Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — LORIMER IN LAST PLEA FOR SEAT [ARTICLE]

LORIMER IN LAST PLEA FOR SEAT

Becomes Exhausted and Will Continue Speech Later. BITTERLY LASHES HIS FOES Flays Chicago Newspaper Proprietors, Criticizes Taft for Creating Sentiment Against Him—Caustically Scores Roosevelt. Washington; July 12!—For the second time in his short career as a senator from Illinois, William Lorimer made his, personal appeal to the senate not to cast him out. After speaking for three hours, Mr. Lorimer became exhausted and will continue his speech today. More than a year ago Senator Lorimer stood in the game spot and made a speech to the same purpose—a dramatic plea, the most moving ever heard in the senate, it was a speech for sympathy. Asks for No Mercy. Senator Lorimer's speech Thursday was different He did not ask for mercy, as he did last year. He utilized his last privilege of the floor to attack the men who had fought him — and who were so near to victory. Accordingly he denounced the “trust" newspaper of Chicago, and particularly Victor F. Lawson, the owner of the Chicago Daily News. He said of Lawson, whose paper has fought Lorimer, that he should be In the penitentiary for his manipulation of the assessor’s office in Chicago. He criticized President Taft for his part in creating anti-Lorlmer sentiment.