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THEY WERE PAID Some of the Evidence Before the Legislature and lh? fnnrtc . IN THE IORIMER CASE * ?. Wo Publish llclow Extracts of the Testimony ltrought Out in This Notorious Cuse So as Our Ilea (lets Can .lu?lne for Themselves as to the Facts. From January until the 26th of Muy, 1909, the Legislature of Illinois was engaged in fruitlessly balloting for a Senator to succeed Mr. Hopkins, who was then a member of the Senate. Mr. Hopkins had received a large vote by way of instruction in the primaries, and Mr. Stringer was the primary selection of tin? Democratic party, and the votes run for many weeks, for months, with the greater part of the Republicans voting for Mr. Hopkins. On the 2 6th of '.May there was a sudden change, and the votes of a very large part of the Republicans and of the Democrats were turned to Mr. Lorimer, who up to that time had not been an avowed candidate. only an occasional scattering vote having been cast for him. On that day there were 202 members of the Legislature of Illinois present in ?l?e Joint session of the two houses, making 102 votes necessary to an election. On the roll call of the Senate, there were ten votes for Mr. Lorlmer, and on the roll call of the House there were 01 votes for Mr. Lorimer, making a total of 1 o 1 votes. Thereupon seven llopubiican Senators who had voted for Mr. H *pkins on the roll call changed their votes from Mr. Hopkins to Mr. Lorimer, making 108 voteB for Mr. Lorimer, and he was declared to bo elected. Those 108 votes were 58 of them cast by Democrats and DF> by Republicans. Now there are certain undisputed facts which l>ear upon this inquiry as t6 these F>3 Democratic votes. The first is that Mr. Lorimer was present at Springfield and in attendance at the State Capitol at the time of this election, and he had been there for several weeks. it appears that one of the Democrats who had been I asked to vote for Mr. Ix>rimer raised some objection and was requested to ?o into the Speaker's room on the day of the election and see Mr. Lorinier. He had asked for certain promises regarding patronage, regarding the appointment of Federal officers in his own town. He was requested to go arid he did go into the Speaker's | . uuui, .inn iniTP lonnn .Mr. Lorimer; nd he had with Mr. Lorimer a runv ; tion relating to the appointon nt of Federal officers in his town, >?'d it appeared to be '*-lisfactory 1 en he came out from the interhe a<ent selected by Mr. Lorimer. hlef agent to secure Democratic ' v for him, was Mr. Lee O'Neil ' o lie. Mr. llrov.ne was the leader "? faction of tlie Democrats in Assembly. There were two faceach with a leader. Mr. r \ ne had between thirty and for? 1 another, Mr. Tippet, had bot Acen twenty and thirty Democratic nbers of the Legislature, anil Mr. Drome was called into consultation, nee, co-operation with Mr. >'imer and became plainly Mr. I.ori accredited and authorized a in securing votes from the c> ocratlc side of the Assembly. I h's rests upon the testimony of Mr. Drome himself, and Is not subject to any dispute. Mr. Browne, tho leader of this crovd voted for Mr. Lorimer, and the or, 'Vlanny Abrahams. He procured them to vote as the agent of Ljriti'er. secured by him to act for hini, closeted with him by day and by night, reporting to him step by step, havinc the rolnHnn ?*? . tu iiiin ui a member of a campaign committee. On tbe floor of the Assembly, on the day of the election before the vote was cast, Mr. English, a member of the Mouse, in effect charged corruption. Mr. Mrowne, for the apparent purpose of stren-'thening his followers, had made a speech in which he had undertaken to explain what was I about to be done, and he had used the expression, "We cannot cash dreams," when that stout Doinocru of the House retorted, "llut you can cash votes." and.lt v, s under the ! aspersion of that remark in tin* opqn Mouse that the votes were ca>t. . Mr. Moltslaw, who was a Senator. < testified that Senator I'.roderlek, a i Democrat it- Senator. . s was Molt la 1 ^ assured him that M r v. ^ in it t 'f him if h.' vm 1 t >r !. mer, and he did. Moltslaw has also t tesrjfled to the payment of the $b',- i 600. I Three other witnesses have testified not merely to approaches but to r the actual payment of mone> Mr. r White who was the originator of the s charms, Mr. Idnk, another Memo- r cratic member of the Assembly, Mr. t neckemeyer. another, all members c of the faithful thirty. a It happens that there were two f * fc * I * ' ? events?two meetings of followers of llrowne?subsequent to the election of Lorimer in