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TfJTi RTTXDAT ORFOONTAN. PORTLAND, JULY 14, 1912, 3 FUSION IS SCHEME PEiSYLAHl A Third Party Men Decide to Name Same Electors as Did Republicans. COMBINE AIMED AT WILSON Electors to B Asked to Bind Selves to Vote for Candidate on Tick et on Which He Received Largest Vote; PHILADELPHIA. July 18. After an all-day conference between ex-State Senator Flinn. of Pittsburg, and sup- porters of Theodore Roosevelt from Eastern counties of Pennsylvania to consider plans for the organization of the third party In this state, announce ment was made that the consensus of opinion favored the placing of th ame set of Presidential electors on both the Republican and third party Tickets. According; to this plan the electors are to bind themselves to vote in the electoral college for the candidate on the ticket on which the elector re ceived the highest number of votes. It Is said that if the tentative plan finally Is adopted. It would amount to fusion In this state of the Tart vote on i the Republican ticket and of the vote ; of the Presidential candidate on the ! third party ticket; that Is the com blned vote of the elector on the two . tickets would count against the vote ; received by a Democratic elector. The ' electors on the Republican ticket wore selected at tb,e regular Republican : convention at Harrlsburg on May 1. ! That convention was controlled by Mr. Flinn and his friends. T. R. SATS HE WOX VICTORY Hamilton Club Dinner, Says Colonel, Kept Agitation Alive. OYSTER BAT. N. Y- July 13. "It was my fight and It is my victory, aid Colonel Roosevelt when he learned today of the unseating of Senator Lorl mer in the United States Senate, "The whole thing began when I refused to dine with him at the Hamilton Club dinner. If I had sat quietly through that dinner there would have been no division In the Senate committee and the whole thing would have been dropped. I made the stand and the fight kept growing on and on." The Hamilton Club dinner to which Colonel Roosevelt referred was held In Chicago two years ago. The Colonel created a good deal of exciteemnt on the day of the dinner by refusing to attend It unless the Invitation to Sen ator Lorlmer, who was a member of the club, was recalled. He won his point and was urged not to refer to the Incident In his speech that night. He refused to heed this advice, how ver, and assailed the Senator bitterly. Colonel Roosevelt said today that he believed the fight on Senator Lorlmer would have been dropped If he had not continued to attack him in his writings and In the recent campaign for the Re publican Presidential nomination. "Mr. Lorlmer has a right to feel ir ritated at me," he said. "I intended aim to feel that way." SEW YORK THIRD PARTY BUSY Progressive Leader Announces Plans for Advisory Committee. NEW YORK. July 13. William H. Hotchkiss, principal chairman of the National Progressive party In New fork state, said today he was planning the organization of a state committee of 150 members or one member from each Assembly district In the state. Mr. Hotchkiss further announced that he Intended to organise an "ad vlsory committee" In connection with the campaign In New lork city. "It will consist of seven members,1 said Mr. Hotchkiss. "one a Democrat. one an 'old class' Republican, one a Hughes man. and one a Roosevelt man. Who the three others will be I have not yet determined." TORNADO SWEEPS TOWNS (Continued from Flrwt Paye.) wave on Lake Michigan. The water In the river here rose several feet then receded, leaving the level one foot lower than the normal stage. In Racine much damage was done along the lake front by lightning. while through Racine agd Kenosha counties, wnere tne rain amounted io a cloudburst, railway tracks were washed out and traffic Interrupted. "WOMAN KILLED XEATt KEXOSHA Tornado Strikes Home Path ol Storm Half-MIle "Wide. KENOSHA. Wis.. July 13. Mrs. E. Prints, of South Kenosha, was killed and many people Injured in a tornado which passed through the suburbs of Kenosha early today. Houses were blown down, trees uprooted, barns col lapsed and crops ruined by the force of the storm- Mrs. Prints was about to become a mother. 