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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
Lsttar to Col bonner.

GALVESTON, TEX, June 10, 1890.
Hon. T. r. Bonner, Tyler, Tex:
DEAR SIR--We are informed through Mr.. Do
remus, managing editor OK the Dallas News,
that a report is being circulated in North Texas
90 the effect that T. r. Bonner OF Tyler retu sed
to pay bill sent him from the News office for
SIC, 900 in payment for the opposition of the
News to the Brown railroad bill introduced in
the last state Legislature; that Bonner refused to
pay the bill unless made out so as to show that
Il was for advertising in the News, and that
Boomers letter to this effect has been seen.
There may be some variation in this report, but
all statements point to the same general allega-
ton.
1t may DO necessary for the News to reply to
the vile calumny that is being circulated, and
desire of you TO say whether or not the Gal
weston News ever presented bill to you, or to
any one else within your knowledge, for SIC, 900,
or for any other sum, to be in payment for the
opposition of the News to the Brown railroad
bill, for any other purpose whatever, or
whether the News ever presented bill to You in
any capacity as q railroad receiver, other than
the legitimate expenses incurred by the road for
the legitimate advertising, carried by the
News from day to day.
You will be kind enough to answer this letter
al your earliest possible convenience so that we
may be able TO nail the falsehood thus being
circulated against the News. Yours very truly
\. b, BELo < Co.
Per z. G. LOWE, Vice President.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
Gazette's Call on De Grafienreid.
Fort Worth GAZETTE of July s.
A GAIL on DE eBAFFENREIp

A CALL ON De GRAFFENRElD.
From the outset of the present state campaign
the News, for reasons that may be concerned, .
has been made the object of q conspiracy OF
defamation. In every such campaign the crea-
ture who 'devotes to scandal ms eongenlasl
mind. himself living libel on mankind, Is
pretty sure to find somewhere encouragement
and opportunity for plying his industry ana
reaping its reward. In this case the WORK
exhaling SANDER, went on for months before II
took tangible Mbelous and responsible shape
which the News could grapple and crush. Inc
calumnious matter having cropped out IN that
shape at length, and number OF Texas papers
having in that shape produced or reproduced IL,
the News submits to these contemporaries that
they proceed ut once to recall the falsehood
they have disseminated and undo as Tar as
possible the wrong they have done. With APP
parent alacrity they lent their columns to its
publication and gave it their expressed or tactt
Endorsement. With equal alacrity they are ex-
pected on due advisement, as honor dictates, 10
repudiate and denounce 1t as fabrication OF
mendacity and malice. While the News is pre-
pared to vindicate itself in its own way in due
time, it desires and frankly requests that Inc
papers referred to do justice to themselves and
their profession in the premises.-lDanss News,
July 6.
In a speech at Commerce. reported in THE
GAZETTE of Wednesday last, Col. DeGranenreld
stated that the News had proposed to support
him for congress for stipulated price, and Tor
SIC, 900 had defeated the commission IN 1889, and
the above denunci ltion of the charge by the
News requires at Col. DeGraffenreid's hands
the production of the proof of his statements or
their retraction and PREPARATION to an injured
newspaper. The wise and just legal presump-
tion is, that every one charged with offense is
innocent until proved guilty. and the burden OF
proof does not rest upon the accused. So in
this case and Col. DeGraffenreid must realize
that it is incumbent upon him to produce the
evidence or retract the statements and repair
the wrong. Every consideration OF justice de-
mands this-justice to himself, as well as the
News. and to those newspapers which reported
his public utterances.
Other considerations demand that Col. De-
Crnffpnreil
with all the prominence that was given to the
accusation; and these considerations must be
apparent to the gen leman and to the press OF
Texas which so often has impure motives at
tributed to it in dealing with public men and
measures.
Will Col. DeGraffenreid speak in justice to
himself in Justice to the News, in justice to the
newspapers that printed what he said in a public
speech and in justice to the press of Texas?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
Letter to j. Waldo. Esq.

