AMERICAN POLITICS.
XONDON, Agril 20. A sensation has been caused in Americt by the announcement that Senators Aldrich and Hale will retire in 1911. The Times' Washington correspondent states that Republican omnipotence is threatened. Senator Aldrich controlled the Senate by means of the committees as Speaker Cannon controlled the House of Representatives. Mr Elihu Root will possibly succeed Senator Aldrich in the Republican leadership in the Senate. The Morning Post declares that thai retirements will mean replacing men whose inclinations are Conservative by Radicals. Heretofore New England has ruled the Senate, but in future it will ba governed by the West. NEW YORK, April 20. Mr Havens, a Democrat, defeated) Mr Aldridge, the Republican "boss," in the contest to fill the late Mr Perkins's seat' in the thirty-second congressional district of New York State.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2928, 27 April 1910, Page 19
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