The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-12
CUTLER DRAWS
A TART REPLY
PoIicyhOIderS' Committee Ar
raigns Attitude Regarding
campaigning"
HIS STATEMENTS DISPUTED
TRICK BALLOTS USED IN UTAH
TO AID MINISTRATION.

Governor Cutler has started some
thing by his open letter to the inter
national policyholders' committee, out
lining his position with reference to
campaigning by insurance agents in
Utah.
The governor declined to take any
steps in response to the protest of the
committee, and by so doing provoked a
very tart letter, which follows:
Hon. John c. Cutler, Salt Lake City,
Utah.-Replying to your esteemed ia
vor of the Sd inst. We note you say:
From personal observation and inves-
tigatiOn, / am convinced that in Utah
no coercion is used with these agents;
and it Is also my conviction that the
expenses of whatever campaign is con-
Quoted on behalf of the administration
tickets. are paid with other money than
that which belongs to the policy-hold
ers'
Marked Cards.
1--WE are very glad to know that in
the conduct of this campaign the state
of Utah is a glaring exception. 1t is
strange, however. that we have re-
ceived so many complaints from the
citizens OF your state who are policy
holders in the New York and Mutual
Life Insurance companies who have
enclosed to us trick ballots scratched
ballots. marked envelopes. which are
cards that no westerner dare play with
in any other game than life insurance,
and that these marked ballots were
sent out under instructions is proved
by the enclosed copy Of instructions
issued to these agents.
There Is not a charge that we have
made in this campaign in which we did
not have the documents to prove our
assertions. There has not been a circu-
lar sent out from this office that con-
tanned a single line or single word
that cannot be proved.
Charges Are Proved.
"You intimate that we are sending
out gross mis-statements and destruc-
tive literature tending to impair the
faith of the policy-holders in their COM
pany, and l call your attention to the
fact that the Armstrong investigating
committee in the hurried investigation
they made, disclosed every fact and
more than we have been able to eiTcu-
late.
I'VE ask you in common fairness if
it is possible to use the agency organ
ization of the Mutual and New York
Life companies in campaigning for
votes for the administration ticket,
their stationery, paid for with policy
holders money, their office rents, paid
for with policy-holders' money, mutt
lated ballots printed in the home office
of the company and sent to the agents
at policy-holders' expense? Where
will you draw the line of demarcation
between John Doe, the agent of the
Mutual Life Insurance company, using
the prestige and the paraphernalia of
the company, in a campaign for votes,
and John Doe. the individual?
Same Men in Control.
''The Armstrong committee proved
that the policyholders of these compa-
MES had been robbed, and every policy
holder knows that the same men are
in control today who were in control
before the investigation made by the
Armstrong committee. Take the New
York Life company as an illustration.
The president, John A. Mccall, died
and his place was taken by Alexander
z. Orr, who is not now and never was
a policy-holder I'm that company. The
vice presidents are Thomas A. Buckner.
in charge of agents of the old Mccall
regime; Darwin p. Kingsley, son-in-
law of the late John A. Mccall; Ed
ward r. Perkins Of the old Mccall
regime and brother of George w. Per-
J.
chairman of the finance committee of
the New York Life was primarily re-
sponsible for the yellow dog fund, the
Hanover bank account. two of the
steals shown up by the Armstrong
committee; treasurer, E. D. Randolph
of the old Mccall regime. The general
solicitor, James II. Mcintosh, the pro-
tege of George w. Perkins of J. p. Nor
gan & Co., whose denial that they We're
sending out scratched ballots on Oct
Is was refuted by every policy-holder
in the United States.
You say If the election cannot be
won by fair means, the party using
unfair methods should certainly lose
and from the bottom of our hearts we
agree with you; but will they lose is the
question that is interesting policy
holders throughout the world"
The communication is signed by the
international policy-holders' commit
tee, G. r. Schrugham, manager.
Do Your Holiday Buying Now.