which the testimony fixes the payment of money under such circumstances that, if the testimony be believed, there was plain bribery. The first meeting was on me zisi or June xoilOWing the election. The second meeting was on the 15th of July. Roth meetings were held In St. Lou's. At the first the testimony of Beckemeyer and White and Link shows a distribution of $1,000 each to the followers of Browne in Southern Illinois, and at the second meeting, the 15th of July, the testimony of the same men shows a distribution of $000 each to the followers of Browne in Southern Illinois. A year after the second meeting was held, and when Inquiry came to be made regarding the payment "f money to these members of the legislature at that meeting, a false and fictitious and manufactured explanation of the purpose of the meeting was made up. Two of the men hers who were there testiflod to Wilson, who went there as Browne's agent and, they say, distributed the money, sending them letters in 1910. on the eve of the inquiry, dated hack prior to the 15th of July, 1909, and Bug gesting as a reason for tho meeting a propo lal to give a banquet to Mr. Browne. Unfortunately nearly all the witnesses to the meeting forgot that there was any proposal to give a banquet to Mr. Browne. All the members of the Browne following met at their customary meeting place in St. Louis, brought from their several homes in different and distant towns in the southern part of the State of Illinois, called 'ben by telegrams for some purpose or other, and there appears In tho 'ettimony regarding that meeting na evidence whatever as to any conclusion reached, nny question raised or any action taken regarding the giving of a banquet to Mr. Browne. There is another fact whLb corroborates most powerfully the testimony showing that there was money paid, a fund distributed at tho Juiy 15 meeting; and that Is tiiat two of the men who were there when I called before the Grand Jury of Cook County In an inquiry as to l"gislativo corruption testified under oath that they were not present at the meeting?perjured themselves to conceal the fact that they were there at all. They were indicted for that, perjury. Why, if the meeting was an innocent one, if it was a meeting to talk about a banquet, if the testimony of these three men that there was a fund distributed there is f?i?e, and it was an innocent meeting, why should men be willing to commit perjury in order to conceal the fact that they were there? The corruption in the Legislature of Illinois which brought on the dis-j tribution of July w:is practically admitted upon this hearing;. When the first testimony about that meeting was produced the counsel lor Mr. Lorii?ler objected to it because, he stated, it was testimony about what they called the "jack-pot." The corruption in that Legislature had continued so long, men's minds had become so accustomed to believing; in it, men had become so callous to the iniquity of it. that they joked about it and nicknamed it as if it wore a matter for jocular treatment. Several of the witnesses testified that they called it a "jack-pot." White and Lick and Beckemeyer all have sworn that on the 21st day of June Mr. Itrowno paid to them $ 1,0 00 each, and two of them testify to that payment being pursuant to promises made by Browne to them before the election of Lorimor. I'pon what ground are we to reject the testimony of these three witnesses and accept the testimony of Lee O'N'eii Browne, which we already know to ite false, because be denies, denies under oath, as we know, falsely, the disposition of the jackpot? It appears that upon uncontradicted and indisputable testimony in this case, that the collector, the distributer, the leader in this corruption of the Legislature of Illinois was I.ee O'Nell Browne. TL * - lucre ih one omer circumstance which is a little aside from the main current of this sewer which we have been considering, and that is the bribery of Holtslaw. Mr. Holtslaw was, prior to the meeting of the Assembly of Illinois of 1909, in which lie was a Senator, a reputable man, of ?ood standing in the community in which he lived. lie testifies that about the 10th of Juuc, or just before the 1f?th of June, he was sent for by Mr. Ilroderirk to come to his place of business in Chicago. lie testifies that was either by letter or telegram, and that he went there; that Mr. ltroderick handed him $2,f>00 in a package and he took It and went away, Rroderiek at the same time telling him there would lie more for him later. lie went iway, and ha went to the State Rnnk >f t'hicago and deposited this $2,.100 n the name of bis bank, the Holstlnw i Rnnk, of luka. The cashier of the) State flunk of Chicago was called,! nd he testified that ifolstlaw did on'' hat 1 f.th d i.v of June deposit this < t:\r.0n in 1 lis to the credit of the lolstlaw Flank. t All of tl above testimony was 1 epeatod by Senator I toot on the lloor i ?f the Senate when he was making a I peceh against the seating of l.ori- ' nor, and not ono fact in it w :s ques- t ionod by any other Senator. In ? onrludinR his speech Senator Root : sked what is the eflfe t of tlie.