The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-03-06
TO GRILL JEROME.
The Charge Is Made That the Dis
trict Attorney Refuses to Pros
ecute Rich Criminals.
pET|T|OHED HIS REMOVAL
Exposure of Influential Grafters and
Failure to Proceed Against
Them Breeds Socialism
and Anarchy.

New York, Feb. 2S-Twenty-two
specific charges are made in a petition
praying for the removal of William T..
Jerome as district attorney of the
county of New York which was sent
to Gov. Hughes at Albany Thursday
by a committee of stockholders of the
Metropolitan Street Railway through
their chairman, William F. King.
The petition alleges that Jerome
failed properly to prosecute charges Of
alleged Jury fixing" and the giving Of
false testimony in street railway cases,
that the prosecution of violations of
the criminal law by the life insurance
companies of New York, as disclosed
by the Armstrong committee had been
delayed; that an alleged criminal con-
spiracy to divert the property of the
Metropolitan Street Railway company
of New York into the hands of few
men was allowed by Mr.. Jerome to go
on and hundreds of stockholders to be
robbed of their money, and that no
attempt was made to spunish men al
legged to have committed other frauds
in connection with New York city trac-
ton deals.
I'm not worried was District At
of the charges and request for his re-
moval sent to Gov. Hughes Thursday.
This is another one, | suppose. They
file them up there every week or SO
against me by the reports. The gov
ernor has never asked me to explain.
If he does then we will take cogniz-
ance of them"
Albany, N. Y, Feb. Ex-Governor
Higher said Thursday night that the
charges against District Attorney Je-
rome would take the usual course. A
rome so that he may send an answer
to them to the governor, after which
the governor will decide as to his
course.
William F. King, former president
of the Merchants association, who
ment in which he severely criticises
District Attorney Jerome. Il main
TAIN he said, that much of the
blame for the present deplorable con-
ditions of affairs is due to the failure
of Mr.. Jerome, as district attorney, to
prosecute the rich and influential
grafters who have robbed our people,
and disgraced the name of our city,
commencing with the ice trust, the in
famous clique who filched the money
of policyholders from the great insur-
ance companies and last in the list,
but first in open, shameless audacity
and barefaced stealing, the men who
looted and wrecked the Metropolitan
Traction company.
THE public exposure of these rich
criminals, and the failure to prosecute
them, and others OF the same ilk who
owned and controlled many great
banks and trust companies, is the pri-
mary cause of the want of confidence
that caused people to rush to banks
to withdraw their deposits and place
them in safe deposit boxes, and al
though the so-called panic is prac-
tically over as far as the banks are
concerned the want of confidence is
here to stay, and will stay until the
people see some of these wealthy
criminals punished, not fined, but put
in jail, just the same as would happen
to criminals of less prominence. The
failure to enforce our laws is breeding
socialism and anarchy and only the
greatest vigilance will prevent us
from a repetition of rioting, only on a
greater scale, such as has recently
disgraced a neighboring city"