AMERICAN POLITICS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2850, 28 October 1908, Page 27

AMERICAN POLITICS.

NEW YORK, October 20. !Mr Bryan calculates that he will receive ihe votes of a million and a-half of unemployed men in the Eastern States. Mr Roosevelt estimates that the unemployed constitute- 15 per cent, of the total jpoll, but he believes that the majority of Ifehem will vote for Mr Debs (Socialist) or for Mr Hisgen (Independent). A oorami'ttee of oepositors ~ of the recently-suspended National Bank at .Waynesburg have discovered a cheque Ttffitten in pencil on the blank side of come official paper which the bank had cashed. • They allege fhat £24,000 of the bank's funds were' expended on one election to secure the success of the Republican candidate for a judgeship. Mr Roosevelt is intensely shocked, and has c- red the acceleration of the trial of tho iate president of the. -bank. / October 21. Collier's Weekly narrates how two employees oi the Standafa Oil Company sold the letters, of various politicians and those of Mr Arehbold |an Oil Trust magnate) *o Mr W/ R. Hearst for £600, . for ibe Sqprrilege of photographing them. Some •were afterwards returned to the office files? „ The letters of - Senators Aidrich, Pensose, and Kenna are still unpublished. Mr Taffc and Mr Bryan are conc^entratSng their efforts on New York. They admit that whichever candidate succeeds in winning New York State will carry the country. October 23. President Roosevelt has created a sensation by challenging Mr Bryan to say if he favours the policy advocated by Mr Gompers. (president of the Federation of Labour), who is actively supporting him. Mr Gompers urges Congress to legalise a boycott and black-list. M*r Bryan has large hopes of securing 2,000,000 German-American votes, as the Democrats are more inclined than the Republicans to reduce the Customs duties. He also states. that 250,000 Italian votes are largely pledged to him. - WASHINGTON^OitobeB 25. At a Cabinet meeting held here it was decided that all the members of the Cabinet- e&oulcj ni once CTSfbari. cs a epeechmrvking campa%& on behalf of Mr Taft. The fact, ifaat the Chief Secretary of; fit ate (Mr Etiftu (Root) is to be 'sent to Ohio shows that there is some anxiety regarding the election Tcsult«, even in Mr Taft's own State.