-e < acts plainly established, the fact > ? V <4 ' DOING US SHARE TO HELP THE FAKMEKS TO NEW AM) BETTER METHODS. Southern Railway to Run Special Trains in the Interest of Agricultural Education. During the week ending Monday. March 6, the Southern railway company, in line with its policy of doing everything possible for the betterment of agricultural conditions in the territory traversed by its lines, will run two special agricultural educational trains. One of these trains 'will bo operated in co-operation with the Virginia department of agriculture and immigration and will spend the entire week on the Richmond division, embracing the lineB between Richmond and Danville and Richmond and West Point. Meetings have been arranged at twelve points. The other train will be run over the lines of the Southern railway and the Queen and Crescent route in Kentucky in co-operation with the department of agriculture and the college of agriculture of that state. Twenty-four stops will be inude by this train. Each of these trains will be In chnrge of parties made ui of men of scientific knowledge and practical experience who will be able to give information of the greatest value. Subjects will be arranged to meet the most pressing needs of the different sections visited. Dad weather will not be allowed to interfere with the meetings as all will be held in passenger coaches. The Southern Railway in connection with other lines is furnishing absolutely free of charge a train with which the State College of Agriculture of CJeorgia is making a lortvseven day tour of that state. South Carolina will be treated in the same way, if the authorities will show the need of the train. The great expense entailed by the running of these trains is borne by the Southern in the belief thnt it? m terests arc identified with those of the farmers of the south and that it will eventually be repaid by the improvement in conditions that will result from an increasing adoption of better methods of agriculture. HORRY COUNTY COURT. There was no Circuit Judge Available to Hold It. (lovernor Hlease is quoted in the daily papers as saying that he declined to commission C. P. Quattle1)9um as special judge to hold court at Conway, as recommend by the Supreme Court, because Judges Copes and Memminger were disengaged. The Lancaster correspondent of Tbo News and Courier says the Supreme Court knew that neither Judge C-opes nor Judge 'Memminger could be assigned to hold the Conway Court; it knew that upon his qualification Judge Copes wotiid preside at the Richland court, in Columbia, 1hia week. It also knew that Judge. Memminger was sick at his home in Charleston, the judge having informed the court, upon its inquiry, that in the opinion of his physicians he was not physically able to go to Conway. TWO CONVl(Thl) OF Ml IfDKR. One Without, Other With Recommendation to Mercy?Negroes. A dispatch from Oaffnoy says: After being out for a day and a night in ine case againset Arthur Curry. Luther Curry, two negroes, nnd Jim Hayes, a white man, charged with the murder of Robert Davidson, a white man, on Thanksgiving day, the jury brought in the following verdict Thursday: Luther Curry, guilty of murder; Arthur Curry, guilty of murder with recommendation to merit is not thought likely that the attorneys for the defence will try for a new trial, hut it is very likely that they will appeal to the Governor to have Luther Curry's sentence commuted from hanging to life imprison- 1 mont. Sentence has not yet been t mcenfl ?? ~ * * "* , i hi* Ht-srot-!!, dui will prouahly bo In the morning. The two negroes are brothers. J Died on a Train. Lovelace F. Price of Columbia died suddenly Wednesday afternoon while a passenger on the "Carolina Spec- t lal" coming from Spartanburg to Columbia. Mr. Price's death resulted j 1 from an attack of heart failure. He i bad only recently been suffering se- : s verely from this trouble and the at- 1 tack was renewed Wednesday after- t noon. i t -> ? Tired of Atlanta. I' There were four attempts In one j? flay recently by different persons to |' commit suicide in Atlanta. that four of the votes cast were east , ? under the Intluenci of money paid. Mid the fact that the money was paid iy three others of those who cast Unvotes? We are not engaged in a s echnieal proct ding, sir. fl'e are h ngag? d in a pro< ceding where we H ire hound, if there is sufficient o\ i- T ienc . to proceed in accordance with h vliut we really know to he the truth, d EXTRA SESSION Probable Failure of Reciprocity Bill M(ans Extra Ttrm ALL DOUBT REMOVED It is Also Settled That K '.ra Period Will Be Culled to Begin Its Work Before April I?Democrats Wanted a Month to Prepare, and at One Time President Seemed Willing. A Washington dispatch says the last vestige of doubt that there will be an extraordinary session of congress called by President Taft to consider the Canadian reciprocity agreement in the new practically certain event of the failure of that meaaur* in the present congress, disappeared Thursday when it became known that Republican leaders had been called to the white house for a consultation "The die is cast," said one of the Republican senators after returning to the capital. "Mr. Taft has decided that there must bo an extra session and that he will call it earlier than April 4." ' Democratic leaders wanted a month in which to get ready for a special session and President Taft was inclined to accede to their wishes. It became known Thursday, however, that the Republicans favored an earlier gathering if there was no way to avoid coming back. Mr Taft would be guided, it was said, by the wishes of the Republicans. It wai announced that a conference would be held on the subject probably on next Monday, to decide upon a date. March 20 was the date talked about Thursday at the capitol Democratic leaders in the house differ in their views as to the length of an extraordinary session il too President should call one, hut ill the estimates arc that the se6siou would continue until between July 1 and October 1. Speaker-elect Clark believes that four or five months would be ample and that adjournment might be reached during July. Chairman Uu derwood of the ways and means committee of the house, feels that an ex trr session could wind tip its business hv Sept. 1. "Representative Henry of Terns, who will be one of the leaders in the. next house, thinks the session might run on until October 1. A?i tfc?'se, are of course, guesses. The selection of committees, those on accounts, mileage and rules first of all?will be the first work att? nip',ed in the event congress meets in extra session. The choice rests with the ways and means committee, which is vested with the function or a committee on committers, but a r?emo< ratic caucus must formally pass upon the committee's action. Democratic leaders say that the reciprocity measure, if not passed by the senate at the regular session, will pass ihi house in extra session if the President should call one. Of the special sessions called in March durine the nasi fnrtv . the shortest icrm was one and one half months and the longest almost nine months. The Inst extraordinary session \vns daring the present congress, when the congress met on March la and remained in session until August f., constructing the Payue-Aldrich tariff law. WON'T STAY l/ONG. Prisoners Went to the Penitential y in Pullman Cars. W. S. Harlan and four other wellknown Florida lumber dealers, all rich, all gentlemen, who ranie to Atlanta on their own recognizance last month to rej?or. at the Federal prison to serve sentences of 1 S months each for peonage, have had their sentences reduced by the president from IK to six months, and will consequently go free about July 1st. The coming of the prisoners was quite remarkable. They traveled in Pullman cars and spent their first night in Atlanta in an - - ? ? uk.ic vm iuuiiih <11 ire Piedmont and drove out to the Federal prison in automobiles in the morning. PIiKAl> FOR MKRCY. ii'iilenrnl to be Whipped for Brutally iWiitin); Wife. The spectacle was witnessed in lio criminal court at Baltimore, dd., Wednesday, of a white man vho had brutally beaten his wife, deriding for mercy with tears i (reaming down his face, when he leard the sentence of live lashes at lie whipping post and imprisonuent in jail. But there was no mery because the testimony showed tli it 'rank McCauley struck his wife seven r eight times, choked her and then nok from her more than $20. It >*as the s: ond senteni of a wif<eater to the post .by Judgo Duffy it I) in u month. hills Fatlier-iii-l/iiw. News was received of the fatal i hooting of William It. Klmsey hj is son-in-law. Major