The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-10
Liability Insurance Representa-
tiVGS Meet al Banquet Table.
ORGANIZE TO DEFEAT COX

compensation measure.
Columbus, O.-(Special.)-Tn Ma.
tonal Council Of Insurance Federa.
lions met around banquet table at
White Sulphur Springs on Monday
evening. Sept. 1S. At the meeting re-.
terred to there were present only the
representatives of employers liability
Insurance companies.
II picture in truth could be pre-.
sented of that meeting and its mean.
Ing, compulsory workmen's compensa-
ton In Ohio would need no further
campaign in its behalf.
Pointed remarks concerning the
Ohio political campaign and the fight
Of the employers liability insurance
companies were made by w. G. Will
son Of Cleveland. Every laboring man
Interested in workmen's compensation
knows that w. G. Wilson has been the
managing director of his enemies ever
since the fight on workmen's compen.
sation started. 1t was w. G. Wilson
who opposed the compulsory compen.
sation amendment which James M.
Cox fought for. 1t was w. G. VIII
son who led the fight on the law
which Governor James NJ. Cox
forced to passage. 1t was w. G.
Wilson who was the managing
power in the referendum frauds
In an effort to take away what the
workmen had gained 1t was w. G.
Wilson who led the fight against
workmen's compensations friend In
1914, and brought about the election
OF the employers liability insurance
companies tool. It is w. G.. Wilson
who is at the head OF the organized
move in Ohio today TO re-elect Cover.
nor Frank B. Willis and defeat com
pulsory workmen's compensation. 1t
Is he VINO would substitute law suits
and no pay for compensation the III,
! 1ured workmen now receive.
At this banquet, among other things
W. G. Wilson said: "We are organiz.
ing In Ohio for the defeat Of Governor
Cox for the part he took in making
state monopoly OF the workmen's COM
pensation law and We ere going to
beat him" 1--WE" is the employers
liability companies organization and
such misguided other insurance
agents as they are able to bring into
their fight. Mr. Wilson has been.
placed IN this fight and financed in his
efforts by the companies he repre-.
sents He is the leading agent In Ohio
Of the Aetna Liability Insurance com.
pany
There were present also at this ban.
quet, in which It is apparent that
tongues were freely loosened, Vice
President J. Scofield Rowe Of the
Aetna Life Insurance company. What
he said is here quoted from the pub.
lished reports and needs no elabora
tion. After paying compliment to
Father Diggs," president Of the Ma.
tionnl Council OF Insurance Fedora.
tion, and to Mark T. Mckee, the ma,
tional secretary, who now have Offices
In Ohio for the conduct bf the polit.
zeal campaign, Mr.. Rowe said: az
must confess that In the position
which I occupy on your printed list Of
speakers between Manager Holland
and President Joyce-I feel as much
out Of place as would the uninterest.
ing commissary wagon Of the circus
parade il placed between the guided
cage Of the royal British lion. who &C.
cepts the plau6its OF the crowd as
matter of course, and the stately
giraffe, who is believed to rejoice in
the lime light, frequently raising his
head to majestic height that Ger.
tainly proclaims him the very taIlest
animal In the world.
"Of course commissary wagons have
their uses, while they are not expect
ed to attract much attention in a cir.
Gus parade, vet everybody likes to
keep on friendly terms, and It may
be that the managers OF this show
reasoned that we'll provisioned CON-
missary wagon might prove to be a
friend in tine of need.
'T am prov. Of tine fact that In mp1v
important states the field representa-.
tives of Aetna companies have taken
an active ID whole-hearted interest
In making tine federation a power to
be reckonei with by the enemies OF
fair and honest government.
eve do not see how any compan
can honestl evade the obligations i'm
posed by their own selfinterest TO
lend all possible support, both moral
and financial, to an immediate and
adequate defense AGAINST further
political interference with the proper
development and growth of the bu-i.
ness of insurance
"THE MESSAGE WHICH I BRI' q
TO YOU FROM OUR PRESIDEN i
THE HON. IOPGAN BULKELEY. Es
AN ASSURANCE THAT THE Act.
! MA COMP MES MAY BE CoUN-r,
! ED UPON TO AID THIS NATIONAL
COUNCIL TO PROVIDE THAT
'WHEREWTHAL' THAT WILL PITT
HEART AND DNTERMINTTON INTO
THE LOYAL DEFENDERS OF THE
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