Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-19
UNTERMEYER OBJECTS.
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said today that the administration ticket
Is Ito hell with reform ticket" and
about the most deserving Of defeat and
easy to beat that could have been named.
LAS it stands" he said, ''it embodies
the high graft contingent of the McCur-
dy regime, while it shows the white
feather Of suppressing Rogers. There Is
no danger OF anyone mistaking the char
acter of a ticket on which are such shin
ing names as those of Baker, Cromwell.
Davies, Juillard and Truesdale, not to
mention others. A full opposition ticket
will promptly be settled and active can
vassing commenced to restore the Mutual
Life to its position as 4 great insurance
company and stop its career as imam
cial pool for the system"
Mr.. Untermyer when shown a copy of
Mr.. Peabody's statement said:
Mr.. Peabody's opinion of my motive
is a matter of concern to me. l can well
understand his inability to realize that
there are such things in the world as
public spirit and disinterested motives.
He lives in different atmosphere. If
his moral perception We're a little more
keen he would understand why the gen.
tlemen of our committee are unwilling
to have their names placed on the ticket
with the old management.
"Mr. Peabody will find it difficult to di-
vert the real issues of this momentous
advertisement into personal controver-
sy with me. 1 am not a factor of sufti-
c.ent Importance in the natter
In the course of the day Mr.. Untermyer
received the following telegram from
Judge Gray:
Il instruct you to protest with the in
surance commissioner and wherever else
proper against my name appearing on
any ticket for trustee of the Mutual Life,
and if my name has been filed with any
ticket please have 1t removed
Col. A. NJ. Shook:
Telegram just received. First infor-
nation received through general agent
Mutual this city NASHVILLE. TENN. Had
him wire his company yesterday evening
could not accept"
Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy:
WAS not consulted. Had no hint OF
such action. Shall not accept. Am not I,
policyholder. Accepted position on COM
mittee in interest of those closely related
and because 1 think it to be the duty OF
policyholders under existing crcum-
stances to change present management
and assure control Of their own proper.
ty."
H. n. Higinbotham:
WAS not advised CT consulted about
nomination. Am willing to join Gray and
Tracy in any statement they could ad
wise"
Mr.. Cntermyer also sent a letter to-
night to Superintendent of Insurance
| Kelsey at Albany. complaining that tho
| lists of policyholders filed with him by
| the insurance companies do not comply
with the law.
"Thcy are wilful evaslons intended t.
disfranchise a large proportion of the pol
| icyholders," he declares, land to secure
| unfair advantages to the administration
| ticket in the impending election. Sec
| ton 81 of the insurance law, as amended
by the last General Assembly, distinct,
| requires the lists to contain the las
known pcstOffice addresses of all policy
| holders.
| THAT phrase has recognized meaning
| in legal construction. 1t means that tn,
l street ana street NUMBER as WCIl as INT
name of the pos,offlce shall be given. Z
| list giving the addresses of numerous
John Smiths as New York is palpabl,
violation of the law. The addresses of {
very large proportion of the names o
policyholders in large cities are thus Civ
en- out without street or street number
Under the postal regulations applicable
to cities. letters bearing no street ad
dress are thrown together and if ever de
livered it Is after serious and to US fata
delay. Again, there are numerous in
stances in the lists as filed where tn
policyholder's name is given and a cum
ty address with no postoffice, village
town or city.
THE policyholders for whom we ar
acting are entitled to these names an,
correct postoffice addresses, they requir
them at once; they look to the state off
Gals to secure these lists for them an,
they are ready and determined to en-
force their rights by such proceedings
judicial or otherwise, as the occasion de
mands.''