GALVESTON, TEX, July 10, leSo'
j. Waldo, Esq. care Of Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railway, Sedalia, Mo.
DEAR sIR-Some of the papers in Texas, nota-
bly, the Fort Worth GAZETTE and Fort Worth
Mail. and one speaker from the stump, Col.
the statement that the Galveston and Dallas
News were paid $40 900 by the railways of Texas
to defeat the Brown commission bill at the last
session OF the legislature and for other general
purposes of service to the railways of the state.
The origin of these rumors and assertions in
print and from tn stump was letter written by
Col. Bonner to the auditor of the Internal ional
road whtn approving bill of the News for ten
months advertising last year. the letter stating
of the Dill was that it for service rendered
by the News during the legislative session. Col.
Bonner has since publicly, through the columns
of the Fort Worth GAZETTE, given q perfectly
fair and manly statement, but as we expect to
pursue this matter to a further conclusion we
will be obliged to you, as the then manager of
the Texas railway pool, If you will answer GER
tain distinct and specific questions.
l. Did any representative of the News within
your knowledge ever attend or was present at
any meeting of the Texas railway pool?
2. Was any con .ract within your knowledge
made with the News by any railway in Texas
then within the railway pool for any other pur-
pose whatever than legitimate advertising?
3. Did any representative OF the News within
your knowledge as manager of the Texas rail-
way pool ever agree to perform any service
whatever for the railways OF Texas other than
as their contracts called for, for legitimate and
specific advertising?
4. Did any railroad in Texas within your
knowledge as manager OF the Texas railway pool
ever require of the News, or even request of the
News, any service whatever other than the SER
vice performed through the advertising co umns
in carrying the ordinary railroad advertising OF
the respective railway lines?
You will render us particular favor by an
sweripg specifically each of the above interroga-
tories 1t is possible that we may have to defend
ourselves in the courts OF the state. do not
propose longer to be m de subject to the indis
criminate and Gbelous Nominations of either
pnblic writer's or public speakers. An early an
swer to this letter will much oblge yours very
truly, A. H. BELo & Co.
Per r. G. LOWE, V. 2.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
Letter to the Gazette.

DALLAS, 1E1 OulS ~ 40SN-
The Democrat Publishing Company, Fort
worth, Tex:
GENTLEMEN-Acknowledgi receipt of yours
of July Z. and acknowledgment of editorial In
THE GAZETTE of the sth inst, calling upon Col.
DeGratfenreid 70 substantiate the truth OF the
charges preferred by him against the News In
his speech delivered at Commerce on the 3Oth
ult., we respectfully ask whether Col DeGraf-
fenreid has complied with your request as pub
lished in THE GAZETTE of the date referred to.
We beg to st ate In tnic connection that we ad-
dressed letter to Col. DeGraffenreid on the 5th
inst. requesting him to state whether he had
been correctly reported by THE GAZETTE and to
furnish such proof as he may have had in his
possession tou thing the subject matter at issue,
but up to this time we are without an answer
from Col. DeGraffenreid-
We trust you will leave no means untried to
get at the bottom of this matter and to place the
News correctly before the public, should Col.
Deer affenreid fall without further loss of time,
to prove the truth of the assertions contained In
his speech delivered at Commerce.
A reply to this communication is respectfully
requested at your immediate convenience.
Yours very truly, 4. h. BELo y Co.
Per R. G. Lowe, vice. president.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
Letter from the Mail.

FORT WORTH. Tx, July pa. H. Belo 6
Co., Publishers Dallas News. Dallas, Tex.
Gentlemen-On account of the heavy press OF
business affairs we inadvertently omitted to re-
ply to your favor of July Is, respecting certain
publications concerning the News 1t is per-
haps unnecessary for to say anything more
than has already been said in our issue of Satur-
day, July 10. You have doubtless seen from
that the extent OF our Investigations in this
matter. That leaves the matter in this state:
that certain gentlemen positively assert the
charges against the News to be true. You deny
them That creates an issue which we have no
authority to decide, nor do we presume to de-
eide it, either for or against you. We have as
serted that the matter is one of public interest
and that the truth should come out, no matter
who is affected thereby, whether it develops q
case of slander or case of bribery. To that
position we shall adhere and press it upon the
public. Very respectfully,
THE MAIL PUBLISHING COMPANY,
per Z. G. SENTER, President.
On the 28th of July Mr.. Campbell fled
the following in the district court of
Tyler:
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
Letter to the Mail,

