The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-09-22
JUDGE ALTON B. PARKER
DISCUSSES RECENT IN
SURANCE REVE-
LATIONS.
NEW YORK LIFE NOT ALONE GUILTY
Other Big Companies and Big
Corporations Gave Money
Belonging to Widows
and Orphans to Re-
publican Cam
paign Fund.

Esopus, n. Y, Sept. 1S.-FormeI
/ Chief Justice Alton Z. Parker last
year the Democratic candidate fol
President OF the United States, TODAY
referred to the charges made by him
in the Presidential campaign last fall
that corruption funds were heing used
in aid of the Republican campaign.
TO a correspondentsof-t the Associated
Press who called at Rosemoaut, Judge
| Palker's home. and asked him ii he
had anything TO say iii relation to the
statement made hy Vice President
George w. Perkins, of the New York
Life Insurance Company. before the
legislative committee investigating the
Insurance business, to the effect that
President John A. Mccall, of that
cOncauy. had caused contribution
OF about $50. 600 10 be made last yeaI
to the Republican National campaign
fund, Judge Parker said:
Yes. believe | ought to say. now
that theIe is no Presidential excite
ment TO distract the public attention,
That the President of the New York
Life W s not the only such contributor
The officers of other great life lnsuI-
ance companies. such as the Equitable
and the Mutual also contributed from
the pollcvholdefs' funds for campaign
purposes last year.
IN OTHER CASES.
What has heen proved In the case Of
the New York Life will be proved IN
the other cases. the facts exist and
honest and able cOur sci. backed ny an
honest committee, will undoubtedly
bring them out for the public good.
''Were there an investigation of rail
road, manufacturing and other cor.
poIations il would be FUND that these
lite insurance officers were not tbs only
corporation officers vino put their hands
into tue treasury ana took out moneys
belonging TO widows and orphans to
help secure a partisan triumph.
That their acts were unlawful and
their purposes corrupt goes without
saying. They intended to have the
money used, as it was, in coirupting
the electorate Mr.. Perkins makes the
point that John A. Mccall, President
of the New lotk Life, is Democrat,
Apparently he would T we the public
assume that when NJ Mccall unlaw-
fully and wrongfully contributed these
funds-the company's share probably
as member OF the underwriting syn
dicate-ir was evidence of political
virtue, rather than misconduct,
PERSONAL ADVANTAGE FIRST.
1.-THE truth about it is, and | say it
without feeling, hut emphatlcally,
that men like Mccall have no political
that stand in the way Of
their pc sOnal advantage. Such men
desire the triumph of that party whicn
will better serve their personal tinan
cial interests, and will-.for contlibu- |
tlonS, past, present and furure--con-
tInue to protect these interests by
lenient legislation, and by pretense at
execution of law which shall be ten
lerly blind to all their otfenseS That |
0arty they eSpoused in the board loom,
ind Contribute to 1t OF the moneys
ley mold in trust, and, occasionally,
! little of their own. The underlying
principles which divide the great mass
# the people into parties have no effect
~ such men. Their one inqgiry is,
Will the party organization, in Its
lour of triumph. remember our gen
mostly and respond to our dc uands?'
IF course, the organization does re!uem-
,eT, for it expects similar c0nltibu-
ion next time. Such contributions
lad been made before in National,
,tate and municipal elections.
Tine officers responsible for these
aids on the treasures of corporations
ave received their reward in untet
eIed manage nent of life insurance
IN the unembalrAssed
aids on the public through trusts
by both common and
tatute law; in refusal to punish Grim
nally the officers of railroads and other
o1porations violating the laws and
/ S .atut Jry permiss on to manufacture
orporallons 10 levy ribute Npon the
eople.