Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-05
SAYS CASTOR DID 1T.
Cedar Rapids April 2. 1904.
Editor MarshalltoNn Times-Reeubli-
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can. Marshalltown. Iowa:
/ Dear Sir:--I notice in your issue of
Friday some editorial reference to an
article of which l am the author, and
which dealt with the work OF one Fred
| II. Castor, OF Des Moines. You say that
the explanation by Mr.. Castor is sat
isfatory, or something to that purpose
and you are asked To suspend judgment
until made acquainted With the facts.
In his alleged explanation Mr.. Castor
says that he sent the following tele-
gram:
w +. Holmes, care Gazette, Cedar
| Rapids, Ia: Please rush photo to me
| first mail woman who received poison
ed candy and Sister Annette. who is al
| legged to have eloped. Address care
/ Capitol. Fred II CASTOR
| Mr.. CASTOR never sent such a tele-
gram to Mr.. Holmes, but did send one
quite to the contrary purpose. He is
copy of the telegram actually sent:
.Des Moines. Barch II.
| Holmes. Newspaper Man, Cedar
| Rapids: Please rush double quick
| photo woman who received poisoned
| candy with brief story, also photo Sis
| ter Annette If possible. Let bill accom-
| pany story. Address me care Daily
/ Capital Fred III. CASTOR"
| Mr.. Holmes who is city editor of the
| Gazette was out of the city, and in con-
! forming with an understanding exist
| ing between us, as to mutual assistance
in matters of this kind. / received the
| telegram and answered to the effect
| that the poisoned candy story was
| I, C,u~t.,
Annette story was pure fake. In fact,
| it was known to me that Sister Annette
had retained an attorney for the pur-
pose of bringing libel suits or eXactln2
apologies from the papers that had
! published scandalous and false story
of her elopment. Sister Annette had
not eloped and there was no foundation
for the report lin fact. Note carefully
the language of the telegram which Mr..
Castor claims to have sent but did not
send and then read the following teie-
gram sent to myself
"Des Moines,Ia. March %.
"Endlcott. Newspaper Man, Cedar
Rapids: Please rush photo woman
received poisoned candy also Sister
Annette. FALSI1,Y STORY NINA
lTERIAL. Will pay immediately. Adj
dress, care Capital. Fred II. CASTOR
Why did not Mr.. CASTOR send the
second telegram to Mr.. Holmes, whom
he had every reason to believe was in
Cedar Rapids? He had then. never did
have, and has not now, any business
connections with myself. and is and
| was personally unknown. Mr.. CASTOR
says In his explanation that with the
exception of the words "fnlsity !nlTla-
terial" the wording OF the kilograms to
MIR. Holmes and to myself were identi-
cal. The statement is false. Neither
| telegram Is similar to the one he claims
to have sent Mr.. Holmes. and reading
of the copies of the two kilograms
actually sent and received will show
| that he did not mention the story to
me, and that he did not use the words
alleged to have eloped'' in either. In
both he asked for the photo of sister
| Annette without giving an explanation.
| He Asked Mr.. Holmes for both the story
and the photograph of the woman
who received the poisoned candy and
asked me for nothing but the photo
graph He offered pay to Mr.. Holmes
presumably for both the story and the
the photographs alone.
In making an attack on Mr.. Holmes
and myself, altho Mr.. Holmes Is not
connected with the matter, Mr. Castor
saws: "They didn't stop to consider
that the necessity of brevity In sending
kilograms prompts the use OF express
sions that are oft times not fully self
explanatory This is the statement
made in the Des Moines Capital and re-
published din the Des Moines Register
and Leader, from one of which sources
you probably drew the information for
your editorial Permit me to say that
as Mr.. Castor used the dead head" in
both instances the absolute necessity
for brevity was not apparent. Further
Mr.. CASTOR says:
1T was apparent to me that cores
pondent at Burlington or Cedar Rapids
had sent the account of the two eventa
to the eastern papers and that the one
which / happened to represent had re-
ceiyed some article which it desired
to illustrate.
The truthfulness of this statement is
fatty contradicted by the fact that Mr.
CASTOR had asked for one of the stories.
AS to my personal lack of decency"
or ignorance of .ethics" I will assert
the belief that / am justified In the
publication of the obnoxious telegram
which asked me to become party, II
only by supplying the means OF Illus
trating, to the presumptive publication
of some article that would have caused
humiliation to a sister who had not
merited the reflections that had al
ready been made against her good
name for the observation of discipline
and the fulfillment of church obllga-
tions, or obligations of any other kind.
know that some of the chief state
ments in the alleged explanation of MI
CASTOR are utterly false and are IN
tended TO reflect on the proprety of
ienunciatdon for such work consider
1T insulting to be asked to cooperate
in any such matter. and wish 1t 10 be
understood that the association was
neither sought nor valued.
am yours, respectfully,
w. l. BNDICOTT.
Editorial writer Cedar Rapids Even
ing Gazette. SIS Third avenue west,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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