The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-03-04

$4,000 was filed against Glover by NJ.
NJ. Lyons he issued a statement to the
effect that he was being harassed by
persons who knew of his past record.
He admitted having gone under other
names and violated the insurance laws.
Remnant of Civil War.
81 am a remnant of the civil war, !"
he said. "All of the other members
of my family in Georgia are dead.
Some were killed in the war and others
died soon afterward and l was left an
orphan to get along the best way L
could. 1 sold newspapers and slept on
wharves and in wagons. l got job
as office boy for the Prudential In
surance Company and taught myself to
read and write during spare hours. L
worked my way up until got the name
of being one of the best insurance
writer's in America. 1 made plenty of
money, but 1 gave it to my friends.
1 was too liberal.
SIN order to keep going 1 changed
my name whenever changed towns,
because of the understanding between
insurance companies not to employ an
other company's agent within two years
after his leaving any one company.
Insurance papers have attacked me
time and again.
GA couple of years ago 1 gave note
for ST 900 to a friend to help him out.
He was unable to cash it. After 1 had
started the Royal Insurance Company
on a shoestring and he heard L was
making it go despite all the harassing,
he cited me to the debtors court. 1
went into bankruptcy to keep him from
trimming me. That is some more of
my past, 1 suppose. THE Chicago
Tribune, Tuesday, Feb. goth.
President Glover, it seems, was past
master in the art of working his white
fellow citizens, as well as understand
ing how to work his Colored fellow
citizens to perfection. In order to more
successfully work the money out of the
pockets of his Colored fellow citizens
once each week, President Glover would
give an elaborate banquet for the Col
ored end of the Royal Life Insurance
Company at the Colored headquarters,
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most prominent Colored folks in this
town felt highly honored to be in evil
denee on such occasions, and after
filling them up on free eating or dOings
they would induce their victims to
freely part with their money for stock
in the Company at $50 per share and
for life insurance policies which are not
now worth ten cents on the dollar.
At the time that President Glover
established the Colored end of the
Royal Life Insurance Company, coming
from Georgia he claims that he under
stands the Colored people, he decided
to start contest between two Colored
men, and the one selling the largest
amount of stock and turning in the
greatest amount of new business and
the money would be selected superin
tendent at the 39th and State street
headquarters.
Our highly esteemed friend Col.
John R. Marshall and Frank l.. Gil
lispi, duly entered the contest, and it
seems that Mr.. Gillispi succeeded in
turning in more money and new bust
ness than Col. Marshall, and he was
selected as assistant superintendent at
$3.50 per month.
Not long after that exciting event
a swell banquet was given at the Col
ored headquarters, and Mr.. Gillispi was
presented with handsome gold watch
and chain and loudly proclaimed
through the columns of the "greatest
weekly newspaper in the world" the
most popular Colored man in Chicago,
and from that time to the present a
steady stream of money from the Col
ored people has continued to roll into
the Golfers of the rotten Royal Life
Insurance Company.
At no time either for money nor for
the love of the thing did we do any
boosting in favor of it nor any knock
ing against it. But as a matter of fact
we never have much faith in any White
company or business concern whose
head chiefs feel that they must make
a special effort to gather in their
wealth or ill-gotten gains out of the
pockets of the Colored people.