J. York, near ahum Cap, Ca.. Tuesday night, he killing took place at York's nine, while Klmsey was visiting his ; aughter. ' < CHANGE OF MIND DISEASE SIGNS SOME HILLS HE SAID HE'D VETO. Six Specific Instances in as Many Weeks When the Governor Has Chunked His Mind. The Columbia Record says Gov- ^ ernor Please is beginning to make a record for changing his mind. '\ecently he has taken positive positions upon a number of things, only to recede from these shortly afterward; and now persons interested do not know what wel?ht to attach to deliverances by the executive, in cases where the way is open to him to reverse himself. Particularly is this uncertainty felt in regard to legislative acts which as yet remain unsigned. An announcement by the governor that he will { veto a given act may or may not be final- in several instances he has reconsidered such decisions and signed the acts involved. Governor Please sent to the legislature a message vetoing the Osborne child lahor act. but in a later message receded from this position, admitted he was in error and asked that reference to the matter be impunged from the record, which was done. Governor Please said he would veto tin act incorporating the Piedmont and Northern railway company ? the Puke interurban project; hut be changed bis mind and signed the act? without explanation. Govorr.or Please said he would veto the act authorizing the employment of rural police in Charleston county; but next day he approved the act without exnbinn# Win ll^l said he would sign no rural police P nets vesting the appointive power in any person other than himself; but P he ha. since signed a number of such measure... A' Governor THense vetoed the item H in the appropriation bill authorizing the State treasurer to spend $f>00 d for "extra clerical assistanee"; but G he ht?^ since authorized the treasurer ni to make this expenditure, though his s' veto was sustained by the senate. l>< Governor Hlease vetoed the item n< in the appropriation bill authorizing '1 the comptroller general to expend i'1 $f>,000 in examining county offices, w but he has since tohl the comptrollei If genera? to go ahead and spend this V amount, if so much should be nec- ?1 essary. Comptroller General Jones ? has, however, declined emphatically G to follow this course, since the legis- tl lature sustained the governor's veto, ai Governor Hlease vetoed the item in d< the iMip"opr ation bill providing sal- 01 aries and expenses for two factory tt inspe tors. saying the inspectors were nsch ss, but he has since said d< that C \rto did not mean that the tl inspection act would go unenforced, ft for ho would himself employ in- G speetor.s. paying them out of his <!' $r>,000 law-enforcement fund. P ? li llAIUlOAIi A' CIDKXT. tl One -Switchman Killed mul One Was Woundi'il. (1 The Evening Post says ltobort p Tanner, of No. 11 Hlnke street, a s switchman of the Charleston Term!- s nul Company, was ki 11 < (1 Wednesday s morning shortly before six o'clock, h and (Ins P. Zander, of No. -1G Drake <? street, another switchman, was in- a inred, when a tender of en/tine No. o S, on which they were riding, juinp- t ed the track. The engine was hack- t inpt. and the switchmen were stand- b ing on the running hoard of the ten- n dor, when the jolt came, and they f were thrown off. Tanner falling in t< front of the tender, and being run i over, receiving injuries that caused his death later, while Zander was bruised and bones in a leg broken. Fell From Train. Pitching headlong from the rear platform of the last car on the Pennsylvania eastbound train, as it rushed past a suburban station, W. A. Hard- I( man, aged ?>0, a flagman of Newark, N. J., was instantly killed. The ac- ( ' cident was witnessed by a large numher of persons waiting at the station for trains nnri ' --- * _ vmuocu gruttL CXC'll?3ment. ... ro Knirlnwr's llend ('rushed. pr \\ hen a trestle gave away Tluirs- o( day on the Shenandoah Iron & Coal , company's narrow gauge railroad rr near Liberty Furnace, Shenandoah W| county Va.f Knglnecr James llines' or skull was crushed. He died instant- tr( 1>\ Fireman Thomas Fult/. suffered |(1 a broken log. His head was cut, but jlt, he probably will recover. Found Dead in Field. Mr. Jesse A. Lott, a farmer living s:1, about two miles from Johnston, was wj, found dead Sunday morning in the (tf field near his home, l.ate Saturday afternoon Mr. Lott walked over to his mill and on hir' r turn home it it. supposed ho was seized with illness ;irr and died. * y;.. ij'o/ni to Death. jn A news dLpateh front Odessa says etl a tragedy r?f the sea was revaled in I P the