Norwich bulletin., 1913-06-18
The Campaign Of Sugar Men
INTERVIEWS FURNISHED PRESS
 ASSOCIATIONS
VERY LITTLE PRINTED
Letters Produced at Lobby lnvestiga-
 ton Disclose Method of Beet Sugar Interests to Create Public Sentiment

Interests to Create Public SentIn1e mt
 Washington, June 17.-The trail of "the lobby" the senate has been foi : lowing for more than two weeks led today into the private files of the men in charge of the Washington offices of the United States beet sugar industry, the leading instrument of the cam paign against free sugar, and by orig tnals of letters and telegrams and what purported to be copies of others developed testimony of what appeared to be an attempt at a far-reaching campaign to create public sentiment against free sugar through the columns of individual newspapers and the Ia cilities of the press associations.
 Sensational Evidence.
 It was a trail so long, so conpli- cated and so winding that after more than two hours of patient effort the committee had succeeded in reading into its record only a small part of the. mass of correspondence which seua- tors believed had produced the most sensational evidence yet developed.
 By subpoena duces tecum the cotn- mfttee got possession of letters and telegrams of Clarence c. Hamin, 8 Colorado Springs, Col, newspaper owner and beet sugar man, in charge
 
 jean Beet Sugar association two years ago. The paper included what pur- ported to be carbon copies of letters unsigned, but furnished as genuine, by Harry A. Austin, clerk in the offices of Truman G. Palmer. repre- sentative of the United States beet sugar industry.
 Over 70 Letters Read.
 The industry" succeeded the "asso- citation" about two years ago and Palmer succeeded Hamlin in charge. While the committee was after the private papers, Palmer, after 8 con ference with Senator Clark of Wyom- ing, Hamlin's uncle, was wiring Hara- lin, urging to get a lawyer to represen t his interests. The committee had knowledge of that and hurried the let ters into the record without regard to sequence. More than 70 had been read when adjournment was taken tonight.
 Failed to Work Associated Press.
 Those read into the record were di- rected to managers of beet sugar com- panies, officers of the American Beet Sugar association and friends of Ham lin, indicating that Hanlin at the time of their writing was an active figure in a campaign to organize support for the protection of the beet sugar 1n dustry and secure publicity against tariff reduction.
 None of the letters disclosed that the railroads had been interested CT that the great news agencies had been extensively used or that the Chicago Inter Ocean bonds had been bought. Letters introduced did show that the sugar men had been dissatisfied with their efforts to get interviews car- ried by The Associated Press.
 Box of TeIesrams and Letters.
 A1,c&i,o oD1 of Of 4J a senate brought big box of the tela- grams and letters to the committee room this afternoon. The committee suspended the examination of witness es and Chairman Overman, Senators Reed and Walsh began reading them into the record.
 The efforts of Hamlin to get publici- ty throughs The Associated Press and leading newspapers was touched on in a number of letters. Tn what ap- peared to be a copy of Hamlin letter to Cove at Fargo Nov. g. 1911, the writer declared that the so-called Ar buckle interview had gone into prac- tically every paper in the United States
 After taking up the matter with Mr. Mercy" the letter added, and af- ter securing an agreement with The Associated Press to handle $50 words, l gave out the enclosed, and while 1t was well handled locally the eastern papers took up but a dozen lines. AS a mat ter of fact. I would have preferred that they had ignored it entirely. have taken the matter up with Melville E. Stone of The Associated Press, de- manding that in the future the beet sugar industry receive at least the same treatment as the eastern ref1n- erS.'
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 To Get Stuff Handled by Associated
 Press.
 In another letter to Warren at De- troit with the initials c. c. H. as a dictation mark. the writer said he had taken up the matter of the failure to get publicity through The Associated Press with MT. Stone.
 Herewith copy of letter received from MT. Stone in response to mine. said the letter, and it added: If this matter is followed up we will be abLe to get our stuff handled by The Asso- ciated Press In a satisfactory manner. I will be in New York some time next week and will take it up in person"
 Warren's Reply to HannIin.
 Warren wrote ITO Hamlin" Nov. 1s, 1911: 'I do not think well of your idea of writing all the papers that did not carry your Associated Press story. Ws have found that whenever a paper that is unfriend1y to the tariff generally, or to the sugar tariff, Is approached, the result Is an unfriendly article. You will probably have to rely upon getting out what you can and not find fault when everybody does not carry an in- terview."
 To Purchase Bonds of Newspaper.
 The correspondence relating to the proposed purchase of Chicago Inter Ocean bonds by beet sugar companies began with the copy of g, letter dated March 20. 1912. addressed to Warren. The copy was not signed but was iu- cluded in the "Han1Hn correspondence.
 1t stated that MT. HinnAn, who con- tro1led the Chicago Inter Ocean, de- sired assistance in placing $Sb,0o0 worth of bonds of the paper. The to- tai bonded indebtedness as stated in the letter being S660.000
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