New-York tribune., 1906-11-16
INDIANA READY TO ACT.
WARNS MUTUAL 4GEN1o.
Scswghana Denies Lauson's Con"ec'
tion srith Policgholders' Tickets.

Indiana has fallen into line with the states lha'
have protested against the Mutual biie oe
elect.oneering methods Governor many -
safd having announced that the staee au'
ttsz would not permit the companys agents u
DO any electionsering It is UNDERSTOOD thal ''ie
Indiana Insurance Commissioner has promiseo
60 assist IN enforcing this prohibition ana 'h9'
cancellation Of their branches threatens any
future sttenpt by the company's employees to
sisotioneer in INDIANA
Governor Sanly is vice-chairman OF the HUE
national Policyholders' Committee. Governor
johnson Of Minnesota. another committeeman
who. as told in yesterdays Tribune, has slsheu
sn address to poicyholders urging their support
OF the international ticket, Is expected IN town
to-day
George r scrughann. the international COM
rnittee's manager. yesterday filed an afnoaVl'
denying unequivocally that Thomas w. Lawson
had the slightest connection direct or lnolrecl'
with the international Mutual Life or the New
York Life ticket
Mr. Scrugham fled the affidavit In the Far
reilly suit now pending against the New YORK
Life The afndavit was in reply to several sub
naitted in behalf OF the defendant company in
timating that Mr.. Lawson was connected with
the movement.
Declaring that the insinuations are "abso-
iutely false and unfounded," the afhdavit says
IN part:
Mr. Lawson has never at any time had the
Temotest connection communication either
with the International Policyholders' Commit
tee any of its members, or with either OF the
tickets which IL instrumental in nominal
ing and has no connection or relation what
EVER with the campaign being waged by the
rommittee in behalf of the policyhoders in those
companies. Mr.. Lawson has never contributed
one cent either directly or indirectly, to the
campaign or 10 the funds Of the international
1oolicyholders' Committee On two separate oo-
haxe heen mar nv n
national Policyholders' Committee TO policyhold-
ers for funds and large sums have been con-
trihuted by the polioyholders IN response TO such
appeals-by many thousands of policyholders.
scattered all the world Funds are still
being received daily.
The international committees manager sent a
sletter yesterday TO Superintendent Kelsey in
closing one TO Walter n. Weeks. OF Whitehall.
N. Y. from ct Howard Lewis. a salaried man.
eger OF the Mutual Life" at Albany.
The letter read in part:
I direct your attention to the fact that in
soliciting for for the administration ticket
Mr.. Lewis is making false and fraudulent state
ments regarding the nominees on the united
committees ticket when he says: "Of the rival
candidates there are but seven who are policy
holders, and these are asking you to vote for
thirty-stx members, twenty nine of them not
even being policyholders in the company" This
Is absolutely false and misleading statement,
and we not only protest against these false re-
ports being circulated by agents paid with pol
tcyholders' money. but We protest against the
use Of the name Of the company and its station
cry being used in this connection, in direct viola
tion of every moral right Of the policyholders in
this election.
Charles Rhind. OF No. 353 West 57th street,
Of the oldest poIcyholders IN the Mutual
Life. surrendered his policy this week, receiving
from the company S4,815 SO In return for ST.
b02 80 which he had paid in premiums Mr..
Rhind is nearly ninety-seven years old. He
gays he is the Oldest living alumnus of Coium-
bia University, and that he classmate Of
Hamilton Fish. Mr.. Rhind took out policy No
1872. on March %. 1S45. The Mutual has three
policies Issued the previous year, still in force
Mr. Rhind has not paid any premiums for
twenty years.
missioner OF Virginia, who was in town yes
terday. said that the Virginia authorities were
ret taking sides. iii the New-York Life and
Mutual Life contest