AMERICAN SCANDALS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43081, 13 April 1907, Page 4

AMERICAN SCANDALS.

In connection with the Presidential campaign in America a.rudl the coming fight between the Trusts and Mr Roosevelt, it is interesting to note that Mir Justice Parker, whose name has been prominent in our cables of late, was the Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1901. Prior to the election Jie openly accused the Republicans of having foamed an alliance with the Trusts for Alt Roosevelt’s return, and denounced) the arrangement by which the President first appointed his private secretary. M, r Cortelyou, Minister of 'CVhy . wl ™ • ,j the business power to inquire ) r . ~ „n and then secrets ox all cor’' ’ appointed him manager to collect campaign funds from the same corporations. These accusations PresidentRoosevelt personally repudiated as “monstrous,” declaring that “the assertion that there has been any blackmail, direct or indirect, by Mir Cbrtelyoui or by me is a falsehood,” and asserting tih!at“if elected I shall go into the ' Presidency unhampered by any pledge, promise, or understanding of >ahy kind, sort, or description, save my promise, made openly to the Airneriiean people, that so far a-s in my power lies I shall see to it that, every man has a square deal, no less and no more.’

Ai man who Called at the Tburist Office in Wellington stated that he had come with a wife and seven children from Washington, British Colunubia. He' had money, which hie desired to invest on a farm:. He mentioned that there were other men in his native land who were willing to follow lias example if they heard that matters had progressed favourably with him. Just-ice Ghapman decided that the bankrupt’s assets where -a second petition' of is filed before discharge on bhe ;; ffir|tj is "ranted, the credrEors bankruptcy are entitled' to assets; under the 2nd insolvency. \-Or>V ' • It would appear, from that hare come 'before) the courts' that it is 'an offence to 'be found in a billiard room after hours, even though play is > not engaged in? w