Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1911 — SULLIVANDENIESCOMPLICITY [ARTICLE]

SULLIVANDENIESCOMPLICITY

Democratic National Committeeman Says He Never Aided Lorimer. Chicago, Oct. 27.—Roger C. Sullivan, Democratic national committeeman from Illinois, denied before the Lorimer investigation committee of the United States senate that he had anything to do with the election of Senator Lorimer. Although Mr. Sullivan’s supporters in the legislature voted for Mr. Lodimer in a body, the national committeeman declared flatly that none of them did so on his advice. With reference to the conference between Mr. Lorimer and the Democratic state, executive committee, at which, according to Former .Representative Thomas Tippit’s testimony, Mr. Lorimer agreed to support Mr. Stevenson, Mr. Sullivan said he did not believe any such meeting ever took place.