Show NEW YORK LIFE EXPOSURE PROVES PARKERS CHARGE Democratic Candidate for President Expresses His Mind Regarding John A ti McCall I 1 Other Corporations Also Contributed Vast Sums to Corrupt the Electorate Money of Widows and Orphans Spent by Those Who Held it in Trusts Trust sOPus N Y Sept 17 Former ESOPUS E Chief Justice Alton llon B Parker I I last la t year yo r the candi end candidate candidate date for president ot of the United Unit States State I today referred to the charges made de by b bhim him in the presidential campaign last Jut fall tall that corruption funds were being belne j used in aid of the Republican cam campaign To a It correspondent of ot the As Aa Associated Jt Press who called caned at Ros I mount Judge Parkers home horne and IL d asked u ed him Lm if It he had anything to say ay y in hi re ra relation lation laUon to the statement made by Vice Vlee President George Georce W T Perkins of the New ew York Life Ute Insurance nce company be before besore fore sore the legislative lerl laUw committee investigating gating the insurance business to the effect that President John A McCall of that company had caused a contribution tion of M IO OO to be made last lut year el to the tIt tIl Republican national nH na campaign I Judge Parker said anid iI J l There Were Others Yes e I believe I ought t to say i now that there is J no political excitement to attract the public attention that the president of ot the New York Life was wast wa not the only subscriber r The officers t y Of r other great Insurance companies us as the Equitable and the Mutual t also contributed from the policy hold eis 11 funds fund for tor campaign purposes last la t year tear tar What has hall been proved in the case ee of ot the New York Life Lite will probably be proved in the other cases The facts and honest and able counsel coun l backe by bv an honest committee will IY bring them out for the I public lk good Were there an investigation tl atlon of rail rall r road 1081 manufacturing and aid other othel carper corpor corporations I atkins it would be found fount that the life ute Insurance officers were not the only officers who ho put their hands hande I into the treasury and anel took out moneys mone 8 I 1 bi longing to widows and orphana orphans to I help secure a partisan triumph Unlawful and Corrupt That their acts tela were ere unlawful and their th ir purposes corrupt goes noes without saying saving They intended to have the money used ud as Wi a it was as in electorate Mr Jr Perkins make the point p that Mr lr r John A th thA thAir ir of the New Ne York Life Ute is Ia a Democrat Apparently par he would have hll n ilif public that when McCall and wrongfully lIl contributed in f t funds iU the share loly i U as ai a Il member of the underwriting underwritings s U was wa evidence el eC f L virtue titan han n misconduct ml The truth about it is h l and I say BA it Itil il ii hout iut feeling but emphatically thru i I u II like McCall have no political con that stand Bland in the way WRY of or their I onal advantage le Such men desire de ire tx t triumph of or that party larty which will serve ere their personal In Int Ints Inand t ts and will for contributions pest pat Jr nt t and future continue protect to St interests by lenient legislation ii 1 lIy by pretense e at execution of ot law lav la which shall be tenderly blind to all their i Have No Party Principles That party they espouse 06 in the board and contribute to tD it of the moneys they hold in trust truet and occasionally a little of their own The underlying principles which divide divido the great groat mass massof massot massof of ot the people into parties have no ef of effect effect feet upon such euch men Their own inquiry is ie will the party part organization in its hour of triumph remember our gener generosity and ad respond to our demands Of or course the organization does doCS remember for tor it expects til a similar contribution next time and the expectation is not in vain vin Last year was waB not the first time thue Such Sueh contributions had been made before in national state and mu municipal l elections The Phe officers responsible for these those raids ralde upon UIn treasuries of corporations hAve received their reward in unfettered unfettered unfettered management of life insurance cor corporations oration in unembarrassed raids on the public through trusts condemned by b both common and statute law in I to punish 1 criminally the officers of railroad and other corporations via vio violating lating the laws Jaws and in statutory per permission mission to manufacturing corporations to levy tribute on the people Guilty Escape Punishment There rh re can an be bl no hope hODe of checking the unlawful aggressions of officers of great gg corporations so long as they may thus titus form a with the organization of ot the dominant political party For in Jn the hour when the ad administrative official to punish the offender he Is reminded by the head of the organization of I the magnitude of the contributions t of the corporation There is however something worse if possible than the escape of such of fenders tenders from justice It is 1 the gradual demoralisation demoralization of voters and the dull dulI dulling ing jag of the public conscience caused by bythe b bythe the efforts to make these vast sums of money procure tile life ballots they were intended to procure corruptly and oth otherwise Facts Should Be Made Known It is 16 not my purpose to claim that the Democratic party part subjected to the I temptation which has ha overcome the theother theother theother other party Darty during the last few years ars would have han acted differently Mere party advantage should not be sought from the disclosures urell aures made in this in investigation Investigation nut Hut the facts should be diligently sought BOught that the people may become heroine so o aroused that they the will in insist n upon legislation making it inal ma offense for tor officers to contribute corporate funds for political purposes s 1 IS th the apparently ap 6 I I fur ful candidates of their offices I Efforts in that direction have hane been making states since No Xo November November vember last and particularly in this state But the Republican organization would not consent to it so the legisla legislature legislature ture tore defeated the bills bili And the or organization never n ver will ill consent until an aroused public lublic sentiment shall threaten legislators with political oblivion who fail fan to enact effective laws Jaws upon the th subject so |