The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-06-19
MANY
LOBBY INQUIRY
CORRESPONDENTS SECURED BY
COMMITTEE TELL OF WIDE
SPREAD PUBLICITY CAM
PAIGN,

washington, ID. C.--MOre lelteTS
and kilograms from the private files
of men heading the free sugar fight
began going into the record of the
lobby investigating committee when
work was resumed today. From the
large number of letters which the
committee subpoened from the beet
sugar headquarters, only small
portion had been read when the
committee adjourned yesterday. Sew
enty odd copies introduced referred
to wide spread publicity campaign
by G. C. Hamlin of Colorado, seek
ing to gain publicity through news
papers and news agencies and with
the assistance of great railways and
agricultural colleges. Many men of
national prominence are mentioned
in the correspondence and undoubt-
edly will be summoned to testify,
and from a plain investigation of the
interests of senator's themselves in
the tariff bill, the inquiry now prom
| ises to broaden into inquiry all in
| fuences which alleged been brought
| for and against legislation recently
cars.
Furnished Platform Plank.
| Letters and kilograms put in the
records today purported to show that
the beet sugar men furnished the su-
gar tariff arguments contained in
the republican national campaign
text book for 1912. They engaged DR..
Harvey w. Wiley, former government
pure foor chief, to deliver lectures.
They expressed great doubt" of For
mer President Taft's ability to car
ry such states as California, Idaho,
Utah and Colorado, and added that
"If we didn't head him off we might
be able to get promise relative to
the sugar and tobacco Industries.
Letters Tell of Publicity Campaign.
Washington, d. C.-The trail oi
"the lobby" the Senate has been fol-
lowing more than two weeks led in
to the private files of the men In
charge of the Washington offices OF
the United States beet sugar indus
try, the leading instrument in the
campaign against free sugar and by
originals of letters and telegrams
and what purported to be copies O.
others, developed testimony of wha
appeared to be an attempt at far
reaching campaign to create public
sentiment against free sugar, through
the columns of individual newspaper
and the facilities of press associa
. tions.
Private Files Produced.
BY subpoena. the committee go
:; possession of letters and telegram
of Clarance G. Hamlin, ss Colorad
Springs, Colo, newspaper owner an
beet sugar man, in charge of tn
Washington Office of the America
Beet Sugar association, two year
ago.
Some told of Hamlin travelling
large cities giving out interview
others, written in Washington, ind
Gated that he was trying to circulat
Y matter in defense of sugar dut
through newspapers, the Associate
Press and other channels to offs
what he thought were misleadir
statements put out by sugar refiner
The text indicated that his attemp
a at publicity had not always been
Lg successful as he had hoped. 9th
Or letters refer to a plan launched
)" Hamlin to have the large beet sug
le companies take over $4,000
i'd bonds of the Chicago Inter-Ocea
re Other letters disclosed attempts
to interest big railroad systems in t
ic anti-free sugar campaigns and
have professors Of agricultural c.