El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-15
HERE is THE PROOF
Substantiated BY the Aaida-
Wits Of Four Well
Known Business
Men.

Yesterday afternoon The Herald pub
lished a plain statement of the pecu-
liar methods adopted by the morning
Times to secure $96 worth of advertis-
ing from the Carnival association.
Today's Times contained a scathing
|denunciation of The Herald. In the
midst of mass of vile abuse it said:
THE Herald reported as a fact ru-
NOR that was absolutely false. The
Times had no desire to cOerce the Car
nival committee into Spending any
sum of money with this Office.
True the business department of
the paper did try to get the advertise
ment. and worked for it in legitimate
way"
In another article on the back page
of the paper, the Times says:
An alleged afternoon paper last
evening tried by inferences and asser-
tions credited to Street Information.
to lead its readers to believe that the
management of the Times had been
foolish and near sighted enough to try
to coerce the Carnival committee into
giving it an advertisement at excessive
rates.
There is not even shadow of fact
for the foundation of the story referred
Ito. 1t is lie made out of whole cloth.
Neither the mana cement OF the
Times or any one connected with the
paper ever at any time threatened
1.-THE Carnival committee or any MEM
ber of it with an attack upon the Car
lnival or the action of the committee
Nor did the committee or any member
of it ever make such a statement to a
representative of the afternoon sheet
that made the lying statement.
THE published libel cannot be vel
fled by the paper by giving the names
of the members of the association and
| COMMITTEE man from whom it alleges
to have obtained it's Information. I'm
It'll it does this it must stand branded
as liar"
Proof Produced.
The Herald, as is well known in tn.
community never lets a false or hurtful
statement get into it's columns if such
can be prevented, and always stands
iready to correct an error if given op-
Iportunity to do so. That the story of the
transaction between the Times and the
Carnival committee, as told in yester-
days Herald. had solid foundation
becomes at once apparent from the aff!-
ldavit made this morning by H. r.
Wood. one of the members of Carnival
lassociation, who was chairman of the
lcommittee appointed by the executive
board to investigate the proposition"
made by the Times. and concurred in
and sworn to by President II. H. Stark.
land by o. H. Baum and Julius A.
Krakauer. of the committee.
l AS proof of the statement of facts
contained in the article published in
its columns yesterday The Herald to-
dal prints this AFFIDAVIT:
The State of Texas County of Ell Pasol
Before me. Horace B. Stevens, a moi
tary public in and for Ell Paso county
| Texas, on this day personally appeared
H. r. Wood, who being sworn by mi
, depOSes and says:
That on the afternoon of Januar
18th inst, he was in attendance at
special meeting of the executive com
mittee of the -.,idwinter Carnival: tha
at said meeting the president and sec-y
retary of said association stated to the
committee that they had been ap-
preached by a Mr.. Murphy one of the
iessees of the Ell Paso Times" with a
proposition. in effect, that if the asso-
citation did not purchase from the
Times display ad." at the cost of
500. that that paper would attack the
midway performances which had been
engaged for that week: that this an
nouncement SO astounded the members
OF the association. and to further as
certain the purposes of this paper with
reference to its attitude in these prem
ises, committee of three was appoint
ed by the association to call upon this
gentleman to secure an affirmation or
denial of the proposition as reported
to have been made by him to the pres
ident and secretary.
Accompanied by the president of the
association and the two other members
ofNhe committee l called at the Times
Office where We met Mr.. Murphy oy
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