Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-19

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OF the letter he wrote to e. u. Hagerty.
IN charge of the Denver office of the
Associated P~ess.z October % IT asked
for information as to the handling Of
the Hanlin statement, and concluded:
Personally, l am inclined to dis
courag e carrying long statements of a
controversial nature, but inasmuch as
we carried Mr. -Arbuckle's statement
might have handled little more of Mr..
Hamlin's provided it was prepared as
briefly as our story here indicates
Cut Dispatch to 200 Words.
reply from Mr.. Hagerty stated that
B0O words OF the HamIin statement had
come into the Denver office over the
wire from Colorado Springs. but that
owing to the crowded condition of the
Associated Press wires only 200 had been
sent east. and sixty>one words were cut
out of the dispatch at relay points be-
fore il reached New York.
Mr.. Hamlin then wrote Mr.. Stone Oc-
tober q. 1911:
Permit me to thank you for your kind
favor Of the ed instant and to express
my appreciation of your position in the
matter. / can readily understand how
the situation arose. and of course know
the Associated Press desires to do full
justice to all interests with entire i'm
Partially. There is to be meeting of
the Deel sugar interests III tnlCdgO NO
vemDer Is. at which time statement
will probably be issued concerning this
industry and the reasons for the present
high prices Of sugar. / trust it will be
such one as your association Will be
able to handle"
Mr.. Stones reply to this dated October
30 1911 read:
1T have yours of October IT 1 am no.
tifying our Chicago Office that if the
statement to be issued November Is
of oil NIT 10 of
work to handle it
Instruction to Chicago Office.
Mr.. Stone at the same time wrote to
John p. Gavit then, superintendent of
the central division of the Associated
Press at Chicago:
There is to be a meeting of the beet
sugar interests in. Chicago November Is,
at which time a statement probably will
be issued concerning the. industry and
the reasons given for the present high
prices OF sugar. October Is we carried
from New York a statement from John
Arbuckle on this subject and. suppose
that the one from Chicago will be in
some sense an answer which think in
Justice we ought to carry. / personally
did not know anything about carrying
the Arbuckle statemept or was 1 IA
miliar with the contest bet ween the beet
sugar interests and the cane sugar In
-terests. Please use your Judgment re-
speeding the beet sugar statement ahd
handle il upon. its. news merit" =
Mr. Hanlin.s replygto Mr. stones brie1
letter of October ~ was dated November
q. 1911. Mr.. Hamlin said he proposed tG
submit any statement prepared in Chi
caSo TO the Associated Press. officials
and expressed the opinion, because much
of il was in the nature of expert evi.
dence,' it might he. of character thai
wou not be admissible before the Hard
wick committee in Washington.
Copies OF all the dispatches carried from
Chicago by the Associated Press at the
time of the conference Of the beet sugar
interests were also furnished to the
committee by Mr. Stone, together with q
letter from Mr.. Hamiin thanking tn,
general manager for the accuracy with
which the Associated Press had reported
matters
Called at New York Office.
Mr.. Hamlin's letter OF November G
was dated at Washington. Mr.. Stone
said his recollection was that Hamlin
had called at the New York offices OF
the Associated Press just prior to that
time and had been introduced.
II saw him for a few moments" said
Mr.. Stone, land my memory Is very
clear that / said to him, You will have
an opportunity before Congress, and
as we report all of these hearings be.
fore Congress any statement that you
may desire to make will be reported
there"
MI Stone testified that Mr.. Hamlin'.
reference to the fact that the pro
posed statement might not be made be-
fore the Hardwick committee was evi.
IDENTIFY in reply to that suggestion.
The committee did not question Mr.
ed him to hold himself In readiness to ap-
pear before the committee later II they
desired il.
Il am frequently more or less amused, =
Mr.. Stone told the committee, ''at the
popular notion in respect to matters OF
this sort. and perhaps 1 may In fairnes:
say that as to the Associated Press anC
az to all press associations and as t.
that injustice L. done by the refusal tC
meet the wishes Of applicants for pub
foity,
Is Viewed With Suspicion.
''whensvcr q man comes into q news
paper ofacs or into an Associated Pres.
once and asks for publication Of any
thing he II met with q degree OF suspi
dion They all think he has some az (,
sx4nd and he has very poor show o.
securing Justice.
We have q rule IN our service tina
has been In existence for many year
that no publicity agent can give u
anything. We win not accept anythin,
from him
As an illustration OF what I hav
said q number of railroads have pub
1icfty agents. and the rule 10 absolute
that the publicity agents canot furnish
us anything. We will not accept any
thing from them"
Mr.. Stone agreed to furnish the com
mittee with the rules and bylaws o
the Associated Press and with ali In
formation about the origin OF the Ar
buckle statement on sugar in 1911. GU
of which the correspondence now be
fore the committee developed.
Explanation by Newlands.
Senator Newlands Of Nevada aske,
permission Of the committee to sub
init statement as to the referenc
made in one of Henry r. Oxnard's let
tiers, made public yesterday. that MI
Oxnard was trying to have Newland
put on the Senate Philippines commit