Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-17 | Page 3 | Lorimer Continues to Give Testimony

uu LORIMER CONTINUES TO BlffiTESlllNy WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. A day's cross-examination of' Senator Lorlmor of Illinois before the senate Investigating Investi-gating committee failed to develop any sensations. Apparently It had not tangled his story and certainly it did not ruffle his temper, for ho maintained main-tained his composure throughout Most of the cross-examination was directed to Mr Lorirner's recital of political conditions In Illinois, when tho legislature was electing a senator in 1909, the personal associations of Democrats with Republicans and tho reasons why he believed tho Democrats Demo-crats voted for him. When Senator I-orimer got to talking talk-ing politics he coined a few phrases. "Tho direct primary in every northern north-ern state destroys the coheslvenoss of tho majority of the party," was one of them. Others were "I never go around trying to pick quarrels with people opposed to mc I usually go and do something to offset off-set what they aro trying to do " "When I have anything to do, I hav a habit or getting up in the morning and doing It." Counsel for the committee got Into the record the fact that after 101 votes had been cast In the legislaturo on the day Lorlmor was elected, seven Republican senators, who had not voted for Lorlmor, changed their votes In bis favor, making 10S, which elected him. Regarding the opposition to Gove--nor Doneen, Mr. Lorimer said there were men in the legislature In 1909 who would havo been willing to eleci Deneen senator If bnlv to get hiin out of tho governor's cHalr.