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Show il i ir I'lORIlEf? TELLS '" n IF HIS ELECTIOI '; ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. Senator torlmer of Illinois in continuing his i testimony today beforo tlio senate ln- 5' , vestlgatlng committee, undertook to & explain the Individual motives that iN caused 10S members of tho Illinois Tf J ' legislature to cast tholr ballots for h' him. In the mala his recital was a r'v long atory of boyhood friondshlps " 3 grown to powerful influence in party councils and political alliances which r ' ' had their inception with tho frolick- log "children at play in tho streets . , of Chicago. v : "I've known that man all my life, I probably sinco I was 10 years old, . and he had gone through some hard I knocks himself and felt as If he wnnt- eti to help some ope clso who had j been through too," was one of the i answers he frequently gave. Somo I I ' of his explanations were homely stor-lj stor-lj I les of his political life 30 years ago, 5 J before he became a national figure. 1 ' "How did JManuy' Abraham como U'i io vote for you?" ho was asked. Ab- kY ra6ams Is a Democrat and called the tjl -Bollweather" because his name was first on the roll call. j "Why, many years ago ho was just k , beginning to bo a leader among his m' - 1 aeSori"GUCaB' ""Ponded thel Bcnator, and many of thorn coming a$ immigrants, trlerrto -mate a-lffin Peddling bn the streets. The IlceSe Jeo was five dollars-a lot of So? nmi ho m"n Sn estrange country nnd he uScjl lo eomo-to myhouneJ-at night nd ask me to .holp them. So i Hd i0-JQt Permits for them to peddle until tho made money enough to get out licenses. That was tho start of our friendship." "How did Jandus come to vote for you?" Jandus was another Democrat "I had done him many little favors. I remember having got a job or so xor a poor friend of his. I suppose in ray political life I got jobs for GjOOO or 8,000 men, but I don't remember re-member all those little thlpgs." "What about Broderick?" "Why. John 1'vo known John 15 years and all his friends are friends of my friends. Ho's been very kind to me. Whenever I had n contest ho would go and seo some of his people, peo-ple, He always was friendly to mo.1' '"What about Holtslaw?" He was alleged to have made a confession con-fession that ho recoiyed money to vote for Lorimor. "The first 1 remember of him was before my election. He called and asked mo If I would be opposed to a postmaster who was a saloonkeepor. I told, hjra I did not think a man's business mado any difference if- ho had a good character and would mako a good postmaster. Ho went away-saying away-saying 'You have the reputation of standing by your friends, .and I'm EOlncr t.n vnto fnr vnn " The votes of other men, Senator Lorlmer explained by Baying they were unalterably opposed to Hopkins, were anxious to break the deadlock and get home, had received favorable recommendation of Lorlmer from constituents or they were anxious to give to him some substantial reward for his work In behalf of the proposed "lakes to tho gulf waterway." Lorlmer had got about half way through the list of legislators who voted for him when an adjournment was taken until Monday morning. Earlier in the day. the Senator made a dramatic denial of any knowledge knowl-edge of corruption in connection with his election and In an equally dramatic dramat-ic way charged that Governor Deneen and tho Chicago Tribune wore forwarding for-warding n conspiracy to drive him from the senate. "I nm sure, as I am sure that I am here," he charged, "that the Trlb- une bought the evidence which it used against Lee O'Neill Browne In the bribery trials and that it only was incidentally prosecuting Browne to form the basis of a cause to try and put me out of the senate. I know that neither Browne nor any one else ever paid anybody a dollar to vote for me, and I never had a doubt that Charles A. White was bought and paid for when he delivered thnt statement to the Tribune." "5o you think Governor Deneen sllll is in tho conspiracy against you?" "I certainly do," replied Lorlmer. "You say these things, having in mind the confessions of Holstlaw, Bockemeyor and Linke?" "Yes, The whole machinery of tho state's attorney's office was used against me to get these alleged confessions. con-fessions. Llnke and Holstlaw wero Indicted far offenses which were not IndicUiblo at all. They were told that they would be sent to the penitentiary peniten-tiary and away from their wives and children and aftor they ulgned statements, state-ments, which attorncys'ln tho omrtloy of my enemies prepared, tho Indictments Indict-ments against them were quashed." |