Show q LORIMER LOmMER SHOULD ULD STRIKE BACK BACH V We Vc hope that Senator Lorimer will when his scat seal is secured to him in the senate put out a statement state state- ment uncut of why he lie has been hounded as m he has and make it it- clear dear that it was ns all due to t h e conspiracy tr punish because Hopkins 3 defeated and that the s snub mb which Colonel Roosevelt hurled at him last summer and md the thc treachery of the club jn n Chicago which whid indorsed the snub was part of or the sane same conspiracy If the w w ole thing was not hatched l by hy Colonel Roosevelt m in n revenge because 1 senator then j his friend Hopkins was beaten for there is nothing in signs AVe Ye see sec it in most of lie ie liemen men who have crowded Lorimer's Lorimers prosecution could not accept the report of the senate committee committee com coin that sat so long Ions upon the thc ease caR thy they to took tok k the halting report of the Democrat who could not see ace I his way clear to sign the majority report and framed an an- indictment upon it and anil have been beoo pushing pushing push push- ing the prosecution for weeks and wp believe every senator that has swelled the cry against Senator Lorimer is a clo cloe e friend of f Colonel Roosevelt II How w wo o would ld Colonel Roosevelt Roose or Senator ex Hopkins hopkins Hop hop- kins or Secretary of State Knox fare were either cither one obliged to w face an arraignment of what he lie did didin in iv the thc Smoot contested case ease 1 How would Secretary Secre Secre- tm tary Y Knox explain why he voted as he did How would Senator ex-Senator Hopkins explain how it was that he lie act acted cd as so o interested an attorney upon a case upon which he lie was to sit as judge and where he lie got the appalling falsehoods with which he loaded hi his argument before the senate and his article which he caused to be bc published in the North American Amer Ainer- jean ican Review a few da days before the final vote yote was to be taken And how would Colonel Roosevelt explain away wh why he lie d the Illinois wom women n or the methods by br which the thc electoral vote of Utah was guaranteed V t U t. him 7 WV Senator Lor Lorimer I I ler will V V s strike h back cI It would be good reading V |