Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-03-26
JUICE FRANK SMITH
 FOR ASSOCIATE JUSTICE
Marion, Ark, March Is, 1912.

| Marion, Ark, March Is, 1912.
 "The Graphic:
 Like other news paper publishers in the state, 1 presume you received from MT. Graham, of Hot Springs, an article sent out under his own S gna- ture in letter dated the 18th, to be printed in your paper with the re- quest that the bill therefor be sent to him, and that check would be re- | turred after the 26th. If you are pril9ing campaign matter on cai,- didate's mere promise to pay, 1 VII ask you to print this article, and you need not delay sending in your blll until the day before the election. Mr. Graham'2 letter. which 1 saw, leaves the inference that his campa gn dE- ties would keep him away from hone until that date, when, the Arkansas Gazette on last Sunday, in an inter- view With him stated that he would make no eampaign, as he regarded l it an improper thing for a candidate for this office to do. Of course, [ recognize your right to publish such l advertising mater as you please, ol such terms as you think proper, but as a matter of simple justice, I will ask that you publish my article if you publish his.
 "iou know that my candidacy has 1 been announced for more than sev en months and for five months of that time I was unopposed for this nomination. and it is not improper for me to say that under the circum stances that the bar of this state would not permif an unworthy can da tc for this office to be uno D. posed until practically the close of the campaign. So far as I am ad- visei, there is not a lawyer in the state supporting MT. Graham for this nomination, yet, the article in question, wh oh he is sending out, might mislead a great many people, Whc do not know the facts, and, as his candidacy was announced On 1ext to the fast possible day, many people might be influenced by suca a publication as he is send ng out a's this late date The article itself re- fleets the character of the man as n h, q n,,0 of the Democratic nominee for vice pres sident of the United States on the Democrat ticket with General Winfield Scott. He evidently does rot know that General Scott was not he Democratic nominee.
 "The pratestations contained in his interview in the Arkansas Gazette last Sunday to the contrary notwith- standing, he s evidently attempting to get the largest possible amount of newspaper notoriety. To give you. an Illustration of his methods, there was printed in the Gazette on the second column of the fifth page Of the issue of March T. an article refer ring to him as cand date for Asso- ciate Justice of the Supreme Couf-, which suggested him for president of the State University, and referred to him in the most fulsome terms as an A. M, Ph. D. and l.. l.. D., and graduate of some of the leading univers ties of the east, without stat ing the number. This article was reprinted in the Sentinel-Record at Hot Springs as if it were an editor- ial utterance of the Gazette, and you may have noticed the editorial i'll the Gazette in the issue of March 12, under the caption, "As to Certain Communication" ill which the Ga- zette expressly stated that the arti- cle 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 udNlA6 CIC odICtAOAA OA SAAS Gazette.
 "In the article which he is now sending out, he makes such extrava- gant claims in regard to the sup port that he is receiving that l fear come persons who do not know eith- CT of us may be misled. If there is lawyer in the state supporting hiDl I am not advised of the fact, and I trust that persons who do not know either of us will make some inquiry of some lawyer who knows both of us what our relative qualifications are.
 q am native of this state and have resided :n it all my life, and since my admission to the practice in 1893, have given my attention continuously and exclusively to the law, and am now serving my second term as judge of the Second Circuit, the largest in the state, for which