DALLAS, TEX. July 5, 1890.
E. G. Senter, Esq.,, President Mail Publishing
Company, Fort Worth, Tex.
SIR-In the Fort Worth Evening Mail Of July
5 inst, appeared a most scandalous SANDER f.
fecting tn business relations of the Dallas News
with certain railroads of the state. The libelous
and offensive matter is dated Dallas Tex july
3, 1880. and claims TO be special to the Mail
Your attention is directed to the interview
with Col. Bonner of TYLER, printed in the Fort
Worth GAZETTE OF this morning. This inter-
view is response from the receiver of the Inter-
national railroad. touching certain letter pur-
ported to ave been written by him to the audi
tor OF the International road.
We desire you to investigate at once the truth
or falsity of the offensive matter purported to
have been sent you from Dallas on the Sd in
slant, and to make such correction of the SUBJ
stance of this report as the truth falsity of
the statement therein contained will warrant
you in making after proper investigation.
For the honor OF the Journalism of the state
We demand this reparation ut your hands and an
answer 70 this letter at your earliest possible
convenience. Yours truly,
a. b, BELo s Co., per R. G. Lowe, V. P.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
Letter from the Gazette.

FORT WORTH, Tex, July Il, 1890.
A. II. Belo & Co., Dallas, Texas:
GESTLEMEN-Yours of the 18th to hand. We
have to state that Col. DeGraffenreid has coln-
piled with our request as published in the Ga
zErTE in an article addressed to him. We have
hesitated to publish what he said, although
partly in exoneration OF the News.
We have hesitated because it was not fully so
and we were studying the subject when your ia
vor of the 18th came and also one from Col. De-
Gratfenreid. complaining that the GAZETTE had
no printed his reply after this paper had called
upon him publicly to make one In view of the
fact that the reply is only in Iart an exonera-
ton, and in view of your two favors to u.s. have
we your permission to PRINT the interview in
which is embodied the reply of Col. DeGraffen-
reid? We await your reply. Yours very truly,
DEMOCRAT PUBLIsHINo COMPANY
Per w. l.. Malone, vice president.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
Letter to Master in chancery Campbell.

GALVESTON, Tex, July 22, 1851.
T. NJ. Campbell Esq.,, Longview, Tex:
DEAR SIR-In the Fort Worth Evening Mail OF
the 18th inst appears certain special correspond
ence from Tyler date 18th inst. In this core
spondence appears what purports to be an inter
view had between the correspondent OF the Mail
and yourself in our office at Longview. We de-
by the correspondent OF the Mail in the printed
interview referred to. It is OF some consequence
to us to ascertain definitely the point here in
volved.
An answer to this request at your Immediate
convenience will be duly appreciated by yours
truly. A. H. BELo q Co.
Per r. g. Lowe, V. 2.
P. S.-Please address your reply to A. H.
Belo Co.. Dallas, Tex, as the writer of this
letter will be in Dallas at the end of the present
week for several days. LOWE.
No answer has been received to the
above
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
second Let,ert to Col DeGraffenreld.

DALLAS, TEX, July l5.-Col. DeGratfenreid,
Lougview, Tex: sir-On the 9Th of the month
we addressed you a communication, requesting
YOU to answer whether you had been correctly
reported by the Fort Worth GAZETTE in its re-
port of your speech delivered at Commerce on
the 30th of last month. We also asked you to
furnish such evidence of the truth of the charges
purported to have been made by you n the SUB
ject referred to- but up to this time we have had
no reply to our communication OF the 9th inst
An answer to this letter at your earliest imme-
diate convenience is expected at your hands.
Yours very truly, A. Il. BELo q Co.
Per R. G. Lowe, vice-president
TUp to yesterday the News had re-
ceived no reply from Col. DeGraffen-
reid
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
Another letter from Col. bonner.

