The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-22
NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS
 SAYS HYDE TO AGENTS
TELLS THEM HE REsENTS THEIR
 MISC UIDED ACTION

Declares That Instead of Furnishing q
 solution of the Present Unfortunate
 situation They Have Rendered the Difficulty More Acute-ShouId Have Become n Factor in Promoting an
 Honorable Peace.
 New York, April 21.-James H. Hyde to-night issued the following statement in reply to the committee of agents which waited on him yesterday:
 New York, April 21, 1905.
 Dear sir:-The subject upon which you have addressed me involves the consideration of the whole unhappy controversy which has been in progress for several months past. So far as any good results could be secured by l the resignation of any officer responsi- ble for the injury which the society has fsuffered and is doubtless to suffer in | the future, your request is misdirected.
 In view of the concessions 1 had been willing to make for the welfare of the lsociety, Present your misguided action, taken in utter ignorance of the true sit uation, of which you cannot possibly l have accurate knowledge. Your re- quest, perhaps unwittingIy on your part, is merely another move in the campaign of attack originally devised. I When the real facts are known to the | policylhoiders I believe that all right minded men among them will be as 1 indignant as I am with the methods 1 that have been employed by my ene- mics for their own ends, in pursuing which they have not hesitated to sacri- | fee the best interests of the society, and to disregard the proper perfection Of the policy-holders. Your action in- stead of furnishing solution of the l present unfortunate situation, renders ] the difficulty more acute. It is regret table that in this situation the conven- | ton of managers did not take advan-
 tage of its opportunity to become a factor in promoting honorable peace. l (Here MT. Hyde gives a long resume of 1 the trouble, most of which is old).
 l T am Justified in further reminding you that the matters upon which you nave assumed to act are matters not l for your consideration and action, but i for the consideration and action of the
 board of directors of the society. These matters are now in their hands
 and the facts relating to them are be- i ing definitely ascertained by an inves- tigating committee appointed by. the 1 board. . l ''To the board and to the committee I have made g. number of communica- tions stating the facts and expressing my views on these subjects. I do not feel at liberty to further discuss them 1 also to you. can only say that i think you are making a mistake in l the course you are following, and that
 your duty to the society requires you 1 rather to submit loyalty to the lawful direction of the board of directors than to associate to yourselves for the pur-
 pose of stirring up further strife and 1 endeavoring to override and frustratt
 the action of the board. / While I resent, and I am justified
 in resenting, your mistaken action to- 1 wards me, am by no means indifferent
 to your good will, or callous to your
 hostility, and I trust that in the fu-
 ture of the soctety's affairs I shall be
 able to gain for my own part in their administration the support and approv- al of the men who have now so in-
 temperately misjudged me-"
 The statement of MT. Hyde tonight
 is in reply to a request made by the agents. yesterday through a committee
 that he address their convention, after
 he had refused to accede to their re.
 quest to resign the vice presidency.