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Show IIIDS TIT URGES GOOD r Lorimer, in Dramatic :h, Calls Upon Kern, lyon and Lea to rove Statements. 3 SARCASTIC QMMENT ON TAFT Roosevelt Up to Scorn Custodian of All the Is of the Country, vate and Public." Iiraational New3 Service. A6HLVGTON, July 12. With Senator Wlnthrop Murray Crane of Massachusetts and Senator Reed Smoot of Utah busily canvassing the members enatn In a last desperate effort to ro. Senator William Lorimer of talked against time all day, at-the at-the newspapers, President Taft, a Roosevelt and William Jennings nd reaching his climax when he mt his vials of wrath on Senator Indiana, ttack on Senator Kern, who has Lorimer most aggressively, was ml and spectaculur. It was tinted tin-ted In the history of the sonate. sneered at him. Jeered him, him and challenged him publicly to any wrongdoing In his life, on," shouted Lorimer, pjreplra-imlng pjreplra-imlng down his face. "Come on, ECern, come on and make good." med this defiance until his voice nd all the time that Lorimer verlng his tirade against him Kern lay ill on a couch in his the senate office building, un-of un-of the scorn that was being pon hm. t.Reply. (iter he was informed of It, Sena-gathered Sena-gathered his strength and made Into the senate chamber, where seat directly In front of Lorimer g him. But the attack had spent Iorlmer was talking of somo-c. somo-c. It was left for Senator Kern o prepare to reply to Lorimer can got the floor tomorrow, r was at his best today. Ho ly pleaded and stormed. When Ed his voice quivered with omo-lien omo-lien he stormed ho paced up and d raged like a wild animal at I a larger audience than yester-it yester-it had lis effect on him, but quit for the day exhausted tho ators who stepped forward and s hand were the ones who have i him throughout They were Dillingham, Gamble and Flotch-nstance, Flotch-nstance, all three of whom haH him since the charges of cor-tverc cor-tverc llrst made, appearances not a single vote i changed In his favor as a re-Is re-Is two days' appeal. He will re-i re-i fineech tomorrow. SV0YterB Busy. Jj'o 1m is pounding away at the sen-jCrane, sen-jCrane, Smoot, Dillingham and his f'upporters will continue their can-,tor can-,tor votes. It Is their last desperate Lorimer Is doomed. They know knows it, nothing short of a mlr-n mlr-n save him. with this In mind tho knowl-f.of knowl-f.of tho fact that ho will nover again I'such an opportunity that Lorimer ('occasion to as.iall Senator Kern. It Senator Kern who did more to break thft testimony of tho Lorimer wit-I1 wit-I1 beforo the investigating commlt-gft commlt-gft any other member of that board Wry. His questions were partlcu-harp partlcu-harp idn attitude most unyiold-r unyiold-r V. f" way of making his denunciation . cutting, Lorimer compared Senator ? lth "Ilinky Dink" Kenna, tho !?K0 alderman whom he eulogized ho In his ploa a year ago. senator, he said, would do well to . 'e Kenna. crowded senate and galleries 11st-i 11st-i breathless alienee. It was nqt Lorimer changed the subject" that ,Jnion was relieved and an audlblo pwed over tho audience jjw Hts Attack. f mer 0Poncd hIH attack on Senator 'lh KomnaraUv mlldnoBH. Ho iv! ,Kcrn had "ccuaod him of got-,;tlonB got-,;tlonB for some of tho Democrats naa elected him, In ordor to keep In 'i.. ho Ha,,,; "That 3 tn niost W?at,on at has been made by bilh f fr0m rndlnna- If ! means P "JT at all it meanB that r ha.vo been Perjury, flnd if that Is the pur-jL pur-jL 6 senator from Indiana I want rracterlzn hH statement as a doilb-Mba doilb-Mba , h0r1, 11 ln a deliberate Inkier In-kier cre:it the Impression that j-" "WaB suborning perjury. And tor fcCrenC0 t0 t,lls caB0 at no g now It cornea out but surely If it Sid ,n favor of Lorimer that ib. 68 ""Wired into, because If h is Kii 811 ln thc 5cnat0-sp""lor 5cnat0-sp""lor Kern now or nt j. 0(,nWnuea on Pace Two.1 WILLIAM LORIMER DEMANDS THAT HIS ENEMIES MAKE COOP (Continued From Pago One.) any lime to produce any HOrt of testimony testi-mony anywhere that Justifies that statement. state-ment. Yet you ar expected to form your opinion on the report of tho minority mi-nority and their statement of the facts on the floor of the senate." Lorlmer read Sonator Kern's statement that Senator Lorlmer has been "friendly" "friend-ly" and In some cases sustained Intimate relationships, personal as well as political, with such notorious characters of "HInky Dink" Kenna and the now discredited John Brodcrlck and Manny Abrahams. Praises "Hiiiky Dink." "And when the senator from Indiana made this statement on the floor of the senate." said Lorlmer,' "he included In It a declaration that both of them were saloonkeepers." Again Lorlmer paused