discovery a the Caspian s>ai a lict few miles off Astrakhan of a dere- A llct vessel, the whole crew of which, vis numbering SO, had b en frozen to eet death. The ship was a mass of ice. Tai % MET JUST FATE cgro Who Killed Policeman Gunnels Lynched by Georgia Mob. SHOT CONDUCTOR ALSO 10 Was a Mulatto, uiul His Hotly Was Found and Identified in an Atlanta Morgue, Wliere It Hatl Heen Sold for Ten- Rollins Rig Howard llad Horn Offered. A special dispatch from Atlanta > the Greenville News says: Arthur oung, lynched with another negro lurderer at Warrenton, Ga., last riday afternoon, being taken from le jail by an infuriated mob, board11 a Georgia train at Camak last Wednesday and when questioned by onductor W. W. Thotnpson and a iiilroad detective pulled his pistol nm his pocket and fired, killing the onductor. The negro was himself ounded by passengers and captured, (e has a long list of crimes in both tatcs. He was traced by Greeni 1 lo authorities to Augusta, who just ilssed him before the lynching. His ody was sold to the Atltnta College f Physicians and Surgeons by tno lierilT of Warrenton. He was rocogized from scars and wounds by Oilier Rector, who will carry the body ? Greenville for purposes of identical ion and reward. The no-'io had lanv aliases and was known to havo t en one of the most desperate charters. lie probably feared arrest ir the Greenville killing when ho lot Conductor Thompson, as no rovocation was given. In commenting on the above disutch the Greenville News says: That the man who engaged in tho esperate pistol due with Policeman . V. Johnson, in the passenger staon of the Columbia and Greenville tvision of the Southern Railway, beveen 2:110 and 3 o'clock on tlio lorning of Friday, February 17III, looting two pistol halls Into tho tidy of Policeman Oliver S. Gunels. wounds from which the nlHet.r led several hours later, ami piercig the rieht leg of Officer Johnson ith n third pistol ball, was a inuitto negro by the name of Arthur oung and that that negro was 0110 f the two negroes lynched by a 10b of citizens of Warren county, a., after midnight of last Friday, ia le verdict of a Pinkerton detective ad officers of the Greenville police apartment, who have been working a the mysterious murder case since >e day the crime was committed. "The last link in a chain of evience which has been winding about le murderer of the policeman was jrged at midnight Friday night when all Oiiicer of tin? Greenville police epartment Ilendrix Hector telehoned from Atlanta to Chief of P<>ce It. H. Kennedy that he had found ae body of the man upon whom the rime there had been fixed in the ossession -of a medical college Ir, taut city, the body having hc^^ rough! to Atlanta from the sop*'x? of lie lynching in Warren coun'.y an,| urchased for. $10 by the medical chool authorities. Office^ Hector tated that ho had secured possesion of the negro's lsrfidy and would ring it to Greenville tiiis afternoon n Southern train N'o. :',8. I'pon tiio rrival of tho oiiicer here with tho orpse the Greenville police author] ies and the IMnkerton detect ivo will :ike charge of the remains. Tlio ody will he preserved in a local lorgue and witnesses will he called rem several towns about fireenville r> identify the body as that of Arthur 'oung.." TIC A IN Ko'r.l'.Kin IN ST. 1 .< > I IS. 'wo llaiidits Take Money from Kx? press Safe and lvscape. Two masked and heavily armed )bbers held ii|> an express car on ti Iron Mountain train within the ty limits of f?t. f.ouis Tuesday night id secured keveral packages ana le money which they removed from io day safe -Jtfrer binding ami gagng the messenger. That the train hbers obtained a lar e amount of oney is believed, through no apoxlmation of the sum has been itained. The bandits board d the lit iv at I very .Ht<|tion, in the soiithn part of the city, and I aped oil len tilt} train ^slowed down a' Towdrove Station. All :n i!,i le p.iilnieii and <:t :ti\ ; v u hurr i Tower 'drove Mn ? ... . ?|?* ? .111uri tli" r bbv+s*. Pen nark ItiYh's r A tlisjiatch from Fiv.fr ' (I.-., . s oviib nco li.is n > I a I i!?-)i is expected to f i-1 <-n c crinm robbing Hie l-' ii r.-.' ! i .niiilo npany at nemmirk, S. ('. in >n ? whit" nion who h ive b"i n umlrr est in that city scvi ral ib v . i'.. -y Willi.nri ltan*kin ai. 1 . !? Sonic of t tic oil t >i n 1 i? in r I>enniark si.>r? li b. n f<..11 1 Savannah. The tin n may b? w.uitbv t r4? postal author H i a id in irid.i, according to tii lo il poA third man is ln in ' oi lit. not" book found show ; I In- iivn I tod Charleston and Columbia roil ly anil have been as far south as in pa.