The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-27
LEADS BIG ARMY
OF POLICYHOLDERS
Armed with 10000 Policyholders'
Proxies, He Will Call
Convention.
Promises to Put Frenzied Finan-
ciers of Insurance Graft in
Prison Cells.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Boston, Sept. 27.-The end Of the In
surance scandal is in sight, declares
Thomas W. Lawson. Thru a great con-
vent1on OF policyholders which he in.
tends to call Mr.. Lawson will lead a
war on the life insurance grafters, and.
ne says. land them in the penitentiary.
Mr. Lawson asserts that $150,000,000
has been stolen from life insurance pol.
lcyholders in the United States.
MI. Lawson holds the proxies Of 16,.
900 policyholders. He says he has re-
ceived more than $4,000 letters, among
them letters. from governors, members
OF COT congress, bishops, presidents of great
officials Of foreign governments and
sources so powerful that it would aston
ish the world were the names published
Money Kings in Cells.
"But the end is in sight, declared
81 make the solemn and positive as
sertion that, before all the investiga-
lions are finished, before the sworn evil
dence of the fnanciers of the leading in
have been plundered is finished, there
will be anywhere from 100 to $50 men,
now posing as men of affairs, Wall
Street magnates and manipulators Of
insurance funds, doing time in state
prisons for terms varying from eight
years to life.
"The first thing to be accomplished
is to demand and secure restitution of
the millions that have been stolen.
There are certain men that must be de-
tanned and placed on the witness stand
before they can get out of the country
with their millions.
FLAMES II. Hyde is working night
and day to dispose Of all his property
and get out of the United States be-
fore the law can reach him. James 81.
Hyde must be placed on the witness
stand and forced to tell what he
knows.
81 propose to the policyholders Of
this country that they organize and
then appoint delegates, one delegate to
every five, or ten or fifty policyhold-
ers in town or county. Let this DELI
egate come to New York and there meet
10000 delegates from other parts of
the union. !,
nary expense of such movement; we
will engage Madison Square Garden,
in New York, and hold daily meet
ing esp1, s,,.h . chow - s+ren 10th 40 c.n
command the respect of any legisla-
tive investigation committee. Such
committee would investigate along the
lines desired by such an influential and
intelligent body Of men.
Where Are the Stealings?
AT that time I will present to that
convention of policyholders- can.
vention Of life-insurance agents sitting
down to feasts provided by Mccall and
Hyde rivaling the feasts Of Lucullus
and paid for with policyholders money.
"a diagram Of the buildings in New.
York, where the stolen funds are se-s
creted, the homes of men built by plum;
| dering insurance policyholders, and
| then in red letters on that diagram Is
will mark '26 Broadway the home of
the Standard Oil, the chief criminal
on the list.
Over $15O,OOo,OOO squandered.
81 shall within the next ten days
issue a statement which will convince
the most skeptical. I know the ways
and methods of work of the thieves
| and public plunderers who have been.
preying on the policyholders, and they!
| know that am in possession Of the;
facts. When John A. Mccall talks on
the witness stand of the paltry contri-.
| button Of $4,000 to campaign fund
he mentions bagatelle.
81 declare on my solemn word that
the amount Of money belonging to life.
| insurance policyholders in this country.
that has been dissipated, stolen from
them, squandered like water by mem
intrusted with its keeping, amounts to-
not penny less than $4,000 ,000."