Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1912 — SAYS SENATOR LORIMER WILL BE THROWN OUT. [ARTICLE]

SAYS SENATOR LORIMER WILL BE THROWN OUT.

Philadelphia Paper Says Unless He Resigns Illinois Senator WUI Be Ousted 55 to 38. The Philadelphia North American .prints a poll on the forthcoming vote to oust Senator William Lorimer from the United States senate. It is to the effect that unless the senator from Illinois resigns he will he thrown out by a vote of 55 to 38. It is possible that other senators who have been backing Lorimer may turn against him in order to be on the winning side. If the North Americon is correct this will be the closing; chapter in a long fought battle to dislodge Senator Lorimer, who has long been--- the object of attack by the Tribune and other papers, which have printed several sensational stories charging him with having secured his election by fraud. Many of the charges are undoubtedly false and were framed up td aid ip securing SeUatdr Lorimer’s political undoing. In the investigations in the senate the- evidence sufficient to convict him of the charge was not secured and no jury could have ever arrived at a unanimous verdict. The public was prejudiced, however, and much malice has ■been shown toward him by a class of self-anointed who wholly ignore the Biblicai injunction, "Judge not that ye be not judged," and who accepted the falsely inspired newspaper attacks without the investigation which they would hope to secure for themselves if similarly charged. An example of the manner fn which ambitious statesmen are willing to set justice aside in order to cater to the ravenous demands of their constituency is the attitude in the Lorimer matter of Senator. John W. Kern, of Indiana. Less than four years ago when Kern was defeated for election by Senator Shively, he made public charge that Shively’s election was procured by fraud and stated that he knew the eight members of the joint assembly who had been purchased. Then his lips were sealed by a pledge that he would be made a U. S. senator in case of democratic victory, provided he would let the Shively charges drop. And the victorious John Worth Kern has said nothing but he has made a grandstand play against Lorimer andjtooih he and Shively are rampant to have Lorimer removed. —IXI We are certainly drifting into an era of life where prejudice and malice usurp the place of fairness and justice. r IX' Senator Lorimer guilty but he was proven-so by the influence of malicious newspapers and not' by the fair method of evidence Introduced to those charged with direct responsibility.