6he was ill when the tornado struck her home, and died from the hock. The two-story home of Captain O. Nelson. South Kenosha, was completely demolished, and Kelson waa round hurled in the debris. He was uncon scious, but H waa said be would re cover. It is said th path of the storm was a half mile In width, and In this ter ritory everything Was practically ruined. It la Impossible to estimate the loss. In Kenosha proper, where the storm was very severe, but did not attain the velocity of a tornado, a hotel waa truck by lightning. There was a panic among the hotel guests, but they es caped in their night clothes, and no one was seriously hurt. TAFT IS URGED TO INSIST (Continaed from First Pe.) ordinatea almost openly antagonistic to the administration have been permitted to usurp the functions of superior of ficials to the detriment of the morale of service. Taft Has Right T Loyal Support. The least the President can do at this time, it is declared. Is to insist on loyalty' as well as perfunctory per formance of duty, and to chop off heads where It ! not obtained, replacing them -with those men who legitimately can bo of service in creating support for the National ticket. If there la any nan who hesitates to take a militant SKETCH OF IXKIMEK'8 CAREER. William Lorlmer. born - in Man chester. Enfland. April 2T. 1861. Came to the United States when 5 years of age. Settled in Chicago In 187a Married Susan Moosey, July. 1884. At 10 years of ase was a also, painter's apprentice. Afterwards employed at general work in the packins-houses. - Served nni years as street rail way conductor. In 1SS8 entered the real estate business. Organized the firm of Lorlmer A Mnrphy. brick manufacturers. In 1S90 elected president of the Federal Improvement Company. Later was made superintendent of the water main extensions. Became superintendent of the Chi cago water department. In 1882 was defeated for Clerk of the Superior Court. . Member of the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-sixth Congresses, 1895 and 1898. . Member of the Fifty-eighth and Slxty-flrst Congresses, 1903 and - 1911.. . In 1900 elected to . the United States Senate for the term ending 1915. Took his seat as Senator June 18, 1909. ' Ousted by the United States Sen ate July IS. 1912. Owns a prosperous banking busi ness in Chicago. Heavy bolder of real estate In and around Chicago. Father of eight remarkably hand some children, two sons and six daughters. Never known to use a profane or obscene word. Never failed to assist a friend. past friendship for somebody else. the Government service under the present administration at this critical time is no place for him, it Is declared, and if he has not the decency to re sign he ought to be "fired." It is not known how the President will act with respect to the advice that is being given behind his back, and part of which is known to have been expressed to his face. He has been loath to do many things for plain politics' sake, especially In order to gain personal advantage. This s one of the reasons why he has been called a poor politician by many of his friends. J IMBECILE ADMITTED, CHANGES POLICY OP GOVERNMENT. Secretary Xagel Rules That Because Father Is Naturalized, Minor Child Can Claim Right. WASHINGTON. July 13. All bars restricting the admission to the United States of minor foreign born children of naturalized citizens, whether ' Im becile, Idiots or other forbidden classes, were swept away today by a far reach ing Interpretation of the immigration and naturalization laws by Secretary NageL The Secretary authorized the entry Into this country from Russia of 11-year-old Riwke Polayes, who has been held at Ellis Island, N. T-. for several weeks, threatened with deportation on the certificate of surgeons that she Is an Imbecile. Granting that she is an imbecile, the Secretary held, the im migration laws were not applicable to er because her father, Jacob Polayes, of New Haven, Is naturalized. Mr. Nagel Interpreted the law to mean that the naturalization of a man conferred American citizenship on all his minor children as soon as they relinquished their residence abroad. This decision completely overturns the previous policy of the Government. Stokeses to Run for Office. STAMFORD. Conn., July 13. The lo cal Socialist ticket here this Fall will be headed by J. G. P. Stokes, the mil lionaire, as candidate for Mayor. His wife. Rose Pastor Stokes, a Socialist writer and worker, will run for School Commissioner. New Nevada Senator Takes Oath. WASHINGTON. July 13. Escorted by his colleague. Senator Newlands, W. A. Massey, appointed by the Governor of 'Nevada to succeed the late Senator Nixon, today took the oath of office. SENATE, 55 TO 28, REJECTS LORIfe Election Declared Tainted by Fraud, and Original Vote Is Reversed. TILLMAN LOYAL . TO END Feeble North Carollnan Weeps as His Own .Statement Defending Colleague Is Read Seat Held More Than Three Years. (Continued from First Page.) Lea, of Tennessee, the Senate's young est member. The roan who for three days had held the Senate to close at tention with his remarkable speech of defense and attack upon his enemies, rose-wearily from his seat and passed back to a cloakroom door. Senators and members of the House gathered about him, grasping his band and patting him on the