Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-31


home arriving in New York June IS.
OF the great popular enthusiasm that
attended the eX-prcsidents home-com-
ing 1t Is unnecessary to speak. There
was a widespread feeling that his re-
turn might emphasize factional differ
cnces in his party. The political stu
alton in his own state of New York had
undergone considerable change. He
found Gov. Hughes under appoint
ment to take seat on the supreme
court bench at Washington in the au-
tumn. He found n Democrat, William
j. Gaynor. governing the city OF New
York with remarkable efficiency. He
also found his former secretary, VIII
nam Loeb. as collector of customs. ad-
ministcrinS the port of New York with
an energy that was sending crooked
ness scurrynS to cover. He had made
up ms mind not to be drawn into the
campaign in his own state, but he
shortly yielded to tho earnest request
OF Gov. Hughes and expressed himself
IN favor of direct primary election
law and other Hughes reforms. Then
ne came to the conclusion that his
party in the state OF New York must
come under new leadership or be snow
cd under IN the coming election. With
that conviction he speedily dissociated
himself from tho existing organization
and went into the fight as champion
of the progressive wing of his Darty
Later in the season MFR. Roosevelt
went on an extended western tour.
making many speeches and receiving
great "vations. AT Cheyenne. he at
tended the frontier celebration. in Kan
sas he spoke on broad national policies.
defining the new nationalism," and in
Denver on tho problems OF land, for
csts and national resources. At the
conservation congress which assembled
in St Paul on Sept. 5, he spoke tho day
after President Taft. had discussed the
advantage and disadvantages OF ma
tional and state control OF natura! re-
sources, and came out natfooted for
federal control. a circumstance that
undoubtedly determined the congress
to adopt next day u platform strongly
fnvoring national control.
Mr.. Roosevelt was away from New
York CITY from Aug. % to Sept. II, and
visited many cities and towns and spoke
many times. Then he plunged into
the thick Of the Republican pre-convcn-
ton muddlc in his state, at the con-
rention won the temporary chairman
ship from Vice President Sherman.
who had been selected for that honor
by the ''old guard" Of the party, and
the next day, Sept. u.s. brought about
the nomination of Henry l.. Stimson
for governor.
In october Mr.. Roosevelt made still
another tour. going first to Tennessee,
where he visited the Appalachian ox-
position OF Knoxville, and afterward
he spoke at Memphis and elsewhere. In
Georgia he received ovations at At
lanta and Rome, made speeches In
crossing Alabama and Mississippi. and
on Oct. 10 addressed a big crowd at
Hot Springs, Ark. III St. Louis he ia
Nprpl thf. doom n 70 la, Ia,
to the gulf project. There, also. he
took a brief flight in an aeroplane.
Three days later he arrived in Indiana
and made ono long address and several
short ones IN behalf Of his friend, Sen
ator Bcverdgc. On Oct IA. Mr. ROOse-
Volt entered upon active campaign work
in his own state. In this he continued.
with Il brief incursion Into New Eng
land and another into Iowa, Indiana.
and Ohio. up to the eve of election.
a BAD YEAR FOR POLITICAL COR
RUPTlONISTS.
The year had it's full share of graft
exposures, three attracting country
wide attention.
In January charges Of bribery were
made against JOtnam +. Aids, the new
~ elected leader OF the New York SEN
ate. After an investigation, lasting
iittilis wv ili'hliiF, WV SNIlult StSbailtu
the charges by a vote of 40 to 3. Just
before the vote was taken Aids re-
signed from the senate. and Benn Con-
ger, the member of the senate who had
helped to bride Aids. resigned shortly
after.
In January, also, a prominent city
official OF Plttsburg and four leading
business men OF that city We're arrest
ed, charged with conspiracy and bril-
M, a
former menbcrA,of the Pittsburg coun-
ellis were ii, ga for bribery and 10
others confb,eni when immunity from
S4.Ns offered TO them. On
the following day, nine more former
councilmen confessed to brlbc taking
while In office. on March 70 the in
resulted in 81 new indict-
lnents and involved six banks, charged
with bribing councimcn to make them
repositories of city funds.
on the last day of April came the
most sensational bribery charges of the
year, when Democratic member OF the
Illinois Legislature confessed that he
had received $1,000 from his party lead
n to vote for the successful Repub-
lean candidate for United States Scn-
itOr, William +. Lorimer. On May &
he Democratic leader of the Illinois
house of representatives and three 9TH
RS were indicted, in Chicago, In con-
lcction with the bribery charges, the
cader later being acquitted. On May
IS. d. W. Holstlaw, a Democratic MEM
,er of the Illinois senate. confessed be-
ore the grand jury that he had been |
,aid $500 for voting for Lorimer. The |
tate was also stirred by the revelations |
clating to the existence for years Of n |
corrupt Legislative fund known as the |
Jack pot all graft money going into |
pot" and being divided among cor
upt legislators ut the end of each ses-
ion. In the summer Il United States |
cnate committee began an invcstiga- |
ion of the charges that Senator Lori |
ner had been improperly elected. and |
II December n subcommittee reported |
hat it had found no evidence connect
ng Senator Lorimcr with the charge
hat he had used improper methods to
Genre his election
Late in July, Senator Thomas 2. Gore
# Oklahoma charged openly in the
enate that IL bride had been offered
o him to withdraw his opposition to
ontracts made with Indians of the
'hoctaw and Chicknsaw tribes for the
ale Of coal and asphalt lands valued
t s30,0O0.000. The congressional ir-
'estigation committee cleared Vic,
PRESIDENT Sherman and Senator Curtis
t Kansas OF any improper connection
With the affair.
OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS.
The proposed Sixteenth amendment,
onfcrrinE on the federal government |