Show I I COMMITTEE BUSY Issue Statement That Forecast of ol Election Electon is Surprisingly I Encouraging I HOPE T CONTROL Warning n t I o of If c Canta liiK for Proxies for feU Ih Vl Companies New York Oct 28 RegardIng 8 Regarding t the c progress of or the election of ot directors for Cor tho the big life lre insurance companies the International committee com corn mince issued the lie following statement tonight ht The rite Ih tabulation of the tho haunts ballots cast I tinning during time the tl first nine days of or the el en c- c bit ton J Is surprisingly encouraging f for r the tl PolIcYholders Thus far about I 10 I I per cent cOnt of it the tH entire vote of each NiCh company hn has been heEn east cast In the lw form Corm of official baJol ballots sent to the lie office I of or th the lie companies This I In is entirely Independent of oC it the the ballots that have been heen sept sent to th the lion lon Richard Richart Oln Olney the chairman of our committee In view of ot lh the desperate activities of the companies and their thI paid all allover allover over the world It ii I would not be wise vise at this time for us UK to 10 tl disclose close the number num num- h her ber of ballots h held heiti ld h by 1 Mr r. r 0 y ny as aM chairman nor of nf i the tue th votes held by hy bythe 1 the various valious members of the International lional tonal Policyholders Policyholders' committee in different different dif dlf- dif dif- ferent sections of the th country countr such as Judge Gray General Tracy Trucy Colonel Shook Mr Mr 11 Ion Longworth Longworth Long Long- worth and ot others hers I If the pre present ratio Is maintained and antI It I should houll be bu a mo most t overwhelming overwhelm overwhelm- ing defeat for the administration tick lick lck- lck both hoth companies will wi bo he recorded Policyholders must not allow them bent themselves selves to be lie misled by the boastful of canvassing canvass canvass- statements statement paid pale ing lug for th the administration tickets If I the lie entire vote cast at nt the home offices of of- flees of the thE companies In the first nine days duys of this election electon Is credited to the administration tickets it would represent less than two thirds of one vote rem per fe day cay secured l by each ench of the said i employeR who vho are electioneering at the policyholders policyholders' expense to defeat de 10 feat fent the policyholders policyholders' candidates The commile committee hn has done and une Is doing do tb- ing its Is york work It Ii I is for tOI the time ers to say whether thC they shall shah assume aume control of their own property and anti take talie the two t companies out of ff Wall street or oh 0 whether they shall be misled h by bythe bythe the literature with wih which they are arc beIng being be be- ing lug deluged cd by the present prent management management manage manage- ment merit of the companies The money to pa pay for tor this literature comes out o of the policyholders policyholders' pockets ts Ve e Ye nr are gratified at al the extent to which the policyholders rea really 1 understand under stand the situation and the he care and auth andI I I tl discrimination with wih which they are complying with wih the thc law last In InIn in the he casting of of their thi-li ballots We Ye were re afraid that tile the they would not understand tho the complications com corn of the voting law The rite only onh danger dangel now nOW no noIs is that the the policyholders will wi become Inert and not vote or that thou thousands of paid of the companies s who are trying to take this tuiI el election clon away from froni the PolicYholders PolicY PolicY- holders will il succeed in iii misleading them I |