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Show IAN ECHO OF THE LORIMER CASE. Another chapter in the Ldrimer case has been closed The llhelers illlV of Charles S. Funk, former general manager of the International Har center f, have been found guH- tj h jury in Chicago. - Mr Funk, as head of th Harvester rompany. wa asked to contribute flO.nnu to a fund to "put Lorlmer ncrops" that Is to make the notori-: notori-: own politician a senator Mr Funk r mentioned the fact to a close friend. . The story' leaked out and finally in i the sensational lyirimer in vest ieatlon, r Funk was called to testify, which he did, telling the whole truth. In an effort to discredit this testl- mony an attack was made on Funk's private life and a man was broucht forward to sue for allepod alienation of his wife's affections. Tr-mcndouri efforts were made io prove the charge, but some of the I witnesses broke down under cross examination and confessed perjury and. as a fitting sequel the accusing husband and wife admitted they had hecn hired by an attorney named Donahue Don-ahue to manufacture a case against Funk. This conspiracy la one more disclosure dis-closure of the rottenness of old Stand pat politics Lorlmer was one of the leadrrs of the Standpatters He had secured his election by fraud and then had been accepted into the innermost in-nermost councils of his party When the Chicago Tribune made the sensH-tlon.-i! disclosures of bribery In con-Dectlon con-Dectlon with Lorlmer's election, the St-indpaf press stormed in Indignation Indigna-tion and the Standpat leaders. Including Includ-ing the "big men" in Washington, proceeded to attempt to suppress and discredit the Investigations Later, when Funk made his statement, mni truthful business man was denounced and berated as a falsifier by the organs or-gans of corrupt politics Recalling tola ;ind many similar events nnd viewing them in the light of today n n wonder why the people BO i"nc endured old political conditions, condi-tions, and, yet there is an explana tion Many of the large papers of the country that should be devoted to clean government have been the mouth pieces of the predatory rich anil have been false sources of infer mat ion. |