The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-26
Disbarred from Practice
 of Law. ACCUSED OF SWINDLING
 WIDOW OF A SOLDIER Democrats Dig Into Record of Ohio
 Manager. Leading Republicans Plead With Roosevelt To Stop Issuing Mani- festoes and Newspaper De-
 clares He Degrades His
BY ALFREp ,. srnrER.

Washington. D. c. Sept. 25---(Spe- cial.)--Something of sensation will be exploded tomorrow when a number of Democratic papers in this and other sections will have a lengthy statement showing that A. l. Vorys, Candidate | Tafts right bower, and the man who organized the movement to give Taft the Ohio delegation to the Chicago con- | ventton and who was favored by him for National Chairman. was disbarred | from practice while General Dudley was Pension Commissioner for swindl- Ing soldiers widow of a considerable sum of money.
 Vorys, it was officially alleged. had | this money on deposit and used 1t ! Tor more than a year, and refunded 1t | only whs he was threatened with prosecution and Imprisonment by the officials of his home county. He even tried to be reinstated, but Dudley and other high officials here scored him unmercifully, and would not permit It. Not until 1897. through the influence or Mark Hanna. was his status re- esta blished.
 The story to be printed has of...al documents as well as damaging let ters to substantiate 1t. vorys, when disbarred, used he initials "A. J." but Of late years has substituted an T" for Inquiry proves that he Is the sams man, was then, and Is now, a legal resident of Lancaster. o. These damag- ing facts are all set forth in Houas Executive Document 172, first session. Forthy- eighth Congress.
 Foreatalls The Charges.
 Republicans must lave gott sn wind of what is coming for in The Washing ton Post today is h2ort article mem tioning the fact that vorys was once disbarred. He was young then 1t Is claimed, unskilled, and finding out few things he squared up, and ever Fsince has been really fine man in | character.
 yorys is absolute manager of Taft.s interests in Ohio, Is in constant com munication with him. and great power has also been delegated to him in the work at National headquarterss Hitcn- cock royalty hates him, and doubtless will be glad to hear that damaglna record has been ralxed up on hinL
 If there Is one individual the old soldiers despise. 1t Is the lawyer wfn imposes upon veterans widow.
 Prominent Republicans are under stood to be trying to influence Presi. dent Roosevelt to stop giving out hfg' fiery manifestoes. Complaint Is made that Roosevelt overshadows Taft and that the latter's speeches are falling fiat. These disgusted Republicans think Roosevelt should hold his ammu- milton until the last of October. and almost tearfLlly admit that Bryan iA drawing the fire of the President much to the advantage of the Democrats
 Severe on Roosevelt.
 The New York Sun had this brtef editorial this morning. and because os its support of Taft. It's comments were earnestly discussed here today:
 Let self-respecting Americans of ali political faiths unite in ths fervsns prayer and the unexampIed frenzy or spasm of self-exhibition whicn Is now degrading the office of President of the United States may end before tae scan- daf invites the attention and excitea the disgust of the civilized world.
 And 1t Is not just that rats shoul.i suffer"
 Close friends of Sam Goinpers, Pres ident of the American Federation of Labor make two pointed charges. One is that by direction of powerful Re- nublicans he is being unnecessarily detained here in the boycott conten- lion before the courts in order to pre- vent him from making campaign sneeches The other Is that the Re- publican campaign managers would ike to see Gompers landed in jail. but did not try for fear that 1t would lose their party many hundreds of thous- ands of votes.