The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-20
HEAUST.MURPHY JUDGES, INC.
A FEW CORPORATION LAWYERS
ON "CLEAN BENCH" TICKET.
NJ. wArIcy Piatzok. Counsel for Beef Trust
Firm. which Hearst Papers Attacked
-ErlAnger for Theatrical Combine
WA q Friend Of David ROthschIId.

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Firm, which Hearst Papers Attacked
-ErlAnger FOR Theatrical Combine
WAS . Friend Of David RothschIId.
Mr.. Hearst and his newspapers have re-
peatedly referred TO the judiciary ticket
put up by the Nominators as "a ticket made
up entirely OF corporation a~ttorneys.' He
Processes to favor q clean, upright bench
entirely free from corporation control, but
he has remained silent about the charges
brought in this line against some Of the
candidates running on the ticket which
was the result Of q bargain between him
self and Charles F. Murphy.
N. Marley Platzek, who was put on the
ticket for Supreme Court Justice by order
Of Murphy, long has been engaged in de-
Tending corporations and he 10 himself the
president and director in one corporation
at least, the Fidelity Coal and Iron Com
pany OF Tennessee. He was active as coun-
sci in the criminal proceedings Of the Gov
eminent against the beef trust in Chicago
and was connected In a legal way with the
case OF the Schwarzschild a Sulzberger
Company. which finally entered q plea Of
guilty. upon which four OF it's officers were
anod s2s.cooby Judge Humphrey on Septsrn-
Der 81 Of last year.
Mr.. Hearst's newspapers have time and
again scored the beef trust for it's methods
Of doing business. Mr.. Platzek also is said
to be counsel for the United Cigar Stores.
about whose business met h DDS 80 many re-
tail tobacco dealers complain.
Another corporation lawyer on the
Murphy Hearst ticket lis Mitchell l.. Err
LANCER. He is a brother Of the theatrical
nag and is attorney for the theatrical
trust, the Klaw a Erlanger Building and
Construction Company and the New York
Theatre Company. 1t was the theatrical
trust that barred James Metoalfe, the
dramatic critic, from its theatres.
Erlanger was a friend OF David Roths-
child. who wrecked the Federal Bank and
the Globe Security Company, in which
many people on the East Side lost the saw
ings Of their lives. Erlanger was a deposit
tor there personally and he also deposited
in the bank some Of the funds that he held
as Sheriff. But he got the money out before
the crash came.
When ErlanRer was running for Sheriff
Rothschild sent out hundreds OF personal
letters begging his friends to help theTam-
many candidate. These letters read:
AS my friend Mitchell L.. Erlanger
has been, nominated by the Democratic
party for Sheriff Of the ounty of New York,
and as / am greatly Interested in the sue
cess OF his candidacy as well as the sue
CCt Vi Tx CLltlAC ~ INC AASN
esteem it a personal favor II you would
contribute something toward the expense
OF the campaign.
please draw your check to the order Of
James W. Gerard, chairman finance COM
mittee, and mail the same to me and | will
personally attend to its delivery.
DAVID RoTHsCHILD.'
Erlanger has since denied that he was
a friend of Rothschild or hat he ever got
a cent of campaign money from him.
AnOAhar IN pAida4n m tho Mlrnhv-HaQFG
ticket who had close corporation connec-
lions is j. j.. Brady. whose nomination was
made as a favor to Louis +. HAffen, the
Tammany boss Of The Bronx. Brady, it is
said, has had a finger in every real estate
Die that has been cut in The Bronx in the
last ten years and be il now a rich man. He
il a director and an active worker in the
Geiszler- Haas Realty Company. which has
put through some big deals recently. He is
also Interested largely as a stakeholder and
director in the Sound Realty Company, the
Manhattan Mortgage Company and the
Charles L. Guy, another candidate on the
Murphy Hearst ticket, Ii also a corpora
ton man, being a director in the Washington
Heights Realty Company. And even John
ticket through the demand Of Hearst, adj
mitted yesterday that he was a corporation
LAWYER, too, being counsel for the Queen
Accident and Guarantee Corporation OF
London, which does an accident, burglary
and credit insurance business all over the
world.
He said he was sorry that he did not have
more corporations to represent and that he
would not draw the line at even the sugar
trust. He fastened to add that he was no
friend Of the predatory corporations such
IA the Ryan-Belmont merger, the beef
trust and the gas combine but said that he
believed thai corporations when properly
conducted were good things.