Tyler, TEX, June %, 1890.
r. G. Lowe, vice-President, Galveston, Tex:
DEAR SIR The report circulated
by and doubtless origin
a,ed from the contents of a letter Of mine
to w L. Maury, auditor, dated November %
1883. at the time OF my approval of claim of
1920. being ten months advertising at Sl2O per
month. This letter was detached from the pa
pers connected with the claim by T. NJ. Camp
bell, master in chancery, and was placed by
him as / have been advised, in the hands of
Attorney General Hogg, to be used, 1 sup
pose, for political purposes. 1 suggest
that before you the accompanying let
VIII ich will be some time next week. The letter
20 Maury. while not so intended, gives color to
the report, and no doubt il has been used quietly
by his (Hogg'sfl managers, or rather they hope
for an opportunity to use it. Yours truly,
T. R. BoNHFR
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
Gazette,s Reply to The ssews.

Fort WORTH, Tex, July IA. H. Belo &
Co., Dallas, Tex: Gentlemen-Yours of the 5th
to hand and contents noted. As there was no
malice in the Gazette's publication of the re-
port of the speech made by Col, DeGraffenreid
at Commerce, we will take pleasure in comply
ing with your desire to have US investigate the
report, by you pronounced hbelous. and in all
respects 10 comply with the requirements of
honorable journalism in this case, as the
GAZETTE has always tried to do in similar cases.
Yours very truly,
DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Per W. L. MALONE, Vice-Pres.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
Letter to Col. Bonner.
DALLAS, TEX July 5, 1881

DALLAS, TEX July D, I5yJ.
Col. T. r Bonner, Tyler, Tex:
DEAR SIR-We have read your interview with
a correspondent OF the Fort Worth GAZETTE in
the GAZETTE of this morning, and feel at lib
erty to say, notwithstanding the injury done
the News through private letter to the auditor
of the railroad system with which you are con-
nected, that you have made response through
the GAZETTE that does you full justice as a man
and gentleman.
The circulation given to certain calumnies
against the News by portion of the press of
the state may necessitate the News to seek vim
dication through the courts of tee country. We
hope for the honor of the press of the state that
this yindication will be made at their own
hands. rather than through the courts. which as
honorable journalists, we nave right to ex-
truly, A. 81. BTLo & Co..
per R. G. LOWE, vice president.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

merce. Tex, dated June 90, giving the
substance of an address made by Col. DeGraf-
fenreid at that place. The matter referred to
contains two specific. slapderous libels uttered
against the Dallas News and we ask Of you to
at once investigate the truth fasity OF the re-
port as printed in your paper Of the ID inst.
We give you due notice that tn is Investigation
may take place without further delay. Upon
investigation you will make such correction and
reparation to the News the substance Of your
inquiries will warrant.
| A reply to this letter at your early oonven-
tence will oblige Yours truly,
A Il. BELo & Co.,
per R. G. LOWE, Vice-President.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
Letter TO Col. DeGraffenreid.

DALLAS, TEX, July 8, 1880.
Col. DeGraffenreid, Longview, Tex;
SIR:-In the Fort Worth Daily GAZETTE OF
Wednesday. July 2. 1890. appeared certain cor
respondence dated Commerce, Tex, June SO'
rejecting upon the Dallas News in 8 libelous and
slanderous manner. A copy of the printed cor
respondence is herewith inclosed. The corre-
spondence purports to be the substance OF
speech delivered by you at Commerce on June
30, 1890, and we desire to know whether you are
correctly reported in the printed cores ondence
herewith inclosed.
An immediate answer to this letter of inquiry
is expected from you, accompanied by such evil
dence as you may be able to furnish of the truth
of the statements which you purported to
have uttered. Yours very truly,
A. q. BELo & Co,
per R. G. Lowe, V. P.
On the day before the News wrote the
GAZETTE requesting that paper to inves-
tigate the matter to the fullest extent,
the GAZETTE wired TO different points to
obtain further information, as shown in
the article appended. regarding the
charge against the News. In response
was the following:
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
THE DAVIS CASE.
Feeling of Contempt for the Law and the
Profession.

