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publican) from Minnesota. HARLES G. DAWES' part in the Lorimer bank swindle C makes it impossible for honest citizens to vote for him as Republican vice presidential nominee. The only excuse offered for Dawes' action, namely, that it is a common practice between bankers in Illinois, I regard as a slander upon reputable banks. If it is true that any banks in Illinois or elsewhere resort to such methods it is a condition dangerous to the public welfare, and to the security of property. The indorsement of Dawes by the banking interests and the denunciation of La Follette by certain bankers because he opposes such practices. proves that the people must take matters into their own hands and check those who try to evade the law. Bankers, of all persons, are supposed to be meticulously careful about financial transactions. They are, when the public is doing the transacting, but between themselves. they support Dawes, a proven cheat. "Why Shouldn't I?" The "defense" of Dawes is like the one pickpockets and other criminals commonly use in police court. They say "Everybody's doing it. why shouldn't I? All the other pickpockets work that way." This may look all right to the pickpocket. but to the victim, and to the thousands who lost their savings when the Lorimer bank blew up. It is somewhat different. Briefly, the Lorimer bank story is this: In 1912 United States Senator Lorimer, who was kicked out of the Senate. was president of a national bank in Chicago SO shaky that it was about to bust. Lorimer decided to switch over to a State charter and have a State bank. Under the law he had to exhibit the total claimed capital and surplus, $1,250,000. in cash and his bank officers had to swear the cash belonged to the bank. unincumbered and for use in the banking business. Lorimer didn't have the money. Trust Co. President Dawes was president of the Central Trust Company of Chicago and his cousin was the cashier. Lorimer asked Dawes to help him out. Dawes did. The State auditor was taken to the Dawes bank and was handed $1.250,000 in cash, being told flat it belonged to the Lorimer bank. The auditor handed Lorimer his permit to open his bank and the money was put back into the Dawes bank vaults. Lorimer's bank, started on the foundation of this lie, soon falled and 4,000 depositors were losers. The receiver of the Lorimer bank discovered the Dawes Lorimer trans. action and sued Dawes' bank for the money it had said belonged to Lorimer. The case went to the Supreme Court of Illinois twice and twice the Supreme Court and all the intermediate courts decided that the Dawes bank must help pay the Lorimer depositors. The directors of Dawes' bank pleaded in court that they had not authorized the transaction and that President Dawes and his cousin, the cashier, had no authority to do such a thing. But the court said the acts of the two Daweses were binding.