back. Outside the Senate door, as Mr. Lorlmer stepped into the corridor, friends greeted him again and a party of Sis ters of Charity pushed forward to ex press regret at h s expulsion. Physician Attends at Close. In his office, when a physician had attended him, he said he would not leave Washington before the first of next week. The outcome of the vote was not a surprise, but the leaders of the fight against him had not estimated a greater vote than 50 to 35. Lorlmer gained only one of the men who voted against him March, 1911 Senator Jones, of Washington while he lost the votes of his associates. Senator Cullom, and of Senators Curtis, of Kansas, Brlggs of New Jersey, Simmons of North Car olina, and Watson of West Virginia. Lorimer's fight for his own official life began In the Senate chamber early Thursday afternoon. When he con eluded his eloquent declaration that he was not a coward and would not run In the face of certain defeat," at 2 o'clock this afternoon, he had held the floor for 12 hours, with intermissions and recesses to restore his strength. Appeal Changes No Votes. The moving character of Lorimer's appeal was admitted on every hand, but it apparently swayed no votes. In stead of the pleading defense that had been expected. It was throughout a ringing defiance to those who had op posed him; a declaration of his unfal tering belief In the purity of his elec tion in Illinois and a promise that he would not give up his fight with his eviction from the Senate. "It has been suggested that I re sign," he said in his closing declara tion. "He who is so cowardly as to run because defeat stares him In the face has no place in this body. Though you all vote to turn me out: though every vote has been canvassed and Is against me, I will not resign. My exit from this body will not be from fear. It will not be because I am a coward. It will be because of the crime of the Senate of the United States." Only two incidents marked the few minutes between the termination of Lorimer's speech and the taking of the rollcall. DlxOn Accuses Tillman Weeps. One was the charge of Senator Dixon, Colonel Roosevelt's campaign mana ger, that the affidavits Lorlmer bad introduced to show attempted corrup tion of delegates to the Chicago con vention were "malicious and deliber ate falsehoods." The other was the request of Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, feeble from the effects of paralysis, for permission to have the clerk read a statement for him. It was an affirmation of his be lief in Lorimer's lnnocenceand a pa thetic statement of his own feebleness. Tillman wept as It was read and other members of the Senate exhibited deep feeling. Since I was stricken with paralysis IS months ago," said Tillman's state ment. "I have thought often and seri ously about death and the hereafter. 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Senator Tillman expressed the hope that Mr. Lorlmer would consecrate the remainder of his life to the purification of politics in Chicago and to the up lift of his fellow-citizens In Illinois. "I believe, if he does bravely fight for a purer and better government in Illinois," he said. "God will strengthen his arm and he will return to the Sen ate vindicated by the people of that great state." The unseating of Lorlmer closed a fight that had not ceased since the publication of the charges of Charles A. White by the Chicago Tribune early In 1910. Lorlmer Elected 1st 1009. Mr. Lorlmer was elected as junior Senator from Illinois by the Legisla ture of that state May 26, 1908. He was at that time a' member of the United States House of Representatives, having been elected first to the 64th Congress In 1894. He continued to hold his seat In the House of Representa tives until June 19, 1909. nearly a month after his election to the Senate. He then resigned and then w.as sworn In as Senator the next day. His election came after the state wide nrlmarv had indorsed Senator HopklDs for re-election. A deadlock In the Legislature prevented the elec tion of Hopkins and Lorimer's election ultimately was brought about by the support of 63 Democrats. The charges of bribery In connection with the Lorlmer election were made public by the Chicago Tribune April 30, 1910, when it published a confes sion of State Representative White that he had received $1000 to- vote for Lorlmer. Senator Lorlmer specifically denied these charges In a speech in the Senate May 28 of that year ana said he courted Investigation. The 3enate authorized an Investiga tion June 10 and it began In Chicago, September 20, 1910, under the direc tion of Senator Burrows, or oiicmgan, As a result of that first Investigation Lorlmer was exonerated by the Senate committee and on March 1, 1911, the Senate, by