Feeling Of Contempt for the Law and the
Profession.
ROANOKE, TEX, Aug. 4, 1890.
Editor Gazette.
When we read in The GAZETTE that
Davis, the murderer OF B, c. Evans
would yet get more time and money
wasted in his behalf, feeling of con-
empt for the law and the profession that
makes such delays possible took posses
sion of US. Why marvel that rational.
sensible men in highly enlightened COM
munities will sometimes resort to lynch
law? You speak of the Pendleton affair
as n disgrace to Fort Worth. If the
murderer OF B. c. Evans goes unpun-
ished what will you call that?
Fl. A. BILEs.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
whereas, by the hand of death has
been removed from our midst, our be-
loved friend and Sunday-school teacher,
Mrs. Rachel Mayfield, a loving wife, q
devoted mother. an earnest Sunday
school worker, and consecrated Chris
tian. Therefore, be it
Resolved, /. That the Suuday-school
al E1OduOhC uCoply LuO uCdLu Ol
this earnest and consecrsted teacher, and
feels that her place will be hard to fill.
2. That we mourn, not as those who
have no hope. for we feel that our loss Is
her eternal gain. and rejoice in the fact
that, though she is forever gone from US,
yet her Christian example and undying
influence can never be taken from us.
8. That we extend to the bereaved
family our sincere sympathy in this
affection, and commend them to loving
Father, who ia ''too wise to err, too
good to do wrong.
4. That these resolutions be spread
upon the minutes of the Sunday school,
and that the secretary be instructed to
present the members of the bereaved
family with copies of same, and also to
furnish copy to the Fort Worth GAZETTE
for publication. R. l.. RAGsDALE,
MRS. LENA SMITH,
MISS BETTE BEALL,
Committee.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
What DeGraffsnreid Says.

Correspondence OF the Gazette.
COMMERCE, Tex, June s0.-Col. DeGrsfen-
reid addressed pretty fair assembly at the NJ.
E. church to-day, The colonel is a vigorous
talker and doesn't beat around the bush mach
for explesives. The Congressional Record was
frequently resorted to to substantiate his
charges against Mr.. Kilgore. Among other
charges made in a general way, he said The
Dallas News proposed to support him (DeGraf-
fenreid) for $3.50, but he would not give it, and
that 1.-The old wench. the Dallas News, for SO =
600 defeated the commission bill in the last leg
isiatpre.' - The colonel laid down pretty fair
declaration of PRINCIPLES, the chief of which he
favored James s. Hogg and the commission,
which was roundly applauded,
The News took steps to trace the re-
sponsibility for the libel thus dealt out
from a new source. The following letters
were mailed:
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
The News to Col. Bonner.

GALVESTON, TEX, june ., 1850,
Col. T. R. Bonner, Tyler, Tex:
DEAR sR-Your favor of the 2Sth inst.
duly received. We are very sorry that
anything emanating from you should have
given cause for the origin of the calumny being
circulated against the News. We desire to
state to you specifically that no understanding
was ever had with any railroad man or any rail-
road manager touching the service of the News
for other than purely legitimate advertising; so
much advertising space for many dollars per
snnum. There were was no verbal understand
ing o. any other service guaranteed whatever
other tn an here outlined. When the Texas
pool vas ia operation and when the Southwest
ern railroad system had been broken ND BY the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
The lsars Reply to the News.

FORT WORTH, TEX, July Z, 1890.
Messrs. A. Il. Belo & Co.. Publishers Dallas
News, Dallas, Tex:
GKSTLEMKN-Replying to your favor Of July 5 I,
we beg say that shall be to sift to the
bottom the matter you refer to, and in tn
event we are justified in so doing we will gladly
make the reparation you demand. We think
you will agree with MS that before our CORE
spondent touched the matter it had taken such
shape that for the honor of Texas journalism
somebody was compelled to speak. The RI mors
so widely afioat. discredited not merely the
News alone, but every paper in the state
Trusting that the ultimate result may be
favorable TO the News. and through it, to The
press, we are very respectfully,
THE MAIL publishing COMPANY,
Per E. g. SEsTER, President.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
Col. Bonner's Reply.

TYLER, Tex, June Is, 1890.
R. G. Lowe. V. P, Galveston, Tex:
DEAR SIR-In answer TO your letter of
the 18th instant, I beg to say that the
Galveston News never presented to me any
one else, within my knowledge, bill for 200
or for any other sum in payment for the opposi-
ton Of the News to the Brown railroad bill: in
fact the only bills against the railroad company
in favor OF the News have been for advertising
under an agreement existing at the time of the
appointment of the receivers in February, 1883.
Respectfully, T. r. BONNIE.