CORRUPT POLITICS.
CORPORATION FUNDS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SHOCKED. | A REVELATION. Inr ißt.EOi?Arn—rnsss association— copntioni.) New York, October 20. A committee of depositors of the rccontly suspended National Bank at Waynesburg discovered a cheque, written in pencil on the blank side of official paper, which the bank cashod. The committee allego that £24,000 of the bank's funds was expended during one election, in an endeavour to secure the success of the Republican candidate for a judgeship. President Roosevelt is intensely shocked, and has ordered. acceleration of the trial of the late president of the bank. WANTINC WORK. THE CANDIDATES WHO WILL APPEAL. New York, October 20. Mr. W. J. Bryan, the Democratic candidate for the United States Presidency, calculates that he will receive the votes of a million and a- half of the unemployed in the Eastern States. President Roosevelt estimates that 15 per cent, of the total poll will consist of unemployed votes. He believes tho majority will go- to Mr. Debs (Socialist) and to Mr. T. L. Hisgen, the candidate of the Independence League (founded by Mr. Hearst).
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 334, 22 October 1908, Page 7
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178CORRUPT POLITICS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 334, 22 October 1908, Page 7
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