The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-07-05
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n ether y~aF In AE@ersaG hssAof1
.rsss~. mach 81 the preliminary york
OF rsagtae off massa uss done last
scar and much esidcnce ~as colg.~-
iea 10 furnish proof positive that this
COUNTRY vas surely afflicted wiz
the fake r~ssorues Aa5 n. fake In
| nosAtuf.
Thomas " f&~kon was thought
by nsany go b. p genuine refoTsasf
among a class so which he belonged.
and Of which very little could ever
be said that mar TO ia credit. and
Will. b. VAS rpxard.d In come guar
tiers as of being sore because he was
caught add oatpiased In The game
OF financial grab. in which he WAS
| engaged. il cannot be denied that
be created quite u stir and was for
a brief period considered as a gen
| uIne retormer. sut ne soon ffKIied
ont and thos. who acted upon his
! straight tips came to grief and nov
denounre him for a chariatan and
Notwithstanding fraud. says the
Kansas City Post.
when the life Insurance eapos-
| ures can e some sixteen months ago
| the fake reformers cried londest Tor
vengeance and we're In the very fore
front OF those who sought the pun
ish of the guilty. True. many
things had been done by insurance
officials which were indefensible. but
It tool time 10 show clearly that
the policy holders were unhurt and
that the unauthorized expenditures
were restored.
When an election was to be held
TO choose directors of the New York
Life Insurance company much fric-
ton was eaused after the date was
announced by factions which sprung
up among those seemingly o In
terested as TO the personnel OF the
new directorate. Those who were
loudest in denunciation OF the old
board were most active In organic
ing an international Policyholders
committee" which had for It's OBJ
ject the control OF the next directory
and the taking out OF the hands OF
the old crowd the immense business
to its keeping,
After weeks of w%rangling and
much publicity, after still-huntine
by both sides for proxies and after
all the m]aneuvering known to skill
ed manipulators the election was
held and the old crowd Won Now at
ter weeks of quiet investigation by
those who thought the reformers
were crooked and hat they used
means to get the large vote they
I polled by methods unknown to the
moral code, indictments have beer
found against three of the haloed
ringleaders for fraud and forgery.
One of them at once took an immun-
ity bath by turning states evidence
and the other two are out or bond.
1t was shown conclusively that they
c%onspired to and and did forge prOx-
| les, erase names and otherwise try
to augment their vote by criminal
means and that, when caught and,
exposed. one white-livered reformer
lost his fake nerve and begged i'm
| munity from punishment by offer
ing to tell of all the crooked trans
actions he and his honest conspira-
tors Matched and tried to palm off
as the genuine work of honest men
outraged by dishonest officials.
Thus the loud mouthed reformers
in that case came to grief n thus
many more in other walks in life
are on the way.
The old president of the New York
Life. the late John \. Mccall, vas
bounded to his death by the false ac-
SENSATIONS of his traducers and self
styled "reformers." Honest men
when accused of crime are hurt and
worried dishonest men never turn
a hair or show sign of worry OF
guilt until the tolls close around
them. Mccall died in a very few
weeks after wholesale accusation,
We're made against all the officer,
and IL lis now known that ne wa,
perfectly honest and that he died
poor, with opportunity. had he beer
veual. 10 fitch great riches from IN,
Golfers of the treasury Of his com
paHy. His estate was appraised %.
Jess ban $4,000
While Grover Cleveland was so,
eues gt Nyv YurE Mccall Vas hi.
superintendent 81 assurance tB5 a'
sboW'J u,b ufaiIiIyuJ INSIGHT ut.
uui suowIrdgp ut 200, business Iha.
He Vls consulted av Insurance e,
perta Boa man, States uf fu, uu.un
and u ls O. fact .auf aiI Hr coussrya
flte legislation. afeg1afdius poIicy
holder Iu u,a ey.r States