Impressively. "I know John Broderlck long before I knew ho kept a saloon." he said slowly. " knew Kenna when we were children together and we nicknamed him 'Hlnky Dink. That was back In the days when Chicago had two million less population than It has now and when the distance across the city was three miles instead of thirty. Our chums were the sons of saloonkeepers and preachers and attorneys attor-neys and Judges and large merchants and small storekeepers. "And we have grown up since then. Somo have been fortunate and somo haxo not. Some have fallen from grace. He who has been most successful meets him who has been the least successful in the same cordial way as In the days of yore." Lorlmer raised his hand to hold the attention at-tention of the senate. "No man In our city has reached out and lifted up more of the fallen and helped them on the road to a better life, to prosperity and greater happiness, than has Michael Kenna." Lorlmer electrified the senate In the next moment. "I would like to call tho attention of tho senator from Indiana to tho fact that It was written that 'Charity covors a multitude of sins.' T would suggest to him that on the great day of Judgment, when the recorder shall open tho book of records, to see to It that he may have marked off against his name as many marks for 'treating thy neighbor as thyself thy-self and for 'doing unto others as you would have them do unto you,' as will be found set off against the name of this man whom he so much despises." Turning to Kern's empty seat, Lorlmer continued: "It is easy enough, Senator Kern, to pull down and destroy, but let us all see to It that when our life records are marie up that wo have more marks in our favor fa-vor for building up and for lifting men up than for tearing down. And the senator sen-ator from Indiana may profitably take lessons from 'Jllnky Dink Kenna on that question." Lorlmer said that Senator Kern had gone outside tho record of the case to drag in tho name of Kenna. Then with ono hand raised dramatically dramat-ically and In a voice tbat at timos became be-came a scream, Lorlmer dellvored his challenge. "But here," he said, "now I challenge the sonator from Indiana to point out to this senato anything m this record, anything that ho knows, anything that he has over heard, anything that anybody ever told him that will point no. I will not close It here, I will open it wider let him point, to anything and let him now make good as to any wrong-doing either In private or In public In my commercial, com-mercial, In my financial or in my political life. Alld 11 ne WUl ao ii nere una now, Lorlmer almost shrieked It, and waved his arm wildly with each word. "I will not embarrass you, senators, by voting on my case. When ho has dono. I'll! walk out of yonder door and never cok to enter It again." Ho paused. His heavy breathing could bo heard throughout tho senate chamber. cham-ber. "Come on." he shouted. He stood in the center aisle. "Coma on, Senator Kern. You who have slimed and smeared ths record with suspicion. Come hero now and mako good." There was no answer from Senator Kern's empty scat, so Lorimer continued. Ha referred to a question which Senator Kern had asked him at ono of the committee com-mittee hearings. Kern had asked him If he did not think "tho people ought to be consulted." Lorlmer answered nlm that such wa.s tho way men talked "when they reach the clouds." Lorlmer paid he had In mind at the time that It was Kern who wan asking the question. "And I had In mind that at the first meeting of tho committee, when my counsel asked that the names of witnesses wit-nesses bo submitted to him. Senator Kern protested in an undertone that does not appear In tho record. Think of It! Think of a United States sonator, a lawyer, mumbling 'No. no, no. don't give him tho names of the witnesses against him.' " Wouldn't Believe Kern. Lorlmer said ho had also In mind that Kern had attended only about 80 per cent of the hearings. Then he read a paragraph para-graph which was supponod to bo from Sonator Kern's charges that Sonator Shlvcly had won tho Indiana scnator-ohlp scnator-ohlp away from him In 1000 by means of corruption. "I had that In mind," said Lorlmer, "and because It wan Sonator Kern who said those things. It made no Impression on my mind. I never saw a charactor of that sort who was a good losor, and seldom are they willing to attribute tho success of their opponents to anything but unfair dealings. And until It la proven I will never believe there Is a word of truth in what ho says." Senator Smoot came to Lorlmor's rescue res-cue twice. lie brought about a rccesK of an hour at noon to give Lorlmer rest and tho second recess from 4:30 p, m. until tomorrow. |