AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

ACBTUALIAN AND N.Z. OAIII/E ABBOCIATION l .S.A. KLKCTIO.VS. NEW YOUK. Sept. 0. A telegram from I’oriland. in Maine, says that the elections of the State and Federal oltieers in Maine have resulted in a decisive Democratic defeat, the Republicans carrying the Stale hv an excess ol Ho.OIIII of *1 plurality out of a total of 333.0110 votes east. This has encouraged (he Republican leaders, because Maine's election, coming before tlie other States, is generally regarded as a liaromyer. The Kit Klux Klan issue complicated Maine’s gubernatorial election, as Mr Ralph Brewster, the Republican, bad the Klan’s support, and easily deleated .Mr AYilliam Paltangall. who, as a member of the Resolutions Committee at the Democratic* National Convention. had vainly'sought tor a l’km ol denouncing the Ku Klttx Klan b> mini:*. Mr I’attangall’s defeat highly ,-ratifies the Republican Party leaders, who repeat their old cry that the Klan is no issue.

I.OEB AND LEOPOLD. NEW YORK. Kepi. 10.

A chief detective, with two picked ritlc squads, in motor ears, are guard* i„,g Judge' Cavcrley’s residence in Cldea ,, o on the eve of his delivering sentence in the Loci, and Leopold murder ease. \ large demonstrative crowd assetitblcifin tin* street. The police and Judge received many threatening lett,.„: including threats to Mow up tlie (’oiirihouse if the two prisoners receive a life sentence only. 'Plu* newspapers state the two hoys „,*,. leaking the most of Ihe notoriety which the case has aroused. 'I boy appear in the highest spirits. Leopold, replying to interviewers with reference to this, demanded: -llow should the author ol the gieatest crime in a century act on the <’ vo el bis sentence?”