THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8114, 8 November 1904, Page 2

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

TO BE DECIDED TO-DAY.

QUARREL BETWEEN CANDIDATES.

[rasas association.^ (Received November 7, 11.65 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 7. Mr Justice Parker denounces the Republicans for accepting tho trusts' assistance in the election campaign. He asserts that the Democrats refused to accept trust assistance, and would rather lose tne election than be fettered respecting needed economical reforms.

President Roosevelt characterises at a falsehood a statement that he and Mr Cortelyon blackmailed the trusts through the knowledge that Cortelyon gained whue act ins as secretary to the Commercial and Labor Bureau.

(Received November 8, 0.32 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 7. President Roosevelt, in an explosive manifesto, declares that Mr Justice Parker's statements arc unqualifiedly and atrociously false. If elected he declares ho will be unhampered by any pledge, promise, or understanding, save his promise to see that every man has a square deal. Mr Cortelyon declares that he has conducted a clean campaign, and that nothing has been done to discredit the candidate's party or the people. The New York Tribune awards Roosevelt 314 electoral vote's and Parker 162. Betting is 5 to 1 in Roosevelt's favor.