AMERICAN CRAFT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 54, 18 October 1911, Page 7

AMERICAN CRAFT.

Another great legislative “graft” •.caudal is reported from ■ Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Rodney Deiele, the Ser-goant-at-Arms in the State Senate, was arrested last August in connection with charges of systematic bribery of and b.v legislators last session. A number of other officials in the Legislature arc said to Ho implicated. as' well as a host of noted politicians and lobbyists. It is stated that Daigle has made a full confession. and has turned State’s evidence, hut ponding the arrest of the principals details of his confession bayn not boon disclosed. It is alleged that his confession has revealed mi 'may.iup state of corruption and hrihry in the lobbies of the Senate, and 'ssemblv, and main- of the most pronfnont politicians in the State are ’’ncing arrest. About eight months ,r vo ahi or imli+ical briber.- scandal " - as • nvo|?t,igated in several Ohio counties, ■nd as a result whole towns and ol°e_ 'ov’l ffistrioto were disfranchised. It *s believed that the n™<v>nt revel-', ions at the State eapital ar n the di•o of, enfoeino of that invest ip”'ti’ort. 'Mio is President Tap’s homo cjfaf.o. '"d his opponents yill nrohnldv try o make political capital out of the ease.