CANADIAN POLITICS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 77, 21 September 1911, Page 6

CANADIAN POLITICS

SENSATIONAL STORIES. AMERICAN PRESIDENT DENOUNCED. By Gable—Press Association—Copyright. Ottawa, September 19. A sensation has been caused by the publication of statements authorised by the Thiol Detective Agency that Mr. Taft had incited Mr. Hearst to flood Canada with election literature favoring reciprocity.

Mr. Borden, the Conservative lender, lias issued a manifesto pointing out that reciprocity means the final absorption of the Canadian fiscal system in that of the United States.

Sensational disclosures, have been made to the effect that .Mr. Taft arranged with Mr. Hearst to send a special correspondent to Ottawa to conduct a campaign on behalf of reciprocity, and in aid of the Liberals in the fight. A storm has been aroused throughout the Dominion. Conservative journals accuse Mr. Taft of being an arch ■plotter, and of interfering with a foreign country's politics to bolster up the failing fortunes of the Republican Party.

It is stated that Mr. Heart's representative is a close friend of Mr. Taft, and had arranged to participate in Mr. laft's tour in September, but urgent, orders sent, him to Ottawa. There is also an election scandal in Quebec East. Sir Wilfrid Laurier's opponent, [Mr. Lcduc. asserts that he was offered large sums of moncv if he would retire. His opponents, however, declare that Mr. Lcdue offered to retire if he was given a position, with special preference for that of Secretary to the Canadian Commission in Paris. Arrest* are said to be imminent.