The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-05-25
Jos. Obi. Kimball Building.
The Atlinta Constitution,
Washington Office.

Mr.. clark Howell Editor the Constitution,
Atlanta, Ga.
Washington. April o5. 1902 My Dear
Howell ! ain III receipt VI Your letter in
closing one from Hon. John NJ Duncan Of
l{icf, Texas, calling yonr attenl ion to an
CritiCis,s the AtlHnta Constitution, and, In
cihnetallr, Congrc, sinan De Gtaffenreld for
ail article whien | wrote "sum. time as
The ILcts are those:
| wrote an srtiela for the Constellation
concerning the probable admission Of the
Territories into the Union aud tn. activity
wihcn Mr., De Graffcnreld. as o q elnber or
the committee on Territories, ha manifest
ed In support of the bill Incidentally, J
referred to some other work which Mr. ID ,
Graftt nteid had done and II the Impression
ne had made upon his democratic cul
Leagues The article was Of rpmpllm H.
tnry nature aud was. ON certain fully
warranted by the fncts.
After ! had sent the STORY" Ii struck me
that perhaps the Constitu ion might caic
to send out some sample Cobi s. as 1t las
done at different times IN line with S pol.
to me that Ii might 6e IN opportune tim +,
to send that particular copy Into Texas, as
well as two or thTc other -ctions Of the
south. ! secured and sent to tn manager
Of the weekly n list of Texas names. I sup
p0sc II Is some of the copies 50 .rnt that
are being criticised by 1Ir DC Grafrenreid's
opportnls, who, judge from the article Ia
closed. seek to or ticise tho Constitution
also, hnSlne tn ir crit rismS of the Cons 1
tuition solely on the fact thar this plrtlcu-
lar article appeared in the SAMPLE Cnpiey
md did not appear In vt rr copies If t in
same date. | presume tn fac, that 1t di /
not an car In Same editions u the pes
aud did appear IN others was due 10 the
changes In the max '-up. which are made
II ccsSliA by tue large is 20 Of tn Weekly
Constitution. and The fey hat M ely news
matter which Is of interest to H9c locality
may not he considered or interest TO an
other locality covered by the weekly 40 |
under stand ", you mo- An your Carolina
editions of the weekly certeia news of In
forest 70 the Catoii1as. aud In your Texas
edition, for Instance ellmin1,e the purely
loCnl Carolina news AMI pm In mat err IF
more interest 10 Texas | ppesumN tn { TIE
fact Of thls particular article appearing in
ono edition and not n others Is due to the
same Kind of change in the mike up
/ note that IN the article Of the Daily
Coulter clittcislpg Mr.. De Grnffenrcid l.
made to say that neither he nor his sec
Rotary had anything to do with writing til
article. nor were they t u"N r-.ucct re
sponsible for It's appearing In one edition
~ the weekly ana not in others, This Is
literally rue. n = lCr Of them had any
thing whatsoever GO do with writing the
article as It was purely my own aud was
not written on the sugGestioG of anybody.
Tho reference 70 the Territories was strict
is news and tho fnct that had something
10 say about Mr.. De Grafton ids standing
In congress was due entirely to my personal
friendship for him Nor could Mr.. dc CIR #
fc'lrcd OF Mr.. Sergeant, his secretary,
have had any knowl'dg' that this was 20
apnpNr IL one edition and not In other cd