The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-15
THE DEAL BUNCH OF JUDGES.
CORPORATION ATTORNEYS PLEN-
TIFUL ~ THE LIST.

one Was . Beef Trust Attorney several
Directors Of Corporations Hearst
Has Ma Objections judiciary Mont.
majors Prefer . quite Different Ticket.
The judiciary Nominators are to have a
mass meeting in Cooper Union tomorrow
night to protest against the Hearst Murphy
deal on Supreme Court Justices.
The keynote Of the mass meeting is to be
taken from Charles r.. Hughes's speech
At Seneca Falls. wherein Mr.. Hughes asked:
Can a man take our Judiciary in New
York and make il a matter Of bargain with
Charles =. Murphy, and agree that so many
nominees shall be dictated by him and 60
many nominees dictated by another, and
then succeed in fooling the American people
in talking about the expression Of the
popular will? The American people are
not 50 easily fooled"
II was while MT. Hughes was counsel
for the stevens gas investigating committee
Of the Senate that Mr.. Hearst in his news
papers severely arraigned Peter A .Hendrck.
counsel for John j. Murphy's New York
construction and trucking company. John
Y. ia a brother Of Charles r. Murphy OF
Tammany, who went upon the stand and
SWOTtl nNb Nv Uhu uO ! ih
ent erprise. The notes held by a number
Of New York banks and the contracts given
to John j. Murphy's concern by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company and the CONSOLE
dated Gas Company we're referred to as
suggestive Of a different state Of affairs.
Nj. Hearst no longer attacks Peter A.
Hendrick and through III Independence
League has formally accepted Mr..
= 4 - --sAI Tn.-lAa Z Ms.rnhp
on the judgeships.
Mr.. Hearst also accept as part OF his
deal with Charles r. Murphy NJ. Marley
Platzek, one Of the counsel Of h Schwartz
schild- Sulzburger Company OF the beeftrust.
Mr.. Platzek's clients pleaded guilty OF
violating the interstate law
and we're fined SIS, OOO in the United States
courts. Mr.. Platzek il also president Of the
Fidelity Coal and Iron Company OF Ten
nessee, another corporation.
Charles W. Dayton, another OF Mr.. Hearst's
candidates for the Supreme Court, is a
director in the Unit ed States Insurance
Company.
Charles L.. Guy. another of Mr.. Hearst's
candidates for the Supreme Court, is u
director in the Washington Heights Realt y
Company.
John J. Brady. still another. is a director
in the Manhattan Mortgage Company and
the Geiszler-H Haas Realty Company.
The next corporation attorney" for Mr..
Hearst to accept in his deal with Charles
f. Murphy ia Mitchell l.. Erlanger, who is
one Of the counsel for the theatre ttust and
the Klaw 4 Granger Construction Company.
John Ford, another of Mr.. Hearst's can
didates, pushed at Albany the passage OF
bills favorable to insurance companies
ore Of which bills was Of 80 particularly
offensive a character that the authorities
protested against its becoming a law. but
Ford's vote was required to pass the amend
ments bringing the franchise tax law
into constitutional form. and so Ford's bill
for the insurance company was signed.
The Judiciary ~Nominators are to begin
from to-day at the Union Square Hotel
the campaign to defeat the Hearst-Murphy
candidates for Supreme Court Justice.
Every registered voter is to be appei led
to and the fight is to wax hotter and hotter
in the remaining three weeks Of the cam
paign.