Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-08-08
a PARTISAN INSURANCE. PRESIDENT.

y PARTISAN INSURANCE. PRESIDENT.
Mr.. J. L. Green, President OF the
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Company, is flooding the country with
circulars appealing to voters not to
support free coinage, because if than
policy should succeed it will give the
option to dishonest insurance companies
TO cheat their policy-holders. He states
that under free coinage policy-holders
will lose one-half the value OF their
policies.
The circulation of this brazen cam
paign falsehood by the chief executive
officer of this great company has, we are
informed, already seriously injured the
business Of the Connecticut Mutual
When it is demonstrated that
the President of the company.
instead of attending to its
business and managing its affairs
in the interest of its patrons, is dab
bling in partisan politics and using his
position TO disseminate partisan cam
paign falsehoods throughout the land,
loss of confidence in the management of
that institution is bound to follow. The
Pittsourg Post publishes the following
letter, written by a citizen OF Pittsburg.
who has held policy in the Connecticut
Mutual since 1872. He received one Of
Green's partisan and untruthful circu-
lars, not issued by the individual Green,
for whom no one cares, but by Green as
president of the Connecticut Mutual, and
responded in these terms:
Jacob L. Green. Esq. president Connecti-
cut Mutua. Life Insurance Company,
Hartford, Conn:
Dear Sir-I have this moment received
your circular, addressed TO the policy
holders Of the insurance company of which
you are PRESIDENT political d0dg5r from
start 10 finiSh-a miSstatem5nt in part and
q thoroughly unfair statement Of the sub
Jet from beginning 10 END.
l am policy holder IN your company,
and have been since 1872 or %. My first
policy. an endowment, expiring, then
took another, No. l6l6SS. for 5000 mold
of corporation to attempt 10 gam re-
CruitS for the party Of which he Is mem
Der by frightening and eliminating me
patrons Of his company. l am not VIKING
10 5utruSt my wife and children, SnOuld
death call me before the expiration of this
policy, i'm the hands Of a manager OF a
company who lends himself to actions CT
this kind. II You will have your actu3fy
figure out for me the value OF the po4lcN
and send me a check, / VIII return you
your policy. but | expect the figuring upon
its value TO be done. with more none y
and more fairness and more br0aGm!nued-
ness than was used in the getting up OF the
circular under date of July II.
I am neither mine owner nor am dis
honest. and I resent your circular as a
/ piece Of unparalleled impertiCence, ana as
one unworthy the head Of SO great cor,
! poratiOn. If you can SO tuggle facts ana
| attempt TO insult the intelligence or many
millions of people OF this country, God
alone knows what you would consider my
policy In your company worth when my
| wife and children come 10 collect II.
Yours truly,
AproDos of this subject, we are in
formed that the insurance companies in
Western State that have been sending
out circulars that the election of Mr..
Bryan will make the policies issued by
them worth only one-half the amount
on which premiums have been paid
will be proceeded against by the State
authorities on the ground that such cir
culars are evidence of insolvency. The
State Auditor of Colorado, Mr.. Parks,
proposes to take legal steps to wind up
the business Of such companies in his
State. We suppose the Connecticut Mu-
tual is one of the companies, as it has
been a chief offender in this disreputa-
HE game of politics.