AN AMERICAN SCANDAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1007, 23 December 1910, Page 5

AN AMERICAN SCANDAL.

!t SENATOR LORIMER EXONERATED. 55 . . fc. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. !I ■ New York, December 21 Senator Lorimer, of Illinois, has been exonerated on tho charges of bribery ,- s brought against hjm in connection with s- his election. ■1, : , l-

:o WHO DID THE BRIBING? .v ~l n, ,S eP t e» b w ]ast Mr. Roosevelt tolel -J the Committee of tho Hamilton Club at '? Chicago that lie would, not attend a band quet, and sit at tho same table with senator Lorimer any more than ho would I s four legislators who had been i- indicted for bribery and the four other i- legislators who confessed that they had ie accepted a bribe to voto for this Lorimer *' I? 1 ' , States Senator. And more rs than this, he yeqnireel the gentlemen who 15 nod brought tho invitation to telegraph s, tho Senator that Mr. Roosevelt hSd so :e refused, and that the invitation given >r Lorimer to attend was therefore recalled lc So (writes the "Independent") Lorimer m stayed away, directed to stay away; and when at the dinner Mr. Roosevelt referred le to the incident—which is much more than :h an incielent—thoso present applauded :a wildly. s, "Now, Lorimer had,not been convicted Ce Ho was not wearing stripes. Ho was i- free, walking tho streets, conducting his >r business, is still the accredited Senator d from tho proud State of Illinois. But when it was proved that the Democratic r, votes that bad-elected him had'been got i g by purchase he made .scant defence, showf. eel no ejuick indignation or surprise. Tliev id got the money and ho had got the officc." Ii- '