The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-06-18
PROBE CONTENTS OF
CRIMY STORE BOX
Letters Indicate Efforts to Purchase
Chicago Newspaper Widespread
Publicity Campaign Conduct
ed for Sugar Interests
Telegram BY United Press.

NANbA an ~ AAitth Altnbs
Washington, June iS-Delying into
the grlmy store box Containing the cor
respondence Of the sugar producers,
the senate committee is expected to-
day 70 lay bare the whole Of the AL
legged pIot" Of the sugar protectionists
to manufacture sentiment for high
tariff and to force congress to defeat
free sugar
The letters indicated that the NOV.
Ing spirit in the attempt to purchase
the caieago Inter Ocean and to spec
ialize on sugar news was Chas. b. War
rem, president OF the Michigan Sugar
company.
The sugar interests today made their
final effort TO save from exposure the
secrets Of their publicity campaigns.
Their counsel protested the further
reading OF correspondence that was un.
earthed in sugar headquarters but the
committee decided 10 resume reading
the correspondence
Letters corroborative Of the testi.
mony is therefore admissible said
the chairman. Senator RansdeIl will
hold that bringing the correspondence
before the committee was in violation
Of constitutional privileges.
ny subpoena duces tecum the com.
mittee got possession OF copies OF let
ters and kilograms Of Clarence E.
Hamlln, a Colorado newspaper owner
and beet sugar man in charge OF the
Washington office OF the Beet Sugar
association two years ago. The papers
included what purported to be carbon
copies Of letters unsigned, but furnish
ca as genuine BY Harry Austin, clerk
in the office Of Truman G Palmer, rep
resentative OF the beet sugar industry.
The industry succeeded the "asso-
citation about two years ago and Pal
mer succeeded namlin in charge
While TIE committee was after the
private papers, Palmer, alter a con
terence with Senator Clark OF Wyom-
ing, Hamlin's uncle, was wiring Ham.
lin urging him to get lawyer to rep
resent hia interests. The committee
had knowledge Of that and hurried the
letters into the record without regard
to sequence. More than seventy h1d
been read when adjournment was
taken,
Those read into the record were di
reeted to managers Of beet sugar in
dustries. officers Of the American Beet
Sugar association, and friends Of Ham
lin. indicating that Hamlin at the time
of their writing, was an active figure
in a campaign TO organize support foi
the protection OF the beet sugar indus
try and secure publicity against tariff
reductions.
Some told Of Hamlin travelling tC
large cities. giving out interviews
other written IN Washington indicated
that he was trying to circulate matte
in defense OF sugar duty through
newspapers. the Associated Press an'
other channels to offset what h
Thought misleading statements put ou
by sugar refinefs The text lndicai
ed that his attempts at publicity ha'
not always been as successful as h
had hoped Other letters referred I
plan launched BY Hamlin to have tn
large beet sugar companies take owe
$4,000 in bonds OF the Chicago lnte
Ocean
Other letters disclosed attempts t
interest big railroad systems in tn
anti.free sugar campaign and to hay
professors Of agricultural colleges al
pear before committees Of congres
with arguments favorable to the bet
sugar men.
None of the letters disclosed ths
the railroads had been interested
that the great news agencies had bee
extensively used or that the Int
Ocean bonds had been bought.
Austin and a sergeant-at-arms Of q
senate brought a big box Of the tel
grams and letters 70 lhe coinuiiOt'