Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-03
SUGAR MEMS PRIVATE FILES
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suggest you should wire retaining at
torney to protect your rights under
fourth amendment I'd the constitution
until you arrive.
Wire From Hamiin.
Hamlin's telegram in reply, sent to
his uncle, Senator Clark, was given to
| the committee. 1t said:
Have wire from Palmer suggesting
retain attorney to prevent delivery of
my papers to committee. Austin, on
whom service is made, may have some
of my private correspondence or pa
pers, but so far as remember there
is nothing among them which | would
object to being made public"
Hamlin added that he would hire
Washington attorneys if Senator
Clarke believed it advisable.
| The correspondence covered much
of 1911 and the early part of 1912,
when the Underwood free sugar bill
was introduced in the house. The let
tiers produced indicated that Hamlin
had made contrasts with news plate"
concerns that furnish matter to small
papers and had urged beet sugar men
in different parts of the country to at
tempt to obtain publicity IN their own
localities and through news agencies.
Included in the mass of correspond
ence were letters from Aaron Cove,
which showed that he had made an
extensive tour for the same purpose.
One letter from the Hamlin file
written from Washington on Deem
Der 2 1911, to Charles b. Warren,
president of the Michigan Sugar Com
pany, said in part:
Visited one big town each day of
my trip and invariably succeeded in
getting our story in at least one of the
leading papers. OF course, some
handled it more satisfactorily than
others, but, generally speaking, they
all did we'll"
The writer enumerated nearly a
dozen large papers in the middle west
in which he said he had succeeded In
getting "our story" printed.
The value of publicity was empha-
sized further in another letter writ
ten at Fargo, N. D., by Cove to Ham,
lin in Washington. It referred to an
interview that had gone out which
was designated as the "Arbuckle in
terview," and Cove urged the use of
patent insides" to reach the country
readers" -. ~ r.. ~ .,:.
at Sure Eats In" l. 49, ~"
MANY farmers read those patent in
sides" he said. when looked it ur
J found that stick of stuff every
week was not exhorbitant in price and
il sure enough does get before the
voters little by little and eats in"
Another of the Cove letters signed
ond OF
light on the efforts of the beet sugar
forces while the Hardwick committee
of the house was investigating the so
called sugar trust" Mr.. Cove said ii
would require some skill to itemize his
expense account so it could be checked
up by an auditing board .,*. :.
We have had an interesting time"
the letter continued. Palmer is be-
fore the committee on his third day.
He is doing well. II. T. entertained
t hem in New York with, I learn, good
effect. The Hardwick committee re-
port will reach over to December and
will be less harmful than feared
"Suppcse II Was oxnard." ~
Members Of the committee asked
who II. T." was. := 81.
= suppose it was Mr.. Oxnard." said
Senator Reed. &
Mr.. Oxnard's initials are H. t. T..
The letter added: ..... ~.. =.
,BristoY insists that he will vet got
IN his sugar amendment. OF course
ii would likely end with the veto of
the executive, but ] don't forget that
It's only. four months TO the session
when something will he doing in earn
est, i have had some very encaurac.
ing interviews as to next winter. buf
the issue promises to be warmly con.
tested. Senators like Borah insist
that they want 10 be shown. He used
those words to me this morning"
a letter to Hamlin from II. A, Dong.
lass OF the Minnesota Sugar Company
OF Chaska, Mimi, dated at Detroit
April s, 1912, said: -: ~: :
'- We think it would be the wise plan
70 have Mr.. c. T. Fenton, manager of
the Minnesota Sugar Company. who is
now in Washington. meet the Iowa
senators and advise them of the DOS
sfbifity of the Minnesota Sugar Com.
fany extending its interests in north
ern Iowa in case OF a satisfactory SD
gar tariff settlement"
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