ELECTION SCANDAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6177, 8 April 1907, Page 5

ELECTION SCANDAL

ROOSEVELT v. HARROVIAN A CAMPAIGN IN PROSPECT. PREPARING FOR NEXT PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST. A FIVE MILLION DOLLAR FUND. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. LONDON. April o. “Tho Times'’ New York correspondent states that President Roosevelt considers that the Harrnnan ahair is tho beginning of a campaign which lias boon organised with a view to, firstly, prejudicing the legislation which tho President intends to bring in at an early date to check the over-capital-isation of railways; secondly, of assuring tho preponderance of the magnates at the next National Convention. Heater reports authoritatively that it is .stated at White House that the .so-called Hearst-lia rriman-Rockefcllor combination has raised five million dollars for a campaign against President Roosevelt. THE CAUSE OF THE STORM. MAN ARRESTED FOR SELLING A LETTER. NEW YORK, April 5. Mr Harrimau's lato stenographer, F. Hill, has boon arrested on a charge of selling to the “New -York World’’ Mr Harr Jinan's letter concerning President Roosevelt. The letter published in the "New York World.’' and which has figured in cable nouH fluring the past few days, stated that NFi K. H. Heniman had been requested by President Roosevelt, to raise a fund for the I’cpublicau electioneering campaign in 190-1. The cable messages have not stated to whom the letter was addrc»-r**d, leaving it to be assumed that it wart in the first instance addressed by Mr ilarriman to the “World." This idea, however, is dicounted by the desperate attempts reported to have been made by Mr Ilarriman to prevent publication. Ho affirmed the correctness of the statement in tho letter, which President Kooscvelt characterised as a deliberate untruth.