Show 4 c t E RETAINED FOR THE PROSECUTION 4 In the Outlook of December 31 is an article I IW W which h IC h is an arraignment arraignment- a covert arraignment it at t tI I I least of a dozen United States senators from all se sections of af f the union because they declared that I Ia a J the th title to Senator Lorimer of Illinois has not noti i f been shown to be invalid Whether the article was wasi i f fr the pen o of the editor in chief or the associate editor or the h contributing editor does doeG not appear J b but t there is no reasonable doubt that the f behind the article was was fr front from the contributing editor that being the thc title which the president ex-president Is known known known-by by on that journal We V c do not suppose r that the writer intended to insult the six eminent f j Republican publican R senators or the four eminent Demoi Demo Demo- i t cratic sc senators who signed that report report report-he he merely wanted to try to Senator Lorimer a black eye T even eve if it had bad to b be on a foul The rhe president ex nt i pub publicly icly insulted Senator Lorimer Lorimel lust last summer t while yet hi his g case te was under consideration by the f senate committee And though that committee by a vote of 10 to 2 found no case against the senator senator sena- sena tor tOl from Illinois the thc Outlook writer true to what seems seems ati ah insanely vicious and malicious instinct i still assumes that the Illinois senator is guilty Inthe In r the article the loose reasoning of the writer of it is seen in this sentence In a criminal trial the judge is bound to charge the jury that that they must mustI I acquit acquit- an un accused prisoner i if the they ent entertain a rea- rea ti of his lis g guilt but the senate is neither a acourt court nor 1101 a jury and it is an error to suppose that It st is bound by the technical procedure of or the thc criminal limit iI courts in considering such a case as that of Senator 0 Lorimer Then the oath of a dozen senators wherein the they solemnly swear that hey will hear heal and verdict a u causo an render a truthful lacks in solemnity and HUll binding indi Ig force fore compared to the thc oath administered to twelve yahoo jurors in a case between the state and und a n. man man charged with the tite crime crimo of stealing a 30 mustang Hn c. c does eH it ii The truth is such mch a n committee sits as both oth judge and aud Then can call the thc writer explain what he supposes It u judge I means eans when he lie in hi a ch charge rge to a jUl jury speaks 0 of a reasonable doubt He does not mean a whim or a t prejudice oy oJ o- o oa a wave wa of s sympathy but rather that the proof supplied has has' nut not left the guilt of the accused bo st fixed in their minds as to ti to an ab absolute eUll Tint But considering the report le olt of the majority 01 o othe of the committee and mid even I tile thc report of the one in inthe inthe the tho minority one would think that the Outlook would fight sh shy of it The fhe majority is that the of Mr Lorimer Lorimor hat hai not nol be beti n shown to be in invalid in- in valid lid while hule Ir lr Frazier r of tile the minority sa says s I that he is satisfied that four members of the legislature were paid money to vote ote for Mr l Lori Lot mer Now the late Mr 1 Harriman l never er s said d that he paid Colonel Roosevelt then Roosevelt then president of the tho United States States any any money personally to go into the Republican campaign fund when the colonel was seeking re- re rele re le ti n but he lie did that he paid a cr very large fund at the presidents president's request to that Fund But behind all that the gentleman who is now secretary of state was one of of the gentlemen who sat upon the contested case in the United States senate when the validity of the seat Heat of Senator Sen Seti- Sen-I Sen ator Smoot in that body was Mas being considered He lie I declared i in effect that the he apostle senator had admitted admitted ad ad- i under oath that he lie yielded a higher allegiance alle alle- to another government than to that of the I United Stat States s. s But lIe Jie voted that the senator should retain his seat seaL V Would it be fair fairS to say a that was the price he paid the president for his influence tu to secure for him his present position front from President President dent Taft 7 But the thc animus of the president ex-president toward Senator Lorimer really lies in the fact that the he man Lorimer defeated for the office was the theman theman theman man who was the then presidents president's champion and who by pen and voice urged the seating of Senator Smoot and finally as attorney p judge and jury voted to seat him When measuring records has the ex- ex president any advantage in iii a moral way over Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Lorimer Y |