, and it is noticeable now that a
number of Democratic Senators have
joined with the Republicans gener-
ally in repudiating the niggardly and
inconsistent program Of the House.
The Cuban Situation Grows Alarming
The insurrection in Cuba is daily
growing more alarming. 1t now
seems almost certain that the
United States Government will have
to again intervene in the island to es-
tablish law and order and to protect
American citizens and property and
also the property of citizens and
of other countries, which, under the
Monroe doctrine the Platt amend
ment, is the duty of this government
to nroSorvo