Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-04-11
JUDGE HAMILTON BITTER

Breaking Silence at Last, Legislative
Agent For the Big Insurance Com
panies appears Unexpectedly Be-
fore Investigating Committee and
Pours a Flood Of Denunciaticn
Upon Officials "Who Drove Mccall
to His Grave
Albany, n. Y, Spccial.-Andrew
Hamilton appeared before the insur-
ance investigating committee and
the silence which he has maintained,
except for his statement brought from
Paris by John C. Mccall, EVER since
his name was first mentioned in the
investigation in connection with the
great sums of money shown to have
been paid him during the past 10
years on account Of his legal and
legislative work for the New York
Life and other insurance companies.
1t would be difficult to exaggerate
the sensation and by the speech which
he made or the intensely dramatic
character Of the whole episode. His
face was flushed and his voice tremb-
ling with passion, his arms appraised
and his fists clenched. Judge Ham
ilton poured forth a flood of denun-
citation and invective upon the mem
bers Of the board Of trustees Of the
New York Life Insurance Company,
several Of whom were present desig-
Mating them "curs and traitors and
paying special attention to one IN
named, whom he described as "the
Peeksniff Of three administration, the
conidant of the Beers scandal and
author Of the Beers position-who TO-
tates through one administration and
another, and thinks hat he is going
to be an indispensable member Of yet
~another.'
RETORTS "YELLOW DOG"
"And do you think,' he demanded,
"that the nan who held the same re-
lation to Mr.. Beers that | did to Mr..
Mccall could sit for 10 years since,
and not know how the expenditures
that were made were to be, and were,
disburse6? Yet he and such like him
sit, not judging me as peers, but
judging me as conquerors, talking
about yellow dogs.''
Judge Hamilton's attack upon the
trustees Of the New York Life was
made the more dramatic by the fact
that he Immediately followed J. I'll.
Mcintosh, general solicitor Of that
company, who had been eulogizing the
members of that board and challeng-
ing any man to give reasons why they
should be removed from office as con-
templated by the pending legislation.
The only name he mentioned was that
Of the late President Mccall, in the
reference to whom and to whose death
he displayed marked emotion. He
spoke of Mr.. Mccall as a victim, as
having been shouldered with the
blame-''the only one, the dead man,
killed, hat they drove to his grave,
and deserted,' and declared that the
memory Of this man had appealed to
him ''to come down here and say
something for him and just a word
for myself"
Judge Hamilton after stating that
he would %contine his remarks entirely
to the New York Life Insurance Com
pany, said he had high and loyal re-
speck for the other companies because
II have not yet found amongst them
ours and traitors
Continuing he said:
II address you upon and IN advo-
cacy Of one bill solely. which [ have
not read, but the purport Of which ap-
pears in the papers-and | say that 1T
is your duty to report In favor Of the
measure that will remove the trustees
of the New York Life Insurance
Company upon November p next, ar
bitrarlly.
II look around this court and I see
here many members Of that board OF
trustees. [ see amongst them men who
have set and listened to the stories
of my victories in their behalf, and
a%pplauded, and I wonder whether it
was like that line in Goldsmith, wheth-
er it was 'counterfeiied glee,' or
whether the attitude that they have
since taken has been one OF counter
feited honesty.
SHOULD BE OUSTED FROM COM
PANY.
: IF, he said, the board did not APP
prove his vouchers. ''then the failed
to perform their duty. And the rea-
son / came forward now is not to
say. or not to apologize for these
vouchers, but to say this, that these
men with their responsibilities upon
their shoulders and upon mine, they
have something to account for.
"They may talk about the yellow
dog but the yellow dog IS q dog OF
courage and of loyalty. but the ours
who stood around This funeral that