The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-18
Standard oil Magnate
 Withdraws.
WRITES PEABODY HOT LETTER
No Relations Between Insurance Company and Petroleum Trust.
wiIIiam RockefeIIer's Policy in Com pany Has Mstured and He wiIi Not Asain Be Truatee of
 organixaticn.

New York, July l7s~-The Committed of Trustees of the Mutual Life Insu- rance Company. appointed to nominate a new Board of Trustees to be voted for the annual meeting of the company in December, made it's final report to- day and in doing so disclosed the fact that Henry H. Rogers and William Rockefeller had withdrawn from fur- ther connection with that body. In seeking from President Peabody the cause of this action on the part of the Standard Oil interests, Mir. Peabody gave out a personal letter from Mi. Rogers upon which he said he would make no comment In this letter MT. Rogers said:
 When the troubles came upon the company I felt 1t my duty as trus- tee to stand by and do anything could of service to my fellow members and policyho1ders. l believe have rendered some assistance.
 The statement has been frequently made that caused your election to the presidency of the Mutual Company. No one knows better than you how false this is. You know that I had but the slightest acquaintance with you; that I never exchanged a word with you re- specting your candidacy, nor was in any sense the inspiring cause of your selection
 Bring lip Standard OH.
 Apparently the people who are most active in their hostility to the present administration are using the fact oe my connection with the Standard OH Company as a ground for criticism. While this is D sufficient reason for my refusal to be candidate forA trustee since no one has q right to put such large interests In jeopardy for the sake of achieving a personal vfndication, If Is yet true that, aside from the rela- tions of Mr. William Rockefeller and myself as pciicyhoiders and trustees, neither the Standard oil Company nor any one occupying an oficiai postti n in that corporation has ever in the slightest degree had any bnsipess or other relation with the Mutual Lite Insurance Company.
 And iti the case of Mir Rockefeller who is now absent, his policy natured some months ago and was paid and he is therefore no longer a policy yhoidvr. He also wishes to be relieved from any further service as trustee
 If any one imagfnes that the stan dard oil Company or any of it's officers have profited out of any relation to the Mutual Life Insurance Company. he must be strangely ignorant of the facts Neither MT. Rockefeller nor my self have been identifed with any un- 0erWritinR4 Scnene, AOT ndNo WS oSSh engaged in any business t.ffairs with the Mutual company. by which we have been the gathers, On the contrary we have given business to the Mutual and ite allied companies from which they have largely benefited"
 List of Trustees Nominated.
 In giving out the list of trustees nominated by the committee, 1t was announced that acceptance had not been received from all the candidates, but 1t was said that few or no refusals were expected. From source Of tn- formation that should be authorize tive it was learned that President Peabody would not be candidate for reelection in the sense that he would make any eff) D succeed himself. The full ticke- is as follows:
 John W. .Auenincitss, George F. Ba- ker. Hugo Barring. Charles g. Brown. Dunlont Clar.ss Frederic Cromwell. Cyrus Curtis. Julian T Davies. Charles D Dickey. William P. Dixon. Y R. Du- val. George Gray. Charles R. lender son, H. N Higinbotham. James N. Jarvis A. D. Juilliard. William IT. Lambert, Charles I,Anier, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim. Emery McClintock. W. c. McMillan, George P. Miller Theo. Morford. Thomas M Mulry, Charles A.. Peabodv. Emile Oscar Phfllipi, Henry Phipps, AlfredM. Shook. Leroy Springs. George C. Rand, Louis stern Henry W. Taft, B. F. Tracy, w H. Truesdale, ". Mex. Tombley and Cornelius Van derbilt