The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-26
DISBARRED YEARS AGO
FOR CROOKED PRACTICE
Charged With UnIawfulIy Appropriate
ing to His Own Use Money That
Belonged to Widow of Union
Soldier In Ohio.

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leedeng roosevelt = es the same rule
8 has ia heE 70 sa1as aaople at whom he
mas beer throwing ari 5 within the past
aHs deuaHla that they step
sill. Yef TIC aims of the move
Heat VIII fe.lre Ohio delegation
TO the Chicago vvn. - ion for Taft. He
is now recognized as Tafts chief man
ager in that state. He also has a great
deal to say at national headquarters, and
If Taft could have had his way would
have been national chairman instead of
Hitchcock. Roosevelt Is credited with
having Influenced the selection of Hitch
cock because the latter was one of the
right bowers OF Cortelyou at headquarters
four years ago when small boy could
have directed the fight, as things turned
out at the last presidential election.
But Vorys, the trusted friend of Candi-
date Taft, has had something unearthed
about him that is nothing short of start
ling In 1882, while Gen. w. w. Dudley
of Indiana was commissioner of pensions,
Vorys was disbarred from practicing as
an attorney before the interior depart
ment. The charge against him was that
he had unlawfully taken q considerable
sum of money from Mrs. Sarah English,
a soldiers widow Dudley scofsd him un-
mercifully in his official report at the
time he was disbarred.
Reinstatement Refused.
Then vorys tried to get reinstated. Sec
retary Kirkwood took crack at him also.
and prevented him from again being
placed in good standing. Meanwhile the
widow learned how she had been filched
of her money, and took steps to recover.
Vorys admitted he had deposited 1t in the
Hooking County Valley bsnk, and had the
use of it for more than a year. The coun-
ty officials got after him, and when he
was threatened with prosecution and
probable Imprisonment he returned the
money to the poor widow.
1t was not until 1897 that Vorys was re-
stored to the roll practicing attorney
before the interior department. That was
done at the instance of the late Mark
Hanna. Away back yonder it seems that
Vorys called himself "A. j." instead of
"a. l." Vorys, but investigation shows
that he Is the same man, for there is no
other person of similar name at Lancas-
ter O., where the disbarred lawyer lived,
and which has been right along the legal
residence of one of Tafts chief polit-
ical managers in the person of the said
A. l. Vorys.
This exposure will go broadcast over the
country tomorrow, as a number of the
democratic papers have lengthy state
ments bearing on the nasty business.
Record on Him.
The facts are all contained in House ex-
ecutive document No. 172. first session
Forty-eighth Congress. The swatting
which the department officials gave Vorys
is also fully set forth. The story is in
deed full of rich reading.
Evidently the republicans have had an
inkling of what was about to come out,
for a Washington paper which is support
ing Taft had short article this morning
In which 1t was admitted that Vorys was
many years ago disbarred but claimed
that he was reinstated because 1t was
shown that he had been unjustly dealt
with. To read this one would think that
Vorys had never been denounced by high
officials for his gross misconduct. But
this Taft organ evidently had not seen
the official statements regarding the
sweet-scented citizen now swash- -buckling
around as Taft's Ohio manager.
The old soldiers are apt to read these
revelations with both interest and indig-
nation. They have intense antipathy for
men who impose upon the widows of the
men who fought in the Union army
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