a vote of 45 to 40, affirmed his title to a seat. The second investigation began June 1, 1911. as a result of charges that new evidence had been found, particularly the statement of Clarence S. Funk, of the International Harvester Company, that Edward Hlnes had asked him to contribute to a $100,000 Lorlmer fund. The second investigation committee, presided over by Senator Dillingham of Vermont, again affirmed Mr. Lori mer's title to his seat, but the vote to day was an overwhelming defeat of the committee report, as well as of Mr. Lorlmer. Through all the closing part of his address, Lorlmer was defiant. He ex pressed gratitude, however, for the tributes that had been paid to his pri vate life. "Every man who has such a life has his own reward," he said. "I ask noth ing on that account; it has no bearing In the case. I hope It will Influence no Senator In making up his Judgment." He spoke of his family. "I have been the happiest of men living and blessed by God's sun," he said. "I ask nothing because of them or because of my ideal home life. "It has been said by Senators that the worst foes of Lorlmer have not Im peached his integrity. They have said that 'his word was as good as his bond; that he never turned on a friend; that he has been consistent, right or wrong.' Consideration of Record Asked. "But I ask, no consideration for that' When Senators are making up their minds, when they are deciding whether they will believe Lorlmer or Charles A. White, all I ask Is to consider, in connection with a record of 40 years, my truth and veracity, as stated by my enemies. I ask the consideration of Senators as to whether they will be lieve the bribe-taker who has lied time and again or believe me. "Much has been said about "Lorimer's resigning,'" he continued. "If at the beginning of this case I had believed that one man had been bribed to vote for me, I would have laid my resigna tion on the Vice-President's table. But I know the record; I know there was not a corrupt vote cast for me." Lorlmer went after Senator Craw ford, of South Dakota, who had spoken and voted against him at the first trial. He referred to charges made against Crawford, of which the South Dakota Senator was fully acquitted, and invited Crawford out to the cloak room while he read an affidavit which charged Crawford with having em ployed a man to file a public land claim in his Interest. "That's supposed to be a sworn affi davit," said Senator Lorlmer. "But all the circumstances surrounding it deny its truth. A Federal grand Jury cleansed the skirts of this Senator. "Has Charles A. White made any statement to your committee stronger than that Crawford affidavit?" he de manded. "I think not. And yet Sena tor Crawford would turn me out of this body on the statement of a man more foul than the man who made this affi davit against him. Appeal to Crawford Effective. "I don't ask for the Senator's vote." continued Lorlmer. "But I am asking you, Senator Crawford, If, after that awful experience you had, don't you think you ought to weigh carefully, thoughtfully meditate long and often before you vote to destroy your fellow man on evidence like that?" Tbe effect of Lorimer's striking ap peal to Crawford was not lost' on the Senate. He held his audience In si lence. Senator Tillman appeared af fected by Lorimer's words, voiced In a tongue that bordered on the tragic, and wiped tears from his eyes as Lorimer paused. Senator Lorlmer took up the employ ment of Detective Burns, to whom he referred as the de'ective "who has driven to his grave a United State Senator, whom the people now believ not to have been guilty." The reference was taken by the Sen ate to apply to the late John H. Mitch ell, of Oregon. "To resign in the face of that knowl edge? In the face of that conviction' Why?' 'Because.' they say, the Senate hai been canvassed and enough votes have been found to turn Lorimer out' "Resign because they say defeat stares you In the face. Oh. what an argument! "He who Is so cowardly as to run be cause defeat 3tares him in the fare has no place in this body. This chamber i no place for cowards. It was not built for cowardice. "I am ready," he added, dramatically, as he took his seat. The roll then was called on the reso. lution. Rheumatism Is A Constitutional Disease. It manifests Itself In local aches and pains. Inflamed Joints and stiff mus cles, but It cannot be cured by local applications. It requires constitutional treatment, and the best is a course of the great blood purifying and tonio medicine Hood's Sarsaparilla which corrects the acid condition of the blood and builds up the system. Get It today .In usual liquid form or chocolated tablets called Sarsatnbs. 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