The Huttig news., 1912-03-23
A Letter From Judge Frank Smith.
Marion, Ark, March Z,1ols

Dear Sirs:
 Like other newspaper publishers in the state, l presume you received from Mir. Graham. of Hot Springs an article sent out under his owl signature in a letter dated the l6tt to be printed in your paper, Witf the request that the bill therefor be sent to him. and that check would be returned after the 26th. If yog are printing campaign matter on a candidate s mere promise to pay. l will ask you to print this article. and you need not delay sending your bill until the day before the election. Mir. Grahams letter. which l saw. leaves the inference that his campaign duties would keep him away from home until that date. when the Arkansas Gazette last Sunday. in an interview with him. stated that he would make no cam paign. as he regarded it an improp= CT thing for a candidate for this of fee to do. Of couse, 1 recognize your right to publish such adver- Using matter as you please, on such terms as you think proper, but as a matter of simple justice will ask that you publish my article if you publish his.
 You know that ny candidacy has been announced for more than seven months and for five months of that time, was unopposed for this nomination, and it is not i'm proper for me to say under the cir cumstances, that the Bar of this state would not permit an un- worthy candidate for this office to be unopposed until practically the close of the campaign. So far as am advised. there is not lawyer in the state who is supporting MT. Graham for this nomination, yet, the article in question. which he is sending out might mislead a great many people who do not know the facts. and, as his candidacy was announced on next to the last pos sible day, many people might be in Hueneed by such publication as he is sending out at this late date. This article itself reflects the char acter Of the man as he advertises himself as grandson of the Dem ocratic nominee for Vice Presi- dent of the United States on the Democratic ticket with General Winfield Scott. He evidently does not know that General Scott was not the Democratic nominee.
 The protestations containedi his interview in the Arkansas Gazette last Sunday to the contrary notwth- standing. he is evidently attempting to get the largest possible amount of newspaper notoriety. To give you an illustration of his meth ods, there was printed in the Gag cite on the second column of the fifth page of the issue of March 9th, an article referring to him as a candidate for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, which sug- gested him for president of the State University, and referred to him in the most fulsome terms as as A. M., Ph. D. and L. L. D.. and a graduate of some of the leading Universities ot the East without stating the number. This article was reprinted in the Sentinel Rec ord at Hot Springs, as if it were an editorial utterance of the Gazette, and you may have noticed the edi- torial in the Gazette in the issue of March 18th under the caption AS TO A CERTAIN COMMUNlCA- TON" " in which the Gazette ex- pressly stated that the article was sent in as an advertisement, and paid for as such and in order that no one might be mistaken, it was so marked. and that there was no authority for it's publication as an article having the sanction of the Gazette.
 In the article which he is now sending out he makes such extra vagant claims in regard to the sup port that he is receiving that fear some persons who do not know oithor of ne