| Show INSURANCE JUSTICE Under the finding that the statutory limit Umit for in the New York insurance frauds has not yet Qt passed there Is a chance for the punishment of oC the men who were guilty of diverting policyholders funds to the camp campaign e of the Republican party The grand jury is convinced the cam campaign contributions were a criminal offense and it will depend upon the vIgor of the prosecution as to whether the guIlty ones get their deserts or not The fact that Mr Ir Jerome wIll have charge ot of the matter is enough to jus justify justify the expectation that justice will vIli be meted out so far as the actual offend era rs is concerned and It If the cases are carried through to their logical non ion Mr Cortel Cortelyou ou who received the campaign contribution for 1900 from the Insurance companies will be gIven an to answer on behalf of the national co committee The contributions were in cold fact stolen from the tho policyholders Tech Technically Technically the law may regard it only as a breach of trust but the money was stolen as literally as if the policyholders ers had bad been stood on their heads and the funds shaken out of their pockets Mr Ir Cortelyou may plead that the pay payments payments ments came through third parties aUf and 1 that he was In Ignorance of their source though no such defense defonse has been offered yet The general public however will be loth to believe belleve that a manager of a national campaign Is in innocent innocent enough or Ignorant enough to receive money In such sueh large sums with without without out being advised of Its source When hen anybody gives checks for con contrIbutions ns running into the thousand he does it for protection and it Is askIng too much ot of human humah credulity to expect It to suppose Cortelyou got the th funds wIthout a tacit understanding that the contributors were to be repaid in political favors Meanwhile an apology is still overdue to JUdge Par Parker Parker ker from Cortelyou and the president for their Insulting reply to his charge that they were getting funds from the big New York corporations They ac accused hIm at the time of bearing false witness in making his charge they have since seen the truth of f hIs asser assertions assertions verified but as yet no one has heard either of them hOor able amend ODe oae gentleman owes Oes another under such cIrcumstances I t |
