POLITICAL CORRUPTION.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 14 June 1926, Page 9

POLITICAL CORRUPTION.

AMAZING REVELATIONS IN U.S.A. By Cabla—Press Association—Copyright. Australian end N.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 13, 11.5 p.m.) AVASHINGTON, June 12. An amazing picture of American political corruption has been drawn by witnesses before the Senate Investigation Committee, which is enquiring into the expenditure of nearly a million and a half dollars by candidates in the recent primary •elections in Pennsylvania, which refeulted in the choice of A’are. The primaries under American law provide for a poll among aspirants for nomination for office, in which only regularly enrolled members of the party cast their vote. ... One witness declared that one aspirant had thirty-five thousand socalled watchers in one district, each of whom received ten dollars, while the total vote cast for this aspirant in that district was less than 50,000. A witness said that when the time for paying off came, it was like there would he a rush on the bank. Other witnesses told of voters being helped to mark their ballots by armed men who brought tear gas of malpractice was used.