CORRUPTION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1079, 18 March 1911, Page 5

CORRUPTION.

* . MR, ROOSEVELT ON THE WARPATH. OUTSPOKEN DENUNCIATION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyriirlit New York, March 16. Mr. Roosevelt, speaking at Albuquerque, New Mexico, denounced Senator Lorimer as a person unlit to hold public office. He also attacked Ex-Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, on similar grounds. REMARKABLE ALLEGATIONS. The ease of Senator Lorimer, who was acquitted by the Senate Committe on the charges brought against him, is still exciting attention in America. Tho NewYork "Outlook," of which Jlr. Roosevelt is now associate-editor, wrote of tho Lorimer case in its issuo of January 21:— "It is not surprising that a powerful lobby should be at work at Washington to prevent Jlr. Lorimer's expulsion from tho Senate. His name has been intimately associated with lobbying, political deals, bribery, and intimidation for many .years in Chicago. His career has been in some respects a dramatic one. Ho was born in Lancashire, England, and the poverty of his surroundings led him to emigrate to the United States. 110 drifted to Chicago, and he is first known of in that city as holding a job as street car conductor on one of the old horse car lines._ 110 early interested himself in ward politics, and became, through his unquestioned ability as an organiser, a powerful leader, if not the head, of the corrupt local Republican machine in Chicago. He was intimately associated with the late Charles T. Ycrkes in gaining control through political chicanery of the street railway system of Chicago. As everybody knows, the Ycrkes period in Chicago street transit*is one of the most offensive in tho altogether too vulnerable history of municipal public utilities in this country." Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury at Muskogee, on February 3, 1309. for conspiring to obtain town lots in that place by fraud. The prosecutions were with drawn in September last, under the Statute of Limitations. Other wealthy residents of the State were indicted with the Governor. The lots were to lis sold at auction for the benefit of the Creek Indians, and it was provided by lav.that the occupants should be neriiiitted to buy two lots apiece at half tho ap-r-raiscd value. It. was charged that the defendants used "dummies" to get possession of manv lots at half nrice. and that in soiiv* instances thev forc«d tho signatures of the "dummies." The indictments related tn 152 /nch transactions, and it was aneged that in fortyseven nf them Haskell., Turner, olid' Eaton were associated conspirators. Tho Governor declared that he was innncent asserting that Sir. Roosevelt, the President, end Mr. .Hearst had plotted his rum. M. L. Matt, attorney for the Creek Indians, however, (dated that the alone was responsible for the prosecutions.