GRAFT IN NEW YORK

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1932, Page 6

GRAFT IN NEW YORK

c. 'CHARGES AGAINST MAYOR

■ji. ('NEW YORK, August 18,

Mr .SaimueivSeabury, the former New A’ork Judge,.);who has been investigating charges of graft mj.Nevv York’s ‘municipal administration,/, has found, that the /Mayor, {.Mr James •Walker, was the, fountain head of New York’s huge graft operations.

Scowling . and angry,. the , city's famous “playboy” . Mag strate'stepped backin. an exchange, of rude remarks, put the i situation took on new seriousness wheij Mr Seabury demanded Mr Walker’s removal from the Mayoralty •at"'the hands of the State Governor, 'Mr- Franklin P. Roosevelt. ...

y- Nationally it might .lieln. Mr Roosevelt's' " Presidential chmcps if . he, drattetieally broke with Tammany and Tain many's . iey.der.i, so the nation craned' hecks;;'to-day for the opening of the :: pubfim hearing; at Albany, when Mr ißooseve!tP- w|il decide whether to de•capitat'e ; |or not. Curiously, on the - same day. as President 1 H&pver was delivering his speech" In acceptance of tfo Repubf) m noitiiuatTOfi (for the Presidency, aftd .the people .who j liratch national politics dis-ceuied'.-that /Mr Roosevelt was doing what / Ameriehns call “stealing . the shq\V” 'fironii-| Mr Hoover—otherwise, monopolising Nthe front pages.

famous “Jimmy” fulfilled his part by putjtlifg on an appealing show. In fi?/tearfd'L ; |i)iitbiirst he besought Mr Roosevelt's to nullify the ev':deii'cc> thpi/l Mr Seabury ted submitted agaijh|£ him. Gone was -jaunty air and sparkling wit, He was in deadly earnest as lie said with voice husky and gestures nervous; ‘‘lf I don’t have a dteuc’e' to crpg.s-exainine witnesses, it nipansv the end of my - career. There •must -.be some place for me. You cannot c'drive 'hi© out this way..- If you- do (here ho, sobbed) out goes my roputa'ti'Qif; qhtl goes my past and my future.” Tli? wolds fairly tumb'ed from the Mayor's mouth. His 'shming blsvk hair was disarranged, and his collar wilted as perspiration minified with the-tears that ran down his face. '