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Show UU TAFT'S ATTITUDE TOWARD LORIMER WASHINGTON, July 20. The story sto-ry of the administration's attitude to-l to-l ward the election of Sonator Lorimer, as tolil by former Senator Nelson W. Aldrlch of Rhode Island, and tho activities ac-tivities of R. J. Shields of Superior, Wis., an insurance agent, in collecting affidavits from witnesses, were tho featuros of the Lorimer commlttco hearing today. Instead of sending Edward Hlncs tho Chicago lumber-I lumber-I man, to Springfield with word from I the Washington administration that Tj-irfmni. ohnntT m iloMori Air A1H- rlch testified that he told Hlnes that President Taft was not supporting the candidacy of any one, but that Lorimer Lori-mer was not objectionable to him. The former senator said he told Hlncs proviously that the president had no objection to Albert J Hopkins or Henry S. Boulell for the senatorshlp. |