PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 156, 19 November 1912, Page 3

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

TIRED OF Tin: TAFT iiOS.SI->'. London. November K. Loudon papers prodaiiU the victory thq.t the American Presidential contest has given the jow tariff advocates. The Evening News thinks that the result of the election will stimulate American University men. Tlie Standard declares that the election has shown that America is tired of office-seekers. The Daily Express does not think that Dr. Wilson will lay violent hands on the tariff. The significance of Dr. Wilson's election, according to the Morning Post, lies in the fact that the people are tired of the Taft bosses, and are not ready for the advanced Koosevelt programme. The Daily' Chronicle says that the majority of the American people have awakened to a keen dissatisfaction with things, and that a great forward surge is agitating the masses. 1 - Berlin, November 8. ' Dr. Wootlrow Wilson's election to the American Presidency is regarded as a very fortunate event for Germany, as it promises a reduction of the- United States tariff. One of the lierlin dailies, Die Post, remarks that the dollar is always more powerful than the President's will. WHY WILSON WON.

I In the cour.ie of a striking article in Collier's Weekly, Mr., Mark t Sullivan, ' writing a few weeks prior to the Ame- ! rican Presidential election, gave reasons [ for his faith that the Taft-ites would I be defeated and that either Dr. Wilson i or Mr. Koosevelt would be elevated to the Presidency. His principal reason was that for the first time since the Civil War the people of America had been deeply stirred. "There is a spirit abroad," lie said, "that is largely spiritual, frankly emotional. It expresses itself in political conventions which sing ■Onward; Christian Soldiers'-, and 'The Battle Hymn oi the Republic' To persons of temperament and ardor it is highly infectious, and so it has embraced whole little worlds which formerly regarded politics either with indifference or strong distaste—• artists, authors, teachers, actors, social workers; and that other eternal abiding-place of ardor and enthusiasm, youth—youth is on lire with it." The root of this spirit, Mr. Sullivan avers, lies in a feeling of rankling injustice, a feeling that the common people are being swindled out of their rights by the big money interests with the connivance of corrupt politicians and a prejudiced judiciary. He cites a case which he declares is typical of a thousand others, and which has aroused the bitter animosity of the people in both and Britain. The widowed morther of Robert L. Barker, a purser of the wrecked Titanic, claimed from Ismay, Imrie and Co. compensation for the loss of her son under the British Workmen's Compensation for Accidents Act. ■ That Act allows compensation only when the salary of the employee is under £250 per annum.' Barker received from Ismay, Imrie and Co. about £l7O a year, but the firm resisted the claim on the ground that Barker's meals in the first-class saloon were worth 5s a day, and therefore his salary was above the legal limit. The firm added that Barker at the time of'his death had £SOO on loan from the company. . This sum, it transpired, was the amount entrusted to the purser to enable him to change money on board, and of course it went down with the ship. Mrs. Barker lost her case, but the wide publicity which the details received inflicted a terribly heavy blow upon the political influence of the big corporations.

A few nights ago Constable Coady was standing at the door of the Clarence street police station, Sydney, when he heard an agonised crj' of "Fire!" Rushing into the street, he saw a man clinging to .a third floor window of premises four doors away, occupied by Robert Dey and Son, printers of the Australian Christian World. He called out, "Don't jump. Hang on till I ring up the, brigade." Then returning to the station he gave the alarm. A crowd quickly, gathered. In a few minutes the clanging of bells 'heralded the approach of the brigade. .A shout of relief went up. The man was enjoined to keep his hold for a few minutes more. Meanwhile, flames arose from the basement, and licked the front of the building, ever reaching higher, as if hungering for their prey. Chief-officer Webb, who was in charge of the fire-fighters, immediately ordered tlje headquarters 85ft electric ladder to the front. It was quickly run up, and, amid the cheers of the onlookers, a couple of men raced to the top. The man, who afterwards gave his name as William Huntley, a linotypist, was assisted down the steps. He was only partly- conscious, and was carried into the police station, where he quickly revived.